Krisp alternative for recruiters
The Krisp alternative for recruiters who still write notes from memory
You run six screening calls, then rebuild six sets of notes from memory at seven in the evening. Cleaner audio does not fix that. The write-up does, if the call itself produces it.
Superscribe
Stop rebuilding calls from memory
Use Superscribe to capture the words, context, next steps, and time while the work is still happening.
Krisp does one job and does it well. It takes the open-plan hum, the keyboard and the traffic out of your calls so the candidate hears you and you hear them. Nothing wrong with that. But most people searching for a Krisp alternative for recruiters are not unhappy with the noise cancellation. They are unhappy with what happens twenty seconds after the call ends, when the audio was perfect and the notes field is still empty.
That is the honest gap. A screening call produces detail that has to travel to three places, the ATS, the hiring manager, and the scorecard. Krisp cleans the input. Nobody is cleaning the output.
The part of a screening day that Krisp was never built for
A recruiting day is not one call. It is a call at 9:15, another at 9:45, a hiring manager wanting a read on the first by 10:00, and four more before lunch. The write-up is always what waits, because the next candidate is already ringing.
By the fourth call the details blend. Notice period, salary band, the real reason they are leaving, the one line about the team they did not enjoy. You remember the shape of the conversation and lose the specifics. So the scorecard gets three bullets that could describe anyone, and the hiring manager gets “strong communicator, seemed keen”, which tells them nothing and costs you credibility.
Audio quality was never the reason that happens. Time is. The call ended and the record of it lives only in your head.
How the two tools sit in a recruiting week
Krisp has expanded past pure noise removal, so check its current plan before deciding. This is not a feature scorecard, it is how the two feel across a screening week.
| The recruiting moment | Krisp’s angle | Superscribe Phone’s angle |
|---|---|---|
| Noise on a call from a car or a shared desk | Core strength, both directions | Not its job. It captures and transcribes the call |
| A candidate rings your mobile | An audio layer around the call | The call is the record. Your own number, no bot, nothing for the candidate |
| The write-up afterwards | A blank field | Title, summary and suggested actions when you hang up |
| Acting on what was agreed | Manual | One tap to call back, add the time to the calendar, set a reminder, save a caller to contacts |
| Intake meeting in a room | Built around the audio path | Start meeting, phone on the table, remote people dialled in onto the same transcript |
| Where the notes end up | Copy and paste | Filed to the right project, pushed to Pipedrive as an activity, or pulled through the API and MCP |
Choose Krisp if the thing hurting you is how you sound. Choose Superscribe if the thing hurting you is what is left over after the call.
Try it on the real workflow
Turn your next screening call into finished candidate notes
Run one real call on your own number. A title, a summary and the agreed next steps come back before the next candidate rings.
Why a Krisp alternative for recruiters has to finish the write-up
Any tool you put in front of a screening call has to survive one test. Does it cut the number of times you retype something you already said out loud?
Superscribe Phone is a free iPhone app. You keep your number and answer calls as usual. No meeting bot, no link to send, no new phone system, nothing for the candidate to install. The call is transcribed, in many languages with the language detected automatically, and comes back with a title, a summary and suggested actions.
The suggested actions matter most on a busy day. Call the candidate back on Thursday. Put the second-stage slot in the calendar. Chase the reference. Save this unknown number to contacts, because it turns out to be the hiring manager’s mobile. Each one is a single tap and nothing runs on its own, which is the right default when you are handling people’s careers. Time-sensitive ones surface on the lock screen with buttons, so the callback does not wait for you to reopen an app.
Then the output has to leave your phone. Calls and meetings are filed to the right project automatically and pushed to Pipedrive as an activity. Anything else in your stack can pull them through the API and MCP.
The workflow, not the app
Build a repeatable candidate call recap
Same structure every screening call. What they do now, why they are moving, availability, money, your read. Let the call fill it in, not your memory.
Why I built the phone side of Superscribe first
I did not set out to build a note-taker. I built Superscribe because I kept losing work that had already happened. The conversation was done, the decision was made, and then I spent my evening turning it back into text from memory, badly.
Video meeting tools were crowded already, and they solved a problem I did not have. My real work happened on the phone and in rooms. So Superscribe captures spoken work from business calls and desktop dictation, and turns calls, notes and follow-ups into usable text, tasks and context instead of asking you to reconstruct them later.
Recruiting is the sharpest version of that problem I have seen. Your whole product is a set of conversations, and each one loses value within hours of hanging up.
What a five-call afternoon looks like
You answer each call on your own number. Between calls you glance at the last summary and tap the two actions that matter. At 16:30 the intake meeting with the hiring manager starts, so you tap Start meeting and put the phone on the table with the recording state visible to the room. Your colleague in another city is dialled in by phone onto the same transcript. Speakers are separated and named as they introduce themselves, and the minutes with decisions and follow-ups are ready when the meeting ends.
At 17:00 you write the shortlist. You are editing real notes, not inventing them. Scorecards go out the same day, and the hiring manager gets substance instead of two lines. If your team runs calls at volume, Business Voice adds seats and pooled minutes. The solo app is free to start.
Three questions recruiters ask before switching
Does Superscribe replace Krisp?
Not really. They fix different problems. Krisp is about how the call sounds. Superscribe is about what exists after it. If you work from a noisy space, keep both.
Does the candidate need to install anything or join a link?
No. You use your own number and they call or answer as normal. No bot in the call, nothing on their side. For in-room meetings the recording state is visible to everyone present, and you should say you are recording, as you would today.
What about calls in another language?
Calls are transcribed in many languages with the language detected automatically, which matters if you screen across markets in the same afternoon.
Do it on today's calls
Take your next candidate call and let it write itself up
One screening call tells you whether the notes, the actions and the follow-up hold up.