Seriesly vs Krisp

The difference

Krisp earned its reputation at the audio layer — best-in-class noise and voice cancellation that runs entirely on-device, 40+ dB of reduction, even accent conversion, all processed locally. On that foundation it has grown into a full bot-free meeting assistant: live transcription up to ~96% accuracy in 16+ languages, summaries, action items, recording, AI chat, CRM sync, workspaces, and shared meeting history across Zoom, Google Meet, Slack, Skype, and Discord.

Seriesly works differently. Instead of a meeting history you query, it carries a recurring meeting’s unresolved threads into the next occurrence automatically — last time’s open items are simply there when the next 1:1 opens. It ages open loops across your whole portfolio with an owner lens (Mine / Owed to me / By person), writes a delta of what changed while you were away, drafts an auto pre-meeting brief before each call, and runs research across your meetings, calendar, and Obsidian vault with citations.

There is a privacy nuance worth naming. Krisp’s noise cancellation is genuinely on-device, but its notetaking AI — transcription, summaries, meeting history — is cloud, so your notes do not live on your Mac the way Seriesly’s do. Seriesly keeps notes in a local SQLite file on your machine, transcribes on-device, works offline, and does not train on your content by default.

Where Krisp is strong

• ✓Best-in-class on-device noise and voice cancellation, plus accent conversion
• ✓A bot-free meeting assistant bolted onto that audio layer — transcription, summaries, action items
• ✓Works across essentially every conferencing and comms app at the audio layer

Where Seriesly goes further

• →Series memory is automatic. A recurring meeting’s open threads are there in the next occurrence with no query — beyond a searchable cloud meeting history.
• →Delta and auto pre-meeting prep. A written diff of what changed while you were away, and a brief synthesized ~20 minutes before each call.
• →Owner-lens open loops. Aged action items across the whole portfolio, sorted by who owes whom.
• →Research over your own sources. Your meetings, calendar, and Obsidian vault, with citations — beyond CRM and meeting-history search.
• →Notes live local, not just the noise filter. Notes sit in a file on your Mac and transcription runs offline — Krisp’s notetaking AI and meeting history are cloud, even though its audio processing is on-device.