Kalima is AI transcription software for meetings, sales and support calls, interviews, lectures, podcasts and any other conversation. It records the audio right on your computer, so no bot joins the call.
Who uses Kalima
- Teams and companies: meetings, remote teams, sales and customer support
- Education: lectures, seminars and training, with live translation for students
- Research and product teams: interviews you can quote exactly
- Healthcare teams: handovers, coordination and training across languages (not a clinical documentation system)
- Events and conferences: the audience reads the live transcript on their phones
- Podcasters and creators: transcripts, show notes and subtitles
Transcription and AI
- Live transcription with automatic speaker labels and timestamps
- Live translation into 60+ languages, original and translation side by side, even when someone switches language mid-sentence
- Upload audio and video (MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MOV and more), up to 10 files at once
- Playback with word-by-word highlighting and chapters; click any word to jump there
- AI Studio: summaries, tasks and decisions, plus a chat that answers questions from the transcript
- Search across all sessions
- Export as PDF, TXT, JSON, SRT, VTT or a Markdown summary
Collaboration
- Live sharing: others read along while you record. Open it to anyone with the link or only to chosen people, teams and organizations, with password, expiry and viewer rights
- Workspaces and projects keep clients and topics apart
Desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux
- Meeting detection offers to record when a call starts, with optional auto-start and auto-stop
- Records your computer's audio and microphone, so it works with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, Slack huddles, Discord and any app that plays sound
- Privacy mode keeps the Kalima window out of screen shares and screenshots
- Screen recording, picture-in-picture, tray and shortcuts
- Browser extension for Chrome, Edge and Brave notices Meet, Zoom, Teams, Webex, Jitsi and Whereby calls in a tab
Integrations
- MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and VS Code: your assistant searches your transcripts and names the meeting and moment behind each answer
- 9,000+ apps through Zapier, 3,500+ through Make and 2,000+ through n8n, with ready-made setups for Notion, HubSpot, Slack and Asana
- REST API
Platforms
Web app in any modern browser, desktop app for Windows, macOS (Apple silicon) and Linux, Android app on Google Play. On iPhone and iPad, Kalima runs in the browser.
Privacy and security
Kalima is a German company based in Düsseldorf. Recordings and transcripts are stored in Germany, encrypted at rest and in transit, and never used to train AI. A GDPR data processing agreement is included.
Free plan available, no credit card required. Some features, such as screen recording, the REST API and automation integrations, require a paid plan.
