Kolva records meetings from Chrome and adds notes, tasks and documents in one workspace. Pay as you go from 20p/hr or unlimited from £14/month.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
Kolva is a browser-based workspace that brings meeting recording, notes, tasks and documents into one product. It is made by Kolva Ltd, registered in England and Wales, and was built by founder and Chief Engineer Thomas Lee, who wanted one connected tool instead of separate apps that each charge their own subscription.
The central workflow is recording a call from Chrome and receiving a summary, an action list and a record that remains searchable a year later. Kolva says it needs no bot in the meeting and no extension, and it reports 100+ beta users.
You open kolva.io in Chrome, click record and share your tab audio, which works with Zoom, Teams, Meet or any other call. When the meeting ends, the AI produces a transcript, a summary and action items. The site says this takes under 30 seconds from start to finish.
Output is stored in the same workspace as your tasks, notes and uploaded documents, so one natural-language search covers all of it. Each AI action has a shown cost in your usage history, and you can set a monthly spending cap.
On the meeting side, Kolva offers transcripts with speaker identification, speaker naming that learns who is who, AI summaries, action item extraction and meeting series intelligence for recurring calls. Task features generate tasks from plain language and break them into subtasks with time estimates.
Smart Documents lets you upload files for AI to organize and summarize, and Secure Vault protects sensitive files with a PIN. A daily workspace combines tasks, notes, meetings and documents on one canvas. Kolva Ink, a free offline markdown editor for Windows and Linux, becomes the desktop app when you sign in.
Kolva is a workspace that combines meeting recording, notes, tasks and documents. It records calls from a Chrome tab and produces a transcript, summary and action items that stay searchable. It is made by Kolva Ltd, registered in England and Wales.
Pay as you go has no monthly fee, with meeting transcription from 20p an hour. Unlimited is £14 a month and Unlimited Pro is £28 a month. New accounts get €2 of free credit each month for 2 months.
Yes. Kolva gives €2 of free credit every month for 2 months, with no credit card required. The site says this is about 6 hours of meeting transcription each month. The Kolva Ink desktop editor is also free.
No. You open kolva.io in Chrome, click record and share your tab audio. It works with Zoom, Teams, Meet and other calls, and no extension is required.
After 40 hours in a month on Unlimited, or 100 hours on Unlimited Pro, recordings continue on Kolva's standard transcription model. The site states you are never cut off and there are no overage charges.
Kolva turns forwarded emails into tasks and connects to Claude Desktop and Claude Code through MCP. Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar and GitHub are listed as coming soon. Meeting platforms are captured through Chrome tab audio rather than direct integrations.
Kolva states that your data stays in the EU on all plans. The pricing page says it never trains on your content, and the about page says it does not train AI on documents without explicit permission.
Yes, Kolva Ink is a free desktop app for Windows and Linux. It edits plain markdown files in your own folders and works offline without signing in. Signing in turns it into the Kolva desktop app. There is no macOS build yet.