# Calibre Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 Calibre Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

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Calibre

## What is Calibre?

Calibre is a best-in-class call recording solution that transforms captured interactions and associated metadata into decision-enabling intelligence. A reliable and full-featured business improvement tool, Calibre improves performance, productivity, and customer satisfaction as well as minimizes risk, reduces operational costs, and enhances profitability.

## What is Calibre used for?

[Call Recording](https://www.capterra.com/call-recording-software/)

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Featured

Overall rating

Based on 34 user reviews

Reviews sentiment

Positive

91%

Neutral

9%

Negative

0%

Starting price

$15000

Per User, One Time

Free trial  
not available

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### Calibre

4.6 (34)

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[4.4 (465)](https://www.capterra.com/p/158704/3CX/reviews/)

Starting Price

$15000

Per User, One Time

Starting Price

$350

Flat Rate, Per Year

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

4.4 (34)

Ease Of Use

4.4 (464)

Value For Money

4.8 (16)

Value For Money

4.3 (304)

Customer Service

4.6 (14)

Customer Service

4.1 (336)

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Starting price

$25.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

98%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

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Starting price

$15.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

97%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[4.3 (669)](https://www.capterra.com/p/141842/Weave/reviews/)

Starting price

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Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

85%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[4.2 (562)](https://www.capterra.com/p/190976/Dialpad-Sell/reviews/)

Starting price

$27.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

82%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

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## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

Archiving & Retention

5.0 (4)

100.00% of 4 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Moving and separately storing data that is not actively used or continuous storage of data for compliance purposes

On-Demand Recording

3.5 (4)

25.00% of 4 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Record the audio of phone conversations for quality assurance purposes

Recording

3.8 (4)

75.00% of 4 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Record live video calls to play later

Call Tagging

3.0 (3)

33.33% of 3 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Highlight specific time marks for annotation and review purposes

File Transfer

5.0 (2)

100.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Move files across different systems or networks

Scheduled Recording

3.0 (2)

0.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Automatically record calls at predetermined times

Calibre 8 features

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Moving and separately storing data that is not actively used or continuous storage of data for compliance purposes

Manage all call center activities including call monitoring, call recording, call answering, call transfer, etc.

Highlight specific time marks for annotation and review purposes

Move files across different systems or networks

Record the audio of phone conversations for quality assurance purposes

Record live video calls to play later

Automatically record calls at predetermined times

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Features

4.6 (34)

4.6

Based on 34 reviews

## Pricing

Value for money

4.8 (16)

Basic

$15,000

Per User,One Time

Value for money

4.8 (16)

4.8

Based on 16 reviews

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## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

4.6 (14)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

4.6 (14)

4.6

Based on 14 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

4.6

Based on 34 reviews

Filter by rating

5(24)

4(7)

3(3)

2(0)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

AU

Anonymous User

Communication operator

Law Enforcement

### "Top notch recording"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

November 5, 2023

Overall, this is a very important and in-depth way to track and record data. I would recommend this product to small and big agencies alike. Quick service and quick user interface. If you need accurate recording software then you need this!

Pros

I really liked the quick record search. Very easy to specify dates or time with a quick feedback rate. No waiting for five minutes to pull up data like a lot of other programs. I also enjoy the screen recording. This is great for multiple uses. Mainly for court cases we can go back and review calls for the case. We do use it to train monthly so everyone can see/hear good calls and ones that could have been done differently.

Cons

No big cons to this. The only problem I encountered was the search function not pulling all records available. One quick call to service the problem and it was fixed in no more than 10 minutes!

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

PA

Paola A.

Manager

Arts and Crafts

### "Great experience with Calibre"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

September 6, 2023

Overall a great experience with this software

Pros

This software it's very Easy to use,i really reccomend it

Cons

Some functions are difficult to know how to use

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

BH

Ben H.

Designer

Design

### "Not so intuitive."

3.0

Overall Rating

3.0

3.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

2.0

2.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

5/10

February 21, 2023

Poor. I use it because i have to, not because I want to.

Pros

Its main feature is the call recording and tag calls based on keywords. This kind of works like it should.

Cons

It's not very user friendly to use with many clicks to do everything.

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EG

Elena G.

Segretaria

Accounting

### "Biblioteca personale "

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

January 23, 2023

Pros

Ho iniziato a leggere i libri digitali e questo software mi ha aiutato a crearmi una mia biblioteca digitale, posso accedervi in qualsiasi momento senza saltare da una cartella all'altra

Cons

Non è molto che lo uso ma per ora non ho riscontrato inconvenienti

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Angelique K.

HR & Operations

Marketing and Advertising

### "Ideal software is you are looking to improve customer service "

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

August 22, 2022

Overall this software is great if you are looking for something that does what is says it can do and offers valuable insight into what your staff are saying to your customers.

Pros

Calibre is a simple and easy to use but powerful software. Depending on what you are looking to get out of it - it gives you the ability to record and analyze calls and play them back to gain real insights into your business and where your customer service or sales agents may need improvement. You can also create dashboards that show valuable insights into staff performance on things such as call times, volume, what your customers think of the call.

Cons

There are not many cons but it does require some knowledge to set up and use properly and if you are a very large company it can start to be expensive.

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Robert P.

Author

Writing and Editing

### "Useful and Fairly Uncomplicated to use"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

March 26, 2022

My experience with calibre is positive and I'm sure other users will also find it useful and easy to use.

Pros

Converting files to common formats is easily accomplished. Transferring files also straightforward.

Cons

I am not going to pick holes in Calibre for the sake of it. I found it met all I asked of it.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

TS

Tina S.

Author

Publishing

### "Useful"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

November 6, 2021

It's very helpful. As a self-published author, I use it often to convert files so I can meet all the requirements for the distribution of my books.

Pros

I like that it's free, relatively easy to install, and I can convert docx and PDF to epub and mobi formats.

Cons

It takes a while until it opens, and also it's laggy when you open the epub files with its epub viewer plug-in. Doesn't work with older versions of Word, only docx.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Karen N.

self-published author

Publishing

### "I always liked this software before"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

5/10

September 3, 2021

Great until recently. Pretty useless for me now.

Pros

It's free (although I have made several donations over the years), and it's easy to use, at least in a basic mode. If you have a file in one format, it's pretty easy to covert it to another one. The more elaborate features, like editing an epub file, are, not surprisingly harder to do.

Cons

When editing an epub file, Calibre will show you what the text will look like in the preview window, but you have to know how to edit the HTML tags to change any of the formatting. It is by no means a WYSIWYG editor. Also, I somehow managed to delete the left pane and no longer can see filename and thus I cannot edit epub files. I was hoping to upgrade and maybe that would restore the default, but the upgrade Calibre will show you what the epub will look like in the preview window, but you have to know how to edit the HTML tags to change any of the formatting. It is by no means a WYSIWYG editor. Also, I somehow managed to delete the left pane and no longer can see filename and thus I cannot edit epub files. process now insists on the right to totally change your browser and I don't like that at all!

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AU

Anonymous User

Professor

Education Management

### "Manage your e-books easily for free!"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

June 29, 2021

As a passionate book reader and an education professional I like to keep my collections tidy and be able to search for books by keywords, titles, tags, etc. Updates are frequent and each time one has to go through the installation procedure (although one's parameters and databases do NOT get lost). However, one can skip most updates since they only solve minor issues (mostly device specific) and only install a new version when major changes are announced.

Pros

Calibre is a free software to manage ebook collections locally. By backuping your local book collection to cloud storage and using additional software you can connect to your books from everywhere. Collection management via tags and categories is easy. Metadata management (including automatically downloading covers from public-domain websites) is also easy to understand and fast. The software also includes some powerful conversion features across ebook formats. Reading devices like Kindle and Kobo can easily be connected to Calibre to manage books that are stored locally on the device.

Cons

Sometimes I wish the usage were a bit more intuitive. The options are so many and the possibilities so rich that sometimes you get lost in the manual. However, one can easily find his/her way through the most frequently used features and become productive in 15 minutes or so.

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

JN

Juan N.

Student

Education Management

### "Great for recording"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

7/10

June 10, 2021

Pros

I have used this software at work and the quality of recording is clear.

Cons

The pricing could be the problem. It is a very expensive software for many companies to have access to.

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

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