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Granola

Bot-free meeting notes with private, summarized transcripts.

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Chat AI Paid Only

8.3

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50K daily visits

Overview

Granola is a desktop AI meeting notepad that captures a computer's system audio in the background — without a visible bot joining the call — and turns a user's own rough, typed notes into clean, structured summaries once the meeting ends. Unlike fully automated notetakers, it works as a hybrid: the person keeps taking their own shorthand notes during the call, and Granola's AI enhances and structures them afterward, using the full transcript for context. Available on Mac and Windows desktop, plus a 2026-added iOS app for on-the-go recording and phone-call transcription (no Android or web app). 2026 tiers: Basic/Free ($0, capped at roughly 25 notes of history), Business (~$14/user/month annual, unlimited history plus integrations with Notion, HubSpot, Slack, Zapier), and Enterprise (~$35/user/month, SSO, model-training opt-out, API access).

✅ Benefits

Bot-free, background-audio capture means no visible recording participant joins the call — useful for external client meetings where a visible notetaker bot feels intrusive
The hybrid model (your own notes enhanced by AI, rather than a fully automated transcript-to-summary pipeline) tends to produce more relevant, better-targeted notes than tools that just summarize an entire raw transcript

⚠️ Drawbacks

It only adds real value if the user actively types notes during the call — someone who doesn't type gets comparatively little benefit versus fully automated competitors
Speaker attribution degrades with three or more participants, and the free tier's meeting-history cap (roughly 25 notes) is reached quickly by anyone in frequent meetings

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