Enhanced notes are private by default and shared with chosen participants
AI notepad that transcribes meetings from your device's audio, with no bot, and turns your rough notes into a full write-up
Granola has a free plan. Prices in US dollars as Granola's pricing page showed them on 11 October 2026.
Granola is an AI notepad for Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android that transcribes meetings from your device's audio, without a bot joining the call, and turns your rough notes into a full write-up. It suits people in back-to-back calls. The Basic plan is free but only shows the last 30 days of notes, and Business costs $14 per user a month. UK students and early-stage startups can apply for a year of Business free.
On Mac and Windows, Granola transcribes your computer's system audio and microphone in real time, so it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Slack huddles without joining the call. It only starts when you open a note for the meeting, and the audio is deleted once transcribed.
You type rough notes during the meeting and Granola expands them afterwards with detail from the transcript, keeping your own lines as the structure. Custom templates set the layout for different meeting types.
Granola Chat answers questions about one meeting or many, such as open to-dos or what a client said last month. Recipes are saved prompts, written by you or shared by others, for jobs like weekly recaps or follow-up emails.
On paid plans Granola prepares a short brief before external meetings, with attendees, past discussions and open threads, and drafts a follow-up email afterwards using the transcript, calendar and past Gmail threads.
The iPhone and Android apps capture in-person conversations and sync with desktop, and the iPhone app can also record phone calls. Notes can be started from an Apple Watch.
Notes are private by default and can be shared by link, to Slack or into Spaces and folders for a team. Business plans can push notes to Notion, HubSpot, Attio and Affinity, or anywhere else through Zapier.
Granola's MCP connector lets AI apps such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor read your meeting notes, and Business plans can create API keys for notes, transcripts and summaries.
Granola can post an automatic chat message in Zoom, Teams and Google Meet, or add a watermark to your camera, to tell others it is running. Transcripts can auto-delete after a day, a week, a month or up to a year.
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Free
Unlimited meetings, but only the last 30 days of notes are visible
$14a month per user
Billed monthly; no annual option
$35a month per user
From $35; annual contracts through sales
Prices in US dollars, excluding VAT, which is added by billing address (a valid VAT number removes it from future invoices). Students in the UK, US and Canada and seed-stage startups can apply for 12 months of Business free; registered non-profits for 50% off Business. Prices in US dollars, from Granola's pricing page on 11 October 2026. Granola may charge VAT on top, and prices can change.
“Granola doesn’t just transcribe conversations, it organises notes intelligently, and you can easily search them or ask questions.”
“Speaker attribution on a four person call is still a coin flip, and who committed to something is half of why I'm reading the notes.”
“The Summary gets lots of things wrong (other apps do a better job) and you can't change the names of the speakers in the transcript”
Granola has a free Basic plan, and its paid Business plan costs $14 per user a month. Prices are shown only in US dollars, so the amount on a UK card statement moves with the exchange rate, and VAT is added according to your billing address.
Basic and Business are billed monthly only: Granola's help centre says annual billing is available only on Enterprise contracts. Enterprise is listed at $35 per user a month and adds single sign-on (for teams of 50 or more), SCIM provisioning, org-wide retention and model-training controls, HIPAA-compliant workspaces and dedicated support. VAT-registered businesses can add their VAT number in the Stripe billing portal so future invoices leave VAT off, though Granola won't refund VAT already charged.
For anyone who needs to look back at meetings older than a month, yes, because that is the main thing the free plan holds back. Basic records unlimited meetings with no daily transcription limit, but only notes from the last 30 days are visible; older ones are kept and reappear after an upgrade.
Business also adds:
App store reviewers rate it highly (4.9 from 2,244 ratings on the UK App Store and 4.9 on Google Play), mostly because no bot joins calls and past meetings are easy to search and question. The recurring complaint on Product Hunt and the App Store is speaker attribution: on calls with several people the notes can credit the wrong person, which matters if you rely on them for who agreed to what.
Granola is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and says it doesn't keep meeting audio, but notes and transcripts are stored in the US, with no UK or EU hosting option. Its security FAQ states that all data sits on AWS servers in the United States and that regional data residency isn't offered at present.
Audio is cached only for transcription and then deleted from Granola's systems and its providers'. Transcription runs through third parties such as Deepgram and AssemblyAI, and summaries through models from OpenAI and Anthropic, which Granola says are not allowed to train on your data. Granola itself trains on anonymised data unless you switch this off in Settings; Enterprise workspaces are opted out by default.
It has a UK company, Granola Labs Ltd, states that it complies with UK GDPR and offers a data processing agreement with UK and EU standard contractual clauses. Transcripts can be set to delete themselves after anything from a day to a year. Granola's terms make the user responsible for getting participants' consent, and it can post an automatic chat message in Zoom, Teams and Google Meet, or add a watermark to your camera feed, to tell people it's running.
Granola suits people who want to type their own notes and let AI fill the gaps; Circleback suits teams that want recordings kept, and Krisp suits people who also want noise cancellation on calls.
Circleback has a free plan and a Pro plan at $15 per user a month, and can join meetings as a bot or record through its desktop app. Unlike Granola, it stores recordings: a year on Pro and two years on its $25 Business plan. Krisp's meeting assistant costs $16 per user a month billed monthly or $8 billed annually, with a seven-day free trial rather than a free plan, and comes with its noise cancellation. On monthly billing Granola's $14 Business plan is the cheapest of the three, but Krisp works out cheaper if you pay for a year up front. Granola keeps no audio at all, which some organisations prefer and others see as a gap.
The cheapest routes are the programmes Granola runs itself. Students at accredited universities in the UK, US and Canada can apply for 12 months of Business free, and startups with fewer than 30 staff that have raised a pre-seed or seed round can apply for a year free. Registered non-profits, verified through Goodstack, can apply for 50% off Business.
There is no annual discount on Business. Billing is per active seat, so pending invitations aren't charged, and removing members reduces the bill on a pro-rata basis.
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We don't currently list a confirmed discount code. That doesn't mean the store has no promotions; check its website for current prices.
Basic has no limit on the number of meetings or on transcription, and includes AI chat, note templates, shared folders and the Slack integration. Notes older than 30 days are hidden until you upgrade, and pre-meeting briefs, follow-up emails, the Notion, HubSpot and Zapier integrations and API access need Business.
No. On Mac and Windows it transcribes the computer's system audio and microphone, so it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Slack huddles without anyone being added to the call. It only starts transcribing once you open a note for the meeting.
There are desktop apps for macOS and Windows, mobile apps for iPhone and Android, and an Apple Watch app. The web version at notes.granola.ai can view and edit notes but can't transcribe, and recording phone calls works on iPhone only.
Subscriptions are cancelled in Settings, under Billing and Manage subscription, which opens Stripe's billing portal. The plan runs to the end of the paid month and then drops to the free Basic plan. Granola's help pages don't describe a refund policy, so refund requests go to [email protected].
Yes. It transcribes 31 languages on desktop and 17 on mobile, and the desktop app can switch between languages within one meeting. The app's menus and settings are in English only.
Individual notes can be deleted at any time, and the whole account can be deleted from Settings, under Profile, which removes its data. Notes and transcripts are otherwise kept indefinitely unless you or an admin set an auto-deletion period for transcripts.
