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.
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This is Granola, an AI notepad for meetings made in Shoreditch, London. It transcribes calls from your device’s audio without a bot joining, then turns your rough notes into a clear write-up.
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.
Works with
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 is a notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. You jot a few notes while it listens through your computer’s audio, and afterwards it blends your notes and the transcript into a tidy summary. Because it uses device audio, it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and other meeting apps without inviting a bot. It runs on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android, with an Apple Watch app too.
It is built for anyone who sits through lots of calls and wants to stay present rather than type everything: sales and customer teams, founders, product managers and students. Teams that need recordings kept may prefer a tool that stores audio, as Granola says it does not keep meeting audio. It also transcribes in many languages, though the app’s own menus are in English.
Granola has a free Basic plan, a paid Business plan for individuals and small teams, and an Enterprise plan for larger organisations. Basic lets you make notes but shows only recent meeting history, while Business unlocks unlimited history, pre-meeting briefs, follow-up emails and integrations. Prices are shown in US dollars, so what you pay in sterling moves with the exchange rate, and the current figures are on its pricing page.
Besides any live code on this page, Granola runs programmes for students at accredited universities in the UK, US and Canada, and for early-stage startups. Eligibility rules are on each programme page, and it also lists offers for non-profits. Billing is per active seat, so check the current terms before inviting a team.
Granola says it is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and has a UK company, Granola Labs Ltd. It also says notes and transcripts are stored on servers in the United States. Granola also publishes a security page and a transparency page. Check them against your own organisation’s rules before using it for sensitive calls, and tell attendees you are using it.
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No. On desktop it transcribes your computer’s audio and microphone, so nobody is added to the call. It works with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and other meeting apps.
There is a free Basic plan, though it shows only recent notes. The paid Business plan adds unlimited history, pre-meeting briefs, follow-up emails and integrations.
Granola runs a student programme for enrolled students at accredited universities in the UK, US and Canada. Check the students page for the current terms.
Granola says notes and transcripts are held on servers in the United States, with no UK or EU hosting option. It also says it does not keep meeting audio.
Yes, subscriptions are cancelled in Settings under Billing, which opens its billing portal. The plan then runs to the end of the paid period.
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