Granola

Granola is an AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. Instead of sending a bot into the call, it captures audio from your own device, so it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack huddles and in-person conversations. You can type rough notes during the meeting, and Granola combines them with the transcript to produce structured notes, action items and follow-ups.

Granola shipped a steady run of updates in 2026: the Granola MCP connector in February, which brings meeting notes into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other AI tools; a $125 million funding round in March, announced together with Spaces with team chat, personal and enterprise APIs and enterprise controls; a rebuilt agentic Chat with inline citations and Recipes in April; Briefs that prepare you for the next meeting in May; an Android app in July; an Apple Watch app on July 28; and support for 32 languages in September.

Beyond notes, Granola offers AI chat within a meeting and across all your meetings, custom note templates, shared folders, pre-meeting briefs on attendees and earlier discussions, and one-click follow-up emails. Paid plans connect to Attio, Notion, HubSpot, Affinity and Zapier, and Enterprise adds Salesforce. MCP and API access let other apps and agents use your meeting history.

Pricing is per user per month. Basic is free and includes AI meeting notes, chat, shared folders, templates and multi-language support, but only shows the last 30 days of meeting history and uses automatic model selection. Business costs $14 per user per month and adds unlimited history, pre-meeting briefs, follow-up emails, model choice including advanced thinking models, integrations, MCP and API access, and centralized billing. Enterprise costs $35 per user per month and adds SSO, SCIM, workspace policies for retention and sharing, HIPAA-compliant workspaces, usage analytics, an audit API and admin controls for MCP and API. Granola's pricing page does not say whether these rates are for monthly or annual billing.

The free plan's 30-day history makes it more of a trial for regular users. Because there is no bot, other participants do not see a notetaker join, so getting consent is up to you; an organization-wide notification that Granola is in use is still a pilot feature on Enterprise. SSO and admin controls require Enterprise, and as with any transcription tool, results depend on audio quality.

Granola suits founders, managers, investors and sales or customer teams who sit in many meetings, dislike meeting bots and want to keep taking their own notes with AI filling in the gaps. Teams that want a bot-based recorder with video replay may prefer Otter.ai or Fireflies.ai.