Granola is an AI meeting notepad that blends your own notes with automatic transcripts to produce clean, useful meeting summaries.
Granola takes a distinctive approach to meeting notes: instead of only capturing a transcript, it enhances the notes you type during the meeting — shorthand, bullet fragments, half-thoughts — with AI that fills in context from the transcript. The result reads like polished notes in your own voice rather than a generic machine summary. It runs quietly on desktop, works across Zoom, Meet, and Teams, and requires no meeting bot, so calls stay natural. For people who take notes anyway, Granola removes the post-meeting write-up entirely while keeping the human perspective that pure transcript summaries lose.
Granola’s quiet insight is that meetings produce better knowledge when filtered through a human perspective. By enhancing personal notes rather than replacing them, it keeps the user’s judgments and shorthand while filling gaps from the transcript — output that reads like a well-written version of what you meant rather than a machine’s summary of what was said. The no-bot design preserves conversational dynamics, an underrated factor in meeting quality. Search across history makes the notes a personal knowledge base, and the desktop-first experience keeps everything one keystroke away. It is deliberately individual: teams seeking shared recording libraries and CRM sync will pair it or look elsewhere. For professionals whose meeting notes are their thinking tool, Granola is the rare AI product that amplifies rather than replaces their practice.
Granola offers a free plan covering individual meeting-note usage, with paid plans adding advanced features, unlimited history, and team capabilities. Pricing is designed to be accessible for individual professionals adopting it bottom-up.
It is built for professionals who take notes in meetings and want the write-up done automatically — founders, managers, product people, and consultants. It suits note-takers who distrust generic AI summaries and want their own thinking preserved.
Yes, Granola provides a free tier for individual use that covers the core note-enhancing workflow. Paid plans unlock additional features and history for heavy users and teams.
Granola is a desktop-first personal tool, and integrations focus on fitting into note and workspace workflows rather than offering a broad public API. Enterprise needs can be discussed with the team directly.
Compared with bot-based tools like Otter, Granola keeps meetings bot-free and centers your own notes rather than raw transcripts. Versus Fathom or tl;dv-style tools, it optimizes for personal note quality over team-wide recording archives.