Granola

Granola is an AI meeting notepad that enhances your handwritten notes with full transcript context. Unlike passive recorders like Otter.ai, it lets you jot down thoughts during meetings while the AI handles transcription and syncing in the background.

Granola is built by Granola for product teams, founders, and consultants who run a high volume of internal and external meetings. The active note-taking model preserves your original thinking and merges it with the full audio transcript, producing summaries that are far closer to how you actually think than a passive recording dump.

Features:

• •Enhance Notes With Full Transcript Context Merges your manual jottings with the full meeting transcript so your thoughts get AI-powered context and expansion automatically.
• •MCP Support For External LLM Pipelines Connects your meeting notes to external LLMs like Claude via the Model Context Protocol for custom AI pipelines and downstream workflows.
• •Browser Extension For In-Tab Capture Captures meetings directly from your browser without switching apps or opening a separate desktop client during back-to-back calls.
• •Automatic Action Items Generates follow-up prompts and task lists from meeting discussions so nothing falls through the cracks after a busy day of calls.
• •Searchable Meeting Archive Find specific decisions, topics, or action items across all past meetings using natural language queries against your enhanced transcripts.
• •Customizable Templates Create reusable meeting formats for standups, retrospectives, sales calls, and client check-ins to standardize documentation across your team.
• •Zapier And Direct Integrations Pipe enhanced notes into Notion, Slack, Linear, or your CRM through native and Zapier integrations for downstream automation without manual copy-paste.
• •Offline Note Access Review and edit previously captured meeting notes without an internet connection on macOS and Windows desktop apps for plane and travel use cases.
• •Privacy-Conscious Audio Capture Granola records locally during the meeting and syncs the transcript to the cloud only after the call ends, useful for sensitive client discussions.

Pricing:

• •Basic $0/mo, limited meeting history, AI chat, core note enhancement features for casual use.
• •Business $14/mo per user, unlimited meeting history, advanced integrations, customizable templates, and priority transcription quality.
• •Enterprise $35/mo per user, includes SSO, admin controls, role-based shared folders, and org-wide security features for larger teams.

Limitations:

• •No public REST API Despite MCP support for LLM integration, Granola does not offer a traditional REST API for custom programmatic access to meeting data.
• •No native mobile app Granola runs on macOS and Windows desktop only, so you cannot capture or review notes on your phone while away from your desk.
• •Transcription accuracy varies Like most AI transcription tools, accuracy drops with heavy accents, crosstalk, or significant background noise in the meeting room.
• •Free tier history is short The Basic plan caps meeting history, so daily meeting attendees hit the cap quickly and need to upgrade to Business at $14/mo per user.