Granola AI

Granola AI is a privacy-first meeting assistant by Granola AI that captures system audio directly on your laptop to produce searchable, structured notes and summaries. There is no bot that joins the call, so clients, prospects, and colleagues never see a third party in the meeting room.

For 2026, Granola AI ships native macOS and Windows apps plus an iOS companion (rated 4.98 from 6,628 App Store reviews), Model Context Protocol support so Claude or ChatGPT can read your notes, and a personal API on the Business plan for builders who want to wire meetings into their own automations.

What Granola AI does:

• •Bot-free system-audio capture records meeting audio at the OS layer rather than joining the call as a bot, so clients never see a third party in Zoom, Meet, or Teams.
• •AI-enhanced meeting summaries after every call, Granola AI generates a structured summary with decisions, action items, and follow-ups in your chosen template (sales call, hiring interview, standup, customer discovery).
• •Searchable meeting history full-text search across every meeting you have ever recorded, with private-by-default storage so notes never leave your account.
• •MCP integration with Claude and ChatGPT Model Context Protocol support lets Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor read your meeting notes as context, so the AI you already use can answer questions about what was said.
• •CRM and PM tool sync one-click push of meeting outcomes into Notion, Slack, ClickUp, HubSpot, Attio, and Affinity, so action items become tasks without manual copy-paste.
• •Personal API access on Business plan builders on the $14/user/mo plan get a personal API key to pipe meeting summaries into their own Zapier flows, custom dashboards, or automations.
• •Cross-platform desktop and mobile macOS, Windows, and iOS native apps (4.98 stars, 6,628 reviews on the App Store) with offline note capture that syncs once you reconnect.
• •Browser extension a companion browser extension surfaces meeting context inline alongside Notion docs, CRM records, and Slack threads while you work.
• •Custom prompt templates save reusable summary templates for recurring meeting types (weekly 1:1, sales discovery, board update) so the format stays consistent across your team.
• •Workspace and shared folders on Business and Enterprise, teams share meeting folders with role-based access so a sales team sees client calls while engineering keeps incident reviews private.

Pricing:

• •Basic $0/mo: free forever, includes AI meeting notes, limited 30-day meeting history, AI chat across notes, shared folders, and core integrations.
• •Business $14/user/mo: unlimited meeting history, advanced third-party integrations, personal API access, custom templates, and priority support.
• •Enterprise $35/user/mo: SSO, advanced admin controls, enterprise API access, and model-training-off by default for regulated industries.

Limitations:

• •No audio or video recording stored Granola AI intentionally never keeps a recording, only the transcript and notes. You cannot replay a quote, share a clip, or verify wording after the fact.
• •No speaker labels on transcripts the transcript is one continuous block of text without identifying who said what, so meetings with three or more people require manual disambiguation.
• •No Android or web client macOS, Windows, and iOS only. Android users and anyone on a Chromebook or web-only device are locked out as of 2026.
• •Free Basic plan only keeps 30 days of history meetings older than 30 days disappear from search on the free plan; permanent archives require the $14/user/mo Business plan.
• •Model-training opt-out requires Enterprise on Basic and Business plans, your meeting content is used to train Granola AI's models by default unless you manually opt out. Enterprise turns this off automatically.