AI notetaker that records, transcribes, summarizes and searches meetings across Zoom, Meet and Teams.
Granola
AI Meeting Assistants & TranscriptionGranola is an AI notepad that captures meeting audio directly from your device without a bot joining the call. You type rough notes during the meeting and Granola combines them with the transcript to produce structured notes afterwards. It runs on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android and supports chat across past meetings.
Pricing
Granola pricing
Free plan: yes (limited). Paid from ~$14/user/mo (Business)
Last checked September 2026 · Confirm on granola.ai
Features
What Granola does
- Bot-free device-audio capture on desktop and mobile
- Enhances your own notes with the transcript using templates
- Chat across meetings and folders
- Mobile apps for in-person meetings
- HubSpot, Attio and Affinity CRM integrations
- MCP connector for Claude and ChatGPT
Pros
- No bot joins the call, so it works with any meeting app
- Notes reflect what you flagged as important
- Clean, simple interface with little setup
- Available on Mac, Windows, iOS and Android
Cons
- No video recording; audio transcript only
- Speaker attribution is limited compared with bot-based tools
- Free tier keeps only a limited meeting history
- Cannot transcribe uploaded audio or video files
Fit
Who Granola is for
Look elsewhere if: Teams that need video recordings, clip sharing or detailed per-speaker analytics should choose a bot-based recorder.
For teams & enterprise
Enterprise readiness
Bot-free notetaker that does not store meeting audio, only transcripts and notes; Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM and org-wide admin.
- Business / enterprise plan
- Yes
- SSO (SAML / OIDC)
- Enterprise plan
- SCIM user provisioning
- Enterprise plan
- SOC 2
- Type II
- ISO 27001
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- HIPAA (BAA available)
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- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Data residency options
- —
- No training on your data
- Enterprise plan
- Audit logs
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- Admin controls
- Enterprise plan
- Deployment
- Cloud (desktop app)
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| Meetings feature checklist | |
|---|---|
| Records without a bot joining | Yes |
| Meeting platforms | Any (device audio) |
| Transcription languages | 30+ languages |
| CRM sync | Yes |
| Ask AI across meetings | Yes |
| Speaker identification | Limited |
| In-person / mobile recording | Yes |
| Transcribe uploaded files | No |
| Translation | Limited |
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