Granola
AI-powered notes for meetings, no bots in the call.
Ground Truth verdict
Reviewed by Kamran Arshad. See how we evaluate · Updated 2026-06-05.
- Type
- Productivity Tool
- Category
- productivity
- Starts at
- Free
- Platforms
- Mac
- Launched
- Mar 2024
- Last reviewed
- 2026-06-05
Best meeting-notes tool we've used. Quiet hit.
Granola has won the meeting-notes category by getting the basics right: no bot in the call, take your own notes alongside AI, merge them into useful artifacts. Mac-only is the right call. The Pro tier at $18 is one of the highest-value SaaS subscriptions we have.
What Granola actually looks like
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Best for
- Founders and operators in back-to-back meetings
- Mac users
Not for
- Windows / Linux users
- Teams needing call recording (no audio storage)
What it actually does
Silent transcription
Captures audio locally on your Mac. No bot joins the call. Privacy-respecting and less awkward.
Take notes alongside
Take your own notes during the meeting; Granola merges them with AI-generated takeaways.
Custom templates
Define your meeting note formats — standup, customer call, 1:1, sales discovery. Granola fills the template.
AI follow-ups
After the meeting, ask Granola questions or generate follow-ups (action items, summaries, emails).
Calendar integration
Granola knows which meetings you have. Surfaces upcoming, archives past.
What's new from Granola
- Apr 2026
Team templates
Share custom note templates across the team.
- Jan 2026
Multi-meeting AI
Ask questions across a series of past meetings, not just one.
- Sep 2025
Calendar integration v2
Deeper integration with Google Calendar and Outlook.
Composite of editorial review, hands-on testing, and reader-reported value. Each sub-score is rated 0–5 against Ground Truth's published criteria.
- Overall
- 4.6/5
- Output quality
- 4.6/5
- Utility & features
- 4.6/5
- Usability & UX
- 4.6/5
- Performance & reliability
- 4.6/5
- Cost vs. value
- 4.6/5
What it costs, by tier
- 25 meetings/mo
- Personal use
- Basic templates
Most users.
- Unlimited meetings
- Custom templates
- Premium AI models
Per seat.
- Team templates
- Shared meetings
- Centralized billing
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