Granola AI
AI Note-taking
Granola AI is an AI-powered notepad for meetings that runs locally on your Mac. It captures your meeting audio, lets you take sparse notes, and then automatically generates rich, structured meeting notes after the call ends.
What is Granola AI?
Granola is a fundamentally different approach to meeting notes. Rather than joining your calls as a visible bot—which can feel intrusive and affect the natural flow of conversation—Granola runs quietly in the background on your Mac, listening to your meeting audio locally. It then combines your own sparse, in-the-moment jottings with a full AI-generated transcription to produce rich, structured, and immediately useful meeting notes.
Key Highlights:
- No Meeting Bot Required: Granola's local audio capture means it works seamlessly with any conferencing platform (Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, etc.) without sending a bot into the call. This preserves the natural dynamic of your meeting and keeps the note-taking invisible to other participants.
- Your Notes, AI-Enhanced: The core philosophy of Granola is human-AI collaboration. You take quick, rough notes during the meeting—key decisions, action items, important quotes—and after the call, Granola's AI uses these anchors along with the full transcript to generate comprehensive, well-structured notes that reflect your priorities and perspective.
- Customizable Templates: Define templates for recurring meeting types—weekly standups, client calls, one-on-ones—and Granola will automatically structure your notes in the appropriate format, ensuring consistency and saving setup time.
- Seamless Sharing and Integration: Share your meeting notes as a formatted link or push them directly to tools like Notion, HubSpot, or Salesforce, keeping your entire workflow connected and your records up to date.
Primary Benefit:
Granola frees you to be fully present and engaged in your meetings, eliminating the mental load of simultaneous note-taking while ensuring you always have a complete, accurate, and structured record of every conversation.
Key Features
- Local audio transcription that runs on your Mac (no meeting bot required)
- AI-enhanced note generation from your sparse notes and transcript
- Customizable note templates for different meeting types
- Post-meeting action item and follow-up email generation
- CRM and productivity tool integrations
Use Cases
- Summarizing client intro calls, capturing company details, current vendors, pain points, requirements, budget, and decision criteria.
- Supporting user researchers by automating note-taking during interviews.
- Quickly and accurately generating meeting follow-up emails or lists of action items.
- Allowing users to be fully present in meetings, undistracted by manual note-taking.
- Helping teams easily share meeting notes across different platforms.
Who Is It For
Pricing Plans
- Free: 25 meeting transcriptions to get started.
- Pro: $18/month (billed annually) or $22/month (billed monthly), unlimited meetings.
- Business: $14/user/month (billed annually), team features, shared templates, and admin controls.
- Enterprise: Custom pricing for large organizations with advanced security needs.
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