Granola / granola.ai
AI meeting notes app for Mac that captures audio from any meeting tool without a bot, taking rough notes and enriching them with AI after the call to produce structured, clean meeting notes.
Pricing
$10/mo
Free plan
Yes
Category
Productivity
Platforms
1
Free plan
Yes
API access
No
Open source
No
Platforms
1
Granola is a Mac app that takes a different approach to AI meeting notes from bot-based tools like tl;dv and Otter. Instead of joining meetings as a bot (which creates consent issues and notifies participants), Granola captures system audio locally on the Mac, allowing it to record any meeting in any application — Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, or even in-person meetings — without visible recording indicators in the meeting itself.
During the meeting, users can type rough notes or bullet points — not comprehensive notes, but quick captures of key points. After the meeting, Granola combines the transcript (from captured audio) with the rough notes and enriches them with AI to produce structured, clean meeting notes that reflect what the user wanted to capture.
This hybrid approach — user notes guiding AI enrichment — produces meeting notes more aligned with the user's intent than fully automated AI notes that decide independently what is important. If the user noted 'budget concern from Sarah', the AI enriches this in context of what was actually said about budget.
The Personals templates feature allows defining meeting note formats for different meeting types — 1:1s produce different structured notes than product reviews or sales calls. The AI structures notes according to the template rather than a generic format.
At $10/month for Pro, Granola is competitive with other AI meeting tools while offering the distinctive local audio capture approach that avoids meeting bot consent complications.
Granola AI runs as llm assistant software built around text and audio workflows. Users typically start with a prompt, upload, or connected data source, and the underlying model handles the heavy lifting before returning a result you can refine or export. It's available on mac.
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The capabilities that matter most for teams evaluating Granola AI.
Captures system audio on Mac without a meeting bot, working with any meeting tool and avoiding bot notification in meetings.
Combines rough notes typed during the meeting with the audio transcript to produce AI-enriched structured notes aligned with what the user thought was important.
Configurable note structures for different meeting types (1:1s, product reviews, sales calls) producing context-appropriate structured outputs automatically.
Free plan with limited notes per month. Pro $10/month. Teams pricing custom.
Model
Freemium
Starting price
$10/mo
Free trial
No
tl;dv uses meeting bots with stronger CRM integration. Otter.ai uses bots with strong cross-platform support. Fathom provides free meeting recording with bot-based approach. Supernormal is a competing bot-free meeting notes app.
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Key facts about model providers, platforms, and team support.
Model Provider
Anthropic, OpenAI
Platforms
Mac
Deployment
SaaS, Desktop app
Integrations
Google Calendar, Outlook, Notion, Slack, API
Team Collaboration
No
Launch Year
2023
Compliance signals and data-handling notes as reported by the vendor.
Review Granola's data handling policy. Audio captured locally on Mac device. Transcription and AI enrichment may send audio to cloud for processing.
Audio is captured locally on the Mac. Transcript and notes processing for AI enrichment may require sending audio data to Granola's cloud infrastructure. Review Granola's privacy policy for current data handling.
Editorial Verdict
Granola is the best AI meeting notes app for Mac users who want AI-enriched notes without meeting bots, combining manual note guidance with AI transcript enrichment for higher-quality results.
Last verified July 24, 2026.
Free plan with limited notes per month. Pro $10/month. Teams pricing custom.
Free plan with unlimited recordings and basic AI notes. Pro $18/month per user. Business $59/month per user. Enterprise custom.
Review Granola's data handling policy. Audio captured locally on Mac device. Transcription and AI enrichment may send audio to cloud for processing.
Review tl;dv's data handling policy. Meeting recordings and transcripts stored on tl;dv's servers.
Audio is captured locally on the Mac. Transcript and notes processing for AI enrichment may require sending audio data to Granola's cloud infrastructure. Review Granola's privacy policy for current data handling.
Review tl;dv's privacy policy. Meeting recording bots should have participant consent per applicable laws (varies by jurisdiction). Meeting content stored on tl;dv's infrastructure.
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