Alternatives to Granola
AI notepad that transcribes meetings on-device
Granola ranks #8 of 10 in AI meeting assistants, with an Alt Score of 89. It is freemium from $14/mo. 13 of 13 checklist rows are verified against a public source.
Granola is an AI meeting notepad that transcribes calls locally and enhances your own notes, without sending a bot into the call.
Granola is built for people in back-to-back meetings who want notes without a visible bot joining the call, including founders, VCs, recruiters, product managers, and sales and customer success teams handling sensitive or confidential conversations.
Granola is a desktop and mobile AI notepad (macOS, Windows, iOS, Android) that captures meeting audio locally without a bot, turns your own rough notes into AI-enhanced summaries and action items, lets you chat with and across your meeting history, and syncs notes into tools like HubSpot, Slack, Notion, and Zapier on paid plans.
You start Granola manually for a meeting; it captures your microphone and computer audio directly (no bot joins the call) and transcribes in real time while you jot your own rough notes. After the meeting, Granola's AI merges your notes with the transcript into a structured summary with action items, which you can query via Granola Chat or push into connected apps.
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Ranked alternatives
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Fellow is a meeting-management app with AI notetaking, shared agendas, action items and recordings.
MeetGeek is an AI meeting assistant that automatically records, transcribes and summarizes meetings with conversation insights.
Notta is an AI transcription and meeting-notes tool that records and summarizes conversations in many languages.
Read.ai is an AI assistant that summarizes meetings, emails and messages with transcripts, action items and analytics.
Avoma is an AI meeting assistant and revenue-intelligence platform that records, transcribes and analyzes calls.
Fathom is an AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes video calls with action items and CRM sync.
tl;dv records, transcribes and summarizes online meetings, with AI notes, clips and CRM integrations.
Circleback is an AI meeting notetaker that produces summaries, action items and automations across your tools.
Feature comparison
Rows come from the AI meeting assistants checklist (17 rows). Human-verified cells only. ? means the value has not been verified.
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Every fact and feature listed for Granola is verified against its own pages. Each alternative is sourced on its own page.
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Pricing model Freemium verified 2026-07-16
Basic Great for a free taste of Granola $0 per user per month ... Business Great for individuals or small teams $14 per user per month
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Starts at $14/mo verified 2026-07-16
Cheapest paid tier; a $0/user/month Basic (free) tier also exists.
Business Great for individuals or small teams $14 per user per month
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Status active verified 2026-07-16
Updates page shows continuous shipped releases through July, including a $125M raise announced March 25.
Granola raises $125M to put your company's context to work
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Joins calls via bot No verified 2026-07-16
It does not add a bot to your video call.
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Bot-free / local capture Yes verified 2026-07-16
Granola then accesses your microphone audio, and your meeting audio on your computer, and transcribes it. It does not add a bot to your video call.
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Live transcription Yes verified 2026-07-16
How Granola transcribes your meetings. Real-time transcription, speaker identification, and how audio is processed.
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Speaker identification Yes verified 2026-07-16
Speaker attribution labels who said what in your transcript using each participant's display name, instead of just Me and Them.
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AI summary & action items Yes verified 2026-07-16
Meeting decisions become tickets. Granola can push action items directly into Linear, Jira, or Asana based on what was said - no manual entry, no end-of-day cleanup.
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Zoom integration Yes verified 2026-07-16
Granola for Desktop works with any meeting platform. Zoom, Meet, Teams, you name it.
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Google Meet integration Yes verified 2026-07-16
Granola for Desktop works with any meeting platform. Zoom, Meet, Teams, you name it.
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Microsoft Teams integration Yes verified 2026-07-16
Granola for Desktop works with any meeting platform. Zoom, Meet, Teams, you name it.
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CRM sync (Salesforce/HubSpot) Partial verified 2026-07-16
Native sync exists for HubSpot (also Attio and Affinity). Salesforce has no native connector; it requires a third-party Zapier connection: 'we integrate with Attio, HubSpot and Affinity' (integrations
Sync Granola meeting notes to HubSpot. Automatically sync notes to CRM records from your meetings using folders.
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Ask-AI chat over meetings Yes verified 2026-07-16
Granola Chat lets you ask questions about your meetings and get instant insights from your notes or transcripts.
https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/getting-more-from-your-notes/chatting-with-your-meetings -
Multi-language transcription Yes verified 2026-07-16
Supports English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, Russian, Hindi (desktop), plus more on iOS/Android.
Granola supports multiple languages for transcription and generated meeting summaries.
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Free tier meeting limit Yes verified 2026-07-16
Free (Basic) plan has unlimited meetings/notes captured, but only the last 30 days of note history is viewable in-app; older notes are retained but inaccessible unless upgraded.
Note history on the free plan: You can only see and use notes from the last 30 days in the app.
https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/managing-your-account/subscriptions-and-billing -
SOC 2 compliance Yes verified 2026-07-16
We've shown independent auditors that our security practices meet SOC 2 Type 2 standards
https://www.granola.ai/security
FAQ
Yes. Fellow, MeetGeek and Notta have a free tier or are fully free. Free-tier limits in the comparison table are verified and dated.