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Granola — AI Meeting Note Taker

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What is Granola?

Granola is an AI-powered notepad designed for professionals who attend back-to-back meetings. It transcribes your Mac's audio directly during calls, merges your typed notes with AI-generated summaries, and lets you query meeting content through built-in chat functionality to help marketing teams, executives, and product managers share information more effectively.

What sets Granola apart?

Granola distinguishes itself through direct audio transcription that eliminates meeting bots, ensuring privacy for sales pitches and sensitive discussions. The customizable templates feature lets product managers and marketing teams format notes exactly how their departments need them, creating consistency across team documentation. Granola's searchable meeting archive turns weeks of conversations into a knowledge base where executives can quickly locate past decisions and commitments.

Granola Use Cases

  • AI-enhanced meeting notes
  • Live meeting transcription
  • Meeting summaries and recaps
  • Meeting workflow automation

Who uses Granola?

Executives Business Analysts Sales Representatives Customer Success Managers Project Managers Product Managers Executive Assistants Administrative Assistants

Features and Benefits

  • Feature icon AI-enhanced notes
    Transforms raw meeting notes into comprehensive summaries by combining your typed input with AI-generated content from meeting transcripts.
  • Feature icon Live transcription
    Records and transcribes meetings directly from your device's audio without requiring meeting bots or additional participants.
  • Feature icon Customizable templates
    Formats notes according to specific meeting types with templates for customer discovery, interviews, standups, and other common scenarios.
  • Feature icon Meeting transcript chat
    Answers questions about meeting content in real-time, allowing quick access to information without scrolling through the entire transcript.
  • Feature icon One-click sharing
    Distributes meeting notes through shareable links or integrates directly with team platforms like Slack, Notion, and CRM systems.

Granola Pros and Cons

Pros
  • Circle checkmark icon Allows full engagement in meetings without manual note-taking
  • Circle checkmark icon Produces accurate AI summaries and transcripts
  • Circle checkmark icon Works seamlessly across different meeting platforms
  • Circle checkmark icon Easy to share notes and collaborate with team members
  • Circle checkmark icon Simple and intuitive interface requires minimal setup
Cons
  • Cross icon Drains laptop battery quickly during back-to-back meetings
  • Cross icon Limited integration options with other tools and platforms
  • Cross icon Occasionally fails to trigger or capture meetings
  • Cross icon No speaker recognition feature available
  • Cross icon Lacks mobile app support for some platforms

Pricing

Free Trial
Free $0/mo
  • Circle check icon 25 free meetings
  • Circle check icon AI chat with all your meetings
  • Circle check icon Create your own note templates
Individual $18/mo
  • Circle check icon Unlimited meetings for you
  • Circle check icon AI chat with all your meetings
  • Circle check icon Create your own note templates
Business $14/mo
  • Circle check icon Unlimited meetings for the whole team
  • Circle check icon Team-wide folders for collaboration
  • Circle check icon Consolidated billing & admin
  • Circle check icon Everything included in Individual
  • Circle check icon Opt out of model training for everyone in your team
  • Circle check icon Admin controls for meeting link sharing
  • Circle check icon Priority support and usage analytics
  • Circle check icon Everything included in Business
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