Granola

Key features

• Bot-free capture from computer audio, working with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and any other call app
• Calendar sync that preps a "Brief" before external meetings: attendees, last conversation, open items
• Note enhancement: your shorthand is expanded into structured notes, decisions, and next steps
• Chat across meetings — ask what you promised this week, or what a client said about pricing last month
• Mobile apps for in-person meetings, walking conversations, and phone calls
• Integrations with Notion, HubSpot, Attio, Affinity, and Zapier, plus an API and MCP connector on paid plans
• Custom note templates, voice typing, and multi-language support
• Option to opt out of model training at any tier

Pricing

Read from Granola's pricing page on 12 November 2026 (verify current):

• Basic — $0 per user per month. AI meeting notes, AI chat within and across recent meetings, shared folders, templates, voice typing, multi-language support — with history limited to the last 30 days.
• Business — $14 per user per month. Unlimited meeting notes and history, advanced AI models and features, integrations (Attio, Notion, HubSpot, Affinity, Zapier), centralized billing and user management, MCP in all apps, API access.
• Enterprise — $35 per user per month. Everything in Business plus SSO, admin controls, priority support, usage analytics, org-wide auto-deletion, and org-wide training opt-out.

Pricing is per seat, so a three-person team pays $42/month on Business. There is no annual discount shown on the page as read.

Pros and cons

Pros

• No meeting bot: clients and candidates do not see a recorder join, which removes an objection
• Free tier covers unlimited meetings — the limit is history, not volume
• Strong consumer track record: 4.96 out of 5 from 14,695 App Store ratings, as shown on Granola's site in November 2026
• Desktop plus mobile covers in-person work that bot-based notetakers miss

Cons

• Free plan hides anything older than 30 days — the most common reason to upgrade
• Per-seat pricing gets expensive for a five-person team
• Notes start private and are shared manually; there is no shared team brain on the free tier
• Desktop support is macOS and Windows only — no Linux or browser-only option

Who should use Granola?

Granola fits an owner-operator or consultant who lives in calls, wants to stay present, and does not want to ask a client for permission to record every time. It is also a good first AI purchase for a small team, because the free tier is enough to test the workflow for a month.

Look elsewhere if you need meeting recordings with video, compliance-grade retention with audit trails, or a shared workspace where every teammate can search all conversations by default. Klang, Otter, and Fireflies are built more around that team-memory case.

Evidence, for context: Granola's own site advertises a 4.96/5 App Store rating from 14,695 ratings (read November 2026). That is a real third-party rating, though App Store reviews skew toward individual users rather than team buyers.

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