Granola is a bot-free AI meeting notepad from Granola, Inc. built for busy professionals who live in back-to-back calls. Instead of joining your meeting as a visible bot, it captures your computer's audio in the background and turns the conversation into structured notes you can search and share. Launched by a London team and valued at $1.5 billion after a March 2026 Series C, it runs on Mac, Windows, and iPhone. See the rest of our aifreetool.site/tool-category/ai-office-tools/ listings.
Core Features
- Bot-free capture: it records device audio directly, so no 'an AI notetaker has joined' moment and no host permission dance.
- You stay in control: jot your own notes during the call, then let Granola polish them with the transcript afterward.
- Calendar sync that detects upcoming meetings on Google Calendar and Outlook and captures them with one click.
- Integrations on Business with Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Attio, and Zapier, plus an official Granola MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT.
- Recipes that run post-call actions, such as drafting follow-up emails, automatically when a meeting ends.
Best For
- Founders and sales reps who want notes without a bot spooking the client.
- Teams building shared memory across customer calls and hiring loops.
- People in two-party consent regions who need consent controls.
Pricing
The Free plan gives unlimited AI meeting notes with 30 days of history. Business costs $14 per user per month with integrations, shared folders, and MCP access. Enterprise starts at $35 per user per month and adds SSO, admin controls, and priority support.
Our Take
Best for anyone allergic to meeting bots; the catch is that you must start capture yourself, so it is not fully hands-off. For accuracy and a calm user experience it beats Otter and Fireflies in our testing.
