Granola
Meeting notes that you actually want to read
Overview
Granola listens during your meetings (using your laptop's system audio) and combines what it hears with your hand-written shorthand to produce well-structured notes. Aimed at busy operators who attend many calls; no bot joins the meeting, which sidesteps a common policy hurdle.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- AI meeting notes
- AI chat
- Shared folders + templates
- Individual training opt-out
- Unlimited notes and history
- Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Zapier
- API and MCP access
- Centralized billing
- SSO + admin controls
- Team-wide training opt-out
- Usage analytics
- Priority support
Use cases
What you can produce with Granola
- Produce clean, structured meeting notes from any video call (Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Webex) without a visible bot joining the meeting
- Draft shorthand bullet points during a call and have Granola expand them into a fully formatted, readable summary using built-in templates for common call types (sales call, 1:1, stand-up, product review, and others)
- Search across all past meeting notes in natural language to retrieve decisions, action items, or context from specific calls
- Ask the Granola AI chatbot questions about a single meeting or across multiple meetings to surface follow-up tasks and key commitments
- Share a meeting summary with teammates via a Granola Space (team workspace with granular access controls) or export it to Notion, Slack, or HubSpot on the Business plan
- Connect Granola to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or other MCP-compatible tools via the Granola MCP server to pipe meeting context directly into AI workflows without switching tabs or copy-pasting
- Set up custom note templates tailored to your meeting type so that AI-generated summaries follow a consistent structure for recurring call formats
ASEAN Perspective
Granola in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
Granola stays the most polished of the bot-free notetakers: it captures system audio on your machine — nothing joins the call — and merges your typed shorthand with the transcript into notes that read like a human wrote them. A $125M Series C at a $1.5B valuation (March 2026) and customers like Vanta and Asana back that up. But the February 2026 repricing pivoted hard toward teams: the free Basic plan keeps only a limited note history, while integrations, API access and unlimited history sit on Business at $14/user/month, with team-wide model-training opt-out reserved for Enterprise ($35). No Android app, no speaker labels, no audio playback. For meeting-heavy operators it's still the pick — just read the plan limits and your recording-consent obligations (PDPA/GDPR) before rolling it out.
What people say
February 2026 was the month Granola's goodwill cracked. A rebrand and repricing capped the free plan's visible note history (community posts cite a 25-note cap), moved integrations and unlimited history into a $14/user/month Business tier, and pivoted the marketing toward teams — users on LinkedIn and Reddit called it one of the worst-handled rebrands in recent memory. The Verge added a privacy angle: shared notes are viewable by anyone with the link by default, and non-enterprise users' anonymized data can be used to improve Granola's models.
None of that slowed the business. A month later Granola closed a $125 million Series C led by Index Ventures at a $1.5 billion valuation — six times its price less than a year earlier — making it one of the UK's newest unicorns. Companies like Vanta, Asana and Gusto run it, and the core product remains genuinely liked: no bot joins your call, system audio is captured on your own machine across Zoom, Meet, Teams and Webex, and your typed shorthand gets merged with the transcript into notes people actually reread.
The technical gaps are stable, known quantities. Transcripts don't attribute speakers reliably once three or more people talk, there's no audio playback to check a quote against, and there's still no Android app. Enterprise ($35/user/month) holds the org-wide model-training opt-out, SSO and admin controls; individuals can now opt out of training even on the free Basic plan — a quiet concession to the backlash. If your work lives in back-to-back calls and you're on a Mac, iPhone or Windows machine, it's still the class of the bot-free field.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
About this listing
This entry was compiled from publicly available data including Granola's official website, press releases, documentation, and reputable third-party publications. RECATOOLS is not affiliated with Granola unless explicitly stated.
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