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 These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 3 Sep 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete.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
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 memory. The Verge added a privacy angle: shared notes are viewable by anyone with the link by default, and non-enterprise data can be used to improve Granola's models.
None of it slowed the business. A month later Granola closed a $125 million Series C led by Index Ventures with Kleiner Perkins participating, at a $1.5 billion valuation — six times its price less than a year earlier, on reported 250% quarterly revenue growth. Vanta, Asana and Gusto are customers.
The product stays genuinely liked. No bot joins the call: system audio is captured on your own machine across Zoom, Meet, Teams and Webex, and your shorthand is merged with the transcript into notes people reread. Reviewers who have used it for months describe that hybrid — your own intent plus the full transcript — as the reason it became a daily driver rather than a novelty. The design carries an obligation: other participants have no visual cue that they are being recorded, so consent has to be handled deliberately.
The round came with a direction. Spaces gives shared team workspaces, and two APIs arrived with it: a personal one for querying your own notes, an enterprise one for pulling team-wide meeting context into other AI workflows. Coverage reads that as Granola becoming an enterprise context platform rather than a personal notes app — which changes the calculus for anyone who picked it for solo notes.
The gaps are stable and known: speaker attribution degrades past three participants, no audio playback to check a quote against, no automatic follow-up drafting, no action-item tracking, no Android app. Enterprise at $35/user/month holds the org-wide model-training opt-out, SSO and admin controls — though individuals can now opt out even on free Basic, a quiet concession to the backlash.
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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