Granola
Granola is an AI-powered meeting notepad that captures conversations and turns them into structured, useful meeting notes. It works across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and in-person meetings without requiring a meeting bot to join the call.
Description
What Is Granola?
Granola is an AI meeting notepad that helps people capture, organise and work with meeting information. Granola doesn’t use a traditional meeting bot that joins a video call as a participant, but rather captures the conversation using audio from the user’s device.
The platform merges the meeting transcript with the user’s own rough notes and uses AI to turn them into structured, detailed meeting notes.
How Does Granola Work?
Before a meeting, users can open up Granola and link their calendar so the app can give context around upcoming meetings. During the conversation Granola captures the meeting audio and users are able to write short notes on the points that they consider important.
Post meeting Granola produces better notes from the transcript and user’s notes. The method lets users steer the AI to the information that’s relevant to them rather than simply having it read an automatically generated transcript.
Granola works for meetings on platforms like Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, and also in-person meetings. No need to have a separate meeting bot join the call.
Granola for Different Teams
Granola can be useful across a range of professional workflows.
Sales Teams
Sales teams can use meeting notes to capture customer conversations, identify action items, and connect information with CRM records.
Product Teams
Product managers and researchers can use Granola to document customer interviews, product discussions, feature requests, and user feedback.
Recruiting Teams
Recruiters and hiring teams can use structured meeting notes to keep track of interviews and conversations with candidates.
Founders and Managers
Founders and managers can use meeting history and AI search to retrieve decisions, discussions, and action items from previous conversations.
Developers and Technical Teams
Developers can connect meeting context to tools such as Cursor and other AI applications through Granola's MCP integrations.
Granola Pricing
Granola has a freemium pricing model.
Basic Free Unlimited AI Meeting Notes Limited Meeting History AI Chat Shared Folders Customisable Note Templates Multi-Language Support
The Business plan is $14/user/month and offers unlimited meeting history, advanced AI models, more integrations, centralised billing and user management, MCP capabilities, and API access.
The Enterprise plan starts at $35 per user, per month and includes enterprise-centric security and admin features such as SSO, priority support, usage analytics and org-wide controls.
Is Granola Free?
Yes. Granola offers a free Basic plan. You are able to create as many meeting notes as you like, but you can only go back and access notes from the last 30 days of meetings.
For unlimited history, advanced models and wider business integrations you can upgrade to a paid plan.
Privacy and Security
Granola has published information on its data privacy and security protection. The company earned its SOC 2 Type 2 certification in July 2025.
Granola also gives users the option to opt out of model training. This control can be distributed across the organization through Enterprise.
Since Granola captures conversations, you should inform meeting participants that the meeting is being transcribed and comply with applicable privacy and recording laws.
Why Use Granola?
Granola is particularly useful for people who want the benefits of AI meeting notes without having an automated bot appear as another participant in their meetings.
Its combination of device-based audio capture, user-written notes, AI-enhanced summaries, searchable meeting history, templates, integrations, and AI connections makes it more than a simple transcription tool.
It can act as a layer between meetings and the tools teams already use to manage information, customer relationships, projects, and follow-up work.
Overall
Granola is a modern AI meeting assistant that is built around an AI-enhanced notepad instead of a traditional meeting bot. It records conversations, enhances them with the user’s own notes and turns them into structured information that can be searched, queried, shared and linked to other workflows.
The free plan is a great way to try the basic experience and the Business and Enterprise plans are for users and companies that need longer meeting history, advanced AI features, integrations, and administrative controls.
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Key Features
- AI-enhanced meeting notes
- Bot-free meeting capture using device audio
- Real-time meeting transcription
- AI chat for searching and querying meeting history
- Custom meeting note templates
- Recipes for recurring post-meeting workflows
- Meeting history and searchable notes
- Multi-language support
- CRM integrations with HubSpot, Attio, and Affinity
- Integrations with Slack, Notion, Linear, Salesforce, and Zapier
- MCP integrations with ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Gemini, and other AI tools
- Shared folders for team collaboration
- Automatic meeting context through Google Calendar and Outlook
- API access for Business and Enterprise workflows
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
- Works without requiring a meeting bot to join the call.
- Combines user-written notes with AI-generated transcript context.
- Produces structured notes rather than only raw transcripts.
- Supports unlimited meetings on the free plan.
- AI chat makes past meeting information easier to retrieve.
- Works across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and in-person meetings.
- Offers a wide range of integrations with productivity and CRM platforms.
- MCP support connects meeting knowledge with AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor.
- Custom templates and Recipes support repeatable meeting workflows.
- Offers Business and Enterprise features for teams and organizations.
! Weaknesses
- Free users can access only the most recent 30 days of meeting history.
- Advanced AI models and many business integrations require a paid plan.
- Granola relies on access to device audio, so users need to set it up before capturing a meeting.
- Users should notify meeting participants when conversations are being transcribed.
- AI-generated notes can still require human review, especially for technical or nuanced discussions.
- Some integrations have plan-specific limitations.
- Teams that need extensive enterprise administration may need the Enterprise plan.
- Users who prefer traditional automated meeting bots may need to adjust to Granola's notepad-based workflow.
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Official Resources
Helpful guides and demos published by the tool provider.