Granola is a notepad installed on your computer. During a meeting, it listens to your computer’s audio and your microphone, then writes the meeting notes for you. No bot joins the call: the participant list doesn’t change, and Granola keeps neither audio nor video, only text.
Granola has a free plan. The recommended plan to start with: Basic, $0. Prices checked on October 3, 2026 on the vendor’s official page.
GranolaThe notepad that takes your meeting notes, no bot on the callWho it’s for: anyone with back-to-back meetings and calls: salespeople, managers, recruiters, business owners.
Granola listens to your computer’s audio and your microphone, and turns the conversation into text as it happens. Nothing joins the meeting. So it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, a Slack call, or a conversation around a table.
When the meeting ends, Granola brings together what was said, what you typed, and the calendar details. It turns them into notes organized by topic. Each point links back to the passage in the conversation.
You choose the shape of the notes to fit the meeting: sales call, one-on-one, team sync. You can create your own templates with the sections you want.
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Granola publishes its prices in dollars. On October 4, 2026, the pricing page lists Enterprise at $35 per user per month; Granola’s help center still says “from $35.” Students and startups can apply for 12 free months of the Business plan.
| Plan | Price | Who it’s for |
|---|---|---|
| Basic Recommended to start | $0 | Getting started, personal use |
| Business | $14 per user per month | Daily use, teams |
| Enterprise | $35 per user per month | Large organizations |
Meeting notes, templates, chat with your meetings (on the automatic setting), sending to Slack, and shared folders. Only notes from the last 30 days stay visible in the app: older ones are kept, but hidden until you move to a paid plan.
Start with the free plan: it’s enough to judge the tool on your real meetings. Move to Business the day you need to find a meeting more than a month old, or send your notes to Notion or your CRM.
No meter: Granola takes notes on all your meetings. The free plan only shows the last 30 days.
Your data. Granola does not keep the audio recording, only the text of the conversation and your notes, stored in the United States.
What it does less well
Let Granola take the notes in your next meetingGranolaThe prompt to copy
List the decisions made and the action items, with an owner and a due date for each. Then write a short, friendly follow-up email for the participants.
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If you want to keep the audio and video recording, thanks to a bot that joins the meeting.
A meeting recorder for Zoom, Meet, and Teams, with video clips to share.
If your meetings are held in Teams and your company has Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Basic: $0; Business: $14 per user per month; Enterprise: $35 per user per month. Prices checked on October 3, 2026 on the vendor’s official page.
Yes. Meeting notes, templates, chat with your meetings (on the automatic setting), sending to Slack, and shared folders. Only notes from the last 30 days stay visible in the app: older ones are kept, but hidden until you move to a paid plan.
Granola does not keep the audio recording, only the text of the conversation and your notes, stored in the United States.
Fireflies: If you want to keep the audio and video recording, thanks to a bot that joins the meeting. tl;dv: A meeting recorder for Zoom, Meet, and Teams, with video clips to share. Microsoft Copilot: If your meetings are held in Teams and your company has Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Page checked on October 3, 2026. Brands are named to identify the tools. No affiliation.