# Granola

> AI notes for back-to-back meetings, captured without a bot

- Page on StartupList: https://startuplist.tech/launches/granola
- Website: https://www.granola.ai/
- Category: Note Taking
- Price: Free + paid plans
- Company: Granola, Inc (https://startuplist.tech/companies/granola-inc)
- Used for: Take payments

## At a glance

- The problem it solves: Meeting notes take attention away from the conversation, and action items get lost afterwards
- Who it's for: Businesses (B2B)

## About

Granola is an AI notepad for people who spend their days in meetings. You write what you want to remember in a plain notepad during the call, and Granola combines your notes with a transcript to produce clear, enhanced notes. Your notes stay private by default, and you choose what to share.

Granola does not join your meeting as a bot. It uses your computer audio instead, so other participants do not see an extra attendee in the call. It works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and other meeting apps, and it also works for in-person conversations through the iPhone and Android apps.

Before a meeting, Granola syncs with your calendar and prepares a brief for each external meeting. The brief covers who is attending, what you discussed last time and what matters now. During the meeting you can write as much or as little as you like. After the meeting, notes, action items and follow-ups are ready as soon as the call ends, and you can ask for a follow-up email or a project plan.

Granola also has a chat feature that works across your meetings, so you can ask questions such as what you promised to do this week. A Granola MCP connector lets AI apps you use access your meeting notes, so you do not need to copy and paste transcripts into them.

Granola is for busy professionals who attend many meetings, including managers, sales teams, product teams and founders. The company says it is trusted by teams at well-known software companies.

The basic plan is free and includes AI meeting notes, limited meeting history, AI chat within and across meetings, and shared folders. The Business plan costs 14 US dollars per user per month and adds unlimited meeting history, pre-meeting briefs, follow-up emails, integrations with Notion, HubSpot and Zapier, and API access. The Enterprise plan costs 35 US dollars per user per month and adds single sign-on, admin controls, org-wide auto-deletion and HIPAA-compliant workspaces for qualifying customers.

Granola is available for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. The company states it is SOC 2 compliant and that audio is deleted after transcription. Users can opt out of having their anonymised data used for model training.

## Links

- [Granola on StartupList](https://startuplist.tech/launches/granola)
- [Website](https://www.granola.ai/)