Granola is an AI meeting notepad designed to eliminate the discomfort of visible recording bots in professional calls. Rather than joining as a named participant, Granola captures audio directly from your Mac or iPhone's system output, so other participants have no indication it's running. After the meeting, clicking 'Enhance Notes' uses GPT-4o and Claude to flesh out your notes into structured summaries, action items, decisions, and key quotes linked to the transcript. The platform stores a 90-92% accurate transcript alongside your hand-typed notes, AI-enhanced summary, and action items. It does not retain the original audio recording. Meeting Recipes let you save custom AI prompts as reusable templates for specific meeting types, like user interviews or 1-on-1s, so the output format stays consistent. The lightweight CRM view inside Granola tracks who you've met with and surfaces past notes by person or company. Granola is used by product teams at PostHog, Intercom, Ramp, Linear, Brex, Replit, and Vercel. The 25-meeting free tier lets teams evaluate it seriously before paying. It works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Slack, integrating with Notion, CRMs, and email for post-meeting follow-through.

What the community says

Granola receives unusually enthusiastic word-of-mouth in startup and product communities, largely because the 'no bot' approach solves a real social friction problem. Users on Product Hunt and Hacker News report that Granola changed how they run meetings, letting them be present and engaged rather than typing. The product team composition (engineers from top companies who clearly use the tool themselves) gets positive mentions. The 4.9-star average across reviews reflects genuine satisfaction rather than review-gating. Criticism centers on it being macOS-only (no Windows support yet), no SOC 2 certification as of early 2026, and HIPAA non-compliance ruling it out for healthcare. Some users want more control over what gets shared with AI models. Based on Product Hunt reviews, Hacker News discussions, and G2.