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Meeting notes without a bot joining the call — it listens on your device, turns your jottings into full notes, and remembers across meetings.
The least awkward notetaker for client work — free while a month of memory suffices, $14 a month when your meeting history becomes an asset.
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Granola takes meeting notes without sending a bot into the call: it captures audio on your device, expands your jottings into full notes, and chats across your history.
Your days are back-to-back client calls, a visible recording bot feels wrong for your work, and you want notes and follow-ups handled for $14 a month.
You need a free notetaker with permanent history, or you want scheduling and planning too — Granola only does the meeting itself.
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Starts A Zoom, Meet, Teams or in-person meeting starts
You get Full notes and next steps with no bot participant on the call
Client calls stay human while the admin still gets done
Starts An external meeting approaches (Business)
You get A pre-meeting brief instead of a scramble through old notes
Continuity with clients stops depending on your memory
Starts You need what was agreed on a past call
You get An answer drawn from your own meeting record
Past calls become an asset you can query, not an archive you fear
Starts A meeting ends on Business
You get A follow-up ready to send and notes filed in your tools
Approval Notes are private by default — you choose what to share and send
The post-meeting hour collapses into minutes
Unlimited meeting notes at $0; you are only bounded by the 30-day viewable history.
Granola detects upcoming meetings and offers one-click capture.
Write rough notes in the call; Granola expands them into structured notes afterwards.
Business at $14/user/mo unlocks unlimited history, integrations, MCP/API, briefs and follow-up emails.
Time to first useful result: Under 1 hour — install the app and connect your calendar · no-code 5/5
Per user per month. Basic $0 — unlimited notes, 30 days of viewable history. Business $14/user/mo, billed monthly — unlimited history, integrations, MCP/API, briefs and follow-up emails. Enterprise from $35/user/mo — SSO, SCIM, HIPAA workspaces and workspace-wide controls. Dollar figures are disclosed below: they did not extract as text from Granola's pricing page in this check and are corroborated by multiple dated reads of the official page.
$0 — free
Per seat / month · $0/mo for one person
$14 per user/month, billed monthly
Per seat / month · $14/mo for one person
From $35 per user/month
Per seat / month · $35/mo for one person
| Plan | Published price | Solo monthly | Billed by | Limits & overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $0 — free | $0/mo | Per seat / month | Notes older than 30 days are not viewable on Basic · Integrations beyond Slack, MCP depth and API access sit on Business |
| BusinessSolo pick | $14 per user/month, billed monthly | $14/mo | Per seat / month | SSO, SCIM and workspace-wide policies are Enterprise-only |
| Enterprise | From $35 per user/month | $35/mo | Per seat / month | Governance tier — priced for organisations, not a solo need |
History, not volume: meetings are unlimited on every plan, so the bill jumps only when the free 30-day window stops being enough — then it is a flat $14 per user, with no per-meeting meter above it.
Price record · 2026-11-05: First listing check, 2026-11-05, on granola.ai/pricing. DISCLOSURE (Slang AI pattern): the pricing page's plan cards did not extract as text in this check — the feature comparison table extracted in full (Basic viewable history 30 days vs Unlimited on Business/Enterprise; integrations, MCP and API rows; support Standard vs Dedicated) but no dollar figures rendered as extractable text. The figures published here — Basic $0, Business $14/user/mo billed monthly, Enterprise from $35/user/mo — are corroborated by multiple dated reads of the same official pricing page (reads dated 2026-10-07 and 2026-11-02 in third-party pricing teardowns citing granola.ai/pricing, and Granola's own official startup-pricing page stating the same three tiers). No annual discount is published for Business; annual billing is an Enterprise contract matter in those reads, so this listing publishes monthly figures only.
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Granola's one big idea matters to a solo founder who takes client calls all day: no bot joins your meeting. The desktop and mobile apps capture audio from your own device — Zoom, Meet, Teams, Huddles or in person — while you jot rough notes, and afterwards Granola expands those jottings into structured notes with action items, using the transcript as evidence rather than as the product. It syncs with your calendar, prepares a brief before external meetings from who is attending and what you discussed last time, and its chat can answer across your meeting history, so 'what did we agree with that client in March?' stops being an excavation. The free Basic plan is unusually real: unlimited meeting notes, AI chat, shared folders, custom templates and multi-language support, with one hard catch — you can only view notes from the last 30 days, so your memory has a rolling month-long window. Business at $14 per user a month removes that window with unlimited history and adds the integrations (Notion, HubSpot, Attio, Affinity, Zapier and Slack), MCP and API access, pre-meeting briefs and follow-up emails. Enterprise at $35 adds SSO, SCIM and workspace-wide controls. Granola does not schedule meetings, manage your inbox or plan your day; within the meeting-notes slice of this job, though, the bot-free capture and the 30-day free window make it the easiest notetaker here to live with before paying.
Solo Fit stays the public score: the qualitative roll-up of these four published inputs under the How We Rank method. Install-and-go setup and a flat per-user price carry it; the 30-day free window is the single, clearly stated catch.
The difference: Fathom sends a bot into the call but gives a genuinely free tier with stored recordings; Granola is bot-free on your device, with free history capped at 30 days.
The difference: Fireflies is the bot-based archive with a broad integration and search story; Granola trades that archive depth for in-the-room discretion and notes built from your own jottings.
The difference: Otter is the transcription-first incumbent with live captions and a free tier; Granola is a notepad first — your notes lead, the transcript supports.
Basic is $0 with unlimited meeting notes and a 30-day viewable history. Business is $14 per user a month billed monthly for unlimited history, integrations, MCP/API, briefs and follow-up emails; Enterprise starts at $35. Checked 2026-11-05 — see the disclosure in the next answer about how the dollar figures were verified.
Granola's pricing page (checked 2026-11-05) renders its feature comparison in full — 30 days of history on Basic versus unlimited on paid plans — but its plan-card dollar figures did not extract as text in our check. The $0 / $14 / $35 per-user figures are corroborated by multiple dated reads of that same official page (October and November 2026) and by Granola's own official startup-pricing page stating the same three tiers. Verify the card price on the live page before paying.
No. Granola captures audio from your own device in the background — the product site stresses 'humans in the room, not bots' — and works with Zoom, Meet, Teams, Huddles and in-person conversations. The pricing table notes you can let participants know you are using it, and Granola recommends asking permission before transcribing others.
History. Basic takes unlimited notes, but you can only view notes from the last 30 days; older notes require a paid plan to open. For a solo with a rolling month of active clients that may never bite — for anyone building a long client record, Business at $14 is the real price.
Granola is not in a published stack yet — stacks are edited buying guides, and memberships are added only when the combination has been worked through.
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