What leaders and teams rolling out Granola report, with every finding tied to its evidence.
Read the findingsPractitioner sentiment, all users
+68 Strong positive from 57 sources that take a side
How this figure is madeFrom 57 authors in 43 discussions. Run a pilot on a month of real meetings to measure how much each summary needs editing before it is shared.
Jan 2025 to Oct 2026.
79 sources from practitioners, by month and sentiment.
Public accounts are strongly positive. Bot-free capture draws the most praise, then meeting memory and note quality. Platform gaps and privacy and consent are each raised by 7 sources. Every source that discusses platform gaps raises them. Privacy and consent appear in 12 sources, including two IT decisions.
Positive, mixed and negative sources
The score counts each source once, as the split does. See How the numbers work.
See the evidenceBelow: 4 praise themes, 4 concerns, 1 point of agreement and 1 disagreement.
Counted for All users, from 79 sources. Change group
Every capability practitioners describe positively, ranked by how many sources say so. Open one to read who said it.
Counted for All users.
Positive
Taissa Maleh, Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
With no bot joining calls, Granola replaced the reviewer's in-meeting note-taking and keeps their notes in one place connected to the rest of their workflow.
Positive
Dr Amantha Imber, host of How I Work, with Neo Aplin, who leads AI training at Inventium
How I AI: Our #1 favourite AI tool for meetingsPodcast episode show notes, How I Work
Inventium captures every internal meeting, one-on-ones included, in Granola by default and calls it non-negotiable. Imber's assistant adds a line to every external invite saying Granola is running.
Positive
Toby Mather, edtech and software executive
Rollup, GranollupNewsletter
Toby Mather prefers Granola because it listens on the PC without a meeting participant or full recordings, searches across meetings, and is good enough to pay for.
Positive
TEA (The Era Arc), tech newsletter author
Product TEA Test: GranolaNewsletter
Using Granola since July 2025, the author recommends it for low-effort notes without a bot, but notes the free plan tightened and drafted emails arrive as Markdown.
Positive
MrMeritocracy, r/sales commenter
Comment on: Android version of Granola?Reddit comment
The commenter rates Granola best because it does not join calls, unlike Otter and Fireflies bots that arrive late and promote themselves in chat.
Positive
marinkowo, Product manager, r/ProductManagement
Comment on: How do you automate your PM work when you constantly forget things and go blank in meetings?Reddit comment
A product manager with ADHD runs Granola in every meeting, in person too, and says tasks no longer get forgotten.
Positive
Becky Tia, Product Hunt reviewer, project manager
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
A project manager three weeks in relies on capture from computer audio and started using the mobile app for in-person client meetings.
Positive
Laura Kinder, President of Daversa
Can Granola's AI meeting notes eat bigger apps for breakfast?News article, Upstarts Media
Kinder chose Granola because a notetaker bot felt intrusive on confidential client calls; she asks clients whether they mind Granola running in the background. Her use helped bring 136 of Daversa's roughly 150 employees onto Granola, and staff share takeaways on Slack.
"If I’m in an important conversation with a client, it’s intrusive to have a notetaker bot in there…"
Positive
HandbagHawker, r/projectmanagement commenter
Comment on: Best AI Note-Taking App That Works with Headphones?Reddit comment
With no stake in the company, the commenter says Granola works on a Mac with headphones because it records the computer's audio and microphone.
Positive
Cory MacVie, Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
Having tried Zoom, Otter.ai, Fathom, Gong, and others, the reviewer prefers Granola because it works across meeting software, keeps no recording, and takes accurate notes.
Mixed
Asad M., Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
The reviewer values no bot and their own lines kept in the notes, but speaker attribution on four-person calls is a coin flip, so they recheck commitments in the transcript.
Positive
Jeremy Caplan, author of the Wonder Tools newsletter and Director of Teaching and Learning at CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
Meet Granola AINewsletter
After nearly 1,000 meetings Jeremy Caplan calls Granola a daily notetaker, valued for typed emphasis in the notes, mid-meeting catch-ups, and search across meetings.
Positive
Dan Shipper, CEO and cofounder of Every
Transcript: 'Opus 4.5 Changed How Andrew Wilkinson Works and Lives'Podcast episode transcript, The Every Podcast
With Every at about 20 people, Shipper asked Granola's assistant to write a handbook for new employees from his last 25 meetings. He calls the draft pretty good and says he would check it before handing it to every employee.
"It was pretty good. I probably wouldn’t just put it into every employee’s hand immediately, but you have the ground truth for it to start working from…"
Positive
Traditional-Star6659, r/ProductManagement commenter
Comment on: How do you automate your PM work when you constantly forget things and go blank in meetings?Reddit comment
The commenter records every meeting, even Slack huddles, with Granola and pastes each transcript into a meeting index in Cursor to act on later.
Positive
Christian Pean MD, MS, surgeon-founder at RevelAi
A surgeon-founder files recurring meetings into Granola folders to query, posts recaps to Slack, sends action items to Claude, and recommends disclosing the tool.
Positive
Jess Joyce, Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
With no notetaker joining the meeting, the reviewer states tasks aloud and Granola drafts the follow-up emails and tasks for the team.
Positive
kashisharma, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Ask HN: What is your default notes app?Hacker News comment
Granola is the non-invasive notetaker in this commenter's stack, and pasting the Granola note link into Apple Notes or Notion lets colleagues read the AI call notes.
Counted for All users.
Positive, 15
Positive
Ira, solo AI founder after 20 years in federal IT
Granola picked up an all-Russian-language meetingX post
Ira expected Granola to miss a Russian-language meeting with a colleague. It produced a full write-up, which the two participants now use to review their plan.
Positive
Feliks Primigg, Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
Two weeks in, the reviewer rates the call summaries highly and finds their quality consistent across calls held in different languages.
Positive
AI World, YouTube channel
My Granola AI Review and Best Practices After 200+ MeetingsVideo
After a year and 200+ meetings the creator calls Granola the best free AI notetaker the channel has tested, and covers group meetings, languages, and the free plan's 30-day limit.
"…try a better note taking app instead of doing everything manually. And just to be clear, this isn’t something I tested for a day or two. I’ve been using Granola AI for about a year now, across easily 200+ meetings, including client…"
Positive
kristanbullett, r/startups commenter
Comment on: Granola AI - US$1.5Bn Val (I will not promote)Reddit comment
The commenter prefers Granola because it only takes notes and does that well: it detects meetings, follows prompts for reshaping notes, and lets notes go anywhere.
Positive
saberience, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Show HN: Rowboat - AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)Hacker News comment
The commenter finds the Granola summary is all they need almost every time, says Granola already extracts decisions, and sends the transcript to Claude for anything more.
Positive
Riska Ambarastita, Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
A week in, the reviewer finds the summaries capture key points from context better than plain transcription tools, so they no longer type through meetings.
Positive
Fun-Database-8220, r/productivity commenter
Comment on: I Stopped Writing Meeting Notes ManuallyReddit comment
The commenter notices Granola's summaries improving from release to release over three months.
Positive
Eastern-Explorer-832, r/productivity commenter
Comment on: Note-taking app that has supreme accuracy?Reddit comment
The commenter got Granola in a Lenny's Newsletter bundle and finds it surprisingly accurate for meetings, much better than Fireflies, catching pretty much everything.
Positive
Mrinal Singh, Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
The reviewer's team added Granola to its productivity stack and rates its generated action items as spot on every time.
Positive
Anastasiia Romanova, Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
The reviewer finds the notes concise and well structured, and says Granola keeps them focused on conversations without losing action points.
Positive
Jake McGraw, former VP Engineering at Global Payments and Harness Wealth and cofounder and CTO of The Block
Claude + Granola MCP is a killer combinationX post
Jake McGraw finds a Granola summary imported into Claude through MCP more useful than Claude working from the raw call transcript, and wishes he had paired the two sooner.
Mixed
urbandw311er, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Granola for Apple WatchHacker News comment
The commenter finds Granola highly capable at summarizing, but an app that holds their microphone, calendar, and private notes and seems free makes them ask what the catch is.
Positive
acrooks, Hacker News commenter who runs a company with a CTO
Comment on: The 'white-collar bloodbath' is all part of the AI hype machineHacker News comment
The commenter loves Granola for notes on every meeting, reminders of promises made, follow-up email drafts, and meeting prep.
Positive
Cory MacVie, Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
Having tried Zoom, Otter.ai, Fathom, Gong, and others, the reviewer prefers Granola because it works across meeting software, keeps no recording, and takes accurate notes.
Positive
someonehere, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Show HN: Mikey - No bot meeting notetaker for WindowsHacker News comment
The commenter calls Granola the best meeting app they have used: they type prompts per person during check-ins and Granola fills them in from the transcript.
Mixed or negative, 2
Negative
Collin McLelland, CEO at Collide
Ripped out whisprflow and Granola is nextX post
McLelland implemented Granola at Collide and plans to replace it over weak summaries and an API with no way to export transcripts. He wants raw transcripts and sensitive conversations kept on the company's own servers.
"Loved both of those products and implemented them at our company but now they suck and aren't needed."
Negative
akkanzn, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: AI has fixed my productivityHacker News comment
Replying to a post praising Granola, the commenter says their own and their friends' experience is that these notetakers miss important points and fall apart under scrutiny.
Counted for All users.
Positive
EasyTangent, r/msp commenter
Comment on: AI TranscribingReddit comment
The commenter leaves Granola running in every meeting and asks it follow-up questions afterward, including about tone.
Positive
Andrea Del Angel, Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
The reviewer started with conference notes and says the value compounds over time, because chat across their meeting history finds everything said on a topic.
Positive
Jeremy Caplan, author of the Wonder Tools newsletter and Director of Teaching and Learning at CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
Meet Granola AINewsletter
After nearly 1,000 meetings Jeremy Caplan calls Granola a daily notetaker, valued for typed emphasis in the notes, mid-meeting catch-ups, and search across meetings.
Positive
Benjamin VanEvery, Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
The reviewer relies on in-meeting chat to recap what was just said and on search across meetings, and asked for an Android app so their phone could stay off speaker.
Positive
Dan Shipper, CEO and cofounder of Every
Transcript: 'Opus 4.5 Changed How Andrew Wilkinson Works and Lives'Podcast episode transcript, The Every Podcast
With Every at about 20 people, Shipper asked Granola's assistant to write a handbook for new employees from his last 25 meetings. He calls the draft pretty good and says he would check it before handing it to every employee.
"It was pretty good. I probably wouldn’t just put it into every employee’s hand immediately, but you have the ground truth for it to start working from…"
Positive
aylim1001, r/productivity poster
Any to-do app with MCP capabilities for creating to-dos?Reddit post
The poster asks Granola's chat across meetings for the day's to-dos and wants a to-do app that accepts them over MCP.
Positive
Christian Pean MD, MS, surgeon-founder at RevelAi
A surgeon-founder files recurring meetings into Granola folders to query, posts recaps to Slack, sends action items to Claude, and recommends disclosing the tool.
Positive
m3h, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?Hacker News comment
Granola is one of the commenter's two daily AI tools, used for transcription and meeting notes, searching across notes, and recalling action items.
Positive
acrooks, Hacker News commenter who runs a company with a CTO
Comment on: The 'white-collar bloodbath' is all part of the AI hype machineHacker News comment
The commenter loves Granola for notes on every meeting, reminders of promises made, follow-up email drafts, and meeting prep.
Positive
Jess Joyce, Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
With no notetaker joining the meeting, the reviewer states tasks aloud and Granola drafts the follow-up emails and tasks for the team.
Positive
Charles Cook, VP Operations at PostHog
Making Claude Cowork actually usefulCompany blog post, PostHog
Cook's weekly promise tracker and week-in-review report at PostHog read the transcripts of every Granola-recorded meeting he attended. He reports that the Granola MCP works really nicely when he needs it and would matter more if he had more meetings.
"If I had more meetings this would probably be a lot more useful. Works really nicely when I need it though!"
Positive
Toby Mather, edtech and software executive
Rollup, GranollupNewsletter
Toby Mather prefers Granola because it listens on the PC without a meeting participant or full recordings, searches across meetings, and is good enough to pay for.
Positive
TEA (The Era Arc), tech newsletter author
Product TEA Test: GranolaNewsletter
Using Granola since July 2025, the author recommends it for low-effort notes without a bot, but notes the free plan tightened and drafted emails arrive as Markdown.
Positive
saberience, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Show HN: Rowboat - AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)Hacker News comment
The commenter finds the Granola summary is all they need almost every time, says Granola already extracts decisions, and sends the transcript to Claude for anything more.
Counted for All users.
Positive
BigGreen1769, r/startups commenter
Comment on: Granola AI - US$1.5Bn Val (I will not promote)Reddit comment
What sets Granola apart for the commenter is that it builds on the notes the user typed and lets the user decide what mattered.
Positive
Jeremy Caplan, author of the Wonder Tools newsletter and Director of Teaching and Learning at CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
Meet Granola AINewsletter
After nearly 1,000 meetings Jeremy Caplan calls Granola a daily notetaker, valued for typed emphasis in the notes, mid-meeting catch-ups, and search across meetings.
Positive
someonehere, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Show HN: Mikey - No bot meeting notetaker for WindowsHacker News comment
The commenter calls Granola the best meeting app they have used: they type prompts per person during check-ins and Granola fills them in from the transcript.
Mixed
Asad M., Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
The reviewer values no bot and their own lines kept in the notes, but speaker attribution on four-person calls is a coin flip, so they recheck commitments in the transcript.
Positive
Dr Amantha Imber, host of How I Work, with Neo Aplin, who leads AI training at Inventium
How I AI: Our #1 favourite AI tool for meetingsPodcast episode show notes, How I Work
Inventium captures every internal meeting, one-on-ones included, in Granola by default and calls it non-negotiable. Imber's assistant adds a line to every external invite saying Granola is running.
Positive
TEA (The Era Arc), tech newsletter author
Product TEA Test: GranolaNewsletter
Using Granola since July 2025, the author recommends it for low-effort notes without a bot, but notes the free plan tightened and drafted emails arrive as Markdown.
Every concern practitioners raise, most raised first.
Counted for All users.
Mixed
Maria Telegina, Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
The reviewer liked having all meeting notes in one place, but could not get recording to work in the iPhone app and had to switch to a laptop.
Mixed
_puk, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Show HN: Rowboat - Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude DesktopHacker News comment
The commenter fed Granola notes into a local folder that Claude reads, until the sync silently stopped working when Granola encrypted its local database.
No opinion stated
Andrew Zeitlin, associate professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy
debrief: granola-mcp can't read tokens after Granola's May 2026 storage changeGitHub issue on andrewzeitlin/claude_skills
Granola's May 7, 2026 desktop update encrypted its local token and cache files, so Zeitlin's community MCP server read a frozen token and his transcript skill failed on its first call.
Negative
Collin McLelland, CEO at Collide
Ripped out whisprflow and Granola is nextX post
McLelland implemented Granola at Collide and plans to replace it over weak summaries and an API with no way to export transcripts. He wants raw transcripts and sensitive conversations kept on the company's own servers.
"Loved both of those products and implemented them at our company but now they suck and aren't needed."
Mixed
Fabulous-Ice-2424, IT manager, r/ITManagers
Comment on: Evaluation criteria for enterprise AI notetakersReddit comment
Evaluating notetakers for an organization, the commenter sees Granola's privacy approach as a plus but judges that it gives up team collaboration and search.
Positive
Benjamin VanEvery, Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
The reviewer relies on in-meeting chat to recap what was just said and on search across meetings, and asked for an Android app so their phone could stay off speaker.
Positive
Joseph Thacker (rez0), personal blog
Reverse Engineering Granola to Get Notes In ObsidianPersonal blog post
Joseph Thacker loves Granola but wanted notes in Obsidian; with no API offered at the time, Thacker reverse engineered the desktop app's endpoint to export them.
GILD's fact checks, which don't count as sources
Checked Oct 12, 2026.Granola keeps no meeting audio and cannot transcribe uploaded recordings. The desktop apps run on macOS and Windows, the mobile apps on iOS and Android, and Business and Enterprise add an API. How transcription works
Open them in the recordCounted for All users.
Raised as a concern, 7
No opinion stated
Abhirup Ghosh, CEO of Sainapse
Routing Granola notes between a personal and a company brainX post
Ghosh sends notes from a Granola team folder to the company knowledge base and keeps the rest personal. Warns that one 1:1 filed in the wrong folder becomes searchable by the whole team.
Mixed
hiro-v, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Goodnotes releases new AI notetakerHacker News comment
The commenter records 1:1 meetings with Granola and worries those notes could leak.
Mixed
urbandw311er, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Granola for Apple WatchHacker News comment
The commenter finds Granola highly capable at summarizing, but an app that holds their microphone, calendar, and private notes and seems free makes them ask what the catch is.
Negative
Toesinthesand2024, r/sales commenter
Comment on: AI notetaking without permissionReddit comment
The commenter's company banned Granola and similar apps because they record without asking participants for consent.
Negative
Query_Cat, IT administrator, r/sysadmin
Comment on: Blocking AI notetakersReddit comment
The commenter's concern with Granola is that any user can record any meeting without a visible bot, out of IT's view.
Negative
eawgewag, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) - An open-source AI meeting notetakerHacker News comment
The commenter accepts cloud processing of work notes, but found Granola had made their note folders, including 1:1s, visible to the whole organization, which shook their trust.
Negative
Collin McLelland, CEO at Collide
Ripped out whisprflow and Granola is nextX post
McLelland implemented Granola at Collide and plans to replace it over weak summaries and an API with no way to export transcripts. He wants raw transcripts and sensitive conversations kept on the company's own servers.
"Loved both of those products and implemented them at our company but now they suck and aren't needed."
Discussed without concern, 5
Positive
takmsdsm, IT administrator, r/sysadmin
Comment on: Blocking AI notetakersReddit comment
The commenter's company bought tools that meet its privacy rules, including enterprise Granola, to avoid chasing unapproved notetakers. Staff stopped using Otter.
Mixed
Asad M., Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
The reviewer values no bot and their own lines kept in the notes, but speaker attribution on four-person calls is a coin flip, so they recheck commitments in the transcript.
Positive
Dr Amantha Imber, host of How I Work, with Neo Aplin, who leads AI training at Inventium
How I AI: Our #1 favourite AI tool for meetingsPodcast episode show notes, How I Work
Inventium captures every internal meeting, one-on-ones included, in Granola by default and calls it non-negotiable. Imber's assistant adds a line to every external invite saying Granola is running.
Positive
Jeremy Caplan, author of the Wonder Tools newsletter and Director of Teaching and Learning at CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
Meet Granola AINewsletter
After nearly 1,000 meetings Jeremy Caplan calls Granola a daily notetaker, valued for typed emphasis in the notes, mid-meeting catch-ups, and search across meetings.
Positive
Christian Pean MD, MS, surgeon-founder at RevelAi
A surgeon-founder files recurring meetings into Granola folders to query, posts recaps to Slack, sends action items to Claude, and recommends disclosing the tool.
GILD's fact checks, which don't count as sources
Checked Oct 12, 2026.Granola's automated meeting-chat message and video watermark tell participants that transcription is running. Users turn them on themselves, and only Enterprise admins can enforce them for a workspace. Let People Know You're Using Granola
Checked Oct 12, 2026.Granola uses anonymized data to improve its models by default on Basic and Business until each user opts out. Enterprise workspaces are opted out by default and admins enforce the setting. Models & training
Open them in the recordCounted for All users.
Raised as a concern, 3
No opinion stated
George Diab, engineering manager and senior architect at Codingscape
Rebuilding Granola without the subscriptionX post
Diab wanted Granola without paying for it, so he had Codex reverse engineer how it works and build his own version, with the first commit about 91 minutes in.
Mixed
polemos, builder of hobnob, a local meeting notes alternative
Comment on: I built a local, free Granola alternativeHacker News comment
Tired of paying a Granola subscription, the commenter built a local tool that transcribes and summarizes meetings into JSON and Markdown files they control.
Positive
TEA (The Era Arc), tech newsletter author
Product TEA Test: GranolaNewsletter
Using Granola since July 2025, the author recommends it for low-effort notes without a bot, but notes the free plan tightened and drafted emails arrive as Markdown.
Discussed without concern, 4
Mixed
urbandw311er, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Granola for Apple WatchHacker News comment
The commenter finds Granola highly capable at summarizing, but an app that holds their microphone, calendar, and private notes and seems free makes them ask what the catch is.
Positive
AI World, YouTube channel
My Granola AI Review and Best Practices After 200+ MeetingsVideo
After a year and 200+ meetings the creator calls Granola the best free AI notetaker the channel has tested, and covers group meetings, languages, and the free plan's 30-day limit.
"…try a better note taking app instead of doing everything manually. And just to be clear, this isn’t something I tested for a day or two. I’ve been using Granola AI for about a year now, across easily 200+ meetings, including client…"
Positive
Jeremy Caplan, author of the Wonder Tools newsletter and Director of Teaching and Learning at CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
Meet Granola AINewsletter
After nearly 1,000 meetings Jeremy Caplan calls Granola a daily notetaker, valued for typed emphasis in the notes, mid-meeting catch-ups, and search across meetings.
Positive
Toby Mather, edtech and software executive
Rollup, GranollupNewsletter
Toby Mather prefers Granola because it listens on the PC without a meeting participant or full recordings, searches across meetings, and is good enough to pay for.
GILD's fact checks, which don't count as sources
Checked Oct 12, 2026.Basic has no daily transcription limit but shows only the last 30 days of notes in the app. Older notes are kept, and a CSV export returns them. Subscriptions and billing
Open them in the recordCounted for All users.
Raised as a concern, 2
Mixed
Asad M., Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
The reviewer values no bot and their own lines kept in the notes, but speaker attribution on four-person calls is a coin flip, so they recheck commitments in the transcript.
Mixed
Alex Kotran, founder and CEO of aiEDU
Delights and insights from my new favorite AI tool: Granola.aiNewsletter post, Notes on AI Readiness (Substack)
Kotran reports that Granola freed members of his aiEDU team from note-taking duty so they could take part in meetings. Its transcript butchered figures from a finance video prepared for a board meeting, which he caught only because he checked.
"Already, I’ve seen it unlock members of my team, making them more free to engage, knowing that AI is capturing key details."
"…butchering important figures for a board meeting would have had serious implications if I hadn’t checked…"
Discussed without concern, 5
Positive
Ira, solo AI founder after 20 years in federal IT
Granola picked up an all-Russian-language meetingX post
Ira expected Granola to miss a Russian-language meeting with a colleague. It produced a full write-up, which the two participants now use to review their plan.
Positive
Feliks Primigg, Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
Two weeks in, the reviewer rates the call summaries highly and finds their quality consistent across calls held in different languages.
Positive
AI World, YouTube channel
My Granola AI Review and Best Practices After 200+ MeetingsVideo
After a year and 200+ meetings the creator calls Granola the best free AI notetaker the channel has tested, and covers group meetings, languages, and the free plan's 30-day limit.
"…try a better note taking app instead of doing everything manually. And just to be clear, this isn’t something I tested for a day or two. I’ve been using Granola AI for about a year now, across easily 200+ meetings, including client…"
Positive
Riska Ambarastita, Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
A week in, the reviewer finds the summaries capture key points from context better than plain transcription tools, so they no longer type through meetings.
Positive
Cory MacVie, Product Hunt reviewer
Granola review on Product HuntProduct Hunt review
Having tried Zoom, Otter.ai, Fathom, Gong, and others, the reviewer prefers Granola because it works across meeting software, keeps no recording, and takes accurate notes.
GILD's fact checks, which don't count as sources
Checked Oct 12, 2026.Speaker names come from the meeting app on Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams on macOS and Windows. Elsewhere the transcript reads Me and Them, and people sharing one room device are not told apart. Speaker tags
Open them in the recordStatements this group's sources agree on, then the ones close to agreement.
The notes pay off once they reach the tools where work continues: Slack, Notion, a CRM, a task list, or an AI assistant.
16 supporting sourcesClose to agreement: each needs 16 supporting sources
With capture handled, nobody has to write everything down, so people listen and take part.
8 supporting sourcesAI notes get checked against the transcript before anyone relies on them or forwards them.
6 supporting sourcesQuestions the sources split on, with the count on each side.
Evidence remains mixed
Type along, 4 sources
Some type a few lines of their own during the meeting and let Granola build on them, so the notes carry their emphasis.
Hands off, 5 sources
Others take no notes at all and rely on Granola's summary, so their attention stays on the conversation.
The three groups, then every practitioner by the context they work in, and how emphasis changes with scale.
Three groups drawn from the same sources. Choose a group to select whose experience counts. Within that group, each author counts once in the practitioner sentiment, with their latest view. Signals open on All users. Leaders and teams have 14 accounts; GILD prints their sentiment from 20.
16 sources. This group counts teams and departments using the tool together, and the leaders deciding its rollout.
63 sources. Individuals report on Granola capture and note quality in their own meetings.
79 sources. Every Granola account counts here. Individuals wrote 63 of the 79 sources.
79 sources from practitioners, by the context they work in. Filled rows count for this group.
Emphasizes Meeting memory, bot-free capture, and staying present
Emphasizes Action items and notes shared with a small team
Emphasizes Folder visibility inside an organization workspace
Emphasizes Whether to allow a notetaker that records without a bot, and team search
Emphasizes Daversa's firm-wide use on confidential recruiting calls, with clients asked first
What changes with scale. Individuals focus on recall across meetings and capture without a bot. Team accounts focus on shared action items and who can see notes. Workspace sharing and retention settings control those outcomes.
Where this group's sources were published.
Counted for All users, from 79 sources. Change group
99 sources for this group, 20 of them documentation
Older evidence is retained when it still applies. Sources that depend on a plan, limit, or gap that has since changed stay in the history, marked Needs a recheck.
See sources by originWho each source is, how it knows, whether it still applies and what it counts toward.
Newest first, on its own page. Every count above opens its sources there.
Read all 99 sourcesAbout this read
A running review of what people using Granola at work report, from individual users to company-wide rollouts. Each finding links to its sources, and each conflict shows both sides.
Counts cover only the sources GILD reviewed.
Choose a group to select whose experience counts. Within that group, each author counts once in the practitioner sentiment, with their latest view. GILD files each source in a group from how the account describes its author. A role or employer marked self-described is what the source states about themselves. Documentation checks facts for every group and never counts toward sentiment.
A source's date and whether it still applies are separate: a recent post can describe an old version, and an old one can still hold.
Flagged for a recheck, of the sources that take a side: leaders and teams 1 of 14, individual users 3 of 43, all users 4 of 57.
Each row opens its sources for the group you are reading.
| Finding | Leaders and teams rolling it out | Individual users | All users | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current readCurrent sentiment | 8 positive, 2 mixed, 4 negative | 36 positive, 6 mixed, 1 negative | 44 positive, 8 mixed, 5 negative | Sources |
| PraiseBot-Free Capture | 4 of 4 positive (under the minimum) | 13 of 13 positive | 17 of 17 positive | Sources |
| PraiseNote Quality | 1 of 2 positive (under the minimum) | 14 of 15 positive | 15 of 17 positive | Sources |
| PraiseYour Own Notes | 1 of 1 positive (under the minimum) | 5 of 5 positive | 6 of 6 positive | Sources |
| PraiseMeeting Memory | 3 of 3 positive (under the minimum) | 11 of 11 positive | 14 of 14 positive | Sources |
| ConcernPrivacy & Consent | 5 of 7 raise it | 2 of 5 raise it | 7 of 12 raise it | Sources |
| ConcernTranscript Accuracy | 1 of 1 raise it (under the minimum) | 1 of 6 raise it | 2 of 7 raise it | Sources |
| ConcernPrice & Plan Limits | 0 of 0 raise it (under the minimum) | 3 of 7 raise it | 3 of 7 raise it | Sources |
| ConcernPlatform Gaps | 2 of 2 raise it (under the minimum) | 5 of 5 raise it | 7 of 7 raise it | Sources |
| ConsensusNotes leave Granola | 4 supporting (under the minimum) | 12 supporting (below threshold) | 16 supporting | Sources |
| ConsensusPresent in the meeting | 1 supporting (under the minimum) | 7 supporting (below threshold) | 8 supporting (below threshold) | Sources |
| ConsensusTell participants | 2 supporting (under the minimum) | 2 supporting (under the minimum) | 4 supporting (under the minimum) | Sources |
| ConsensusCheck before sharing | 2 supporting (under the minimum) | 4 supporting (under the minimum) | 6 supporting (below threshold) | Sources |
| DisagreementShould people keep typing their own notes during the meeting, or let Granola write them? | Type along 0, Hands off 0 (under the minimum) | Type along 4, Hands off 5 | Type along 4, Hands off 5 | Sources |
| Current readEvidence mix | 36 sources | 83 sources | 99 sources | Sources |
GILD's checks of claims against official documentation, kept apart from the source counts.
