Granola

Granola is an AI notepad built for people in back-to-back meetings. Its defining choice is that no bot joins the call. Instead, Granola transcribes in the background while you stay present, blending the notes you type yourself with the transcript and meeting context to write clear notes that stay personal to you. Before a meeting, Granola syncs with your calendar and prepares a Brief for external meetings, covering 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, and the moment the meeting ends, notes, action items, and follow-ups are ready, so post-meeting admin does not pile up. Granola Chat and what the company calls perfect meeting memory let you search and question your past meetings later. Granola works with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and Huddles, and it is also made for in-person meetings, with an iPhone and Android app for walking meetings, conferences, and coffee catchups. Notes are private by default and ready to share: you can search them, polish them, and analyze them before sending them as you like. A Granola MCP Connector links your meeting notes to the AI apps you already use, so those tools can work from what was actually talked about instead of from a pasted transcript. The site says unlimited meeting notes are free, with an upgrade needed to view and work with notes older than 30 days, and it shows a 4.96 out of 5 rating from 14,698 ratings. Granola suits busy professionals who want reliable meeting notes, actions, and memory without another participant appearing in every call.