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Alternatives to Granola

8 tools that do a similar job, ordered by how plausibly you could actually switch. Each one lists what it shares with Granola and what it does differently.

What you would be leaving

Free trial · from $18/user/mo · Per seat

Takes notes from your meeting audio without joining as a bot, merging them with what you typed.

The complaints people have about it

  • — macOS-first
  • — Needs the app running locally
  • — No free tier beyond a trial
  1. Otter.aiFree · from $16.99/mo

    Otter AI Meeting Agent supports real-time transcription, live chat, automated summaries, insights, and action items.

    What it shares
    Also meetings & notes · Shares meetings · Overlapping feature set
    What is different
    $1.01/mo cheaper to start.
  2. Create a professional business website in minutes with Mixo

    What it shares
    Also meetings & notes
    What is different
    Free, where the original is not.
  3. Fireflies.aiFree · from $18/user/mo

    Meeting recording and transcription with conversation analytics and CRM sync.

    What it shares
    Also meetings & notes · Shares meetings
    What is different
    Analytics beyond a single meeting
  4. Read AIFree · from $19.75/user/mo

    Read AI, the fastest growing AI meeting assistant, ever, delivers real-time transcription, smart summaries, and enables AI search and discovery across all your content including meeting, messages, emails, CRM, and documents.

    What it shares
    Also meetings & notes · Shares meetings
    What is different
    Costs more — from $19.75/mo.
  5. tl;dvFree · from $18/user/mo

    AI meeting notes — record, transcribe, and summarize meetings automatically. tl;dv turns Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls into actionable insights with AI-powered summaries.

    What it shares
    Also meetings & notes · Shares meetings
    What is different
    Clipping makes findings shareable
  6. FathomFree · from $19/user/mo

    Meeting notes with a free tier that is unusually complete, and summaries ready seconds after the call.

    What it shares
    Also meetings & notes · Shares meetings
    What is different
    Costs more — from $19/mo.
  7. KrispFree · from $8/mo

    Removes background noise from calls in both directions, at the device rather than in the meeting app.

    What it shares
    Shares meetings, privacy · Overlapping feature set
    What is different
    $10/mo cheaper to start.
  8. Build a no-code AI chatbot for your website in 5 minutes. Trained on your content, answers in 80+ languages, embeds anywhere. Start free, no card.

    What it shares
    Also meetings & notes
    What is different
    Priced not published.