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Granola vs Read AI vs tl;dv

All three are meetings & notes tools. Here is what separates them.

	Granola	Read AI	tl;dv
What it is	Takes notes from your meeting audio without joining as a bot, merging them with what you typed.	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.	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.
Category	Meetings & Notes	Meetings & Notes	Meetings & Notes
Pricing	Freemium · Free trial · from $18/user/mo	Freemium · Free · from $19.75/user/mo	Freemium · Free · from $18/user/mo
How it bills	Per seat	Per seat	Per seat
Free tier	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rating	Not yet rated	Not yet rated	Not yet rated
Features	No meeting bot — captures system audio Merges your typed notes with the transcript Templates per meeting type Searchable history Works with any conferencing tool	Engagement and sentiment scoring Speaker time analysis Transcripts and summaries Email and chat coverage Meeting recommendations	Timestamped highlights during the call Shareable clips Unlimited recordings on free plan Multi-language transcription CRM and Notion integration
What works	No awkward bot in the participant list Notes reflect what you cared about Works regardless of platform	Insight into how meetings actually go Broad coverage beyond meetings Useful for improving your own facilitation	Clipping makes findings shareable Strong free tier Good for user research
What does not	macOS-first Needs the app running locally No free tier beyond a trial	Raises legitimate surveillance concerns Sentiment scoring is crude Expensive per seat	Summaries are shallower than rivals Bot joins the call Search across meetings is basic

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