Granola
Capture meeting audio without a bot, enhance your notes, and review paid Gmail follow-up drafts.
Overview
Best forIndividuals and small teams who take frequent meetings and want editable notes with a review step for follow-ups.
What you provide
- Meeting audio from your device and optional rough notes
- Google or Microsoft calendar context
- Connected Gmail threads for eligible paid follow-ups
What you get
- Enhanced meeting notes, a transcript and action items
- Searchable meeting context and Chat responses
- Editable Gmail follow-up drafts on eligible paid meetings
Setup & workflow
- Install Granola, sign in and configure calendar and audio access.
- Inform participants, open the meeting note and start transcription.
- Generate enhanced notes and check them against the transcript.
- On an eligible paid setup, review and edit the suggested Gmail follow-up before sending.
Requirements & installation
- A supported macOS, Windows, iOS or Android app and internet access
- Google or Microsoft sign-in with calendar and audio permissions
- A paid plan or trial and matching Gmail permissions for automatic follow-up drafts
Limits & review
- Capture must be started manually; Granola does not attend or record meetings on its own.
- Audio is not kept as a replayable recording; notes and transcripts are processed and stored in the cloud.
- Automatic follow-up drafts are Google-only and require an external guest with no more than 10 attendees; a draft is not guaranteed for every meeting.
- Granola uses anonymized data for its own model improvement unless you opt out; Enterprise disables training by default.
Your part
- Tell participants you are transcribing and confirm the required consent.
- Start capture yourself and add the details that matter to your notes.
- Check commitments, recipients and dates; edit the draft before clicking Send.
When to consider another product
Unattended meeting capture, saved audio playback, or guaranteed automatic follow-up sending.
Tasks & use cases1
Turn meetings into follow-ups
Granola captures meeting notes and action items; its paid Gmail integration drafts eligible external-meeting follow-ups for the user to edit and send.
- Prepare
- Meeting audio from your device and optional rough notes · Google or Microsoft calendar context · Connected Gmail threads for eligible paid follow-ups
- Get
- Enhanced meeting notes, a transcript and action items · Searchable meeting context and Chat responses · Editable Gmail follow-up drafts on eligible paid meetings
- Your part
- Tell participants you are transcribing and confirm the required consent. · Start capture yourself and add the details that matter to your notes. · Check commitments, recipients and dates; edit the draft before clicking Send.
Plans & billing details
Monthly plans at a glance
Monthly billing shown. Promotional prices apply only to the stated period.
- Basic
- $0
Unlimited transcription and AI notes; 30-day in-app history and Auto-only Chat models.
- Business
- $14/active seat/month
Unlimited history, model selection, advanced integrations, API access and eligible Gmail follow-up drafts.
- Enterprise
- From $35/seat/month
Organization controls, retention policies and workspace-wide training opt-out; contract conditions apply.
Cost planning
- Business is billed monthly. Annual billing is available only on Enterprise contracts; ask sales for the annual quote.
- Basic notes older than 30 days are retained but hidden in the app until an upgrade; this is an access limit, not automatic deletion.
- Automatic follow-up emails require a paid plan or trial, Google sign-in, and the same Gmail account connected with read and send permissions.
- Workspace members share one plan tier. Billing counts active seats, so adding teammates changes the total cost.
Published prices are a snapshot. Confirm billing cycle, taxes and current allowances with the provider.
Sources & verification6
This profile is based on official sources, not a hands-on product test.
Vendor descriptions and demos document advertised features. Editorial guidance is based on these sources.
- Granola product overviewwww.granola.ai
Device-audio capture, enhanced notes and macOS, Windows, iOS and Android availability.
- Granola pricingwww.granola.ai
Basic, Business and Enterprise rates; 30-day Basic history and paid follow-up email entitlement.
- Granola subscriptions and billingdocs.granola.ai
Business monthly billing, Enterprise-only annual contracts, retained older Basic notes and per-workspace seat billing.
- Granola follow-up emailsdocs.granola.ai
Paid/trial and Gmail requirements, external meetings with at most 10 attendees, editable drafts and an explicit Send action.
- Granola security and privacywww.granola.ai
Manual capture, no stored audio recordings, cloud storage and user-controlled model-training opt-out.
- Granola setup guidedocs.granola.ai
Google or Microsoft sign-in, calendar access, microphone and system-audio setup.
Frequently asked questions
What does Granola do?
Capture meeting audio without a bot, enhance your notes, and review paid Gmail follow-up drafts.
How much does Granola cost?
Basic meeting notes are free; automatic Gmail follow-up drafting requires a paid plan or eligible trial. Business is $14 per active seat per month; Enterprise starts at $35 per seat per month.
What should I check before using Granola?
Capture must be started manually; Granola does not attend or record meetings on its own.
