Granola is an AI notepad designed for back-to-back meetings. Instead of running as a separate bot in the call, it sits quietly on your Mac or Windows machine, listens to the meeting audio through your system, and lets you jot rough notes during the call. Afterwards it turns the transcript plus your scribbles into structured, sharable notes — action items, decisions, follow-ups — that you can edit, search, and bring into a chat with Granola's AI to ask questions across all your past meetings.

The app skips the obvious meeting-bot UX problems (no awkward third participant, no bot joining links) and instead behaves like a thin layer over your own memory. It supports Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, in-person meetings, and offers folders, templates, and an AI chat that searches across every meeting you've ever recorded.

Made by a small team led by Chris Pedregal and Sam Stephenson (previously Socratic, acquired by Google), Granola has been widely covered in TechCrunch, The Information, and across founder Twitter. It runs as a native desktop app for macOS and Windows, with a freemium pricing model: a free plan covers a limited number of meetings per month, and paid plans (Personal Pro and Business) unlock unlimited meetings, folders, and shared notes.