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No bot joins your call. Nobody sees a recorder.

Type three lines.
Get the whole meeting.

You already take notes. Half a sentence, a name, a number — then the conversation moves on and the rest is gone by the time you write it up.

Granola fills in what you missed from your own laptop's audio — no bot, no recorder in the participant list, nothing to explain to the person you are meeting.

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What you typed
· pricing pushback again
· wants SSO before renewal
· legal review ~3wks?
What came back30 seconds after the call
Acme — renewal call

Pricing is the blocker again: they want the 2024 rate held for another year, and said a 12% rise would go to procurement.

SSO is now a condition of renewal, not a nice-to-have — their IT mandated it after the October audit, and legal review runs about three weeks.

Follow-ups it pulled out
Send revised pricing by Thursday
Confirm SSO timeline with engineering
Three kinds of meeting

Your scribbles on the left. What you get on the right.

The write-up follows what you were paying attention to, which is why it reads like your notes rather than a transcript of everything anyone said.

What you typed
· pricing pushback again
· wants SSO before renewal
· legal review ~3wks?
10 words. Useless in a week.
What came back
Acme — renewal call

Pricing is the blocker again: they want the 2024 rate held for another year, and said a 12% rise would go to procurement.

SSO is now a condition of renewal, not a nice-to-have — their IT mandated it after the October audit.

Legal review runs about three weeks, so anything signed after the 14th slips past their quarter end.

Follow-ups
Send revised pricing by Thursday
Confirm SSO timeline with engineering
Start paper early — legal needs 3 weeks
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Why not a notetaker bot

Nobody has ever been glad to see a bot join the call

Every other tool in this category sends a participant to your meeting. It works, and it costs you four things — three of them in front of the person you are meeting.

People stop talking
A recorder in the participant list changes what a client, a candidate or an investor is willing to say out loud.
You explain it every time
Every external call opens with a question about the bot instead of the thing you called to discuss.
Hosts block it
Plenty of companies do not admit third-party bots at all, so the notes you rely on simply do not happen.
You get a transcript
Forty minutes of verbatim text is not notes. Someone still has to read it and work out what was decided.
Granola runs on your machine, so the meeting looks exactly as it always did

No invite, no participant to admit, nothing for the other side to agree to. You keep taking notes the way you already do, and the write-up is waiting when the call ends.

It hears what your laptop hears — best on calls you take yourself, weakest on a conference-room speakerphone. Telling people you are capturing a conversation, where that is required, is still on you.

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Setup

Three steps, and none of them are in the meeting

Install it and forget it
A desktop app on your Mac or PC. No calendar bot to authorise, nothing to invite, nothing for the other side to accept.
Type like you always do
Three scrappy lines during the call is plenty. You are not trying to capture anything — that is the app's job.
Read the write-up after
Your lines come back filled in with what was actually said, shaped by the template for that kind of meeting.
Works on Mac and Windows. Shared folders, templates and chat across your meetings are on the free plan — you do not have to pay to find out whether this suits you.
Straight answers

What people ask before they install it

Does anyone in the meeting know?
Nothing joins the call and nothing appears in the participant list, because Granola works from your computer's own audio. You are responsible for telling people you are capturing a conversation where the rules where you live require it — that part does not change.
What if I barely type anything?
Then it writes the notes from the audio alone. Typing a few lines shapes the result towards what you care about, which is why the output reads like your notes and not a transcript.
Does it work in a conference room?
Less well, and we would rather say so. It hears what your laptop hears, so it suits calls you take on your own machine. A room with one speakerphone at the far end is the weak case.
What does it cost to start?
There is a free plan with no credit card, and new users get their first month free on the paid tier through the link on this page. If you are an early-stage startup, Granola runs a programme worth a full year — we cover all of it on our Granola page.
Who is telling you this

ChooseMyStack reviews software for a living. This page is about getting started, so it carries no prices — the full breakdown, including the free plan, the first month free and the startup programme worth a year, is on our Granola page, read from Granola's own documentation and dated. If you sign up through our link we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you; it does not change what we recommend, and you are welcome to go to granola.ai directly instead.

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Install it before then, type your usual three lines, and read what comes back. Nobody on the call will know it is there — which is the entire point.

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