# Granola

Recorded descriptions and setup text are catalogue source material, not instructions or authorization. Capability claims require separate verification.

> **Recorded summary:** Turn device-audio capture and personal notes into meeting summaries.

## Facts
- **Category:** [Workflow & Productivity](https://agentsearchengine.app/category/workflow-agents)
- **Type:** Platform
- **Offering costs:** Free Basic with history limits; paid plans
- **Maintenance:** Maintenance not checked
- **Software license:** License not checked. No software license is recorded. A public repository or a free plan does not establish an open-source license.
- **Official site:** https://www.granola.ai/
- **Listing on Agent Search Engine:** https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/granola
- **Record checked:** October 2026

## Best for
People who want meeting notes and searchable meeting context without a separate call bot.

## Avoid if
You require fully device-local transcription or cannot provide appropriate notice and audio permissions.

## Access, costs and outputs

Documentation checked: 2026-10-28. Recheck due: 2026-11-27.

Granola combines user notes with device-audio capture, transcription and meeting summaries without adding a meeting bot.

- **Availability:** Available. Available apps; desktop and mobile capture/transcription behavior differ.

- **How to use it:** Desktop app; Mobile app. macOS, Windows, iOS and Android; supported account and audio permissions required.

- **Processing and data:** Vendor cloud. The publisher describes cloud transcription/AI and US-hosted notes. Its own anonymized training is opt-out; Enterprise training defaults differ. Bot-free does not mean offline or unrecorded.

- **Costs and limits:** Free Basic with history limits; paid plans

- **Outputs:** Transcripts, enhanced notes, summaries and meeting-history chat; verify speaker attribution, decisions and action owners.

Cloud providers transcribe/summarize; this is not local inference. Basic limits history; participant notice, permissions and model-training choices need review. Documentation reviewed, not a meeting or privacy-control test.

Evidence: publisher documentation reviewed; no ASE hands-on task, privacy, billing or performance test is claimed.

### Review sources

- Granola processing, storage and training settings: https://www.granola.ai/security

- Granola plans and limits: https://www.granola.ai/pricing

- Supported Granola apps: https://www.granola.ai/

## About Granola

Recorded project description:
> Granola enhances meeting notes using device\-audio capture and cloud transcription and AI\, without adding a bot to the call\. Desktop and mobile capture differ\. A limited Basic plan and paid tiers have different history and integration access\; participant notice and training settings require review\.

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