Granola

Granola transcribes your computer or phone audio locally instead of dialing a bot into the meeting. No unexpected guest appears in the participant list, and nobody gets a "this meeting is being recorded" prompt from a third party. For calls where mentioning a recorder would change the tone, that quiet approach is the whole point.

This is the feature that shapes how you use the app. You type short, messy phrases during a call, and Granola rewrites them into fuller points using the transcript as a reference. You keep editing control, so the note reads the way you think, not the way a summarizer decided to.

Granola Chat lets you ask questions that span many meetings at once. You can track how a project evolved, find where a decision was made, or pull every objection a client raised. Business and Enterprise users can also pick which AI model answers.

Connecting your calendar lets Granola spot upcoming meetings and open the matching note with one click. Pre-meeting briefs recap the last exchange with that contact, which is useful when you have five calls a day and no time to reread anything.

Notes flow into Slack and shared folders, and tools like Notion, Zapier and HubSpot connect through integrations. The MCP connector is the more interesting one: it makes your notes readable by AI apps such as Claude and ChatGPT, so what you talked about can directly inform what you're building.

Granola handles meetings in many languages and labels who said what, so a transcript reads like a script. Speaker tags matter most in long calls, where "who owns this" is often the first thing you need to know.