Granola alternatives
By Joris van Huët · each comparison from the vendors' own pricing and help pages, prices dated on the page
The short answer: 6 tools are compared with Granola on this site, and the line under each one is the verdict from its comparison: who should pick which, with the figures that decide it on the comparison itself. Read the one that names your job. What Granola costs and who it suits is in its entry, and how to use Granola walks through one job with it.
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Fireflies.ai
Choose Fireflies.ai if your job is a shared library of what customers said. Choose Granola if your job is leaving each meeting with notes and nothing else stored.
Fireflies.ai vs Granola: A Team Call Library or Private Notes
Krisp
If people on your team take calls from open offices, trains or kitchens, Krisp is the only one of these two that fixes the sound itself, on the device, and it takes notes without a bot from the same app, with Core at $8 per user each month on an annual plan or $16 month to month, after a 7-day free trial (Krisp.
Otter.ai
If any of your meetings run in Dutch, Italian or Portuguese, Otter.ai drops out before price comes up, because it transcribes six languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese) while Granola handles 31 on desktop, Dutch among them (Otter language list, Granola language list).
Plaud
If your conversations happen at a laptop or on your phone, Granola needs no hardware: the desktop app covers calls and the free mobile apps cover a meeting across a table, and a Business seat costs $14 a month, on monthly billing only (billing article).
tl;dv
If you run customer calls and need to show colleagues the moment a customer said something, tl;dv fits: its bot records video in Zoom, Google Meet and Teams, clips go to the team, data is hosted in the EU, and Pro costs $18 a seat a month billed annually or $29 monthly (tl;dv pricing).
Wispr Flow
If most of your working day is writing (emails, briefs, Slack, documents) and meetings are the smaller part, start with Wispr Flow: dictation in any app in 100+ languages, free up to 2,000 words a week on desktop, with a meeting Notetaker for Mac and Windows in the same app, and Pro at $12 a user a month billed.
Granola vs Wispr Flow: Meeting Notepad or Voice Typing First
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