Granola's AI notepad for meetings — you type rough notes, it fills in the polished version automatically.
Granola is a macOS notepad for meetings that listens in the background and, as you jot rough bullet points, automatically enriches them into clean, complete notes with action items. You stay in control — it never transcribes verbatim; it completes your skeleton. The result feels like a co-pilot for note-taking rather than a black-box recorder. It's become a favorite among founders and operators who hate reviewing raw transcripts.
Who it's for: Mac-using professionals, founders, and operators who take their own meeting notes and want them polished without a full transcription service.
Your bullets become full notes automatically.
No bot joins the call — it runs locally.
Action items and decisions extracted.
Syncs to Notion, Linear, and more.
Granola is the best 'assisted note-taking' tool for Mac users who already write their own notes. If you want a hands-off transcript, Otter or Fireflies fit better.