Notely vs Granola

Notely AI

The AI voice-note app for anything you hear

• →Records your Mac's audio during Teams, Zoom and Meet calls, or any browser tab via the Chrome extension
• →Upload a file or paste a YouTube link
• →30 languages, with live translation on Premium
• →Privacy mode processes everything on your device
• →10 free minutes every day, or from $0.49 for extra minutes
• →Notely Keyboard dictates into any app on iOS and Android

Granola

The AI notepad for back-to-back meetings

• →Also captures computer audio, so no bot joins the call
• →Starts from your calendar and blends your typed notes with the transcript
• →Slack, Notion, HubSpot and MCP integrations on paid plans
• →Free with limited history, then $14 per user per month

Notely AI

• Records Teams, Zoom and Meet calls straight from your Mac's audio, and lectures, interviews and voice memos from your phone
• Chrome extension captures the audio of any browser tab, on any computer
• Upload files and YouTube links, not just live audio
• 30 languages with live translation
• Privacy mode keeps processing entirely on your device
• One flat price, or pay per minute with no subscription at all
• EU company in Stockholm; your data lives on your device first, then your iCloud and EU servers

• No Windows desktop app or web app yet (iOS, Android and macOS); on Windows you use the Chrome extension
• No calendar integration, so you press record yourself when the call starts
• Full computer-audio capture is macOS only; elsewhere it is the browser tab via Chrome, or record from the room on your phone
• No Slack, Notion or CRM integrations, you export instead
• Team features are limited to the Enterprise plan

Granola

• Starts recording from your calendar, so notes appear without pressing anything
• Knows which meeting you are in and who attended
• Blends your own typed notes with the transcript
• Deep integrations: Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Zapier, MCP and an API
• Team folders and centralized billing; SOC 2 Type 2 audited

• Built for meetings; less suited to lectures, voice memos or files you already have
• Per-seat pricing at $14 per user per month for full history and integrations
• Transcripts and notes are stored on US servers
• Trains its models on anonymized customer data unless you opt out
• Free plan keeps only limited meeting history

Does Granola work for lectures, interviews or voice memos?

Granola is designed around meetings on your calendar. It listens to your computer audio during a call and, on mobile, to the room you are in. Notely starts from the recording instead of the meeting: press record on your Mac during a call, hit record in a lecture hall, upload an interview you recorded last week, or paste a YouTube link, and you get the same transcript, summary and chat. If a lot of what you want to capture is not a scheduled meeting, that is the difference that matters.

Does Notely work with Zoom, Teams or Google Meet?

Yes. On macOS, Notely records your computer's audio, so you open the call in Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, press record in Notely, and the whole conversation is transcribed and summarized without a bot joining the meeting. On any computer running Chrome, the Notely extension captures the audio of the browser tab, which covers Google Meet and the web versions of Teams and Zoom. On your phone you can record from the room or import the meeting recording afterwards. The difference from Granola is the trigger: Granola starts from your calendar, Notely starts when you press record.

What happens to your recordings?

Granola deletes the audio once the transcript is created and keeps the transcript and notes on US-hosted AWS servers. Notely saves the recording on your device first, then in your iCloud, so you can re-listen and chat with it later, and syncs transcripts and notes through EU servers, encrypted in transit and at rest. You can delete everything at any time. On Premium, Privacy mode processes everything on your device, so the audio never leaves your phone or Mac at all.

Does either one train AI on your conversations?

Granola uses anonymized customer data to improve its own models unless you opt out in settings; Enterprise workspaces are opted out by default, and third parties such as OpenAI or Anthropic are not allowed to train on the data. Notely never sells your data or shares it with unrelated third parties, and Privacy mode means nothing has to leave your device in the first place.

Which one is cheaper?

For one person, Notely. Premium is $7.99 a month or $49.99 a year for 1,800 minutes a month, and the free plan gives you 10 minutes every day with no time limit on the plan itself. If you only need Notely now and then, minute packs start at $0.49 with no subscription. Granola's Business plan is $14 per user per month, and its free plan keeps only limited meeting history.

When should you choose Granola?

Choose Granola if your work is mostly online meetings on a calendar, you want notes to start without pressing anything, and your team lives in Slack, Notion or a CRM. The integrations, shared folders and SOC 2 report are built for that world, and the per-seat price is easy to justify for a sales or customer team.

When should you choose Notely?

Choose Notely if you want one app for your Mac calls and everything away from the desk: in-person meetings, lectures, interviews, voice memos, in more than one language. Choose it if you want the option to keep everything on your device, or if you would rather pay one flat price, or per minute, than per seat.

Can you use both?

Yes, and plenty of people do. Granola for the scheduled calls at your desk, Notely for everything else: the hallway conversation, the lecture, the interview, the idea you want to talk through on a walk. There is nothing to migrate, because both export plain text and Markdown.

Encrypted in transit and at rest

Without an account, your notes stay on your device and in your iCloud, never on our servers.

Local first, then your cloud

Everything is saved on your device first, then synced to your iCloud and to EU servers.

Privacy mode

On Premium, transcription and summaries run entirely on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

Never sold

Your data is never sold or handed to unrelated third parties. No ads, no data brokers.

Delete anything, anytime

Remove a single note or your whole account in two taps. Gone means gone.

Built for regulated teams

Enterprise plans come with a DPA, a BAA and an on-prem option.