Granola vs Hedy

Granola

• People who do not want a recording bot visible in their calls
• Note-takers who like to type their own points and have them filled out afterwards
• Back-to-back meeting schedules across Zoom, Google Meet and Teams

Hedy

• People who want prompts during a conversation, not only notes after it
• In-person talks, lectures and appointments as well as online calls
• Buyers who prefer a one-time payment to a subscription

Granola

• The free Basic plan shows only the last 30 days of notes; older notes need a Business subscription to view.
• Notion, HubSpot, Attio, Affinity and Zapier integrations start on Business; Salesforce, SSO and SCIM are Enterprise only.
• Basic and Business are billed monthly only; annual billing is offered on Enterprise contracts.
• There is no web app or browser extension, and the Mac app needs macOS 14 or later.

Hedy

• The Free plan is capped at 5 hours a month, and real-time AI insights stop after the first 30 minutes of each session.
• Importing past recordings, chat across sessions and the Zapier, Make and API integrations need Pro or Lifetime.
• Hedy for Teams, with shared workspaces and seat management, is in preview behind a waitlist, so current plans are for individuals.
• Other apps connect through automation platforms, webhooks or the API; the integrations page lists no direct CRM or task-app connectors.

Granola

Bot-free capture

Transcribes from your device's microphone and system audio, so it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or other call software without adding a participant to the meeting.

Notes built on what you type

Type rough notes during the call and Granola expands them into a full write-up using the transcript. Custom templates control the structure of the result.

Chat across meetings

Ask questions about one meeting or your whole history, such as what you agreed to do this week. Basic uses automatic model choice; paid plans let you pick the model.

Shared folders

Notes are private until you share them. Shared folders give a team a common place for meeting notes and are included on every plan.

MCP and API access

An MCP connection lets assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT read your meeting notes. Basic exposes personal notes from the last 30 days; API access starts on Business.

Phone apps for in-person meetings

The iPhone and Android apps take notes away from the desk, for walking meetings, conferences or coffee catch-ups, and there is an Apple Watch app.

Hedy

Live suggestions

While a conversation is in progress, Hedy shows suggested questions, points that have not been addressed and talking points on screen. The Free plan limits this to the first 30 minutes of a session.

Bot-free, on-device listening

Hedy listens from your device instead of joining the call, and speech recognition runs locally. On capable hardware, Local AI Processing also generates summaries and suggestions on the device, offline.

Summaries, notes and to-dos

Each session ends with a summary, detailed notes, extracted to-dos and a searchable transcript in more than 30 languages. One tap saves a highlight with an AI-written analysis.

Topics and cross-session chat

Pro users can group sessions by client or project and ask questions that are answered from earlier conversations in that group.

Session types

Choosing a session type such as business meeting, medical, job interview, negotiation or lecture changes the style of coaching Hedy gives.

Automations, API and MCP

A Pro feature: send summaries, highlights and to-dos to other apps through Zapier, Make or n8n, or use the REST API, signed webhooks and an MCP server.

Granola

• Basic$0

  AI meeting notes, chat across meetings, shared folders and note templates, with 30 days of meeting history.

• Business$14

  per user / month, billed monthly

  Unlimited history, model selection in chat, pre-meeting briefs, API access and integrations such as Notion, HubSpot and Zapier.

• Enterprise$35

  per user / month, monthly or annual contract

  Starting price. Adds SSO, SCIM, workspace-wide admin policies, usage analytics, HIPAA-compliant workspaces and Salesforce.

Hedy

• Free$0

  Up to 5 hours a month, 30+ languages, summaries and meeting notes, and real-time AI insights for the first 30 minutes of a session.

• Pro$8.33

  per month, billed yearly ($99.99); $12.99 billed monthly

  Unlimited meeting length and sessions, import of past recordings, organizing and chatting across sessions, and Zapier, Make and API integrations.

• Lifetime$299

  one-time payment

  Everything in Pro for a single payment with no recurring fees, including all future updates.

Granola

• Startups

  1 year of Business free for startups

  Granola's startup program gives accepted companies 12 months of the Business plan at no cost. It is open to startups with fewer than 30 employees that have raised a pre-seed or seed round.

• Education

  12 months free for students

  Currently enrolled students at accredited universities in the US, UK and Canada can apply for 12 months of Granola Business free.

• Nonprofit

  50% off Business for nonprofits

  Registered nonprofits get 50% off the Business plan after verifying their status through Goodstack. Approval is at Granola's discretion.

Hedy

• Annual discount

  36% off Pro with yearly billing

  Hedy's pricing page marks yearly billing as 36% off: Pro costs $99.99 a year, about $8.33 a month, instead of $12.99 billed monthly.

• Lifetime license

  Lifetime access for a one-time $299

  The Lifetime plan includes everything in Pro and all future updates for a single $299 payment with no recurring fees.