Granola vs talat

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

talat

• People who cannot send meeting audio to a cloud service
• Buyers who prefer a one-time lifetime license to a subscription
• Obsidian and Markdown users who want meeting notes exported automatically

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.

talat

• The Mac version needs macOS 15 or later on Apple Silicon, and Windows needs version 10 or later. There are no mobile, web or Linux apps.
• After the 10 free hours, new recordings need a paid plan, though existing meetings can still be searched, exported and summarized.
• Nothing syncs or uploads, so notes stay on the one computer where they were recorded.
• Summaries from a cloud model require your own provider account and API key; the vendor notes that cloud models usually do better on longer meetings.

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.

talat

On-device transcription

Speech is transcribed in real time on the computer, using hardware acceleration where available. Recordings, transcripts and notes sit in a local database, and the app works offline.

Bot-free meeting capture

talat records the microphone and system audio as two streams and can start on its own when it detects a Zoom, Teams or Meet call or a calendar event. No bot joins the meeting.

Speaker identification

Transcripts are labeled by speaker on the device, and the app learns voices over time so that it can recognize the same people in later meetings.

AI notes with a choice of model

Summaries, action items and chapters are written by a built-in Qwen model, or by Claude, OpenAI or Ollama if you connect your own provider and API key.

Dictation into any app

A global hotkey starts dictation from anywhere, with tap-to-toggle or hold-to-talk. Text is pasted into the focused app, and an optional LLM pass tidies punctuation and filler words.

Import, export and MCP

Existing audio and video files can be imported and transcribed locally. Notes export to Markdown, Obsidian and PDF, and webhooks and an MCP server pass meetings to other tools.

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.

talat

• Monthly$9

  per month

  The full app with every update, cancellable at any time from the app. Existing notes stay readable and exportable if you stop paying.

• Yearly$89

  per year

  The same full app and updates as the monthly plan, paid once a year.

• Lifetime license$189

  one-time payment

  One payment with no renewals and every future update included, covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee.

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.

talat

• Lifetime license

  Lifetime license for a one-time $189

  talat can be bought outright for $189 with no renewals and every future update included. A 30-day money-back guarantee applies.

• Annual discount

  Yearly plan costs less than 12 months

  The FAQ prices talat at $9 a month or $89 a year, so paying yearly comes to $19 less than twelve monthly payments.

• Other savings

  $5 off through a referral

  A customer's referral code gives a friend $5 off any plan. The referrer gets $5 off a later bill once the friend has been a customer for three months.