Greg vs Granola: a bot vs a notepad
Granola is an AI notepad: it sits on your Mac, Windows, or phone, hears the call from the device, and enhances the notes you actually typed — without putting a bot in Zoom, Meet, or Teams. Greg (getgreg.io) is the other shape: a visible teammate in the room, then phone, SMS, and Slack after.
What Granola is better at (honestly)
No bot in the participant list is a real preference, not a rounding error. Granola also covers in-person and Slack huddles the same way it covers Zoom — anything your device can hear — and it keeps your typed notes as the source of truth. That personal-notepad UX is not what Greg sells.
Per granola.ai/pricing, a free Basic seat exists, Business is $14/user/mo, and Enterprise is $35/user/mo with SSO. Their site also discusses SOC 2 / GDPR-style questions we will not bounce against: Greg’s public pages do not make equivalent compliance claims.
Where Greg is the better Granola alternative
Greg can join when you cannot. Auto-join and a visible bot mean notes still land if you skip the call or join from a phone that is not running a notepad. After the summary, Greg can ring you with prep, text you, talk in Slack, and put action items on a board. That is a worse product if you wanted a quiet personal notebook. It is the point if you wanted a teammate.
| Capability | Greg | Granola |
|---|---|---|
| How it captures | A visible, named bot joins Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams. Calendar auto-join on Solo and Team. Upload a recording if you missed the live join — Greg can take notes without you in the room. | No meeting bot. Granola’s site describes a desktop/mobile notepad that uses your device audio, so it works with Zoom, Meet, Teams, huddles, and in-person — as long as you (or your laptop/phone) are there. |
| Notes & search | Speaker-labelled transcript, structured summary (TL;DR, decisions, owned action items on a board), in-app search, Slack/@mention Q&A with citations. | Personal notes you type, then AI-enhanced notes from the transcript. Calendar briefs before external meetings. AI chat within and across meetings. Sharing is opt-in; notes are private by default (per granola.ai). |
| Pricing model | Free trial credits (20/mo). Solo $97/mo + usage. Team $297/mo + usage (up to 10 seats). Scale custom. 1 credit = 10 minutes. | Basic $0/user/mo with AI notes, limited history, and AI chat. Business $14/user/mo (unlimited history, advanced models, Slack/Notion/HubSpot/Affinity/Attio/Zapier, MCP, API — per granola.ai/pricing). Enterprise $35/user/mo with SSO and admin controls. Confirm current dollars there. |
| Follow-through | Phone prep, SMS, Slack as a two-way desk, routines, board tasks. Optional HubSpot or LeadConnector / GoHighLevel writes on paid plans. | Business lists Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Affinity, Attio, Zapier, MCP, and API. Granola is a notepad and note-sharing product, not a phone/SMS teammate. |
Granola capabilities above are taken from granola.ai and granola.ai/pricing at the time of writing. Features and prices change — verify on their site before you buy.
Related comparisons
Start from the Greg comparison hub or read Greg vs Fireflies, Greg vs Fathom, Greg vs Otter, or Greg vs Read AI. Category pages: AI meeting assistant and AI notetaker. Setup and the read-only API are in the docs.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Greg a Granola alternative?
- Yes if you want an AI meeting assistant that can join Zoom, Meet, or Teams as a visible bot — including when you cannot attend — and then call, text, or Slack you. No if you specifically want a bot-free notepad that only hears the call from your device. Those are different jobs.
- Does Granola join the meeting as a bot?
- Granola’s public site says it does not invite a meeting bot; it captures from your computer or phone audio. Greg always appears as a named participant. You are responsible for consent either way.
- Who should stay on Granola?
- People who hate bots in the roster, who take their own notes and want AI to enhance them, or who need in-person / huddle capture from a laptop. Stay there if that is the product you want. Switch the evaluation to Greg (getgreg.io) if the job is “someone else was in the room and still follows up.”
- Which Greg is this?
- Greg the AI meeting assistant at getgreg.io — not getgreg.ai. Start free; privacy at https://getgreg.io/privacy; hello@getgreg.io.
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