Granola vs Otter.ai

Granola is a meeting-notes application that captures desktop meetings, transcribes them, and creates summaries and action items. It works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Huddles, and in-person meetings, and offers transcription in 32 languages. Calendar integrations are available. The software runs on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Granola uses a freemium model. The Basic plan costs nothing per month and keeps 30 days of meeting history. Business costs $14 per user per month and provides unlimited meeting notes and history. Enterprise costs $35 per user per month and adds enterprise security and administration, single sign-on, priority support, usage analytics, organization-wide auto-deletion periods, and controls for sharing and API access. This separates limited free history from unlimited history and broader organizational controls.

Otter.ai transcribes meetings into searchable text and provides summaries and action items. Its meeting bot can capture calls on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams; the Mac and Windows desktop apps can record conversations without a bot joining. Other listed features include live transcription, speaker labels, note templates, calendar integrations and a searchable archive. It supports six languages and is available through Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and Chrome apps or extensions. Basic is free forever and includes 300 transcription minutes per user each month, three lifetime imported files per user, and a 30-minute maximum per conversation. Pro Annual costs $8.33/user/month, billed annually; Pro Monthly costs $16.99/user/month. Business Annual costs $19.99/user/month, billed annually, while Business Monthly costs $30/user/month. Business includes a seven-day free trial and allows conversations up to four hours. Otter lists TLS encryption and AES-256 encryption for real-time content. Payment options include credit and debit cards and Apple App Store or Google Play purchases.