Granola Alternatives (2026): 6 AI Notetakers Compared

The best Granola alternative depends on where your conversations happen. If your team works in person, Audria captures the whole office day ambiently and drafts the follow-ups in your tools. If you live on video calls, Otter, Fathom, Fireflies, Jamie, and tl;dv each cover a different slice.

Granola earned its reputation by being bot free: it captures audio from your device instead of sending a bot into your call, and pairs your rough notes with an AI-enhanced version. People usually look for alternatives for one of three reasons: they want capture beyond scheduled sessions, they want actions instead of notes, or they want different platform coverage. Here is where each one stands.

Quick comparison

1. Audria: for teams whose real work happens in the room

Audria is the agentic AI notetaker for teams that work from office: it turns office conversations into completed actions in your tools, understands every person on your team, and makes your Claude or ChatGPT an expert on your work. Where Granola waits for you to start a session, Audria is ambient: one switch when you reach the office, and the standup, the desk-side review, and the hallway decision all become drafted tickets, emails, and messages, each tied to the exact words it came from, each waiting for your confirmation. iPhone and Mac today. Free during early access.

The Mac app also captures online meetings, bot free, so scheduled calls are covered. Honest caveat: Audria is built for internal, in-person team communication first. If nearly all of your conversations are scheduled video calls with external parties, a call-centric tool below may fit better today.

2. Granola itself: still the benchmark for chosen sessions

If your complaint is not the session model, Granola remains excellent: clean notes, thoughtful design, no bot. The gap it leaves is everything between sessions, and the work after the notes. That gap is exactly where the alternatives differentiate.

3. Otter: transcription at scale

The incumbent. Deep transcription features and enterprise deployment, built around a bot that joins scheduled meetings. Pick it for volume transcription of online meetings; skip it if a visible bot in every call is what drove you away from the category.

4. Fathom: the free-tier favorite

Highly rated, genuinely useful free tier for video calls. Summaries arrive fast and clean. Fathom is built around the scheduled video meeting. An office day still depends on you remembering to record it, and the room comes back as one voice.

5. Fireflies: for sales teams and CRMs

Strong conversation analytics and CRM logging for revenue teams running external calls. More machinery than most internal teams need.

6. Jamie and tl;dv: two different niches

Jamie does bot-free summaries across meeting platforms from your desktop. tl;dv records and clips video calls, which sales and coaching teams like. Both wait for you to start them.

How to choose

Ask one question: where do your important conversations happen? If the answer is a video call, choose by output style (Fathom for free summaries, Otter for transcripts, Fireflies for CRM). If the answer is your office, the question becomes what happens to the conversations nobody thought to record. Audria is built for those. See the full breakdown on Audria vs Granola or the complete comparison.

Comparisons reflect publicly available product information as of August 2026. Spotted an error? Tell us and we will fix it.

Learn more

• Download Audria for iPhone and Mac
• Auto-draft tasks from conversations into Gmail and Linear