Best Granola alternatives

1. Fireflies.ai

FreemiumFrom $18/mo

Fireflies.ai is an AI meeting assistant that records conversations, creates transcripts, and turns discussions into summaries and action items. It supports transcription in more than 100 languages, identifies speakers, and lets users search past conversations or ask its AskFred assistant questions about their…

• Multilingual meeting transcription
• AI summaries and action items
• Search and AskFred

Best for Sales teams, Recruiting teams, Product and user research teams, Collaborative teams

2. Otter.ai

FreemiumFrom $13.59/mo

Otter.ai is an AI meeting assistant that records conversations, produces live transcripts, and turns discussions into summaries, decisions, and action items. It can automatically join Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet calls, or record directly from a browser, mobile device, or Mac and Windows desktop app…

• Live transcription
• Summaries and action items
• Searchable meeting chat

Best for Sales teams, Students and educators, Media professionals, Recruiting teams

3. Bluedot

FreemiumFrom $14/mo

Bluedot is an AI meeting recorder and note taker for online calls and in-person conversations. It captures meetings through a Chrome extension, desktop apps, or mobile apps rather than sending a bot into the call. It works with platforms including Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Slack, and produces…

• Bot-free meeting recording
• Multilingual transcripts and notes
• Cross-meeting AI chat

Best for Sales and customer success teams, Recruiters, Founders and managers, Engineering teams

4. Fathom

FreemiumFrom $19/mo

Fathom is an AI notetaker for online meetings. It records and transcribes calls on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, then produces summaries and action items so participants can stay in the conversation. Capture can run through a meeting bot or, in beta on Mac, without a bot joining the call. After a call…

• Meeting capture
• AI summaries
• Action items

Best for Sales teams, Customer success teams, Marketing teams, Product and engineering teams

5. Read AI

Freemium

Read AI is a meeting assistant that records and transcribes conversations, generates summaries, and identifies action items. It works with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet, with mobile apps for capturing in-person meetings. Users can review recaps, transcripts, and highlights rather than rely on handwritten…

• Meeting summaries and transcripts
• Ask Read search
• Contextual meeting preparation

Best for Individuals and small teams, Enterprise teams, Students and teachers

6. Notta

Freemium

Notta is an AI transcription service that converts meetings, calls, interviews and audio or video files into searchable text. Recordings can be captured in the browser, through a mobile app, a Chrome extension or the Notta Memo voice recorder, and uploaded files are processed the same way. Speaker labels separate…

• Audio and video transcription
• Speaker identification
• AI summaries and notes

Best for Sales and customer success teams, Recruiters and HR teams, Educators and students, Healthcare and professional practices

7. Superwhisper

FreemiumFrom $8.49/mo

Superwhisper is an AI dictation app for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. It turns spoken input into formatted text and pastes it into the app you are using, including email, messaging tools and coding assistants. It supports more than 100 languages and dialects, with an option to translate speech into English. Users…

• Dictation across apps
• Custom writing modes
• Offline and cloud models

Best for People writing at work, Developers, Multilingual users

8. ParakeetAI

FreemiumFrom $149.90/mo

ParakeetAI is a real-time AI assistant for interviews, sales calls, and meetings. It listens to conversations, transcribes speech, and suggests answers while a call is happening. Users can request answers manually or enable automatic responses when questions are detected. It also offers spoken mock interviews with an…

• Live answer suggestions
• Technical interview support
• Document-based context

Best for Job seekers, Technical candidates, Sales and client-facing teams

9. Speechify

FreemiumFrom $29/mo

Speechify is a voice-based AI assistant for listening to written content, dictating text, and working with documents. It reads PDFs, books, web pages, and other files aloud, with text highlighting and adjustable playback speed. Users can import documents, paste text, add web links, or scan printed pages to turn them…

• Text-to-speech reader
• Scan and listen
• Voice typing

Best for Students, Professionals, People with reading difficulties, Creators

10. Wistia

FreemiumFrom $99/mo

Wistia is a video hosting and webinar platform for businesses, with AI tools for editing, localization, and repurposing. Teams can record themselves or their screens, edit footage, and publish videos in an ad-free player. Its Mochine editor supports prompt-based highlight reels, recaps, and motion graphics, while…

• AI editing and repurposing
• Transcription and localization
• Ad-free video hosting

Best for Marketing teams, Webinar teams, Video professionals