Meetily vs Granola
Granola is a popular AI notepad for meetings, available on macOS and Windows. It is a cloud-based, closed-source product. Meetily is an open-source, privacy-first AI meeting assistant with transcription that runs 100% on your device, on Windows and macOS. Here is how the two compare on the things people ask about most, followed by what real users say.
| Meetily | Granola | |
|---|---|---|
| Open source | Yes, MIT licensed | No, proprietary |
| Where transcription runs | 100% on your device (Whisper / Parakeet) | Cloud-based |
| Platforms | Windows and macOS | Windows and macOS |
| Summaries | Local model or your own API key | Cloud AI |
| Pricing | Free Community Edition; Pro from $10/user/mo billed annually | Subscription |
Details about Granola are based on its public information and may change. Check Granola’s own site for the latest.
What people say
Bye Granola. Hello Meetily I love Granola, it's the best meeting note taking app I've ever used. Beautifully designed, fast, highly accurate. Except, they're hell bent on not allowing users to easily bulk export transcripts, or allow API access to them.
"Bot-free" notetakers get sold as private. Not the same thing. Granola stores transcripts in AWS. Jamie sends audio to servers in Germany. Only a couple (Hyprnote, Meetily) keep audio on-device. "No bot in the call" was never the privacy bar — "never leaves the machine" is.
Try Meetily for yourself
The Community Edition is free and open source. Download it and compare in your own meetings.