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Read AI vs Granola

Both are meetings & notes tools. Here is what separates them.

	Read AI	Granola
What it is	Read AI, the fastest growing AI meeting assistant, ever, delivers real-time transcription, smart summaries, and enables AI search and discovery across all your content including meeting, messages, emails, CRM, and documents.	Takes notes from your meeting audio without joining as a bot, merging them with what you typed.
Category	Meetings & Notes	Meetings & Notes
Pricing	Freemium · Free · from $19.75/user/mo	Freemium · Free trial · from $18/user/mo
How it bills	Per seat	Per seat
Free tier	Yes	Yes
Rating	Not yet rated	Not yet rated
Features	Engagement and sentiment scoring Speaker time analysis Transcripts and summaries Email and chat coverage Meeting recommendations	No meeting bot — captures system audio Merges your typed notes with the transcript Templates per meeting type Searchable history Works with any conferencing tool
What works	Insight into how meetings actually go Broad coverage beyond meetings Useful for improving your own facilitation	No awkward bot in the participant list Notes reflect what you cared about Works regardless of platform
What does not	Raises legitimate surveillance concerns Sentiment scoring is crude Expensive per seat	macOS-first Needs the app running locally No free tier beyond a trial

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