Granola
never keeps the raw audio and never joins the call — and trains on you by default unless you're enterprise.
the best data-minimisation story here — the audio is discarded the moment it's transcribed — undercut by a training default that favours granola on every tier but the most expensive.
granola reads microphone and system audio on your own machine and never joins the meeting, so there's no bot in the participant list. more unusually, it doesn't keep the recording at all: 'we do not retain or store such recordings once the transcription is created'. of fourteen tools, that's the strongest structural limit on what can later leak.
the default undoes some of it. granola trains on de-identified aggregated data unless you opt out in settings, and that opt-out is only on by default for enterprise accounts. it does contractually bar openai and anthropic from training on your personal data, which is a real and separate commitment — but granola itself is included until you say otherwise.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- ai meeting notetakers
- pricing
- $14/user/mo
- website
- granola.ai
the best data-minimisation story here — the audio is discarded the moment it's transcribed — undercut by a training default that favours granola on every tier but the most expensive.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.