Granola vs Letterly

Granola is one of the best AI notepads for meetings. It records your calls without a bot, and its notes look great. But a meeting is only one part of your day. You also write emails, plan, journal, and think out loud on a walk.

That’s where the question comes in:

Short answer:

Granola vs Letterly at a glance

Granola vs Letterly in detail

1. Recording meetings

Both apps record without a bot joining the call, so nobody sees “Notetaker has joined”. Granola captures your computer audio on Mac and Windows and builds notes from what you type during the call.

Letterly has a Meeting mode for calls, lectures and interviews. It splits the transcript by speaker (Speaker 1, Speaker 2…), and you can turn this on even after the recording. In the Mac and Windows apps, Record meeting captures your computer audio too, so every voice on the call is recorded even with headphones on.

2. Your audio stays with you

Granola deletes the audio after transcription.

Letterly keeps the original recording in every note. Play it back at 1×, 1.5× or 2×, or download the file from any device you’re signed in on.

3. Beyond meetings: dictate in any app

Granola stops when the meeting ends. Letterly also works as a voice keyboard: dictate into Gmail, Slack, Notion or any other app on iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows. You speak, Letterly types clean text where your cursor is.

4. Turn one recording into any text

Granola’s templates shape meeting notes: a 1:1, a discovery call, an interview. Letterly’s rewrite options go further. The same recording can become a meeting summary, an email, a structured list, a journal entry or a post. The transcript stays untouched, and every rewrite is saved as a separate version.

Don’t see the format you need? Write your own option in plain words, like “Turn this into a short message to a client”, and reuse it after every call.

5. Languages and translation

Granola transcribes 31 languages on desktop and 17 on mobile. On the phone, it uses one language for the whole meeting, and you can’t change it afterwards.

Letterly detects the language on its own, so you don’t pick one before you record. If it gets it wrong, set the speaker’s language and Letterly transcribes the note again. Need the note in another language? Translate it into 50+ languages — the original stays as it is.

6. Privacy

On Granola’s Free and Business plans, anonymized data can be used to improve its models unless you opt out. A company-wide opt-out is only on Enterprise.

Letterly never uses your recordings, notes or rewrites to train AI models — neither its own nor its providers’. No setting to find, no plan to upgrade.

7. Integrations and AI tools

Granola’s free plan connects to Slack only; Notion, HubSpot, Zapier and the API need Business.

In Letterly, integrations are the same on Free and Pro. Send notes to Google Docs, Notion or your CRM with Zapier or webhooks, or connect Letterly MCP and work with your notes inside Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor.

The verdict

Granola is great at one job: meeting notes for teams. Letterly does that job too — and then keeps working after the call ends. Dictate a reply, turn the meeting into an email, record an idea on a walk, translate a note for a colleague. One app, one subscription, every device.

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We hope you enjoy using Letterly! 🎤 Try it on your next call, and then keep it for everything that comes after.

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