Granola vs Sembly AI

Granola is an AI notepad built for people who live in back-to-back meetings. You jot quick notes during a call, and Granola transcribes the conversation from your computer audio without sending a bot into the room. When the meeting ends, it turns your rough bullets into structured notes, action items, and follow-ups you can search later.

Otter and Fireflies join your call as a visible bot participant. Granola takes a notepad-first approach instead: you stay in the call while it listens through your computer audio, then fills in the gaps around what you captured. That keeps notes personal to you while still pulling in what everyone said.

Before external meetings, Granola syncs with your calendar and builds a Brief with attendees, prior context, and what to watch for. Afterward, Granola Chat lets you query a single call, a folder of sales notes, or your full meeting history to draft emails, specs, and summaries grounded in what was actually said.

Granola runs on macOS, Windows, and iPhone, works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and other meeting apps, and connects to tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Notion, Slack, and Cursor through MCP and API access on paid plans.

Sembly AI joins your Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or Webex calls, transcribes the conversation, and turns it into client-ready deliverables like proposals, project briefs, and status reports. The meeting assistant also tracks decisions, action items, sentiment, and talk-time patterns across your workspace history.

Where most meeting bots stop at a transcript, Sembly AI targets professional services teams that bill for follow-up documents. It generates up to 40 AI documents per user on the MAX plan, syncs outcomes to Salesforce, Notion, Slack, and HubSpot, and supports 48 languages with US and EU data residency options.

Project management offices, agencies, IT outsourcers, and HR recruiters are the verticals Sembly AI highlights on its site. Gartner named Sembly an Emerging Visionary in AI tools, and the platform reports 2 million plus client interactions processed.

Basic starts at $17 per month with a free trial, Pro at $29 per user per month, and MAX at $39 per user per month. Annual billing cuts prices to $10, $20, and $30 respectively with a 30 percent discount.