Vauta vs Granola
Looking for an alternative to Granola that keeps your meetings on your Mac? Vauta captures any call, transcribes it on your Mac and writes the minutes: decisions, tasks and open questions. No bot, no cloud, no account, and it is free and open source.
Side by side
No bot either, but your call is transcribed in the cloud and trains its AI unless you opt out.
Vauta is ahead on 6 of 9 · level on 2 · behind on 1
Meeting notes cost (Vauta ahead)
Vauta: Free
Granola: Free with 30 days of history, then paid
Open source (Vauta ahead)
Vauta: Yes, Apache-2.0
Granola: No
Where your call is transcribed (Vauta ahead)
Vauta: On your Mac
Granola: Cloud transcription providers
Account (Vauta ahead)
Vauta: None
Granola: Google or Microsoft sign-in
Run the AI on your own hardware (Vauta ahead)
Vauta: Yes: your Mac or your own server
Granola: No
Your meetings train their AI (Vauta ahead)
Vauta: Never: nothing leaves your Mac or network
Granola: Yes, anonymized, unless you opt out (off by default on Enterprise)
A bot in your call (Level)
Vauta: Never
Granola: No bot
Works with (Level)
Vauta: Any call app on your Mac
Granola: Any call app
Runs on (Rival ahead)
Vauta: Mac with Apple silicon
Granola: Mac, Windows and iPhone
Where Granola is better
- Runs on: Mac, Windows and iPhone (Vauta: Mac with Apple silicon)
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