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Free for 14 days on iPhone and Android, with every feature.
Granola is a notepad for back-to-back video meetings on your laptop. YostNotes is an AI note taker on your phone for lectures, meetings and anything you want to learn from.
Checked against Granola's public pricing page and app listings, October 2026.
| YostNotes | Granola | |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 14-day trial with every feature. No free plan after it. | Basic plan, $0. Meeting history limited to 30 days. |
| Paid | Pro: $14.99 a month or $169.99 a year | Business: $14 per user a month · Enterprise: $35 per user a month |
| What's included | 420 audio minutes a month (up to 3 hours per recording), 100-minute top-ups. Text, YouTube, link and PDF notes never use minutes. | No meeting cap listed. Team features on Business and Enterprise. |
US prices from each company's own pricing page or app store listing, October 2026. Check granola.ai/pricing for the current figures.
| Feature | YostNotes | Granola |
|---|---|---|
| Record in person on a phone | ✓ Up to 3 hours, keeps recording offline | ◐ Needs a connection |
| Video calls on a laptop, no bot | ✕ Not yet; a web recorder is in testing | ✓ The core product |
| Audio kept and replayable | ✓ On your device; tap any line to hear it | ✕ Deleted after transcription |
| Audio files, YouTube, web links, PDFs | ✓ All of them | ✕ Meetings only |
| Type your own notes during the meeting | ✕ Photos during recording only | ✓ Its signature feature |
| Live transcript while recording | ✕ Transcript arrives after | ✓ On desktop |
| Speakers named automatically | ✓ From what's said, remembered per folder | ◐ From video-call display names |
| Edit the transcript | ✓ Line by line | ✕ |
| Ask questions across your notes, with sources | ✓ 50 a month | ✓ |
| Flashcards with spaced repetition | ✓ Plus Anki export | ✕ |
| Graded quizzes | ✓ 10 sourced questions; misses become flashcards | ✕ |
| Languages | Detects the spoken language (99) and writes the note in it | Multiple languages |
| End-to-end encrypted sync | ✓ iPhone, Android and web | ✕ |
| Team workspace, integrations | ✕ Built for one person | ✓ |
| Platforms | iPhone, iPad, Android | Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android, Apple Watch |
Granola is at its best on a laptop during a video call. YostNotes is built for the phone on the desk: a lecture hall, a client's office, a hallway. If you're in the room, it's in the room.
Granola deletes audio once it has the transcript. YostNotes keeps it on your phone, so when a name or number looks wrong you tap the line and listen.
Granola turns a meeting into better notes. YostNotes also turns a lecture, a video or a PDF into flashcards on a review schedule and a quiz graded for meaning.
YostNotes encrypts notes on your device before they sync, so the server only holds ciphertext. Your audio never leaves the phone.
For in-person meetings, lectures and studying, yes. For video calls on a laptop with a shared team workspace, Granola is the better fit today.
No. Granola's pricing page says audio is deleted after transcription on every plan. YostNotes keeps your recordings on your device.
No. YostNotes records with your phone's microphone. There's no bot, and nothing joins a call on your behalf.
There's a 14-day free trial with every feature. After that, Pro is $14.99 a month or $169.99 a year.
Yes. Every recording becomes a transcript, a structured summary and a set of flashcards on a spaced-repetition schedule. You can also take a 10-question quiz on a note or a whole folder.
Free for 14 days on iPhone and Android, with every feature.