Granola vs Limitless

Granola is an AI meeting notepad built for people who sit in back-to-back calls. Instead of sending a bot into your meetings, Granola runs quietly in the background, transcribes what's said on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and other call apps, and turns your own rough notes into a polished, structured summary after the call ends. Because it works from system audio rather than a visible bot, meetings feel like a normal conversation. Granola adds calendar integration to auto-detect upcoming meetings, pre-meeting briefs pulled from prior notes, and an MCP connector so meeting notes can flow into tools like Claude and Cursor.

Limitless is an AI-powered wearable pendant and meeting assistant that records and transcribes conversations to create searchable personal memory. After being acquired by Meta, the company is sunsetting non-Pendant functionality and no longer sells the Pendant to new customers.

• No bot joins the call, so meetings feel unchanged for other participants
• Generous free tier for day-to-day note taking
• Works across major meeting platforms rather than locking you into one
• MCP integration makes notes usable inside other AI workflows

• Existing Pendant customers get the Unlimited Plan for free
• No subscription fees going forward for continuing customers
• Clear data export and deletion options
• Continued support for existing Pendant customers through 2026

• Free tier limits access to notes older than 30 days
• Requires the desktop or mobile app running during the meeting to capture audio
• Summary quality depends on how much you type during the call

• No longer available to new customers
• Non-Pendant functionality such as Rewind is being sunset
• Service discontinued in several regions; accounts and data permanently deleted after December 19, 2025
• Desktop/Web app recording disabled