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MacGranola vs Fellow
Granola vs Fellow: verdict, pricing, and specs compared, so you can pick the right one for your Mac.
At a glance
Granola
Free (Basic); $14/mo per user (Business); $35/mo per user (Enterprise)An AI notepad for back-to-back meetings that transcribes your own computer audio instead of sending a bot into the call — used internally at Linear, Vercel, and Figma, per its own site.
Fellow
Free (5 AI notes and recordings, lifetime); Team $7/mo per user billed annually ($11 monthly); Business $15/mo per user billed annually ($23 monthly); Enterprise $25/mo per user billed annuallyAn AI meeting notetaker built around compliance controls — zero-day retention, MNPI redaction, and SEC/FINRA-ready audit trails — aimed at regulated industries like finance and healthcare.
Spec comparison
Granola
- Price
- Free (Basic); $14/mo per user (Business); $35/mo per user (Enterprise)
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- License
- Proprietary
- Placement
- Screen
- Channels
- Homebrew · Direct
- Category
- Meetings
Fellow
- Price
- Free (5 AI notes and recordings, lifetime); Team $7/mo per user billed annually ($11 monthly); Business $15/mo per user billed annually ($23 monthly); Enterprise $25/mo per user billed annually
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- License
- Proprietary
- Placement
- Screen
- Channels
- Homebrew · Direct
- Category
- Meetings
The verdict
Granola and Fellow both skip the meeting bot from the start, but they’re built for different buyers. Fellow’s pitch is compliance: zero-day retention, MNPI redaction, and SEC/FINRA-ready audit trails aimed at finance and healthcare teams — its free plan is a real taste test though, just 5 AI notes and recordings for the life of the account, not monthly. Granola’s free Basic plan is more usable day to day (unlimited notes, 30-day history) for a broader, less compliance-driven audience. Pick Fellow if you answer to regulators; pick Granola if you just want a solid daily notetaker.
Which one should you pick?
Pick Granola if…
- Pick Granola if you want a free plan you can actually run meetings on day to day, not just a handful of lifetime notes
- Pick Granola if you don’t need compliance-specific features like an audit trail or MNPI redaction
- Pick Granola if an MCP connector into Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor matters to you
- Pick Granola if you’re not in a regulated industry and just want a straightforward AI notetaker
Pick Fellow if…
- Pick Fellow if you work in finance, healthcare, or another SEC/FINRA-regulated industry and need an exportable audit trail
- Pick Fellow if zero-day retention or fully removing paused segments from a transcript matters to you
- Pick Fellow if you want the cheaper paid entry point — Team starts at $7/mo per user billed annually, versus Granola Business at $14/mo
- Pick Fellow if you’re fine treating its free plan as a trial (5 AI notes and recordings, lifetime) rather than daily-use software
Granola vs Fellow — questions people ask
Do Granola and Fellow use a meeting bot?
No — both capture audio directly from your device rather than joining as a visible bot participant.
Which has the better free plan?
Granola’s, for regular use — Basic is unlimited but caps history at 30 days. Fellow’s free plan gives only 5 AI notes and 5 AI recordings total, for the life of the account, so it works more as a trial.
Is Fellow built for a specific industry?
Yes — its compliance features (an audit trail, MNPI redaction, zero-day retention) are aimed specifically at SEC/FINRA-regulated industries like finance and healthcare, per the developer. Granola doesn’t make that pitch.