Read AI vs Granola

Why teams switch from Granola to Read AI

Granola captures meeting notes. Read AI connects your meetings, email, chat, and documents, and turns them into action.

5 free meetings/mo No credit card SOC 2 & HIPAA compliant

Why make the switch

Granola is a notepad for back-to-back meetings. Read AI goes further.

Zoom, Meet, Teams, Slack Huddles, in-person and mobile, with audio & video playback.

Ask one question across meetings, email, messages and documents, answered with citations.

SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR and HIPAA compliant, with no training on your data by default.

The differences that matter most.

Search across everything

Read AI: Meetings, email, Slack & documents

Granola: Meeting notes only

Email & chat summaries

Read AI: Email recaps + Slack & Teams summaries

Granola: Not offered

Audio & video playback

Read AI: Recording + playback (video on Enterprise plans)

Granola: No audio stored; notes only

AI assistant

Read AI: Pre-reads, scheduling & out-of-office

Granola: Not supported

HIPAA out of the box

Read AI: HIPAA compliant

Granola: No HIPAA timeline

Granola claims sourced from granola.ai (reviewed 2026-05-22). See the full comparison →

"With Read AI, we spend less time managing information and more time driving outcomes."
Director of Customer Success, SmartPM

SOC 2 Type 2 GDPR HIPAA No training by default