Fetch vs Granola

Fetch and Granola are both meeting notetakers that skip the bot: neither one joins your call as an extra guest. The main difference is where your words become text. Fetch transcribes on your own Windows PC and keeps the audio. Granola sends audio to cloud transcription providers and keeps the transcript and notes, not the audio. Granola wins on Mac and phone apps, team folders and integrations. Fetch wins on privacy, offline recording and price.

Facts about Granola come from its own website, checked October 29, 2026. Links are at the bottom.

At a glance

	Fetch	Granola
Joins your call as a bot	No	No
Where speech becomes text	On your PC	In the cloud (Deepgram and Assembly)
Keeps the meeting audio	Yes, as MP3 files on your PC	No, transcript and notes only
Records and transcribes without internet	Yes	No, needs internet
AI summaries and chat	Yes, with your own Claude or ChatGPT account	Yes, built in
Apps	Windows	Windows, Mac, iPhone, Android
Team folders and sharing	No	Yes
Integrations (CRM, Notion, Zapier)	No	Yes, on paid plans
Price	Free during early access	Free Basic plan, Business $14 per user per month

Where does your meeting go?

With Fetch, audio is captured on your computer and turned into text by a speech model running on your own processor or graphics card. The recording and transcript are saved in your Documents folder. Nothing is uploaded unless you turn on Google Drive backup or pick the one optional online speech model yourself.

Granola’s security page says transcription is handled by two outside providers, Deepgram and Assembly, and summaries by OpenAI and Anthropic. Granola says it doesn’t store meeting audio, and it keeps transcripts and notes in a US-hosted AWS private cloud. It’s SOC 2 Type 2 certified, and it says its outside providers may not train on your data. Granola itself may use anonymized data to improve its models unless you opt out in Settings.

That’s a careful setup. It’s still a different model from “the words never left my laptop,” which is what Fetch offers for audio and transcripts. More in Local vs cloud transcription.

Keeping the recording

Because Granola deletes audio, you can’t play back a moment to check who said what. Fetch keeps an MP3 of every call next to its notes, so you can listen again, re-transcribe with a different model, or keep the file for your records. Every meeting is a plain folder you can open without Fetch.

Offline and in person

Granola’s Windows guide says it needs an internet connection to transcribe. Fetch records and transcribes with no connection at all, which helps on a plane, in a client’s office with locked-down Wi-Fi, or in a conference room. Click Record for in-person meetings. AI notes need internet, since they come from your Claude or ChatGPT account.

Where Granola wins

Honesty time. Pick Granola if:

• You use a Mac or phone. Granola has Mac, iPhone, Android and Apple Watch apps. Fetch is Windows only for now.
• Your team shares notes. Granola has shared and team folders. Fetch keeps notes as files you share yourself.
• You want integrations. Granola connects to Notion, HubSpot, Attio, Affinity and Zapier on paid plans, and offers an API and MCP connector.
• You meet in many languages. Granola lists 32 languages.
• You need enterprise extras like SSO or HIPAA workspaces.

Where Fetch wins

Pick Fetch if:

• Privacy comes first. Audio and transcripts stay on your PC.
• You want the audio. Play it back, re-transcribe it, keep it.
• You record offline. No internet needed to capture and transcribe.
• You’d rather not pay per seat. Fetch is free during early access and uses the AI plan you may already have.
• You want your notes as plain files that don’t depend on any app.

Switching from Granola?

Bring meetings over one at a time: copy a transcript in Granola, then paste it into Fetch. Fetch can write fresh AI notes from it. See Import from Granola. There’s no audio to move, since Granola doesn’t keep it.

Sources

Checked October 29, 2026. Prices and features change, so check Granola’s site for the latest.

• Granola home page (platforms)
• Granola pricing
• Granola security (providers, audio storage, training)
• Granola for Windows guide (no bot, needs internet)
• Granola updates (languages, new apps)

Granola is a trademark of its owner. Soggy Dog Studios isn’t affiliated with Granola. This comparison is based on public information as of the date above.