Granola vs EchoPilot
Granola writes notes from the meeting and does not keep the audio. EchoPilot keeps the recording behind every point, so any line plays back and can be checked, and the work ends at a task you approved.
- Minutes, transcript, Ask and approved actions
- Mobile, desktop and web
Why EchoPilot
- A weekly meeting is a series, not a pile. Its meetings sit together with the tasks still open across them, and one question is answered across all of them.
- A meeting recorded in pieces merges into one set of minutes, each part keeping its own audio, and the phone opens and records with no connection at all.
- Every point is checkable. EchoPilot keeps the recording, so a key point or a transcript line plays the sentence that produced it.
- A correction keeps its evidence. Fix a misheard line and the original audio and text stay underneath, with any minutes built on the old wording marked out of date.
- The output ends in your task app. One card per commitment, one destination already chosen, nothing sent until you approve it, on the phone as well as the desktop and the web.
- Speaker turns you can rename and merge on supported Pro meetings, and a transcript that says so honestly rather than guessing when attribution is not reliable.
- Mixed-language conversations are transcribed as they were spoken, and minutes translate into 32 languages on request.
What EchoPilot does not do
- EchoPilot does not build its summary around notes you type during the meeting. It records the conversation and works from the audio.
- A shared team workspace comes with a Company plan set up with our team, not a self-serve signup, and there is no single sign-on.
- Approved actions route to task managers, calendars, notes and messaging rather than into a CRM such as Attio or Affinity.
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Every capability, side by side.
| Capability | EchoPilot | Granola |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, web, Apple Watch | Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android, Apple Watch; shared notes open in a browser |
| Extra hardware needed | No | No |
| How it captures | Your phone in the room, your own Mac or PC for a call, plus Apple Watch | Your computer's audio, plus phone and Apple Watch apps for in person |
| A bot in the participant list | Never | No |
| The audio after the meeting | Kept and playable from any point; 90 days on Free, for as long as you keep the meeting on Pro | Not stored. Transcribed live on a computer, cached briefly on a phone |
| Longest single recording | 4 hours on Pro, 1 hour on Free | Not stated |
| Speaker labels in the transcript | Per-meeting labels you rename or merge; otherwise honestly unattributed | Participant names on Google Meet, Zoom and Teams calls, in the desktop app |
| Correct a misheard line, then rebuild | Yes, with the original audio and text kept as evidence | Not stated |
| Translate the minutes | 32 languages on request; 4 verified end to end and labelled | Notes in English or the meeting's main language; Chat can translate quotes |
| Ask questions across your recordings | Yes: read-only, with cited timestamps | Granola Chat |
| Approved actions pushed into your task apps | Todoist, Google Tasks, Microsoft To Do, Apple Reminders, Notion, Slack, calendars, Drive, OneDrive, Teams, Mail | Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Attio, Affinity, Salesforce on Enterprise, MCP; Asana, Linear and Jira through Zapier |
| Nothing leaves the app until you approve it | Yes, on phone, desktop and web: one card per commitment, one destination, your confirmation | Yes, for email, Slack and calendar actions in desktop Chat |
| A recurring meeting kept as a series | Yes: the meetings of one recurring calendar event form a series by themselves, with the tasks still open across them and Ask across all of them | Not stated |
| Meetings recorded in pieces, merged into one | Yes: two to six recordings within seven days become one set of minutes, each part keeping its own audio; 60 minutes in total on Free, 4 hours on Pro | Not stated |
| Opens and records with no connection | Yes, on the phone once signed in; the recording uploads itself later | Not stated |
| Doctor visit and real estate notes | Yes: every medicine, dose, offer and follow-up tied to the moment it was said, chosen by itself or set as your default on any device | Not stated |
| Price | Free includes 300 meeting minutes in the first 30 days, then 120 every 30 days. Pro is $11.99/month or $89/year. One person, not per seat. | Basic is free with 30 days of history. Business $14/user/month, Enterprise $35/user/month |
Granola details reflect Granola's published information as of 10 October 2026, and list prices before promotions, excluding tax.
Granola and EchoPilot, in depth.
Granola writes notes from your meeting and then lets the audio go. EchoPilot keeps the recording, so every point in the minutes leads back to the sentence that produced it, and the work it finds ends as a task you approved.
A record you can check
EchoPilot’s minutes are anchored to the recording rather than to what anyone had time to write down.
Every key point carries the moment it came from. Tap it and the audio plays from that sentence, so a summary is something you can verify rather than a confident paragraph you have to accept. If a line was misheard, correct it: the original audio and the original text both stay underneath as evidence, and any minutes built on the old wording are marked out of date so you can see exactly what your correction affected and rebuild it when you choose.
On supported Pro meetings the transcript carries timestamped speaker turns you can rename or merge. When reliable attribution is not available, EchoPilot shows the full transcript without names and says so rather than guessing.
Ask sits on top of all of it: questions answered across one meeting, a recurring series, or everything you have recorded, each answer citing the moment it used. Read-only, always.
One recorder for the room, the call and the corridor
The same EchoPilot pipeline handles a video call recorded on a Mac, a meeting in a room recorded on an iPhone, a two-minute voice note from an Apple Watch, and a four-hour workshop. What comes back is identical in every case: Meeting Minutes with a content-based title, chaptered timestamped notes, key points, action items, and a searchable transcript you can play from any line.
Recording runs in the background with the screen locked, and audio is written to disk in segments as it goes, so an incoming call, a flat battery or a crash costs you seconds rather than the meeting.
Where the work goes
EchoPilot points at task managers and calendars first: Todoist, Google Tasks, Microsoft To Do, Apple Reminders, Notion, Slack, Google and Outlook calendars, Drive, OneDrive, Teams and Mail. Each commitment becomes one card with one destination already chosen, and nothing is sent anywhere until you confirm it. That review happens wherever you are: on the phone that recorded the meeting, in the desktop app, or on the web.
Languages
Speech that switches language mid-recording is transcribed as it was spoken rather than forced into one language, and minutes translate into 32 languages on request. English, Arabic, Urdu and Hindi are verified end to end and labelled that way in the app; the rest are offered as best effort.
Price
EchoPilot is $11.99 a month, or $89 a year, for one person, against Granola’s $14 per user per month on Business. On the yearly plan that comes to about half of Granola’s Business price, and one subscription covers the phone, the watch, the Mac and Windows apps and the web, with no seats to count.
Questions worth answering.
Does a bot join my meeting?
What is in a set of EchoPilot meeting minutes?
Which apps can EchoPilot send actions to?
Record one meeting and see the difference.
Record the next conversation you would otherwise have taken notes in. You get the Meeting Minutes, a searchable transcript, answers you can ask for, and every commitment drafted as a card waiting for your approval.
Questions? support@echopilotapp.com