Fabric vs. Granola

Last updated April 2026

Granola helps you remember meetings. Fabric helps you remember everything. Granola captures audio from your desktop, transcribes the conversation, and generates structured notes without a bot joining the call. Fabric does that too, and also stores, understands, and connects all your other content: documents, research, files, tasks, published work. If meetings are your whole problem, Granola solves that. If meetings are one input into how you think and work, Fabric is the system.

Comparison table

What is Granola?

Granola is an AI meeting notes app that captures audio directly from your desktop without adding a bot to the call. You jot down a few keywords or headings during the meeting. Afterwards, the AI combines your notes with the full transcript to produce structured summaries with action items, decisions, and key quotes. Your original notes appear in black, AI-generated content in grey. It's a well-executed, single-purpose tool. Granola recently raised $125M at a $1.5B valuation and is expanding into team features with Spaces, folders, and enterprise APIs. Business is $14/user/month. No Android app. Desktop app required.

What is Fabric?

Fabric is an AI workspace that combines file storage, note-taking, search, tasks, collaboration, and publishing. The Fabric Memory Engine automatically extracts, enriches, and maps relationships between everything you save. Meeting notes are one type of content Fabric handles. It also stores and understands documents, research, design files, video, audio, images, and links. The AI works across all of it, not just meetings.

Key differences

Remembering meetings vs remembering everything

Granola does meeting notes. It does them well, and the bot-free approach removes a real friction point. But after the meeting ends and the notes are generated, you need other tools for everything else: storing the documents you discussed, tracking the tasks you agreed on, writing the follow-up, managing the project the meeting was about.

Fabric handles meeting notes too. Transcription, AI summaries, smart meeting notes that combine your notes with the transcript, action item extraction. But meetings are one type of content in a larger system. The notes from a meeting sit next to the research that informed it, the documents discussed during it, and the tasks that came out of it. The AI understands all of it together, not in isolation. Granola helps you remember what was said. Fabric helps you remember what was said, what you read, what you saved, and how it all connects.

Meeting capture

Both products offer bot-free meeting capture. No "Bot has joined the meeting" notification. Both record system audio from your desktop.

Granola's hybrid approach lets you jot keywords during the meeting, then the AI enhances them with the full transcript afterwards. Your notes appear in black, AI-generated content in grey. It's a well-designed workflow for producing polished meeting summaries.

Fabric automatically detects when a meeting begins and offers to start transcribing. The transcript is available in real time, so you can search what was said mid-meeting. Smart meeting notes combine your own notes with the conversation transcript. You can also apply templates to structure the output. Both approaches are bot-free. Fabric's real-time transcript is searchable during the call. Granola's hybrid enhancement produces the final output after the call ends.

AI scope

Granola's AI understands your meetings. You can chat with a transcript, query across folders of meeting notes, and extract insights. It's useful within the meeting context. But it doesn't know about the PDF you read before the call, the design file you discussed, or the email you sent afterwards.

Fabric's AI understands your entire library. Meetings, documents, images, video, saved articles, emails. You can ask a question that spans all of it. The AI connects information across content types, not just across meetings.

Search

Granola searches across your meeting notes and transcripts. Useful for finding what was said in a specific call.

Fabric searches across everything. Semantic search finds content by meaning. Visual search finds similar images. In-document search goes to the page, slide, or timestamp. Cross-platform search pulls from Google Drive, Notion, and Dropbox alongside your Fabric library. Meeting notes are searchable alongside everything else.

Platform

Granola requires a desktop app (Mac or Windows) for meeting capture. There's an iOS app for phone calls. No web app. No Android.

Fabric is available on web, iOS, Android, desktop, and as a Chrome extension.

After the meeting

This is where the products diverge most. Granola generates the notes. You can share them via link or push them to Notion, Slack, or HubSpot. Then you move to other tools for everything that happens next.

Fabric keeps everything in one place. The meeting notes, the follow-up tasks, the related documents, the shared workspace with your team. There's no context switch. The meeting notes are part of your working library, searchable and AI-queryable alongside everything else you're working on.

Pricing

Granola Business is $14/user/month. For a meeting-only tool, that's competitive. Enterprise is $35/user/month, mostly for the ability to opt out of model training and admin controls.

Fabric includes meeting notes, AI, file storage, search, collaboration, publishing, and tasks. [Insert Fabric pricing details.] Whether one subscription that covers everything is better value than paying for Granola plus separate tools for files, notes, tasks, and collaboration depends on how many tools you're currently juggling.

When to use each

Use Fabric if you want meeting notes as part of a larger system. Your meetings connect to documents, research, tasks, and published work. You want AI that understands everything you've saved, not just what was said in calls. You want bot-free transcription plus file storage, semantic search, collaboration, publishing, and a spatial canvas. Fabric handles meetings and everything around them.

Use Granola if meetings are the only thing you need help with and you already have separate tools you're happy with for everything else. Granola's dedicated focus on meeting notes means fewer features to navigate if meetings are your sole concern.

Use both. Granola has an MCP server. You can connect Granola's meeting notes to Fabric (or other AI tools) and bring meeting context into your broader workspace. Some people use Granola for live capture and Fabric as the workspace where those notes live alongside everything else.

Why people move from Granola to Fabric

They wanted one tool, not two. Granola does meeting notes. Everything else requires a different app. Fabric handles meetings and everything around them in one place. Fewer subscriptions, fewer context switches.

They wanted to remember everything, not just meetings. Granola's AI knows what was said in calls. Fabric's AI knows that plus every document, file, and piece of research you've saved. The questions you can ask are different when the AI has your full context.

They needed Android. No Android app is a dealbreaker for many teams.

They wanted their meetings connected to everything else. A meeting note in Granola is isolated from the documents discussed, the tasks that came out of it, and the research that informed it. In Fabric, everything lives together and the AI sees across all of it.

FAQs

Does Fabric have bot-free meeting capture like Granola?

Yes. Fabric offers real-time transcription with automatic meeting detection, no bot joining the call. You can search the transcript mid-meeting, and smart meeting notes combine your own notes with the conversation. Both products are bot-free.

Can I connect Granola to Fabric?

Granola has an MCP server and APIs. You can bring Granola's meeting context into Fabric and have it sit alongside your other content in one searchable library.

Is Fabric free? Fabric has a free tier with limited storage and AI.

Does Granola work on Android?

No. Granola requires a desktop app (Mac or Windows) for meeting capture. There's an iOS app for phone calls. No Android support.

Which is better for meeting notes specifically?

Both offer bot-free capture and AI-generated summaries. Granola's hybrid human-AI workflow (your keywords enhanced by the transcript) produces a specific style of polished output. Fabric's real-time transcription lets you search mid-meeting, and smart meeting notes combine your notes with the transcript. The difference is what happens next: Granola's notes live in Granola. Fabric's notes live alongside everything else in your workspace, searchable and AI-queryable with all your other content.

Can Fabric transcribe meetings?

Yes. Fabric transcribes audio and video recordings and generates AI summaries. It also has smart meeting notes that combine your notes with the conversation transcript.