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nchova vs Granola
A Granola alternative that keeps the call on your Mac.
Granola and nchova both stay out of the call: no bot, just your Mac listening. The difference is where it goes next. Granola streams the call to Deepgram or AssemblyAI and writes the notes with cloud models; nchova transcribes on the Mac and writes the notes there, unless you ask your own Claude Code to.
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In short
- No bot, both
- neither joins the call; both listen to your microphone and to the call’s audio.
- Where it is transcribed
- Granola, in the cloud; nchova, on your Mac, offline too.
- What you pay
- Granola is free for the last 30 days of notes; Business is $14 a month, every month. nchova is free with nothing hidden, or €29.99 once.
Where the call goes
The same meeting, transcribed twice. With Granola the audio streams to a transcription service as people speak; with nchova it never leaves the Mac.
Side by side
| Granola | nchova | |
|---|---|---|
| Bot in the call | None | None |
| Where it transcribes | In the cloud: Deepgram, AssemblyAI | On your Mac |
| Who writes the notes | Cloud models, from OpenAI and Anthropic among others | Apple’s model or Qwen on the Mac, or your own Claude Code or Codex |
| Your transcripts | Kept on AWS in the US until you delete them; auto-delete optional | On your Mac, and in your own iCloud if you turn on sync |
| Training | Anonymised data used by default on Basic and Business, with an opt-out | Nothing reaches us to train on |
| When it starts | It notifies you of the call; it starts when you click, or open the meeting’s note | It notices the call and asks, or starts by itself |
| Who is speaking | “Me” and “Them”; names from the call app’s participants on desktop | Voice 1, Voice 2…, named by voice among the invitees (Pro) |
| Dictation | Only to ask its Chat a question | Hold Fn, in any app |
| Without internet | Transcription needs a connection | Works the same |
| Free plan | Unlimited meetings; notes from the last 30 days visible | Unlimited, with Apple’s models; nothing hidden |
| Paid plan | Business: $14 per user a month, billed monthly | Pro: €29.99 once, up to 3 Macs |
| Account | Google or Microsoft sign-in | None |
| Runs on | Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android | Mac, with Apple silicon and macOS 26 |
Notes, the Granola way, on your Mac
Jot a few words during the call; when it ends, the notes grow around them. Then ask the meeting: what did we decide, what do I have to do.
Three years of each
Granola Business at its US price, billed monthly (Granola bills yearly only on Enterprise), next to nchova Pro.
Voices told apart by their sound
Granola hears you and “them”, and on its desktop app takes names from Zoom, Meet and Teams. With Pro, nchova tells the other voices apart by their sound, in any call, and names the ones it has heard before, among the people invited.
voices.json · on this Mac only
When Granola is the better choice
If your team shares notes in Granola’s spaces and sends them on to Notion, HubSpot or Attio, Granola is made for that, and it runs on Windows, iPhone and Android too. nchova keeps each person’s meetings on their own Mac.
If you want the strongest cloud models writing every note, without setting anything up, Granola does it out of the box. In nchova the best notes come from your own Claude Code or Codex, with your subscription: the transcript then goes to Anthropic or OpenAI, and you choose who writes in Settings › Notes.
If the reason you picked Granola was “no bot”, nchova keeps that, and takes the cloud out too.
Questions, out loud
- 00:00:04 You Does nchova work with Google Calendar and Outlook?
- 00:00:09 nchova Yes, through the calendars your Mac knows: add the account to macOS for its calendar alone. Here’s how.
- 00:00:27 You Can I use my own Claude for the notes?
- 00:00:32 nchova Yes, with Pro: nchova runs your own Claude Code or Codex, signed in with your subscription, and the notes take seconds. No key passes through nchova.
- 00:00:50 You Does it start by itself?
- 00:00:55 nchova It notices the call as soon as Zoom, Meet, Teams or Slack takes the microphone, and asks. Or set When a call starts to start transcribing by itself.
- 00:01:13 You Can I ask Claude or ChatGPT about my meetings?
- 00:01:18 nchova Yes: nchova’s MCP server runs on your Mac and connects with one click. See meetings in your assistant.
Checked on 8 October 2026: Granola pricing · Security · Transcription · Model training · Speaker attribution