Granola alternative · Botless, with the video

No bot, the whole call, on the right customer.

Alori is the all-in-one app for your business: customers, schedule, quotes, invoices and meetings. Like Granola, its Mac recorder sends no bot into your call. Unlike a notepad, it keeps the video and puts the notes and next steps on the customer.

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Free plan, no card. Alori Recorder for Mac comes with it, and your Granola meetings come over with an API key.

Alori's Meetings: a customer call with its summary, what we learned, next steps with Create the task, and the transcript

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Granola and Alori, side by side.

GranolaAlori

A bot in your callNo, it listens to your device's audioNo, Alori Recorder records from your Mac

What it keepsTranscript and notes; the audio is deletedThe video, your shared screen, the sound, the transcript and the notes

Notes you type during the callYes, a core strengthNo: Alori writes the notes from the whole call

Where notes liveIn Granola, or sent to a CRM on paid plansOn the customer, next to their deals, quotes, jobs and invoices

Next stepsIn the notesEach one becomes a task in one click, with a name and a date

Phone callsNot coveredCalls on your Alori business number, recorded and summarized

Meeting history on the free plan30 daysKept with the customer

Your Granola historyStays in GranolaImported with an API key, transcripts included

Windows and phoneDesktop and phone appsMac only for now: import the recording afterwards

Join the call. Hang up. The work is on the customer.

Alori Recorder starts by itself, keeps the whole call, and Alori writes the notes on the right customer with the next steps ready to become tasks.

1Your next call, with Join, in the menu bar
2It records the call and the screen you share
3The notes land on the customer
4Click Create the task beside each step

Your next call, with Join, in the menu bar

What changes on Monday.

01
Before"It's the unit on the left" and no video to look back at
With AloriThe video and your shared screen stay with the notes
02
BeforeNotes in a notepad, the quote and the invoice somewhere else
With AloriEverything on the customer, in one app
03
BeforeCustomers call the business number, and the notepad never hears it
With AloriCalls on your business number are recorded and summarized too
04
BeforeNext steps in a paragraph, with nobody's name on them
With AloriEach next step becomes a task in one click

Botless, and you keep the call.

Alori Recorder for Mac records the call's window with your voice and everyone else's. When you share your screen, it follows you there. The video stays in Meetings, next to the transcript.

Nothing joins the call.
Rewatch the moment a customer pointed at something.
Works in the Zoom and Teams apps and in any browser.

Ask anything about the call.

Under Questions, ask what was decided, what's next or for a follow-up email. Alori answers from the call itself.

What are the next steps?
What did we decide?
Write a follow-up email.

Ask about this meeting: Alori answers What are the next steps? from the call

Everything on the customer.

The meeting sits in the customer's activity, next to their jobs, quotes, calls and tasks. Open the customer and the whole story is there.

Calls on your Alori business number get notes too.
Ask Sam across all your past calls.
Catch me up summarizes the customer in a click.

The customer's record in Alori: the meeting's summary and the task made from it, beside their job, quote and calls

Your day of calls, one look away.

Open Alori Recorder from the Dock or put its widget on your desktop: the next call with a Join button, what's coming up, and your last recordings with their notes.

A countdown to your next meeting in the menu bar.
Join Google Meet, Zoom or Teams in one click.
Notes ready, with how many next steps.

Change it by asking.

Your app isn’t frozen on day one. Write what you need, the way you’d text it. Alori makes the change and shows you before anything goes live.

Turn the next steps from today's call into tasks
Write the follow-up email from the Riverside Dental call
What did Riverside Dental ask for in our last three calls?
Import my Granola meetings

The full guide

Everything above, in detail: how it works, what it replaces and what it does not.

Short answer: Granola is a well-loved AI notepad: no bot joins your call, it listens to your device's audio, and it turns the notes you type into clean meeting notes. Alori Recorder for Mac is botless too, but it does more with the call. It starts by itself when a call starts, keeps the video with the screen you share and both sides of the sound, and files the transcript, summary and next steps on the customer, beside their deals, quotes, jobs and invoices, in the app you run your business with.

Who Granola fits well

Granola suits people who like to type their own notes during a meeting and want an AI to fill in the rest. It works on desktop and phone, and its notes are easy to share and chat with. Teams that keep their customers in another CRM can connect it on paid plans.

As of November 2026, Granola's pricing page lists Basic at $0 with 30 days of meeting history, Business at $14 per user per month, and Enterprise at $35 per user per month. Its pricing page says the audio is deleted after transcription.

Why owners look for a Granola alternative

There is no recording to go back to. Granola keeps the words, not the call. When a customer says "it's the unit on the left", you can't rewatch the screen they shared.
The notes live in a notepad, not with the customer. Someone still copies the summary into the customer file, and the quote, the job and the invoice live somewhere else.
Calls happen on the phone too. Customers call the business number. A desktop notepad never hears those calls.
Next steps need owners. "Send the revised quote Friday" has to become a task with a name and a date.
One more subscription, per person, as the team grows.

Granola vs Alori, side by side

	Granola	Alori
A bot in your call	No, it listens to your device's audio	No, Alori Recorder records from your Mac
What it keeps	The transcript and notes; the audio is deleted	The video of the call, your shared screen, the sound, the transcript and the notes
Notes you type during the call	Yes, a core strength	No: Alori writes the notes from the whole call
Where notes live	In Granola, or sent to a CRM on paid plans	On the customer, next to their deals, quotes, jobs and invoices
Next steps	In the notes	Each next step becomes a task in one click
Phone calls	Not covered	Calls on your Alori business number, recorded and summarized
Your Granola history	Stays in Granola	Imported with an API key, transcripts included
Windows and phone	Desktop and phone apps	Mac only for now: on Windows or a phone, import the recording afterwards

How Alori Recorder for Mac works

Add it to your Alori app. Alori Recorder for Mac comes with Alori. Once your app is built, install the recorder and click Connect to link it to your account. Allow the microphone and screen recording.
Join your call as usual. In the Zoom or Teams app, or Meet, Zoom, Teams, Webex or Whereby in any browser. It starts recording by itself: the call's window, your voice and everyone else's. Nothing joins the call.
Share your screen when you need to. It records the screen you present from, then goes back to the call.
Hang up. The call lands in Meetings, on the customer when it matches a booking or a calendar event. A few minutes later, the transcript, summary and next steps are there, and you can rewatch any moment.

The menu bar counts down to your next meeting with a Join button. The home window and a desktop widget show what's coming up and your last recordings with Notes ready. Don't record this one keeps a meeting off the record.

See how to record your calls with Alori Recorder for Mac.

What else Alori does with your meetings

Turns next steps into work. Click Create the task beside a step. The person who made the meeting gets the summary by email.
Answers questions. Under Ask about this meeting, ask "Write a follow-up email". Ask Sam answers across all your past calls and the rest of the customer's file.
Runs its own video meetings. Send a link from the Schedule; guests join in the browser, no account. See the Meetings app.
Covers phone calls. With Record calls on, calls on your business number come with a recording, transcript and summary. See calls.
Imports what you recorded elsewhere. Upload a recording or a transcript, up to 4 hours long.

What Alori does not do:

There's no notepad to type in during the call: Alori writes the notes from the whole conversation.
The recorder is a Mac app (macOS 15 or later). There's no Windows or phone recorder yet.
If you only want a personal notepad and don't need the video or a CRM, Granola is a fine fit.

How to switch

Build your app. Describe your business. Alori sets up customers, the schedule and Meetings.
Bring your Granola meetings. Paste a Granola API key (Business and Enterprise plans) in Import data: every meeting comes over on its date, with its guests and transcript, on the customer whose email was a guest. Alori writes its own summary and next steps for each.
Install Alori Recorder for Mac. Your next call records by itself, with the video.
Cancel Granola once your calls land in Alori.

Questions

Another question? Ask it when you start.

Yes, if you want botless recording that keeps the video, with notes on the customer and next steps as tasks, in the same app as your schedule, quotes and invoices. If you mostly want to type your own notes on Windows or a phone, Granola is the better fit.

Yes. Alori Recorder for Mac records from your Mac: nothing joins the meeting and the other people see no extra guest.

Yes. The video of the call, with the screen you shared, stays in Meetings next to the transcript and the notes, so you can rewatch any moment.

Yes. Paste a Granola API key in Import data. Each meeting comes into Meetings with its guests and transcript. Granola's own summary isn't copied; Alori writes its own.

The recorder comes with Alori at no extra cost. Recording and notes use credits from your Alori balance. See pricing. There is a free plan, no card needed.

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