Comparison

Saykeep vs. Granola

Both record meetings without sending a bot into your call. The difference is what happens to your audio afterwards — and what you pay, and for how long.

Competitor details researched August 2026 — check their site for current pricing and features. Written to be fair; Granola is a good product.

Quick take

Choose Granola if you want polished cloud notes across your whole team, synced everywhere, and you’re comfortable with your meeting audio being processed by cloud subprocessors under a subscription.
Choose Saykeep if your meetings can’t leave your machine — client calls, legal, health, EU compliance — or you simply want to own the tool: one payment, offline license, verifiable zero connections.

Privacy, side by side

Granola
Saykeep
Bot joins the call
No
No
Audio processed
In the cloud (subprocessors)
On your machine
Account required
Yes
No
Works offline / on a plane
No
Yes
Privacy claim checkable
Policy you trust
NETWORK.md + watch the wire
First-meeting consent notice
No
Yes

Features

Granola
Saykeep
Meeting transcription
Yes
Yes — local
Speaker labels, renameable
Partial
Yes
Templated summaries
Yes (their cloud)
Yes (your endpoint)
System-wide dictation
No
Yes — push-to-talk
Custom vocabulary
No
Yes
Team sharing / sync
Yes — their strength
No — files are yours to share
Platforms
macOS, Windows, iOS
macOS (Apple Silicon), Linux; Windows in validation

Cost over three years

Granola Business
Saykeep
Year 1
~$168
$39 (launch: $29)
Year 2
~$168
$0
Year 3
~$168
$0
Total
~$504 per user
$39 once — $29 during launch. All your machines.

Switching guide

  1. Export your existing notes from Granola (their export keeps your history).
  2. Download Saykeep — the 30-day trial is full-featured, no card, so you can run both side by side.
  3. Record your next call with Saykeep; rename the speakers; pick a summary template.
  4. Run Little Snitch during the call and watch the connection count stay at zero.

Verdict

Granola removed the bot and kept the cloud; that’s the right trade for teams who want shared, synced notes. Saykeep removed both — for people whose meetings can’t leave the building. If that’s you, the trial is free and answers the question in one call.

Download free trial 30 days · all features · no credit card · no account · macOS 14.2+ (Apple Silicon)