Springbase vs Granola
Granola stops at the note.Springbase finishes the work.
A Granola meeting ends with a note. A Springbase meeting ends with the work done — an approved plan, a finished document, a follow-up sent across your connected apps. Same capture, 61 AI models behind it, and a flat $9.99 instead of $14 per seat.
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Why teams choose Springbase over Granola
Every Granola figure on this page comes from their own pricing page and documentation, linked on each row. Here is where the two products diverge.
On a 1:1, we know who spoke — we don't infer it
Our Mac app captures your microphone and your computer's audio as two separate tracks, so on a one-to-one call the channel is the speaker. Granola's own documentation describes falling back to 'Me' and 'Them' with the AI inferring speakers from context outside a short list of supported apps.
Covers the calls you don't attend
Device capture only works while audio is playing on a machine you are using. Springbase also runs a calendar notetaker that joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams whether or not you show up — and it can import existing audio files, which Granola does not support.
A workspace, not a notes app
Granola Chat answers questions about your meetings. Springbase gives you 61 AI models, editable plans you approve before they run, finished documents and dashboards in Canvas, and agents that act across 1,000+ connected apps — for a flat $9.99 rather than $14 per seat.
Inside Springbase
What finishing the work looks like
From note to approved plan
Plan Mode takes what was said and proposes the steps — you edit them, approve them, and watch them run. The note stops being a record of the meeting and becomes the start of the work.
Build a client-ready launch plan from recent calls, competitor signals, and product docs.
- 1doneResearchMap competitors
Search recent category pages and pricing pages.
- 2doneDeep ThinkFind positioning gaps
Compare promises, gaps, and buyer urgency.
- 3liveAgentRead CRM notes
Reading customer notes...
- 4nextCodeCreate market brief
Ship a polished markdown asset in Canvas.
The deliverable, not a description of it
Canvas produces the finished thing: the proposal, the dashboard, the client update, drafted from the conversation and your documents. Not bullet points about what to write — the writing.
Create market brief
The final synthesis opened as a reusable Canvas document.
Springbase Canvas
Workflow OS Positioning Brief
Synthesized from 8 live sources, 2 meetings, and 3 CRM notes.
Buyer pain
repeat work
Best wedge
Plan + Canvas
CTA
first goal
Recommended narrative
Show the visible plan first, then the finished asset. Models are infrastructure, not the promise.
Follow-ups that actually go out
Agents act across 1,000+ connected apps — Gmail, Slack, HubSpot, Notion, Linear — with an approval step before anything leaves the building. The meeting's outcomes land in the tools your team already uses.
5 tasks · 5 apps · started 2m ago
3/5
- done
Scan 14 overnight emails
Gmail·Flagged 3 as urgent
- done
Block 9-10am deep work
Calendar·Added reminder
- done
Review PR #1284
GitHub·2 comments · 1 approval
- running
Draft launch channel update
Slack·Waiting for approval
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Springbase vs Granola, feature by feature
Granola figures are from their published pricing page and documentation. Every competitor cell links to the source so you can check it.
Windows, iOS, and Android apps
Stores no audio or video at any point
Billed per seat
Full meeting history on the free plan
Deterministic speaker separation on 1:1 calls
Choose the AI model for the job
Frontier models (Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, Gemini 3.1 Pro)
Editable step-by-step plans you approve
Ships finished documents, dashboards, and apps
The real comparison
Notes are one line. The work is the rest.
Granola covers the note. The AI you ask things and the layer that moves work between apps are separate bills. Per person, per month, at list price:
Springbase Starter does all three jobs — meetings, the AI you ask, and agents that move work between apps. Pro at $19.99 adds every frontier model and still comes in under a single ChatGPT Plus seat.
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Install the companion app on an Apple silicon Mac for local and in-person capture.
Connect Google Calendar or Outlook so the notetaker can cover calls you miss.
Run both on the same week and compare what each leaves behind.
Two practical notes: local device recording needs an Apple silicon Mac, so Windows users get the calendar notetaker for Zoom, Meet, and Teams instead — which covers the calls they attend and the ones they miss. And we cannot import existing Granola notes, so Springbase starts from your next meeting.
Questions people actually ask
Does Springbase run on Windows?
Yes — the full web app works anywhere, and the calendar notetaker for Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams runs from any browser on any operating system, including calls you do not attend. The companion app for local and in-person recording is currently an Apple silicon Mac build, with iOS for recording on the move.
Do you store meeting audio?
Not after transcription. Local recordings are deleted from your machine once uploaded, and bot recordings are deleted as soon as the transcript is ingested — so what persists is the transcript and the work built from it, not a media library sitting in storage waiting to be subpoenaed.
How is your speaker identification different?
Our Mac app records your microphone and your computer's audio as two separate tracks, so on a 1:1 the channel itself identifies the speaker rather than the AI guessing. On group calls recorded locally, all remote participants share one channel — for multi-party attribution the calendar notetaker does better.
Can Springbase record a meeting I don't attend?
Yes, through the calendar notetaker on Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams. A device-capture tool cannot — it only hears what is playing on a machine you are using.
Is Springbase cheaper?
Yes — $9.99 flat against $14 per seat, and the gap widens with every person you add, because we never bill per user. You also get 61 AI models, Plan Mode, Canvas, and agents across 1,000+ apps in that price, rather than notes alone.
Same meetings. More of the work done.
Start free and put Springbase on a week of real calls. The difference shows up in what you have finished by Friday, not in the notes themselves.
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