granola vs innernet

granola remembers the meeting. innernet remembers the project the meeting was about.

granola is the best meeting notepad there is, and we'd rather read its output than replace it. But its memory has a hard boundary drawn by your calendar: it holds what was said in rooms and calls. Most of the decisions that shape a project aren't made in those rooms — they're made afterwards, alone, in an editor or a terminal or a long conversation with a model at midnight.

innernet holds the thread that runs through all of it, meetings included.

"The AI notepad for back-to-back meetings. Notes, actions and memory. Without a meeting bot." It captures your computer's audio instead of joining calls as a participant, which is both less awkward and less visible. It produces organised notes and action items instantly, works across Zoom, Meet and Teams, integrates with your calendar for pre-meeting briefs on people you've spoken to before, has mobile apps for in-person conversations, an AI chat over your meeting history, and an MCP connector to push into other tools. Private by default, easy to share deliberately. Free for unlimited notes; paid to reach notes older than 30 days.

It's a superb product with an unusually clear sense of what it is.

A personal memory layer under the AI tools you already use. npx innernet connects Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Cline, Zed and Continue to one memory, with an MCP endpoint for the rest. netti — one per person — files what accumulates into Context Maps: dimensions that read like living documents, nodes for the people and decisions that keep recurring, commits and branches.

The subject isn't an event. It's the work the events are about.

granola's scope is a deliberate strength — it does meetings and doesn't pretend otherwise. But your project's memory is spread across meetings, code, chats with models, and the decision you made on a walk and mentioned once. A memory bounded by the calendar can only ever hold the part that happened on the calendar.

Meeting notes capture what was said in a room, accurately. That's not the same as what the project decided — rooms produce contradictions, half-positions and things that get reversed on Thursday. netti's job is to read across all of it and write down the current position, keep the previous one, and show when it changed.

granola's memory is searchable and its briefs are genuinely useful. innernet's is read automatically by whatever tool you're in, before you ask. The difference is between remembering to look something up and never needing to.

• ·The no-bot capture. Not putting a robot into someone's call is a product decision that carries real social weight, and they got there first.
• ·Meeting notes quality. Best in class. We don't do this at all.
• ·Pre-meeting briefs. Calendar-aware context on the person you're about to talk to is exactly the right feature.
• ·Action items. Extracting the commitments out of a call is a specific, hard, useful thing.
• ·The free tier is generous. Unlimited note-taking with a paywall only on old history is a fair offer.

• ·It isn't bounded by the calendar. The decisions made outside meetings are usually the ones that matter.
• ·It writes conclusions, not records. What the project currently believes, with the version it used to believe kept.
• ·It's read inside your editor and terminal. The context arrives where the work happens.
• ·Per-fact disclosure enforced on read. Meeting content is some of the most sensitive material you hold; travel classes decide what any connected model may see.

Use granola if your days are meetings and you want notes and actions out of them without a bot in the call.

Use innernet if you want the reasoning behind your project held in one place that every AI tool you use can read.

Use both. This is the pairing on this page we most straightforwardly recommend — granola is one of the best inputs a personal memory can have, and it speaks MCP.

"Granola already gives me memory across my meetings. Isn't that enough?"

It's enough if your work is meetings. Try this instead: think of the last significant decision on your current project and ask whether it was actually made in a meeting. Usually it was ratified in one and made somewhere else — and the reasoning, which is the part you'll want in six months, was never said out loud.

Accurate as of 3 September 2026, based on granola's public site. We think highly of it. If we've described their product incorrectly, tell us and we'll correct it.