Granola alternatives

Mac/iOS app (no hardware). Captures meeting audio via system-audio tap (no bot joining); generates notes from your shorthand + audio. Local audio processing claim; cloud for summaries. Enterprise tier opts out of model training. Full Granola record →

  1. 1 Otter.ai Voice-first / wearable AI memory

    also in Voice-first / wearable AI memory · same storage (file) · same retrieval (extraction-pull) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode, document) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Granola →

  2. 2 Plaud NotePin Voice-first / wearable AI memory

    also in Voice-first / wearable AI memory · same storage (file) · same retrieval (extraction-pull) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode, document) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Granola →

  3. 3 Read.ai Voice-first / wearable AI memory

    also in Voice-first / wearable AI memory · same storage (file) · same retrieval (extraction-pull) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode, document) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Granola →

  4. 4 Limitless Voice-first / wearable AI memory ⚠ acquired — acquired by Meta

    also in Voice-first / wearable AI memory · same storage (file) · same retrieval (extraction-pull) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode, document) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Granola →

  5. 5 Sandbar Stream Voice-first / wearable AI memory

    also in Voice-first / wearable AI memory · same storage (file) · same retrieval (extraction-pull) · same memory unit (episode) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Granola →

  6. 6 Claude Code auto-memory Claude Code memory mechanisms

    same storage (file) · same retrieval (extraction-pull) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (document) · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host ? Managed ? MCP ✓ Compare with Granola →

  7. 7 Browserbase Browser-agent memory

    same storage (file) · same retrieval (extraction-pull) · same memory unit (episode) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Granola →

  8. 8 OpenAI Codex (cloud agent) Coding-agent memory

    same storage (file) · same retrieval (extraction-pull) · same memory unit (episode) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 128k released 2026-10-27 Apache-2.0 (Codex CLI; cloud agent proprietary) Compare with Granola →

Ranked by shared memory design (storage, retrieval, conflict handling, memory unit), same section and shared must-haves (open source, self-hosting, MCP), with adoption as a tie-breaker. ✓ confirmed · — no · ? not in the catalog yet. Want picks for your own requirements? Use the chooser. Checking a whole project? Check your stack.