Gamma vs Granola
Pricing
Gamma: Free tier, paid from $9/mo billed yearly
Granola: Free tier (30 days of history), Business $14 per user/mo
Description
Gamma: AI tool that turns a prompt or a document into a presentation, document, simple website or social post
Granola: AI meeting notepad that captures your computer's audio without a bot joining the call and turns your rough notes into full ones
Pros
- Imports PowerPoint and PDF files and exports to PPTX, PDF, PNG or Google Slides, on the free plan too
- Unused monthly AI credits on paid plans roll over, up to twice the monthly amount
- Pro adds API access, custom branding and up to 10 custom domains for published sites
- No bot joins the call: it records the audio on your own device
- Apps for desktop, iOS, Android and Apple Watch
- Audio is deleted after transcription, and you can opt out of model training
Cons
- The free plan's 400 credits are given once at signup and do not refill
- Removing the Gamma branding needs Plus or higher
- The free plan creates at most 10 slides per prompt
- The free plan only shows the last 30 days of meeting history
- Integrations with Notion, HubSpot, Attio and Zapier, and API access, need the $14 Business plan
Details
Gamma builds slides, documents, simple websites and social posts from a prompt or from material you already have. Its agent starts with an outline you can shape, then designs the pages, and you keep editing by chatting with it or by moving things around yourself.
It suits founders who need a pitch deck, a sales one-pager or a quick web page without opening a design tool. Imported PowerPoints and PDFs keep their formatting, and you can pull content in from Slack, Notion and Dropbox.
Every AI action uses credits. Plus costs $9 per seat a month billed yearly, with 1,000 credits a month, and Pro costs $18 with 4,000. Annual billing saves up to 28% compared with paying monthly.
Granola is a notepad for meetings. You jot rough notes during the call while Granola transcribes the audio from your computer, and afterwards it enhances your notes with what was said. Because it records device audio, nobody else in the meeting sees a bot.
It suits founders with back-to-back calls who want usable notes without an assistant in the room. You can chat with your notes across meetings, share folders and connect your notes to Claude or ChatGPT through MCP.
The free Basic plan has the core features but keeps only 30 days of history. Business, at $14 per user a month, adds unlimited history, follow-up emails, pre-meeting briefs and the integrations.
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