Peachy vs Granola: where your meeting notes live
Granola and Peachy both capture meetings with no bot on the call. The difference is where the meeting ends up. Granola keeps your notes and transcripts in its cloud, synced across its app. Peachy writes each meeting as a plain file in a folder on your Mac that you own. If you care where your meeting data lives, that's the whole comparison.
What Granola does with your meetings
Granola is a cloud notetaker. It records your meeting, its AI writes the notes, and your transcripts and notes live in Granola's cloud so they sync across your devices and stay available in its app. For a lot of people that works well: you open the app and your history is right there.
The tradeoff is that your meeting record sits on someone else's servers, under their account and their subscription. For the specifics of how it's stored, how long it's kept, and how it's handled, Granola's own privacy policy is the source to read, and we won't put words in their mouth. The structural point is simpler and doesn't change with the policy: with a cloud notetaker, your meetings live in the notetaker's cloud.
What Peachy does differently: the file is yours
Peachy records your meeting on your Mac, with no bot, and writes it as a speaker-labeled Markdown file in a folder you choose. No Peachy cloud holds your meetings. The file sits in your folder, open in any app, and it's yours to keep. If you stop using Peachy, the transcripts stay. There's nothing to export because nothing was ever locked up.
Where your own AI fits
This is the part that matters if you already use an AI. Because your meetings are plain files in a folder, your own Claude reads them in place over MCP, and a browser AI can reach them through a folder you sync to Dropbox or Drive. You're not asking a notetaker's built-in assistant; you're feeding the model you already pay for. Peachy is the layer under your agent, not another AI trying to be your chief of staff. Granola's answers come from Granola; Peachy's answers come from your Claude, or from a metered model only if you'd rather not connect your own.
Is Peachy's transcription local, then?
By default, no, and it's worth being clear about. Peachy sends the audio to a transcription provider for accuracy, and the provider doesn't retain it. There's an opt-in on-device mode that keeps the audio on your Mac, and it's still labeled experimental while we finish proving it. So "the file is yours" is about where your meeting record lives and who owns it, which is always your folder. Which engine transcribes the audio is a separate choice you make per meeting.
Should you switch from Granola?
If Granola's summary-in-an-app model fits how you work and you're comfortable with your meetings living in its cloud, it's a good tool and you don't need to switch. Peachy is for people who'd rather own the file and hand it to their own AI, and who want the meeting record on their own machine instead of rented back from a vendor. Same meeting, two different answers about who holds it. The right one depends on what you want to own.
Granola vs Peachy
| Granola | Peachy | |
|---|---|---|
| Bot on the call | No bot | No bot |
| Where notes live | Granola's cloud, synced to its app | A folder on your Mac you own |
| Who writes the summary | Granola's built-in AI | Your own AI, or Peachy's metered answers |
| The transcript | Kept in the app | A plain Markdown file you own |
| If you stop using it | Stays in their cloud; export to keep a copy | The files are already yours |
| Whose AI answers | Granola's own built-in AI | Your own AI, reading the folder over MCP |
Frequently asked questions
- Is Granola private?
- Granola is a cloud notetaker, so your notes and transcripts are stored on its servers. Whether that's private enough is your call, and their privacy policy is the place to check the specifics. If you'd rather your meetings never leave a folder you own, that's the difference Peachy is built around.
- Where does Granola store my meeting data?
- In its cloud, so it can sync across your devices and stay in the app. Peachy stores meetings as files on your Mac instead, in a folder you choose, with no Peachy cloud holding them.
- Can I get my transcripts out of Granola?
- Granola supports export, so check its app for the current options. With Peachy there's nothing to export: each meeting is already a Markdown file in your folder.
- Is Peachy's transcription on-device?
- By default it's cloud, for accuracy, and the provider doesn't retain the audio. There's an opt-in on-device mode that keeps audio on your Mac, still labeled experimental. Either way the finished file lives in your folder, which is the part you own.
- Does Peachy cost anything?
- The Mac app and unlimited on-device transcription are free forever. Cloud transcription and Peachy's built-in answers are Premium, $17 a month or $180 a year. Using your own Claude to read the files costs nothing.
Own your meeting notes
Peachy writes every meeting as a file on your Mac that you keep, ready for your own AI to read. Free to download, yours either way.