Granola remembers your meetings. Driffle remembers your work.
Two bot-free notetakers that look alike on the call and diverge everywhere else. Here is the honest read.
The short version
Granola is a genuinely good meeting notetaker. It skips the bot, briefs you before external calls, and lets you ask questions across past meetings. If meetings are the only thing you need remembered, it does that well.
Driffle starts at the same place and keeps going. It remembers the documents, threads, and screens around the call, so the answer to "what did we agree" can draw on the doc you were reading, not just the transcript.
The other real difference is training. Granola trains on your anonymized data unless you turn it off. Driffle never trains on your work at all.
Where we are the same
Worth saying plainly, because a comparison that pretends the other tool is bad is not much use to you.
- Neither one puts a bot in your call. Both listen on your computer, so nobody sees a guest in the participant list.
- Both write a brief before the meeting and a summary with action items after it.
- Both let you ask questions across your meeting history instead of scrolling transcripts.
- Both store notes in a US AWS environment.
Where Driffle is different
Memory that does not stop at the call
Granola knows what was said in meetings. Driffle also knows the spec you had open, the thread you replied to, and the doc you were editing between them.
Nobody trains on you
Granola trains on your anonymized data by default, with an opt out in settings. Driffle does not train on your work in any form, and the models run inside our own AWS account.
Work that moves without you
Routines bring you what changed on your schedule instead of waiting for you to open the app and ask.
Driffle and Granola, side by side
| Driffle | Granola | |
|---|---|---|
| How it learns about your work | Builds a running memory from your meetings and the work on your screen. | Learns from meetings it transcribes. source |
| What it captures | Meeting audio plus the documents, threads, and apps you actually work in. | Microphone and computer meeting audio. It does not store the audio itself. source |
| Bot in your call | None. Driffle listens on your Mac, so nothing joins and no guest shows up in the participant list. | None. “It does not add a bot to your video call.” source |
| Before the meeting | A brief built from your whole week, not just the last call with these people. | A Brief before external meetings: who is attending and what you discussed last time. source |
| During the meeting | Transcribes quietly while you take your own notes or look something up. | Transcribes in real time while you type your own notes. source |
| After the meeting | Summary and actions land seconds after the call, folded into memory you can question later. | Notes, action items and follow ups ready when the meeting ends. Chat across past meetings. source |
| Context beyond meetings | Yes. Meetings, documents, messages, and screen context sit in one memory. | Meetings only. An MCP connector can pass notes to other AI tools. source |
| Where it runs | Mac, on Apple Silicon and Intel. Windows and Linux are request only today. | macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. source |
| Trains AI on your work | Never. Models run inside our own AWS account with no training rights, and your work is not sent to any model company. | Yes, on anonymized data, with an opt out in settings. Third party model providers are not allowed to train on it. source |
| Independent audit | GDPR and CCPA aligned with an Article 28 DPA. SOC 2 Type 1 audit underway, Type 2 to follow. | SOC 2 Type 2. GDPR compliance stated. source |
| Where pricing starts | Free plan that never expires. Plus is $17 a month billed annually, $20 billed monthly. | Basic $0. Business $14 per user a month. Enterprise $35. source |
Granola details compared as of August 2026, taken from their own pages. Products change. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.
Which one fits
Choose Driffle when
- You want the meeting connected to the work that produced it.
- You do not want your data training anyone's model, including ours.
- You want to ask about a decision without remembering which call it happened on.
- You want proactive updates rather than a tool you have to open.
Choose Granola when
- You want meeting notes and nothing else in the loop.
- You need Windows, iPhone or Android today.
- You want an independent SOC 2 report on file before you buy.
- Your notes need to follow a fixed template for recurring calls.
Switching
Run both through a week of real meetings. Keep Granola on your recurring internal calls and put Driffle on the ones where you always end up hunting for the document. The difference shows up in the questions you can ask afterwards, not in the transcript.
Security and your data
The parts that decide whether a tool is safe to put on your machine, stated without spin.
- Encryption
- AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit
- Hosting
- US AWS VPC
- Trains on your work
- Never, by design
- Bot in your call
- None
- Privacy law
- GDPR and CCPA aligned, Article 28 DPA
- Independent audit
- SOC 2 Type 1 underway, Type 2 to follow
Our SOC 2 Type 1 audit is underway and Type 2 follows it. Until those reports exist we describe our practices rather than point at an attestation, and we do not sign BAAs today. The full detail is on our privacy and security page.
Common questions about Driffle and Granola
Does either one put a bot in the call?
No. Both listen on your computer, so nothing joins the meeting and nobody sees a guest in the participant list. On this point they work the same way.
What does Driffle capture that Granola does not?
The work around the meeting. Documents, threads and what is on your screen as you work, so a question about a decision can draw on more than the transcript. Granola's scope is the meetings it transcribes.
Does either train AI on my meetings?
Granola trains on your anonymized data by default and offers an opt out in settings. Driffle does not train on your work at all. Our models run inside our own AWS account with no training rights, and your content is not sent to any model company.
Is Driffle SOC 2 certified?
Not yet. Our SOC 2 Type 1 audit is underway with Type 2 to follow. Granola holds SOC 2 Type 2 today. If a current report is a hard requirement for your purchase, that is a real difference and we would rather you hear it here than find out later.
Does Driffle run on Windows?
Not today. Driffle ships for Mac on Apple Silicon and Intel, and Windows and Linux are request only. Granola runs on macOS, Windows, iOS and Android.
What does Driffle cost next to Granola?
Driffle has a free plan that never expires, and Plus is $17 a month billed annually or $20 monthly. Granola's Basic tier is $0, Business is $14 per user a month and Enterprise is $35.
Compare Driffle with something else
Your work does not happen in meetings alone
Driffle remembers the call and everything around it, then hands it back the moment you need it.