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Go from Granola to Meetily

The job: AI meeting notes (Bot-free capture from device audio, AI-enhanced meeting notes, Transcripts with speaker tagging, Full meeting history). Pick where you are today and where you want to land; the move below follows your pick.

From · what you pay for now
Granola
Granola Business · $14/mo
Year one+$118modeled
To · your pickBest fit
Meetily
Self-hosted · $0 a month
Change where you land

The money

$14/mo today , then $0/mo

Granola Business

Year one, net+$118
Pays back in3.6 months

Modeled from public list prices, with your time at $50 an hour. Show the math

Does it do the job? 4 of 4 covered

  • Covered: Bot-free capture from device audio
  • Covered: AI-enhanced meeting notes
  • Covered: Transcripts with speaker tagging
  • Covered: Full meeting history

The work

Setup
About 1 h
Upkeep
None
Watch out
Check first: You only rely on: Bot-free capture from device audio, AI-enhanced meeting notes, Transcripts with speaker tagging, Full meeting history

Make the move in four steps

  1. Export from Granola

    Your notes: title, summary, transcript and other basic details for each note, including notes older than 30 days hidden on Basic. Format: CSV

    Export steps
  2. Set up Meetily

    Suits privacy-minded users on Mac or Windows who want Granola-style bot-free notes kept on their own machine, with summaries from a local model or their own API key.

    Details
  3. Switch links and integrations

    Point links, embeds and integrations at Meetily, then send a test through every one.

  4. Cancel Granola

    Turn off renewal before your renewal date, once the new setup works. Access runs until: The end of the current billing cycle (the end of the month from your last payment date).

    How to cancel Granola
Open MeetilyHow to cancel Granola
Modeled, not measured. Savings use public prices and planning assumptions: the bill you stop paying, minus the new tool, your upkeep time and your setup time at $50/hour, over the first 12 months. Paths marked Tested by Stackcut were run end to end by us on our own products. They're our tests, not customer results. Check the must-haves in each recipe before you switch.

The whole recipe: 4 ways out, best first

What you use

  • Bot-free capture from device audio
  • AI-enhanced meeting notes
  • Transcripts with speaker tagging
  • Full meeting history

Not covered

  • AI chat across meetings
  • Shared folders
  • Integrations, MCP and API
  • Note templates and recipes

Check before switching

  • You only rely on: Bot-free capture from device audio, AI-enhanced meeting notes, Transcripts with speaker tagging, Full meeting history
  • Export your data from Granola before canceling

Agents: get_recipe("replace-granola") on the Stackcut MCP server.

4 ways out, best first

Cheaper planGranola (free tier)Saves $156 in year one
$14/mo today → $0/mo · setup 0.25 h · then $168/yr · payback 0.9 mo
If your use fits the free tier (Basic: unlimited meetings, AI notes, AI chat within and across meetings, shared folders, Slack integration; meeting history limited to the last 30 days (older notes are stored but hidden); MCP limited to personal notes from the last 30 days).
Covers 75% of the core features (not: Full meeting history)
Suits users who only need recent notes: Basic has unlimited meetings and AI chat, but only the last 30 days of meetings stay visible and most integrations need Business.
How we got this
You pay now: Granola Business$14/user/mo × 1 user$14/mo
New cost: Granola (free tier)free plan$0/mo
Difference each month$14 − $0+$14/mo
Over 12 months+$14 × 12+$168
Setup, once0.25 h × $50/h−$12
Year one+$168 − $12+$156
  • Not counting your time (0.25 h in year one): saves $168 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Already includedZoom WorkplaceSaves $143 in year one
$14/mo today → $0/mo · setup 0.5 h · then $168/yr · payback 1.8 mo
Covers 75% of the core features (not: Full meeting history)
Suits teams already paying for Zoom Workplace Pro or Business, where AI Companion's My Notes takes AI notes across Zoom, Teams, Meet and in-person meetings at no extra cost.
How we got this
You pay now: Granola Business$14/user/mo × 1 user$14/mo
New cost: Zoom Workplacealready in a plan you pay for$0/mo
Difference each month$14 − $0+$14/mo
Over 12 months+$14 × 12+$168
Setup, once0.5 h × $50/h−$25
Year one+$168 − $25+$143
  • Not counting your time (0.5 h in year one): saves $168 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Switch vendorFathom (free tier)Saves $118 in year one
$14/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $168/yr · payback 3.6 mo
If your use fits the free tier (Free forever: unlimited recordings and transcriptions, instant AI call summaries, clips and search (no numeric caps published)).
Covers 75% of the core features (not: Bot-free capture from device audio)
Suits users who don't mind a meeting bot (Fathom's bot-free capture is a Mac beta): free unlimited recordings, transcripts and summaries with no history limit.
How we got this
You pay now: Granola Business$14/user/mo × 1 user$14/mo
New cost: Fathom (free tier)free plan$0/mo
Difference each month$14 − $0+$14/mo
Over 12 months+$14 × 12+$168
Setup, once1 h × $50/h−$50
Year one+$168 − $50+$118
  • Not counting your time (1 h in year one): saves $168 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Open sourceMeetilySaves $118 in year one
$14/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $168/yr · payback 3.6 mo
Covers 100% of the core features
Suits privacy-minded users on Mac or Windows who want Granola-style bot-free notes kept on their own machine, with summaries from a local model or their own API key.
License: open_source
How we got this
You pay now: Granola Business$14/user/mo × 1 user$14/mo
New cost: Meetilyruns on your own machine$0/mo
Difference each month$14 − $0+$14/mo
Over 12 months+$14 × 12+$168
Setup, once1 h × $50/h−$50
Year one+$168 − $50+$118
  • Not counting your time (1 h in year one): saves $168 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

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