Seduta · Comparison
Seduta vs Granola
Bot-free AI meeting notes app for Mac, Windows and iPhone that captures mic and system audio and writes enhanced notes. Here is how the two compare, as of 1 October 2026.
| Feature | Seduta | Granola |
|---|---|---|
| Privacy | ||
| Transcribed on the device | ✓Mac, iPhone and iPad | ✗Audio goes to a transcription provider; audio is deleted after transcriptionsource |
| Where your meetings live | On your devicesSynced through your own iCloud; summaries on the device, or on EU servers with Plus | US cloud (AWS); audio goes to a transcription providerNo EU, UK, Canada or Australia regionsource |
| No bot joins the call | ✓ | ✓source |
| No account needed | ✓ | ✗Sign-in with Google, Microsoft or SSOsource |
| Never records without you pressing Record | ✓Recording starts only when you click Record, also from a notification | ✓Transcription starts only after you click a notification, open the meeting note, or press New Note; no auto-start option documentedsource |
| Recording | ||
| Records calls from any app | ✓Zoom, Teams, Google Meet and other browser calls, Webex, Slack, FaceTime, WhatsApp, Signal, Proton Meet; add any other app | ✓Transcribes any call whose audio plays through the computer, including VoIP and internet calling appssource |
| Start by hand, also in person | ✓On the Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch | ✓New Note for ad-hoc meetings; mobile app records face-to-face meetingssource |
| Notices calls and asks to record | ✓On the Mac: a notification when a calendar meeting starts, with Join & Record for call links; asks when a call app opens the microphone. Recording starts only after you click | ✓Notifies before calendar meetings and prompts when it detects a call with the mic in use; transcription starts after you click the notificationsource |
| In the Mac menu bar | ✓Start, pause, stop and the status, one click away | PartlyMenu bar (tray) icon gives access to notes; starting a recording from it is not documentedsource |
| Ready after install | ✓Asks for the microphone, call audio and notifications; calendar is optional. The speech model downloads by itself on first use | ✓Sign in, allow calendar, microphone and system audio; no models, keys or CLIsource |
| No time limits on any plan | ✓No recording or transcription limit on any plan; Seduta Plus summaries are fair use | Not statedNo recording-time cap found on the pricing page (Basic keeps 30 days of history); transcription auto-stops after 15 minutes without audiosource |
| Notes | ||
| Languages | 25European languages, mixed in one meeting; Swiss German on the Mac | 31 on desktop, 17 on mobilesource |
| Transcribe again | ✓Transcribe Again, for example in another language | ✗Does not support importing or uploading pre-recorded audio for transcriptionsource |
| Recognises returning voices | ✓Name a speaker once and Seduta knows the voice next time. Voice prints stay in your own Seduta folder, on your devices and your iCloud; never sent to us, a summary service or an AI agent | PartlySpeaker tags use participants' display names from Meet, Zoom and Teams; otherwise only Me and Them; no voice recognitionsource |
| Your own summary templates | ✓Write your own, next to the built-in ones | ✓Create your own templates (desktop apps); available on all planssource |
| AI agents and CLI tools (MCP) | ✓Local MCP connector on your Mac: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cowork; read-only, paired apps only | ✓Official MCP server, cloud (connects to Granola's servers at mcp.granola.ai); works with Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code; OAuth. A separate Granola API exists for scriptssource |
| Devices | ||
| Mac | ✓ | ✓macOS 14 or latersource |
| iPhone | ✓ | ✓Cannot transcribe virtual calls on mobile; in-person and outbound phone callssource |
| iPad | ✓ | PartlyListing names iPad/iPadOS; help center says Chat is not available on iPadsource |
| Apple Watch | ✓ | ✓Needs the iPhone app; the Watch records, the iPhone generates notessource |
| Syncs between your Apple devices | ✓Your own iCloud Drive | PartlyThrough the Granola cloud account, not iCloudsource |
| Windows | ✗ | ✓source |
| Price | ||
| Free | Everything on the device, unlimited | Basic $0, 30-day meeting historysource |
| Cheapest subscription | $5.99/month or $39.99/yearSeduta Plus, 1 week free | $14/user/month, billed monthly (Business)Pricing page shows $14 per user per month; the billing period is stated on this Granola blog post. No annual price foundsource |
| One-off purchase or your own key | ✓$34.99 once, with your own key (Seduta BYOK) | ✗source |
Where Seduta is different
- Transcribed on the device
- No account needed
- Transcribe again
- One-off purchase or your own key
- AI agents read your notes on your Mac, not through a cloud server
Where Granola is stronger
- Runs on Windows as well as Mac
- Integrations such as Notion, Slack, HubSpot and Zapier
- Calendar-driven notifications and team sharing with workspaces
- Notes on outgoing phone calls placed from the Granola iPhone app (not incoming calls)
Record on your Mac, iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch. No bot, no account.
Join the waitlistCompared on 1 October 2026 from each company's own website, pricing page and App Store listing; the sources are linked in the table. Prices in US dollars, or in euros where a company only lists euros; taxes may apply. Products change: if something here is out of date, write to seduta@spert.ai and we correct it. Granola is a trademark of its owner; Seduta is not affiliated with it.
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