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Quilt and Granola
Granola is a meeting notes app. Quilt is a personal agent that includes meeting notes alongside mail, messages and calendar. They overlap most in meeting notes.
| Topic | Quilt | Granola |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A personal AI agent for your mail, messages, calendar and meeting notes. You talk to it as Q. Invite-only. | A meeting notes app. It describes itself as an AI notepad for back-to-back meetings.1 |
| Where it runs | A Windows desktop app and an iPhone app. Q is on all three of its screens: Q, Inbox and Calendar. How it works | Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android.1 |
| What it connects to | Gmail and Outlook email and calendars, plus Slack and WhatsApp chats, kept together in one Inbox and one Calendar. | Google and Outlook calendars, and not Apple Calendar. It connects to tools such as Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce and Gmail, plus Zapier and an MCP connector for AI apps. Its pricing page lists Slack on every plan, Notion, Zapier and HubSpot on Business and above, and advanced integrations such as Salesforce on Enterprise only.569 |
| Where your data is processed and stored | Your calendar, meeting notes and Q's memory are stored on your devices, with an index of your mail. When Hey Q uses a cloud model, the request goes from your device straight to Anthropic, using your own Claude key. Email text never goes to Quilt's own AI. Privacy Max turns off all cloud help, including Hey Q. Exactly what goes where | It captures your computer's microphone and system audio, with no bot joining the call. It says audio is cached briefly for transcription and then deleted, notes and transcripts are stored on AWS servers in the United States, and it uses third-party AI model providers listed on its subprocessors page.234 |
| Training on your data | Quilt never trains on your data. During the alpha, Q uses your own Claude key, so Anthropic's terms for API keys apply to requests made with it. Quilt's servers are not in that path. Details | It says third parties such as OpenAI and Anthropic are not allowed to train on your data. On its Free and Business plans it may use anonymized data to improve its own models unless you opt out in settings. Enterprise accounts are opted out by default.24 |
| Acting for you | A cloud model only suggests steps. Q can draft and propose, and cannot send, pay, post or delete. You press send. Inbox changes show a preview, apply when you tap, and can be undone. | It writes notes, action items and follow-up email drafts, and answers questions about your meetings. Its pages describe drafting, not sending email on its own, and do not mention scheduling.17 |
| Meeting notes | Yes, on Windows. Q listens on your computer and nothing joins the call. It asks before each meeting, and gives you summary, decisions and to-dos afterward. How it works | This is its main job.1 |
| Availability | Invite-only for now, on Windows and iPhone. Free during the alpha. | A free plan with 30 days of note history, plus paid Business and Enterprise plans.89 |
Where Granola fits well
- Meeting notes are the main thing you need, and you want a focused app for them.
- You want notes shared with a team in shared folders.
- You want to connect notes to a CRM, Slack or Notion. Slack is on every plan, and Notion and HubSpot need a paid plan.
- You use a Mac or an Android phone, or you want meeting notes on iPhone. Quilt takes meeting notes on Windows only so far.
Where Quilt fits well
- You want meeting notes to sit next to your mail, messages and calendar, so Q can use them.
- You want your calendar, meeting notes and Q's memory kept on your own devices.
- You want the to-dos from a call to flow into one list.
What Quilt cannot do yet. It is new, invite-only and runs on Windows and iPhone only, with no Mac, Android or web app. It has no team or shared-inbox features and it connects to fewer outside services than most products on these pages. During the alpha, bring your own Claude key.
Sources
Every claim about Granola above links to one of these pages.
- Granola home page. https://www.granola.ai/ (read and confirmed 2026-10-11)
- Granola help center: security, privacy and data FAQ. https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/consent-security-privacy/security-privacy-data-faqs (read and confirmed 2026-10-11)
- Granola blog: using Granola with Zoom. https://www.granola.ai/blog/how-to-use-granola-with-zoom (read and confirmed 2026-10-11)
- Granola help center: model training. https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/consent-security-privacy/model-training (read and confirmed 2026-10-11)
- Granola integrations. https://www.granola.ai/integrations (read and confirmed 2026-10-11)
- Granola docs: calendar integrations. https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/getting-started/syncing-your-calendars (read and confirmed 2026-10-11)
- Granola blog: what is an AI notepad. https://www.granola.ai/blog/what-is-an-ai-notepad (read and confirmed 2026-10-11)
- Granola blog: pricing for teams and enterprise. https://www.granola.ai/blog/granola-pricing-teams-per-user-enterprise (read and confirmed 2026-10-11)
- Granola pricing plans. https://www.granola.ai/pricing (read and confirmed 2026-10-11)