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Dettivo

Granola

Granola is the category leader for Mac meeting notes — and a $216-a-year subscription. Dettivo does bot-free meetings, everyday dictation, Quick Note to Obsidian, and a developer surface in one app, for $45 once. If meeting templates are everything to you, Granola is sharper there today; for everything else around them, Dettivo covers more.

§ Pricing math

$45 once. vs. $18/mo Individual.

Bar length is proportional to actual dollars spent. Five years of Granola stretches the way it would stretch your card.

Year 1

Dettivo · $45
Granola · $216

Year 2

Dettivo · $45
Granola · $432

Year 3

Dettivo · $45
Granola · $648

Year 5

Dettivo · $45
Granola · $1,080

Numbers from public pricing pages. We update these when they change.

§ Where Dettivo wins

  • Live dictation everywhere, not just in meetings.
  • Quick Note straight to your Obsidian vault.
  • Meeting Mirror auto-exports the full bundle (transcript + notes + details) to a folder you pick.
  • CLI, local REST, stdio MCP — Granola has none of these.
  • On-device speaker diarization with relabel UI.
  • $45 lifetime vs $216/year forever.

§ Where Granola wins

  • Template library and meeting-type prompts are deeper than ours today.
  • Bigger team. More invested in enterprise sales motion.
  • Native Notion + Confluence integrations we don’t have.

§ Where they’re equal

  • Both are bot-free — no second guest joins your call.
  • Both capture system audio + microphone locally.
  • Both produce summary + action items after the meeting.
  • Both let you edit notes alongside the AI output.
§ Specsheet
FeatureDettivoGranola
Cost
Pricing$45 lifetime$18/mo · $216/yr
After 1 year$45$216
After 5 years$45$1,080
Devices per license3 active MacsPer-seat subscription
Capture
Bot-free meetingsYesYes
Speaker diarizationOn-device, with relabelYes
Surface
Live dictation in any appYes — global hotkeyNo
Output
Mirror to local folderYes — picked folder, e.g. ObsidianNo
Analysis
Cross-meeting Q&AYesYes
Developer
CLI · REST · MCPAll threeNo

Pulled from public pricing + feature pages. Last reviewed: 07 May 2026

Launching April 2026

One license. Three Macs. Forever yours.