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Shoulder Surf vs Granola
Granola writes up your meeting notes after the call, on desktop, phone, or watch.
Granola is a note tool: after the call it turns your rough notes into a clean write-up, and it does that better than anyone. It runs on Mac and Windows, and its iPhone and Apple Watch apps transcribe live. Shoulder Surf is a meeting and interview assistant. It helps you during the conversation, and afterward it becomes a workspace where you can ask anything about the meeting, share your documents, and generate real files.
What sets Shoulder Surf apart
Help in the moment
It listens while the meeting runs and hands you the answer on your screen or through your AirPods, so you can use it before the conversation moves on.
A workspace, not just a record
After the meeting, ask anything about it in project chat, bring in your own documents, and have it build real files: reports, spreadsheets, Gantt charts, whatever you describe.
Your data, your choice
On-device transcription means your audio can stay on your iPhone, and you pick the AI: Apple on-device, our managed AI, or your own API key.
Granola is the strongest notes app in this category and it is not close. If what you want is a clean write-up after the call, flowing into the tools your team already uses, buy Granola. Shoulder Surf is for the other problem: needing something while the conversation is still happening, and wanting to decide for yourself where your audio and your transcript go.
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