Both take notes without a bot. Granola is built around the meeting note; Smart Jelly keeps one memory of your chats, mail and calls, on your Mac.
An AI notepad for meetings: you jot notes, it enhances them from the call. Built for people in back-to-back meetings, and their teams.
Smart Jelly goes furtherA memory for your working life: formed on your Mac, kept on your Mac, handed back the moment you need it.
| Smart Jelly | Granola | |
|---|---|---|
| Joins your call as a bot | Never. It listens on your Mac | Never. Records system audio and mic on your computer |
| What it remembers | Chats, mail and calls in the apps you choose, read from the screen. No accounts to connect | Your meetings and uploaded files; Gmail only if you connect it, for briefs and drafts |
| People | The people in your life and what each is to you, learned from your conversations | Built from calendar attendees, enriched |
| During the call | Recall from your memory, answers from general knowledge or the web, suggestions for your own choices, ⌥Space for help now | Ask Chat yourself; no proactive answers found in their docs |
| Before the call | From your whole history with that person: chats, mail and past calls | Briefs from past notes, the web, your calendar and, if connected, Gmail |
| What you owe people | One list across every app. Each closes itself when the reply, file or meeting happens, with the proof attached | Action items in each note; a checklist you tick yourself |
| Where your history lives | On your Mac, encrypted | US cloud (AWS), encrypted; notes cached on device |
| Model training | What is sent to answer a question is never used to train any model, and never stored by Smart Jelly | Anonymized data used by default; you can opt out |
| Platforms | Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 14+) | Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android, Apple Watch; web to view notes |
| Teams | Personal: built for one person’s memory | Team Spaces, shared folders, CRM sync, SSO |
A tick marks the side that does more on that row. Where Granola’s documentation says nothing, we say “not documented” rather than guess.
No. Like Granola, it records on your Mac. Nothing appears in the participant list.
Yes, in the apps you choose. It reads what’s on screen through macOS Accessibility, so there are no accounts to connect, and apps you switch off are never read.
Not yet. Smart Jelly is Mac-only today; Granola runs on Windows.
Compiled from Granola’s publicly documented behaviour, 5 October 2026. These products ship fast — check their own site before you decide. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we’ll fix it.