AI notetaker Granola creates bulleted summaries of your meetings and it recaps any due dates and action items.

What we love: How smart the app is. Granola can scan all your meeting summaries to generate a to-do list for the week. Its AI understands the roles of meeting participants based on context, so it can better distinguish who’s supposed to do what.

Quick tip: Granola has a nifty built-in phone, so you can make and transcribe new calls seamlessly. Sync with your work calendar to see your upcoming meetings in the app.

Meet the creator: Co-founders Chris Pedregal and Sam Stephenson launched Granola in 2024. “By far the biggest benefit we hear is that it helps people be more present in the meeting,” Pedregal says. “It frees you up to focus on the person in front of you and only note down the stuff that really matters to you.”