Alternatives to Grain
Grain: Records and transcribes your calls, writes summaries and sends meeting notes on to AI tools, for sales and customer teams. Here are 24 other products that do a similar job. Of these, 19 have a free plan, 2 sell for a one-off price, 2 carry proof such as verified revenue, update history or uptime.
- Ajora
Records your business phone calls automatically and sends a summary, transcript and action items minutes after you hang up.
Subscription · CRM and sales
- Aside
A Mac and Windows app that records and summarises calls without a bot and prompts you with answers while you talk.
Since 2026
Free plan · CRM and sales
- Buska
Watches Reddit, LinkedIn, X and other sites for people asking for a product like yours and drafts replies for B2B founders.
Since 2023
Subscription · CRM and sales · Agencies
- Klipy
AI sales assistant and CRM for owner-led service firms that drafts follow-ups, tracks deals and logs conversations for approval.
Since 2024
Free plan · CRM and sales · Agencies
- Meetily
Records, transcribes and summarises your meetings on your own computer, so audio and notes never go to the cloud.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge
- Minutes
Transcribes meetings, calls and voice memos on your own machine into markdown files that your AI assistant can search.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- OpenWhispr
Voice dictation and meeting note app that turns speech into text on your device or in the cloud, for people who type a lot.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge
- Parrot
Mac app that records your calls without a bot, transcribes them on your machine and suggests answers from your files.
Since 2026
Free · Notes and knowledge
- Prismical
Records meeting audio and voice memos without a bot joining, then turns them into transcripts, summaries and action items.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge
- Alt
Records meetings and lectures and transcribes, translates and summarises them with AI that runs on your own device.
Since 2025
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Anarlog
Mac app that records meetings without a bot and writes editable AI summaries, keeping notes and data on your own machine.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge
- Cosmonote
Records lectures and meetings or scans pages, then writes summaries, action items and flashcards you can question.
Subscription · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Show Speech
Transcribes conversations live on iPhone, iPad and Mac, separating speakers and saving recordings to iCloud.
Since 2024Updated 3 months ago
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Speechy
Records on iPhone or Apple Watch and turns audio into searchable notes, summaries and to-do lists.
Since 2017Updated 4 months ago
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- ThinkScribe
Records meetings and calls on Apple devices, transcribes them offline, writes summaries and lets you dictate into any app.
Since 2026Updated 20 days ago
One-off payment · Video and audio · Individuals and families
- CastLoom Pro
Desktop app that plays and batch downloads podcasts, then transcribes and translates them offline into your notes.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Podcasting · Individuals and families
- Recly
Turns your Apple Watch or Galaxy Watch into a meeting recorder with free on device transcription and audio stored in your Google Drive.
Since 2026
Free · Video and audio · Individuals and families
- AI Exporter Hub
Chrome extension that saves your ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other chatbot chats as Markdown, PDF, Notion pages or Obsidian notes.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Amotions AI
Gives sales and customer reps private live prompts during calls, AI practice buyers and a score after each conversation.
Since 2026
Free plan · CRM and sales
- Basic Memory
Keeps notes and decisions in Markdown files that AI assistants and your team can read and update over MCP.
Since 2025
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Developers
- ContextVault
A shared memory store that lets a team's AI assistants save and reuse knowledge across sessions and tools.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Corpus
Keeps the facts you want AI chats to remember about you and makes them available in ChatGPT or Claude, even in new chats.
Since 2026
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Dexio
A hosted wiki that Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other AI agents share through MCP, so people can see and edit what the agents know.
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- DocuMemory
Saves what you work out in AI chats as searchable documents that Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP tools can read later.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Developers