Granola vs Team Engine Messaging
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Granola
This app automatically transcribes meetings and phone calls, providing summaries with highlights, decisions, and action items. It allows users to ask questions about their notes and share them effortlessly. It's designed for busy professionals who need to stay present during conversations.
- Automatic transcription of meetings and calls
- AI-generated summaries with highlights and action items
- One-tap capture from Lock Screen and widgets
- Chat with notes to extract insights
- Shareable notes with attendees
- Syncs with Google Calendar
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Granola is the AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings, trusted by top founders, VCs, and recruiters. And now it's available on your iPhone. Stay present and capture every conversation on-the-go — perfect for coffee catch-ups, phone calls, conference days, or just distilling your thoughts. Just open the app, tap start or make a call, and Granola instantly begins transcribing. Granola creates a shareable summary with highlights, decisions, and action items. BEAUTIFUL NOTES, ZERO EFFORT • Accurately transcribes meetings and phone calls, even in noisy environments • Lets you stay focused on the conversation instead of taking notes • Gives you clarity on key moments, decisions, and action items ONE-TAP CAPTURE • Start and stop note-taking straight from your Lock Screen with a single tap • Take notes on outbound phone calls directly from the iPhone app • Create an ad-hoc note from within the app • Use the Lock Screen or Home Screen widgets for easy access CHAT WITH NOTES • Ask questions about your notes and meeting attendees • Extract new insights and refer back to important details • Get clarity on action items and help drafting follow-ups SHARE EFFORTLESSLY • Send polished summaries to attendees in seconds • Edit notes and formatting to fit your needs • View and manage your notes across both iPhone and Mac Here's how it works: • Start a new note from your Lock Screen, Home Page widget, or in the app • Sync with Google Calendar to launch notes for upcoming events • Stay present while Granola transcribes in the background • Afterward, share notes with attendees or keep them private • Chat with your notes to get answers and uncover new insights • Search, view, and manage all your notes in one place Try Granola for a few meetings or calls today. It's free to get started. Need support? Head to our Help Center: https://www.granola.ai/docs Terms of Use: https://www.granola.ai/docs/policies/terms/tos Privacy Policy: https://www.granola.ai/docs/policies/privacy/pp
Team Engine Messaging
Facilitate seamless communication with your distributed workforce. Send texts to your team or applicants without revealing your personal number. Stay connected and informed, whether at your desk or on a job site.
- Send texts without revealing personal number
- Communicate with teams and applicants
- Connect via email, text, and WhatsApp
- Access messaging capabilities anywhere
- Dispatch crews and answer field questions
- Receive live notifications
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Team Engine makes communicating with distributed workforces simple. With our app, you can send texts to your team or applicants without giving out your cell phone number. Keep everyone on the same page and connect with people who use a mix of email, text, and WhatsApp to communicate. Our app gives you and your team access to Team Engine’s powerful messaging capabilities, whether you are at your desk or at a job site. Communicate with applicants, dispatch crews, answer questions from the field, get live notifications, and more - all in one place. This app requires you to have a preexisting user account with Team Engine.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Granola at every 5 days against Team Engine Messaging's every 5 weeks. Granola also leads on ratings volume (15K vs 4) and chart position (#105 vs unranked). Team Engine Messaging's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Granola against 5.0 for Team Engine Messaging. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Granola has 15K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Granola ships an update every 5 days, Team Engine Messaging every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Granola | Team Engine Messaging |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (15K ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #105 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 199 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Granola inc | Team Engine |
Customer experience
Granola
Team Engine Messaging
In-app purchases
Granola
No in-app purchases
Team Engine Messaging
No in-app purchases









