Moving your meetings from Granola to Noats

If you have been using Granola for a while, your meeting history is the reason switching feels expensive. Noats imports it. This post covers what the import brings across and what changes on the other side.

What comes across

Noats talks to Granola's API from your Mac using your own Granola sign-in, and brings back every meeting Granola has processed. For each one you get the note, the transcript, the attendees and the folder it lived in. We are not a party to that exchange; the data goes from Granola straight to your disk.

• Notes, as editable text.
• Transcripts, with their speaker labels.
• Attendees and folders, so the structure you built survives.

What is different once you are in

Nothing joins your calls

Granola and Noats share a shape: no bot in the meeting, notes written up from a transcript. The difference is where the work happens. Noats notices when an app takes your microphone and offers to record. Recording starts when you start the note, and there is nothing to connect first.

The transcript is made on your Mac

Transcription and speaker separation run on Apple silicon, so a meeting on a plane with the network off is transcribed the same as one at your desk. Your audio and transcript are never sent to a server to be processed. You can see how speaker separation without stored voiceprints works inside that local pipeline.

You choose the model that writes the note

By default a local model writes the note. If you would rather use a larger one, connect Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter with your own key, use the ChatGPT plan you already pay for, or point Noats at a server you run. The choice is per machine, and it is yours.

Your notes are files

Everything lives in a SQLite database and plain audio in your own folder. Any note exports as markdown with a keystroke. Your archive is yours, in a format that will open anywhere.

Doing the import

1. Install Noats and let it fetch its models. That is a one-time download of around 930 MB.
2. Open the Granola import and sign in with your Granola account.
3. Wait while your meetings arrive. Large archives take a few minutes.
4. Check a folder or two, then record your next call with Noats.

Noats is free during the beta. The download is on the home page, and hello@noats.ai reaches a person if you have a question about your import.