Grain

AI-powered meeting recording for everyone, not just sales.

4.8•16 reviews•

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AI-powered meeting recording for everyone, not just sales.

4.8•16 reviews•

226 followers

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AI notetakers

Grain records, transcribes, and summarizes your sales calls with customizable AI-prompts, allowing you to focus on the conversation without worrying about taking notes.

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4.8

Based on 16 reviews

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Reviewers say Grain is strong at the basics that matter in meetings: fast, accurate transcription, clear summaries, and especially clips that make it easy to capture and share key moments without breaking the flow of a call. People use it for sales, demos, customer conversations, and user interviews; one reviewer notes it is especially useful for pulling verbatim clips from research calls. Users also praise ease of use and helpful integrations, though a few mention technical glitches, limited video context, extra setup for some automations, and the loss of the in-meeting note-taker.

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meeting recording (6)

saves time (5)

actionable insights (3)

team collaboration (3)

automated meeting notes (2)

collaboration tools (2)

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•33 reviews

What's great

team collaboration (3)meeting recording (6)saves time (5)

Grain genuinely nails what it set out to do: let you actually listen and engage during meetings instead of furiously typing like you're in a court hearing. The real magic happens with the transcription—it's crisp, accurate, and clips itself beautifully. What really impressed me was the ability to take time-stamped notes and turn them into actual clips within the meeting.

I sat through a sales call where I marked three key moments without breaking eye contact, and by the time the meeting ended, I had three shareable 30-second clips ready to send to the team. It felt like the app was taking notes with me, not for me. The AI summaries aren't trying to be philosophers either—they get straight to the point: decisions made, action items, who said what. That's the stuff that actually matters.

What needs improvement

The one genuine frustration I hit was video sharing. If someone in the meeting had a screen recording or a video snippet they wanted to share, Grain records the audio but can't do much with the video file itself. It's understandable from a technical perspective, but when you're in a client meeting where a video demo is part of the conversation, you lose that visual context in your recording.

Also, the integration ecosystem could be deeper. I wanted to push summaries automatically to Slack for my team, but it requires some extra setup. It's not complicated, but it's one more step when you want things to just work.

vs Alternatives

Before settling on Grain, I looked at Fathom and some of the heavier competitors like Fireflies.ai. Fathom is solid for basic note-taking, but Grain's clip feature is something special that you don't get elsewhere. It's a small detail, but clipping mid-conversation without stopping to think about where the clip starts and ends makes a real difference when you're managing a large team spread across time zones.

The free tier on Grain also doesn't feel like you're getting a watered-down experience—it actually covers real use cases. That was refreshing compared to tools that gate everything behind a paywall from day one.

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•29 reviews

What's great

meeting recording (6)collaboration tools (2)actionable insights (3)saves time (5)

My favorite tool of the category, and always my go-to. Great for UX research, and sales / discovery calls. Solid, great, smooth, thoughtful interface plus I've been super impressed with the new AI features - summarization, etc.

What needs improvement

I miss the in-meeting note-taker. I'm not sure why they removed it, but it was a really helpful way to call out important moments during the interview.

vs Alternatives

Fireflies.ai 👔 Fathom

Fathom

Granola

My main use case is user interviews - either UX or discovery. It's really important to me that on a product spec, I have clips of user verbatim, and grain makes this really easy - I just look at the transcript and highlight the key points.

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It's really important to me that on a product spec, I have clips of user verbatim, and grain makes this really easy - I just look at the transcript and highlight the key points.

Have you tried Fathom's "highlight feature" that lets you highlight a segment during the call? I'm curious how well it would extract the key moment.

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6mo ago

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With so many solutions out there to choose from, to include those provided natively inside of the video conferencing tools, this has proven to win out time and again. It's easy to judge the difference when I get summaries from Zoom, Fireflies, Grain and possibly a few others in a large meeting. The detail, the actions, the summaries alone make even missing a meeting a real option because you don't even need to watch the meeting recording -- just read the notes and confidently know what was discussed (and what actions you were assigned since you weren't there!!). I love the new meeting notes that happen even when it hasn't joined the call directly. Granted -- no video sharing is included for obvious reasons but this is a functionality that, out of the gate, has proved to be incredibly valuable. This space is crowded and new options seem to pop up weekly. But I'm confident the team at Grain will continue to advance this.

What's great

frequent updates (1)automated meeting notes (2)meeting recording (6)actionable insights (3)saves time (5)high accuracy (1)

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•33 reviews

What's great

team collaboration (3)meeting recording (6)saves time (5)

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27 views2mo ago

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•29 reviews

What's great

meeting recording (6)collaboration tools (2)actionable insights (3)saves time (5)

What needs improvement

I miss the in-meeting note-taker. I'm not sure why they removed it, but it was a really helpful way to call out important moments during the interview.

vs Alternatives

Fireflies.ai 👔 Fathom

Fathom

Granola

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76 views3yr ago

Product Hunt

It's really important to me that on a product spec, I have clips of user verbatim, and grain makes this really easy - I just look at the transcript and highlight the key points.

Have you tried Fathom's "highlight feature" that lets you highlight a segment during the call? I'm curious how well it would extract the key moment.

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6mo ago

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What's great

frequent updates (1)automated meeting notes (2)meeting recording (6)actionable insights (3)saves time (5)high accuracy (1)

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