Kesami vs Granola
Both record meetings from your computer with no bot in the call. Kesami is built for client calls that switch between Hindi and English, keeps every meeting as files on your computer, and costs ₹499$10 a month for Pro. Granola has phone apps, team plans and more transcription languages. Every Granola detail below comes from its own pages.
Side by side
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| What matters | Kesami | Granola |
|---|---|---|
| Mixed Hindi and English | Transcription by Sarvam, speech models built in India for Indian languages and for sentences that switch between Hindi and English. Detects the language for you. | Hindi, Urdu and 29 other languages through its transcription provider. Granola says the desktop app handles more than one language in a meeting. The app itself is English only. |
| Where your meetings live | Files on your computer: the transcript and summary as Markdown, details as JSON, the recording beside them. Search stays local. | Notes and transcripts on Granola’s servers in the United States, cached on your device. CSV export. |
| Training on your meetings | Kesami trains no models on your meetings. Transcription and summaries pass through Kesami’s relay, which keeps no copy. | By default on the free Basic plan and Business, anonymised data may be used to improve Granola’s own models. Each user can turn it off in Settings; Enterprise opts out the whole workspace by contacting Granola. |
| Price for one person | ₹499 a month$10 a month | $14 a user a month on Business. Basic is free with 30 days of history. |
| A bot in the call | None. Kesami records from your own computer. | None either. |
| Where it runs | macOS on Apple silicon, and Windows in beta. No phone or watch app yet. | Desktop, iPhone, Android and Apple Watch. |
| Teams | One person per account. Team plans are coming later. | Shared workspaces. Business adds centralized billing and user management; SSO is on Enterprise only, at $35 a user a month. |
Kesami hasn’t published an accuracy test for mixed Hindi-English calls yet, so the language row lists what each product uses. Granola details checked on 30 October 2026 against its pricing, languages, security and data FAQ and Apple Watch pages. If something has changed, write to riyam.jain.3@gmail.com.
When Granola is the better choice
- You want notes on your phone or your wrist. Granola has iPhone, Android and Apple Watch apps. Kesami runs on Mac and Windows computers only.
- Your team needs shared notes and admin controls. Granola has shared workspaces, centralized billing and user management on Business, and SSO on Enterprise. Kesami is one person per account for now.
- You need a language Kesami doesn’t transcribe. Granola lists 31 transcription languages. Kesami covers English and 10 Indian languages.
When Kesami fits better
- Your client calls switch between Hindi and English, or happen in another Indian language Kesami transcribes.
- You want every meeting as files on your own computer: the transcript and summary as Markdown, the details as JSON, the recording beside them.
- You want to ask what a client agreed and open the transcript line behind the answer.
Start with your next client call.
Free to start, with 500 minutes of meetings a month. No card, just a Google sign-in. Available for macOS and Windows (beta).
macOS
macOS 13 or later · Apple silicon
Download for macOS.dmg disk image
Signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple. It opens like any other app.
Check: Apple menu › About This Mac shows Chip: Apple M…
Kesami needs a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later).
WindowsBeta
Windows 10 or 11 · 64-bit
Download for Windows (beta).exe installer
The installer isn’t code-signed yet. When SmartScreen says “Windows protected your PC”, click More info, then Run anyway.
Windows support is in beta, so expect rough edges. Report what broke
Kesami is a desktop app. Open this page on your Mac or PC to install it.