Roofle vs Granola
The Granola alternative built around your role, free and open source.
Granola is a polished Mac notepad that works without a bot. Roofle shares that idea, then adds suggested follow-up questions during the call, local speech recognition and open source code.
Comparison
Side by side.
| Granola | Roofle | |
|---|---|---|
| Joins your call as a bot | No | No |
| Speech recognition | Cloud | On your Mac |
| Suggested follow-up questions during the call | No | Yes |
| Built around your role | Generic summaries | Pick sales, recruiter, PM, founder, CS or engineer and get questions and notes tuned to that job |
| AI model | Provided by Granola | Your own API key or a local model |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Cost | Monthly subscription after the free tier | App is free. You pay your model provider, about $0.05 to $0.10 per 30-minute call with GPT-4o mini, or nothing with a local model |
| Platforms | Mac, Windows and iOS | Apple Silicon Mac (Windows coming soon) |
Details about Granola checked November 2026 and may have changed. Check their site for current plans.
Built around you
Pick your role, get a copilot for your job.
Generic note takers give every user the same summary. Roofle shapes the live questions and notes to the conversation you are in.
Be honest
Which one fits you?
Stay with Granola if
- You need Windows or iPhone today.
- You want a managed product with team sharing and integrations.
Pick Roofle if
- You want questions and notes tuned to your job, not a generic summary.
- You want audio kept on your Mac.
- You want questions suggested while you are still talking.
- You want to read the code, or run a fully local model.