Like Granola, but answers happen during the call.

Same no-bot architecture, different timing

You and Granola both saw the same insight: a desktop app capturing system audio is cleaner than a meeting bot announcing itself. We build on the same foundation. Where we diverge: Granola enhances your notes after the call into polished summaries. We generate answers DURING the call, when the other side has just asked something and you need to respond. Two different jobs, both well-served by the no-bot pattern.

Built for the moments where timing matters

A retrospective summary is great for stand-ups and product reviews. It's less useful when you're in a behavioral interview being asked "tell me about a time you handled conflict" and have ten seconds to start answering. Live Audio Sessions auto-trigger when the other side pauses, draft a 3–5 sentence answer grounded in your resume, and surface it on the side panel. ⌘⇧⏎ to fire one manually any time. ⌘⇧L to switch into Granola-like quiet mode for ordinary meetings.

One tool for interviews, meetings, and screenshots

Granola is meeting-focused — by design, that's its sweet spot. We cover interviews and meetings on the audio side, plus a screenshot path for when the question is on your screen instead of in the call (a take-home prompt, a system design question, a coding problem). Same desktop app, three workflows, same shortcuts. If your week has both meetings and an interview loop, you don't need two tools.

How is InterviewCodeAssist different from Granola?

Same no-bot architecture (desktop app captures system audio, no "X has joined" notification). Three differences: (1) AI assistance is during the call, not after — real-time answers when you need to respond, not summaries when it ends; (2) we cover interviews and meetings, with resume + JD personalization for the interview side; (3) we add screenshot analysis for problems on your screen.

Should I use both tools?

Plenty of users do. Granola for internal team meetings where you want clean retrospective notes. InterviewCodeAssist for interviews, customer calls, sales meetings, and any conversation where a real-time AI answer would actually help in the moment. They don't conflict — both run as background desktop apps, both capture system audio.

Can InterviewCodeAssist do meeting summaries?

Sort of. Every Live Audio session is auto-saved when it ends — full transcript, AI answers, translations — encrypted locally on your device. ⌘⇧H opens the searchable history; you can export any session to Markdown for note-keeping or hand it to another tool for a polished summary. We don't have a Granola-class "AI-enhanced notes from your rough scribbles" workflow because that's their core competence — we'd be a worse Granola at it.

Does it capture both sides of the meeting?

No, just the other side (system audio). Granola captures both you and the other side for complete meeting notes. We capture only system audio and explicitly do not capture your microphone — your own voice during a session is never recorded or transmitted. The trade-off: our transcripts won't show what you said, but your side stays private. For interview / sales-call use cases this is the right default.

What about pricing?

Granola is cheaper if you mostly do meetings: free for limited history, $14/user/month for unlimited. We're $30/month or $10/week. The $10/week tier is the bigger differentiator — if you only need help for a single interview loop, you don't have to commit to a monthly plan. For long-term meeting use, Granola is the better economic fit; for interview cycles or hybrid use, we are.

Will I lose my Granola history if I switch?

Granola transcripts live in their cloud — export them before switching if you want to keep them. Our archive is local-only by design, so there's no migration in either direction. From the day you install us, every Live Audio session is auto-saved on your machine with OS keychain encryption.