BoardSnap vs Granola: AI for the room vs AI for the call.
Short answer
Granola is an AI-enhanced notepad that listens to your meeting audio and enriches your hand-typed notes with AI. BoardSnap reads physical whiteboards from a photo and generates structured summaries and action items. Granola is built for verbal meetings; BoardSnap is built for visual boards.
## What Granola is
Granola is a Mac-first meeting notes app. You type rough notes during the meeting; Granola listens to the audio in the background and uses AI to enrich your notes with context, fill gaps, and produce a polished summary. The value prop is that your notes get smarter after the meeting ends.
## What BoardSnap is
BoardSnap is an iPhone app built specifically for whiteboard capture. Snap any whiteboard, and Apple VisionKit straightens the perspective while BoardSnap AI reads the content — diagrams, lists, arrows, column headers — and outputs a clean summary plus tri-state action items (open / in-progress / done) with auto-generated subtasks.
## Key differences
- Input: Granola needs audio + typed notes. BoardSnap needs a photo.
- Platform: Granola is Mac-first. BoardSnap is iPhone-first.
- Output: Granola produces enriched meeting notes. BoardSnap produces structured action plans from visual content.
- Context memory: BoardSnap has Projects — you group boards by client/team, and BoardSnap learns your brand from your website URL. Summaries match your voice, not a generic template.
## Where BoardSnap wins
Any meeting that ends with something on a physical board. Granola can't read a whiteboard. If you're running retros, sprint planning sessions, architecture reviews, or client workshops on a real board, BoardSnap turns the board into your deliverable.
## Where Granola still fits
Verbal meetings with no visual artifacts — a one-on-one, a customer call, a status update. Granola's audio enrichment is purpose-built for that scenario.
When to use what: Audio-driven verbal meetings → Granola. Whiteboard-driven working sessions → BoardSnap.
Frequently asked
Is Granola available on iPhone?
Granola launched as a Mac app. BoardSnap is an iPhone-first app — built for capturing whiteboards in the room, not at a desk.
Does BoardSnap require me to type notes during a meeting?
No. BoardSnap's only input is a photo. Snap the board at the end of the session and the summary and action items are generated automatically.
See it work in ten seconds.
BoardSnap is free on the App Store. Snap a board — get a summary and action plan.