Transcribed where you sit
Meetings become transcripts on your Mac's own silicon. Raw audio is removed after terminal local processing; unresolved encrypted recovery stays local under a bounded cap.
A Granola alternative that keeps meetings on your Mac.
Granola is a capable notepad, and skipping the meeting bot was the right call. Its notes are still made in the cloud: named subprocessors transcribe and summarise, while Granola may use anonymised non-Enterprise data for training unless the user opts out. Its notes are private by default and can be shared deliberately. Overshow starts from a different default: built-in meeting transcription and AI run on your Mac.
Where a meeting goes
Granolayour callcloud transcriptioncloud summariescloud workspace
Overshowyour callApple silicon Mac with at least 16 GB RAMencrypted local database
The boundary, in four rows.
Not a feature grid. These are the architectural defaults that decide where your meetings end up, each dated and checked against public sources, Granola's own pages first.
GranolaOvershow
Where processing happensTranscription by Deepgram and AssemblyAI, summaries by OpenAI and Anthropic, hosting on AWS in the USBuilt-in transcription, summaries, and search run on Apple silicon. Exports, submitted diagnostics, URL enrichment, and an approved cloud AI client are explicit exceptions
Model trainingGranola may use anonymised data by default for non-Enterprise users; every user can opt out. Enterprise organisations are opted out by default and admins can enforce the setting. Its providers cannot train on customer dataBuilt-in models run locally and are not trained on your meetings; approving a cloud AI client creates a separate, user-controlled boundary
Sharing defaultsNotes are private by default. A user can choose company access or anyone-with-link access; Enterprise admins can cap sharing permissionsNo share links exist; your archive is an encrypted database on your Mac
Speaker attributionNamed speaker tags support Google Meet through its browser extension and Zoom on macOS; without them, transcripts show Me and ThemOn-device diarisation can separate voices across meeting apps without relying on host-app metadata; uncertain segments remain unnamed
Granola sources checked 6 August 2026: Granola security, Models and training, Privacy and sharing FAQ, Speaker tags, Granola pricing.
No bot, either way. Different afterwards.
The part Granola got right, Overshow keeps. What changes is what happens to everyone's words once the meeting ends.
What is the same
Neither tool sends a bot into your call, and neither notifies the room for you: Granola's in-meeting notice is optional and off unless enabled, with org-wide notification an Enterprise feature (its help docs and pricing page, August 2026). Overshow captures on your own device and stays visible and pausable. With either tool, consent for recording remains your responsibility, in whatever form your jurisdiction and your meetings require.
What differs afterwards
After a Granola meeting, the audio has travelled to its transcription subprocessors, the transcript to its summarising models, and the notes to its AWS-hosted workspace. After an Overshow meeting, there is a transcript in an encrypted database on your Mac. Terminally processed audio is removed; unresolved recovery artefacts remain encrypted and bounded. The built-in path uses no third-party AI, while exports, submitted diagnostics, URL enrichment and an approved cloud AI client are explicit boundaries.
What replacing it gets you.
Overshow treats meetings as one part of a private working memory, with the built-in recall path processed and stored on your Mac.
Speakers told apart
On-device diarisation separates voices in any meeting app, and you can name speakers per meeting. No browser extension required.
One encrypted database
Your history lives in a single always-encrypted database on your Mac. There is no workspace to secure and no link that can leak.
The whole day, not just calls
Overshow also keeps the text of the work between meetings, so search and Ask answer from your day, not only your transcripts.
Keep Granola instead?
Honestly: if cloud-made notes are acceptable to you and the people in your meetings, Granola is good at them. The per-user training opt-out sits in its settings, and Enterprise adds admin enforcement and org-wide notification (pricing page, August 2026). In that case the better move is not replacing it at all: keep Granola for the notes and add Overshow for everything your notes never see.
- Granola keeps the meeting notes it is good at
- Overshow remembers the screens and work between meetings
- Both run without a bot in your calls
The rest of the day
Client callTranscript, Tuesday 10:02
The doc you opened mid-callScreen text, Tuesday 10:14
The follow-up you typedScreen text, Tuesday 10:31
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Meetings remembered on your Mac.
Get Overshow free on macOS, no card required. Free keeps the last 7 days searchable, forever; Pro keeps your whole history and includes Memory MCP for Claude Desktop and Claude Code.
macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later, Apple silicon, and at least 16 GB RAM. Pro is £12/month including UK VAT at launch.