Granola takes the notes. Overshow remembers the rest.
A notepad that joins no calls is the right idea, and nothing on this page asks you to switch. But your meeting notes only see the meeting. Overshow keeps the other six hours of your day: the doc you skimmed, the error you saw, the thread you half-read, captured as text on your Mac.
The other six hours have nothing.
Overshow reads the window you are working in at natural moments and keeps the text, on-device, alongside locally transcribed meetings, so the whole day joins up. Search it, filter by app, person, or time, and jump back to the moment with the source alongside.
- Screen text captured on-device and searchable
- Meetings transcribed locally too, so context joins up
- Nothing visual is stored; text and sources remain
Where the two tools genuinely differ.
Keep both honest: this is a boundary question, not a feature war.
Running the two side by side.
Before a call
Ask Overshow what you agreed last time and what is still open, then walk in current. Granola takes it from there.
After a call
Granola has the notes. Overshow has the slide you were shown, the doc you opened mid-call, and the follow-up you typed.
Grounding Claude
Claude Desktop and Claude Code can search your Overshow memory over MCP: read-only, per-client consent, revocable. What a connected client retrieves goes to its provider; the archive itself stays on your Mac.
Staying above board
Recording still needs whatever consent your jurisdiction and your meetings require. Overshow keeps capture visible, pausable, and scoped to meetings you are in.
Questions Granola users ask.
Do I have to stop using Granola?
No, and this page is not asking you to. Granola writes the meeting notes; Overshow remembers the rest of the day. They run side by side without conflict, and much of the value comes from exactly that pairing.
Do I need an account?
Yes, for sign-in, billing, and the one-device limit. Captured screen text and transcripts stay in an encrypted database on your Mac and are not uploaded by default. If you deliberately attach a reviewable search-context diagnostic to feedback, that diagnostic can include captured text and is uploaded with your submission.
Does it work with Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams?
Yes. Overshow recognises common meeting apps and browser calls and transcribes their audio locally once a meeting is detected. For an unrecognised surface, start recording manually. There is no bot or per-platform service integration.
What hardware does it need?
A Mac with Apple silicon, at least 16 GB RAM, and macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later. That floor is what lets capture, transcription, and search run on-device instead of in a cloud.
What happens if Overshow shuts down?
Your history is already local, and nothing you captured is deleted. Capture, transcription, and search run on-device, so the app on your Mac keeps working with no server involved; only how far back you can search depends on a live subscription.
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