What is Grain?
Grain is an AI meeting transcription tool designed for growing teams, automatically capturing and enhancing meeting content, then seamlessly delivering structured data to Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI tool, empowering customer service reps and teams to efficiently execute post-meeting tasks. It supports local audio transcription without robot intervention, as well as robot-recorded sessions with video; provides rich-text transcripts containing attendee details and cross-meeting context (supporting over 100 languages, outputting clean Markdown); synchronizes all notes, tags, and to-do items in real time with the transcript, and can directly feed AI agents or team collaboration platforms. Users can access basic features permanently free of charge without needing a credit card, while enterprise customers benefit from SOC 2 audits and GDPR compliance to ensure data security.
Key features
Robot-free transcription: Directly captures audio from your computer system without requiring a meeting bot to join, protecting privacy and simplifying the process.
Rich contextual transcripts: Adds attendee identities, cross-meeting associations, and multi-language Markdown formatting to each meeting record.
Use cases and audience
Ideal for sales, customer support, and other teams that rely on frequent collaborative meetings, especially suited for business scenarios where AI agents handle post-meeting tasks.
- Automatically extracts action items from meetings and syncs them to team collaboration tools.
- Provide AI agents with context-aware meeting transcripts, supporting cross-session analysis
- Record computer audio and generate multilingual transcripts without a meeting bot
Meeting audio and video streams (supports robot-free local audio transcription), user-added real-time notes/tags/actions, and cross-meeting participant context.
Enhanced Markdown-formatted transcripts supporting over 100 languages, including attendee information, cross-meeting context, action items, and summaries, exportable to AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT, or accessible via API/MCP Server for AI agent invocation.
Frequently asked questions
What is Grain?
Grain is an AI meeting transcription tool designed for growing teams, capable of capturing and enhancing meeting content before delivering it to AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT for agent use.
Is Grain free of charge?
Grain offers a permanently free plan; it also provides Business and Enterprise paid plans that include features such as team collaboration and CRM integration.
How to use
- 01
Register an account and install the Grain desktop application
- 02
Enable automatic recording rules and select the meeting platforms you wish to capture
- 03
Add notes during meetings, highlight key segments, or create action items
- 04
Export enhanced Markdown transcripts with one click to AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT
Pricing and availability
Grain offers a permanently free plan; the Business and Enterprise plans include features like sharing, team management, and CRM synchronization (such as HubSpot and Salesforce); no specific pricing, subscription durations, word/character limits, or commercial licensing details are provided.
- Pricing source
- https://grain.com/
- Pricing last updated
- 2026-10-29
Prices and limits may change. Check the official website for current terms.
Official website & sources
Updated on 2026-10-29
