A session is the week, not the call
You start a session before a task and it spans everything you touch: the tickets, the captures, the notes, the agent runs. Khint compacts all of it into a short context and hands it to whatever you run next.
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Khint vs Granola,beyond the meeting
Granola makes great meeting notes. Khint remembers any work session and runs AI on your text across every app.
KhintPalette
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Workflows
The note leaves the app it was written in
Great notes still leave you retyping them somewhere. Here the text was already in the document, one press ran the agent on it, and the result landed in Slack, Jira and Confluence at once. The palette is the real one, and so is the fan-out.
The note is the start,
not the deliverable
Great notes still leave you retyping them into Jira, into a reply, into a status update. Khint runs your prompt on that text where it already is, and files the result in the tool that needs it.
KH-412 · Checkout retry loopAny text, in any app
The shortcut doesn't care where the words came from. A thread, a spec, a stack trace, a paragraph in someone else's document: select it and the same agents are there.
Linear
Confluence
GmailThe note leaves as a ticket
A workflow takes the same text through your agent and then into the tools that need it. A parallel step dispatches two to four destinations at once, so one press files, publishes and posts.
Granola takes the call, Khint takes it from there
Khint doesn't listen to your microphone and isn't trying to. If your problem is being the scribe on back-to-back calls, Granola is purpose-built for that. Select the part that matters afterwards and the rest of your day is Khint's.
What Khint won't do
Granola owns one row of the table outright, and it's the row this comparison turns on. Here's the whole list, including where your data sits on each side.
Security and privacyNo microphone and no audio capture, in any mode
No live transcription and no bot joining your call
Any text you select, in any Mac app, on one shortcut
A session spans a feature or a queue, not a single meeting
Sessions and their entries never leave the SQLite file on your Mac
Screen capture from the palette, on the same credit balance
Six work integrations included on every plan, the free one too
macOS 13+ on any Mac, plus Windows 10 22H2+
Two different ideas of memory
Both tools keep a record of your work. They disagree on what the unit of that record should be.
Khint: the work session
A session spans the feature, the queue or the document: the tickets, the captures, the notes and the runs. All of it compacts into the short context your next agent reads.
- You start a session before a task — a feature, a support queue, a document — and it spans everything you touch, not one call.
- Khint compacts what you do into a short context that feeds every AI action you run afterwards.
- Claude Desktop and Codex can read that session live over MCP, so your AI tools know what you're working on.
Granola: the meeting
Granola's unit is the call, and it owns that row of the table outright. Purpose-built for the day that's mostly meetings, which is exactly the day Khint has nothing to record.
- It enhances the notes you type with what was actually said on the call.
- You get a clean, shareable summary the moment the meeting ends.
- The unit is the meeting, which is exactly right when meetings are the thing you need to remember.
Two tools,
two jobs
Notes against actions, meetings against every app. Including the one thing Granola does that Khint will not.
Capability
Khint
Granola
Primary job
KhintAI text actions + memory across every app
GranolaAI notes for meetings
What it works on
KhintAny text you select, in any app
GranolaYour meeting + the notes you take in it
Useful outside meetings
KhintYes, that's the point
GranolaLimited, meeting-centric
Run your own saved prompts
KhintYes, agents on selected text
GranolaNo
OCR / screenshot-to-text
KhintYes, from the palette
GranolaNo
MCP server (Claude Desktop / Cursor)
KhintYes
GranolaNo
Create Jira / Linear / Confluence
KhintYes, from selected text
GranolaExport / share notes
Where data lives
KhintLocal SQLite + opt-in cloud sync
GranolaCloud-synced notes
Records audio
KhintNo
GranolaEnhances notes during the call
Free tier with AI
KhintYes (300 credits a month)
GranolaYes (limited)
Platform
KhintmacOS 13+, Windows 10 22H2+
GranolamacOS
See how Khint stacks up
Same product, four other lenses. Each page is the honest version, including what Khint doesn't do.
Khint vs Raycast
A launcher with AI bolted on, against a palette that was an AI tool from day one.
Khint vs CleanShot XBoth read your screen. Only one can then act on what it read.
Khint vs RewindRecording everything you ever did, against remembering the task you chose.
Khint vs Apple IntelligenceFree and already installed, against your own prompts wired to your tools.
Common questions
Is Khint a Granola alternative?
Partly: they overlap on 'remember what happened and turn it into something useful', but the scope is different. Granola is focused on making great meeting notes. Khint keeps a memory of any work session (not just calls) and adds AI text actions and OCR that run across every app. If your day is mostly meetings, Granola is purpose-built for that. If it's meetings plus drafting, ticketing, and writing all over the place, Khint covers more of the surface.
Does Khint take meeting notes during a call?
Not by recording audio. Khint doesn't listen to your microphone. You can capture text on screen with OCR, paste in notes, and log entries into a work session, and then run AI actions on that. For automatic, audio-based meeting notes, a dedicated tool like Granola is the better fit, and the two can sit side by side.
Can I use Granola and Khint together?
Yes, and it's a clean pairing. Let Granola capture the meeting and produce notes; then select the relevant part of those notes and use Khint to turn it into a Jira ticket, a summary, or a stakeholder update, in one shortcut, without retyping.
Where does my data live with Khint?
Locally first. Your history, Packs, and Memory sessions live in a SQLite file on your Mac. If you sign in, Packs and history sync to a Supabase database (Memory sessions stay local). Only the text you select or capture is ever sent for AI processing, and only when you trigger it.
Memory and AI actions for all your work
Not just meetings: every app, every selection. Free with 300 credits a month, integrations included.