Jarvis or Granola for daily AI help?
Meeting notes or whole desktop?
Granola is built for meeting notes; Jarvis (getjarvis.eu) is a desktop AI assistant for the rest of the day's work. Granola stores notes in a US-hosted AWS Virtual Private Cloud, while Jarvis stores your data in the EU and adds AES-256-GCM encryption of OAuth tokens, a floating bar on Cmd+/ or Ctrl+/, and 30+ app connectors including Gmail, Slack, Notion, and Linear. Jarvis is a general screen-aware desktop assistant (Cmd+/ on macOS, Ctrl+/ on Windows) that works across 30+ apps like Gmail, Slack, Notion and Linear, routes across frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, keeps persistent memory, and never trains on your data, at $16/month when you need more than the free 40 requests/week versus Granola's $14/month. If you want a GDPR-aligned assistant for your whole workday — drafting, reading, acting — choose Jarvis. If you want a GDPR-aligned meeting tool specifically, choose Granola. They are complementary, and plenty of EU teams run both.
Granola is built for meeting notes; Jarvis (getjarvis.eu) is a desktop AI assistant for the rest of the day's work. Granola stores notes in a US-hosted AWS Virtual Private Cloud, while Jarvis stores your data in the EU and adds AES-256-GCM encryption of OAuth tokens, a floating bar on Cmd+/ or Ctrl+/, and 30+ app connectors including Gmail, Slack, Notion, and Linear. Jarvis is a general screen-aware desktop assistant (Cmd+/ on macOS, Ctrl+/ on Windows) that works across 30+ apps like Gmail, Slack, Notion and Linear, routes across frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, keeps persistent memory, and never trains on your data, at $16/month when you need more than the free 40 requests/week versus Granola's $14/month. If you want a GDPR-aligned assistant for your whole workday — drafting, reading, acting — choose Jarvis. If you want a GDPR-aligned meeting tool specifically, choose Granola. They are complementary, and plenty of EU teams run both.
Data residency is not a wash here: Jarvis stores user data and its database in the EU, while Granola stores notes in a US-hosted AWS Virtual Private Cloud. Both align with GDPR. That means you should decide on what the tool does, not where it runs. Granola is narrow and excellent at meetings; Jarvis is broad and built for the whole desktop. If you were choosing purely to satisfy a procurement requirement for EU data residency, either passes — but matching the tool to the actual job is what gives you value, and that is where their scopes diverge sharply.
Granola's job ends roughly where the meeting ends: capture, transcribe, summarize. Jarvis's job spans everything around it — drafting the follow-up in Gmail, filing tasks in Linear or Asana, updating Notion, replying in Slack — using screen context and persistent memory across sessions. Jarvis also routes per task across frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, so different kinds of work get a suitable model. If your need is genuinely just meetings, Granola's focus is a feature; if it is the wider workday, Jarvis's 30+ connectors and memory cover ground Granola does not attempt.
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