How to Import Granola Notes to Wispr Flow

I work on Kai, our AI executive assistant, and I spend a lot of time inside the tools we compete with. When Wispr Flow shipped its Notetaker in August, it came with a one-click Granola importer, which is a direct pitch at everyone sitting behind Granola's 30-day paywall. So I ran it on my own account, filmed the whole thing, and then looked at what actually landed. The import works, and it is genuinely fast. The recording is further down. The part nobody has written down is what it quietly leaves behind.

Wispr's comparison page makes the promise plainly: "If Granola's free plan has locked notes older than 30 days, importing gets them out of that window and back in front of you" (Wispr Flow). Our run says that is only true if you were already paying Granola. This guide covers the click path, what arrives, what does not, and what to do instead if the transcripts are the reason you are moving.

What the import actually is

It is not an export-and-upload. There is no file to prepare, which is why people who go looking for an upload dialog find nothing.

On the Notetaker page, a banner reads "Import your meeting notes" with two buttons, Skip and Import. Import opens a modal listing the sources Wispr supports today.

Granola is the only one live. Otter and Fathom are both shown as coming soon, so if you are on one of those, the wait is real and undated.

From there the banner switches to "Connecting to Granola...", Granola opens on its own, and a browser window takes over. You sign in to Granola the normal way, with email, Google, or Microsoft.

What you are approving

This is the step worth reading rather than clicking through. Granola shows a standard consent screen for a third-party app.

Two things stand out. The app requesting access is named "Wispr Flow, Granola Import", so this is a sanctioned connection through Granola's own login, not a tool reading files off your Mac. And the scopes it lists never mention your notes or your transcripts. You are approving "your profile information" and "additional account information necessary for Wispr Flow, Granola Import to provide their services", which is a generic string doing a lot of work.

The connection runs through mcp-auth.granola.ai, the host Granola uses for apps connecting over MCP. You can check that yourself with host mcp-auth.granola.ai, which resolves, while app-auth.granola.ai does not exist. That detail turns out to explain everything that happens next.

The whole sequence, from clicking Import to the success screen, took 31 seconds on our run (Flow v1.6.492, macOS, Pro account). Here it is end to end, unedited.

The success screen says "Granola Notetaker is connected", and the verb matters: connected, not imported. Filling your account happens after that, on its own clock.

What arrives, and what stays behind

Open an imported meeting and you get the same three tabs Wispr uses for its own recordings: My thoughts, Transcript, Summary.

The summary comes across intact, and Wispr labels its origin rather than passing it off as its own.

That "Summary (Granola AI)" heading is useful, and it also settles a contradiction on Wispr's own site. One of their pages says your old tool's summaries and enrichment stay behind. The shipping product does bring them over.

The Transcript tab is where it stops.

"No transcript from Granola. Availability depends on your Granola plan." That is Wispr's own wording, inside the product, on a meeting that imported successfully.

Here is why. Granola gates what connected apps can read by plan. On the free Basic plan, connected apps see "personal notes from the last 30 days", and the two calls that fetch folders and transcripts are marked paid-only in Granola's own documentation. The importer connects the same way, so it inherits the same limits. Nothing is broken. You are simply getting what your Granola plan lets an outside app have.

One small mercy: imported meetings are marked. They carry a green Granola badge in the note list, so six months from now you will still know which half of your archive came from where.

The paywall follows you

Put those two facts side by side and the pitch stops working for the people it is aimed at.

The reason most people want out of Granola's free plan is that they can only open the last 30 days, while everything older sits on Granola's servers, visible to nobody. Wispr's page offers the import as the way out. But the import reads your account with the same permissions your Granola plan grants, so the restriction moves with you.

It goes further than the transcripts. We went back to check how an older meeting gets dated once it lands in Wispr, and found there was nothing to check: on a free Granola plan, the meetings older than 30 days had not come across at all. That matches what Granola documents for connected apps, which see "personal notes from the last 30 days" on the free tier (Granola docs). The import is not a key to the archive. It is a copy of the window you can already see.

So read Wispr's promise carefully. "Importing gets them out of that window" is true for someone on Granola Business, whose window is already unlimited. For someone on the free plan, which is who the sentence is written for, the window is the whole problem and the import inherits it.

If you are on Granola Business at 14 dollars per user per month, none of this applies and the import is a clean, fast migration of everything. If you are on the free plan, the import will hand you a copy of the last 30 days without transcripts, and the older meetings you were trying to rescue stay exactly where they are.

When the import banner is not there

Two different things cause this, and they have different fixes.

Notetaker itself is still rolling out account by account, and it is Mac only. If Notetaker is missing from your app entirely, you are waiting on the rollout and there is nothing to do about it.

If you have Notetaker but skipped the banner, it is not gone. The import lives permanently in settings.

Settings, then Notetaker, then Import from Granola. The panel describes itself as "Every past meeting note, summary, and transcript. You can import again anytime without creating duplicates", and it stamps the date of your last run. That last line is the useful one: because the import is a snapshot rather than a sync, anything you record in Granola afterwards stays there until you run it again, and running it again is safe.

Should you move at all

The honest version of the maths, with both pages read on 2026-08-12.

Sources: Granola pricing and Wispr Flow pricing. Verified 2026-08-12. Wispr's Notetaker is included on the free plan, so you can try it without paying, and the Enterprise tier cannot use it yet.

Nothing is deleted in Granola when you import, and your account keeps working, so there is no forced cut-over. The genuine reason to move is that Wispr's Notetaker records without putting a bot in the call and its speaker matching draws on your calendar and inbox. The genuine reason to stay is that your history is already there, in one piece, with transcripts. If you are still shortlisting, our Granola review covers the product on its own terms, and Bluedot vs Granola puts it against the other botless notetaker worth a look.

Where Kai comes in

If the transcripts are the point, there is a route that reaches them, and it is Granola's own CSV export rather than any connected app. The export is not plan-gated the way the API is. When we ran it in July on a free plan, it returned 75 meetings going back seven months, each row carrying its full transcript. We wrote that path up in how to export Granola notes.

Kai reads that CSV directly. You import the file once and your old meetings become searchable alongside your email, calendar, and tasks, so asking what a client agreed to in February is a question rather than a file hunt. That is the trade against Wispr's importer, stated plainly: Wispr's takes 31 seconds and gives you what Granola's API allows, which on a free plan means no transcripts. Kai's takes longer, because you request the export and wait for Granola to email it, but it reaches the full history including the transcripts.

The honest limit, and it is a real one: Granola's CSV has no speaker labels, so the transcript arrives as a single voice. Kai can search and answer across those meetings, but on imported history it often cannot tell you who said what. If attributing quotes to people matters more than reaching old meetings, neither import will make you happy, and you should pay Granola.

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