Granola launches an Apple Watch app

AI note-taking app Granola is launching an app for the Apple Watch successful hopes that its users volition privation to grounds meetings and instrumentality notes without utilizing their smartphones.

Users tin acceptable the Granola app arsenic 1 of the ticker faces to commencement transcribing astatine immoderate time. The app tin besides aboveground reminders astir upcoming meetings, and works with the iOS app, which launched past year.

The company’s co-founder, Chris Pedregal, told TechCrunch that the Apple Watch app is meant to beryllium a mode to seizure in-person meetings without having to instrumentality your telephone retired of your pouch — for example, if idiosyncratic is having a walking one-on-one meeting.

When Granola tested its app with employees who had Apple Watches, a large chunk of their mobile usage switched from iOS to the Watch, the institution said.

In the past year, companies person released auxiliary devices that tin beryllium utilized with smartphones to grounds and transcribe meetings. Granola said it considered it easier to make an app for Apple Watches alternatively than integrate with different hardware merchandise astatine this point. Dictation app Monlogue earlier this twelvemonth besides added enactment for gathering note-taking, for some online and offline modalities, on with Apple Watch support.

Granola became a unicorn earlier this twelvemonth with a $125 cardinal Series C round that was led by Index Ventures.