Zoho Notebook vs Claap
Side-by-side trajectory, velocity, and editorial themes.
Zoho Notebook is moving from passive note-taking into AI meeting capture — a deliberate push into Granola/Otter territory.
Zoho Notebook is on roughly a quarterly release cadence. The arc visible across the recent posts: Notebook AI (March 2025, in-app AI assistant), annual Apple-OS compatibility refreshes, a 2025 year recap, and most recently AI Meeting Notes (April 2026) — turning recorded meetings into structured notes with decisions and action items. The product is no longer just a note-taking app but is positioning as an AI-assisted productivity surface.
The AI Meeting Notes release puts Zoho Notebook directly into the meeting-capture category dominated by Granola, Otter, and Fathom — but tucked inside the Zoho One bundle, where the price is effectively zero for existing Zoho customers. Combined with last year's Notebook AI, the strategy is to make the note app the entry point for AI-assisted work, similar to how Apple Notes and OneNote have evolved. The Samsung Whiteboards partnership (2024) and consistent Apple-OS support show the team treats cross-device experience as a structural advantage.
Expect AI Meeting Notes to be expanded into multi-source capture (calls, voice memos, dictation) and tighter integration with Zoho Meeting. The next directional move is likely making Notebook the unified AI inbox for everything captured across the Zoho One bundle — bringing email, meetings, and chat into a single AI-indexed surface.
Claap climbs from meeting analytics into deal and company reporting for revenue teams.
Claap shipped Deal Report and Company Report this week, attaching its conversation-intelligence data to higher-level revenue objects rather than individual meetings. Earlier in the cycle, the workspace got tighter admin controls (Members page, customization, cleaner CRM data flows), an automations engine refresh, three new VOIP integrations (lemlist, Allo, Ringover), and a Gong integration that lets Gong recordings flow into Claap. Claap AI was rebuilt under the 2.0 label.
The product is moving up the revenue-team stack: from 'record and recap a meeting' to 'tell us the full deal story across all conversations.' Reports keyed to deal and company entities mark that shift — revenue teams care about pipeline-level rollups, not call-level transcripts. Recent integrations (Gong, VOIP, CRM data hygiene) all extend Claap's data graph rather than its UI surface, which fits the same arc.
Expect Claap to push reports as a primary surface — likely forecasting, win/loss analysis, and rep coaching dashboards that consume the same Deal Report data. The Gong integration suggests Claap is willing to be the analytics layer on top of larger revenue-data graphs, not just the source of truth.
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