If the reason you are looking is the minutes, here is the short version: you probably do not have to leave Granicus. Keep it, and add Govably for the minutes.
Last updated October 1, 2026
If what you need is better minutes, you do not have to leave Granicus. Keep Granicus and add Govably for the minutes. Govably is the most accurate, most comprehensive AI minutes platform for local government, and it works alongside the Granicus setup you already have.
Paste your Granicus player or clip link into Govably. It names every speaker with VoicePrint identification and remembers your board members from meeting to meeting, writes every motion out properly, and hands you finished minutes in your house style that you edit right in Govably. Your streaming and meeting management stay exactly as they are. Details: Govably + Granicus.
Granicus offers several products, from Legistar for legislative management to Peak and OneMeeting for meeting management, plus streaming. Whichever you run, Govably does one job, the minutes, and plugs into it.
| What Granicus does | Keep it? | What Govably adds |
|---|---|---|
| Streaming and video archive | Yes | Govably takes the Granicus player or clip link directly. No transcript export, no file download. |
| Meeting management (Peak, OneMeeting) | Yes | Govably follows the meeting item by item and flags only the items it is unsure about, so you review exceptions, not the whole document. |
| Legislative management (Legistar) | Yes | Nothing changes. Your legislative files stay in Legistar. |
| Public meeting information | Yes | A Govably public portal where residents click the transcript to jump to that moment in the recording. |
| Writing the minutes | Hand it to Govably | Every speaker named by VoicePrint, every motion written out with mover, seconder, motion language and each member's vote, and minutes in your house style, edited in a full document editor. |
A town with one board that meets once a month gets the same Govably as anyone else: the same VoicePrint identification, the same motion formatting, the same public portal and the same person helping you set up. Two meetings a month is roughly one hundred hours a year of minutes writing, usually the largest recurring task in a small clerk's office.
The other AI minutes name clerks see most is ClerkMinutes, an off-the-shelf tool. You run a recording or transcript through it and get an AI draft back, then finish the minutes yourself. Govably is high-touch: you work with a Client Success Manager who has written minutes, VoicePrint remembers your board from meeting to meeting, and the platform finishes the minutes, motions and all. More: Govably vs ClerkMinutes.
Send us the Granicus link to a recent meeting. We write that meeting's minutes free, then walk you through them on a quick intro demo. Nothing changes in Granicus while you decide.
Granicus quotes each agency individually. If you are reviewing your contract anyway, executed contracts from comparable governments are public records and the best benchmark; we walk through the method on what CivicPlus costs, and it works the same way for any vendor. With Govably, you get clear pricing on your first demo.
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Send us the Granicus link to a recent meeting. We write that meeting's minutes free, then walk you through them on a quick intro demo.