AI notes for Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Android Take the note. Grape does the rest.
Record the meeting, dump the idea, sketch the thing you cannot explain yet. Then ask your own notes a question and get an answer instead of a list of search results.
Free to start. Works offline. Your notes stay on your device.
AI agent
Ask your notes. Get an answer.
Grape has an agent, not just a chat box. It reads the workspace you already built, answers with the line you wrote, and carries out the tidying you ask for.
Summaries from your own words
A week of meeting notes becomes three bullet points you can send on.
Tidying stops being your job
Ask it to file the loose notes into folders and add the tags you already use.
Web search in the same chat
When the answer is not in your notes, it can look it up and write it in.
Voice recording and transcription
Say it out loud. Keep it in writing.
Record straight into a note on your laptop or your phone. Grape transcribes it, so an hour of talking ends up as text you can search, quote and ask questions about, and on Pro it tells the speakers apart, so a meeting reads back as who said what.
Capture on the move
Talk into your phone on the walk back and read it at your desk.
Transcript and notes together
Your own scribbles sit above the transcript, in the same note.
Searchable the moment it lands
An hour of audio becomes text you can find six months later.
Flashcards
Revise without making the cards.
Turn any note into a deck and review it inside the app. The cards come from your own material, so you are drilling the version you were actually taught.
The slow part is done for you
Writing the cards is what stops most people revising. Not anymore.
Ten minutes is enough
Short review sessions on the phone beat one long night before the exam.
Straight from your notes
No stranger on the internet deciding what matters in your course.
Adaptive quizzes
Find the gaps before somebody else does.
Grape writes a quiz from your note and adjusts to how you answer, so the questions get harder where you are solid and stay on the parts you keep missing.
Reading is not knowing
A quiz shows you the difference in about two minutes.
Targets the weak spots
Answers you miss come back around, the ones you know do not.
One note, one quiz
No question bank to build and no separate app to keep in sync.
Ten questions, not a hundred
Short enough to run before a lecture, long enough to tell you something.
Practice in a queue
The quiz is on your phone, so five spare minutes becomes revision.
Straight back to the note
Every question points at the line it came from, so you can go and reread it.
Mind maps
See how one topic hangs together.
Grape turns a note into a map of its own ideas, so a wall of text becomes branches you can follow. Useful when you are revising, and useful when you are still working out what you think.
Structure you cannot see in prose
Long notes hide their shape. A map puts it back on the surface.
Revision that is not rereading
Walking a map is a different pass over the same material.
Built from your note, not a template
The branches come from what you wrote, in your own words.
Slide decks
The note, ready to present.
Grape reads the note and writes the deck: a title slide, a section for each turn the note takes, bullets that are fragments rather than sentences, and a closing slide with the three things to remember. Six templates, pictures drawn for the slides that suit one, edit any word on the slide itself, then present it full screen or export it as a PDF.
Written in the order you would say it
A title, sections where the note changes subject, and a closing slide of takeaways.
Edit on the slide, not in a form
Double click a line to rewrite it, drag a part to move it, hide what does not belong.
Pictures where they help
Grape draws a picture for the slides that suit one and leaves a quote alone.
Sketch the thing you cannot put into a sentence yet.
Drawing canvas
Draw the part words cannot carry.
Some thinking is spatial. Grape has an infinite canvas that lives inside a note, so the sketch and the writing about it never end up in two different apps.
Diagrams without a second app
Boxes and arrows are two clicks away instead of a context switch.
Sketch, then explain underneath
The caption you write is what makes the drawing findable later.
Draw with a pencil in hand
Rough it out on the phone, tidy it up at the desk.
Handwriting notes
Write it by hand. Ask it like text.
A handwriting note is a notebook of ruled pages for an Apple Pencil, and the writing on them is read back into words on the device itself, so a page you wrote in a lecture turns up in search and the agent can quote it.
Paper that behaves like paper
Pen, highlighter, eraser, shapes and text boxes on pages that stack the way a notebook does.
Your handwriting, searchable
The words are read off the page on the device itself, and nothing leaves it to do so.
The agent reads your pages
Ask what the lecture said on Tuesday and the answer comes from the ink.
Write on the slides
Import a PDF and annotate it page by page, then export the lot back out as one.
Page forty is a tap away
A navigator shows the whole notebook as thumbnails, with a page added or removed from there.
Open the notebook at the desk
The pages sync like any note and open in the desktop app, where you can add to them.
Web clipper for Chrome
Clip the page. Keep it as a note.
A Chrome extension that saves the page you are reading straight into the desktop app. The article arrives as a clean note with the ads gone, the images downloaded and a line under the title saying where it came from.
1Clip it where you are reading
2It is filed before you switch windows
Three ways to take a page
The readable article, only the part you highlighted, or just the title and the link.
Filed before it lands
Pick the folder and the tags in the panel, or set a default once and never see it again.
The pictures come too
Grape downloads every image into the note, so it reads offline and after the page is gone.
Share sheet
Share it to Grape. It is a note now.
Grape sits in the share sheet on iPhone and Android. Send a page from Safari, a link from another app, or a photo, PDF or recording, and it lands as a note with the source written under the title.
1A page in Safari
2Two taps to share it
3A note in Grape
Two taps from Safari
Tap share, tap Grape, tap Save. The page is a note before you are back in the browser.
See the note before it exists
The title and the body sit in fields you can correct, and what is there when you press Save is the note.
Filed on the way in
Choose the folder from the sheet, or skip it and find the page in your default folder.
Locked notes
Lock a note. Nobody else can read it, not even us.
A locked note is encrypted on your device with a password only you know. It syncs like any other note, but what reaches our servers is a sealed block of text: no AI reads it, no search indexes it, and we could not open it if we were asked to. On every plan.
Sealed before it leaves
The note is encrypted on your laptop or phone with AES-256 and a key stretched from your password. The password never leaves the device.
A recovery key, once
Grape cannot reset a locked notes password, because it never has it. You get a recovery key when you set it, and that is the one other way in.
One password, every locked note
Type it once and every locked note opens until Grape locks them again: after a few minutes, when the phone goes to the background, or when you say so.
MCP server
Open ChatGPT or Claude. Your notes are already there.
Connect Grape once and ChatGPT, Claude or any app that speaks MCP can search your notes, read them and write new ones. What it writes shows up on your laptop and phone. On the Pro plan.
- 1
Connect it once
Add Grape in ChatGPT or Claude, sign in on grape.cool and choose Allow. That is the whole setup. - 2
Ask where you already are
It searches your notes, reads the ones it needs and answers from what you actually wrote. - 3
Keep the answer as a note
Ask it to save the plan and it lands in the folder you name, on every device you use.
Connected apps
Ask in Grape. It looks in every tool you use.
Sign in to Notion, Linear, Todoist, Airtable or GitLab once, and Grape AI and your agents can search them, read them and make changes there, right from the chat. Grape keeps each sign-in on its servers, so an app works on your laptop, your phone and in routines. On the Pro plan.
Notion
Search, read and write pages and databases.
Linear
Find, create and update issues and projects.
Todoist
Read and add tasks and projects.
Airtable
Read and change records in your bases.
GitLab
Search and work with issues, merge requests and code.
Connect it once
Choose Connect in Settings under Apps, sign in to the app and allow Grape. That is the whole setup.
Ask where you write
The chat searches the app, reads what it needs and answers beside your own notes.
Choose for each agent
Switch an app on for an agent, read only to start, and allow changes only where it should make them.
Features
Everything Else It Does
Everything below is in the app today. Nothing here is a roadmap item.
Bring your own AI, or use ours
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Ollama, LM Studio and more.
Work with no wifi and no worry
Your notes live in a database on your device. You choose where the file sits.
Your prompts, one keystroke away
Save the instructions you use constantly and run them on any note.
Pick up where you left off
Notes, drawings, decks, tags, chats and settings stay in step across devices.
Keep the sketch in the note it belongs to
An infinite canvas inside the note for diagrams, wireframes and rough thinking.
Answers that need the web, in the same chat
Grape can search the internet and drop what it finds into the note.
Keep the PDF next to your notes on it
Drop PDFs into a note and write alongside. Search and the AI read what they say.
A daily backup you never have to remember
Made automatically on the device you use and kept for thirty days.
Connect a note to the notes around it
Link note to note, then see the whole web in graph view.
Find things in three keystrokes
Nested folders, drag and drop, hashtags with autocomplete and pinned notes.
Move in from your old app in one go
Import Apple Notes, Evernote, or a folder of Markdown, with the structure intact.
Write without fighting the editor
Tables, checklists, images, files and slash commands for the rest.
Own the file, not a subscription to your own words
No lock in. The database is yours, on disk, from day one.
Side by side
Next to What You Use Now
A notes app keeps things and a chat assistant answers things. Grape does both, from the notes you already have.
| A notes app | A chat assistant | Grape | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keeps every note in one place | |||
| Answers a question from your own notes | Only what you paste in | ||
| Points back to the note the answer came from | |||
| Records and transcribes, by speaker | Audio only, no text | ||
| Turns a note into flashcards, a quiz or a deck | If you paste it in | ||
| Works offline | |||
| A file on your disk you can take anywhere | Export, if the app allows it | ||
| Free to start |
Desktop and mobile
The Same Notes at Your Desk and on the Train
Grape is a real desktop app and a real mobile app. One library, two ways of holding it.
Mac, Windows and Linux
The full workspace
Sidebar, editor, chat, drawing canvas and search in one window. This is where the long work happens: writing up, cleaning up and asking bigger questions of everything you have collected.
Keyboard shortcuts for everything you do often
A local database you can point wherever you like
A Chrome extension that clips pages straight into it
iPhone and Android
Capture in ten seconds
Open the app, talk or type, done. Recording, chat and search sit one tap from the note list, so the thought gets saved while you still have it.
Record and transcribe on the move
Grape in the share sheet, for pages and files from other apps
The same notes you left open on your desk
Install it on everything you write on. Free, and no account needed.
Get the apps Pricing
Free Is Not a Trial
Write as much as you like without paying anything. The paid plans add the AI and the syncing.
- Unlimited notes, folders and tags
- Rich editor and drawing canvas
- Voice recording
- Flashcards and quizzes by hand
- Locked notes, end-to-end encrypted
- A local database you own
- Everything in Free
- Cross device sync
- Share folders and notes
- 10 GB of attachment storage
- Daily backups and history on device
- Grape AI not included
- Everything in Sync
- Grape AI built in, no keys
- AI chat, agent, memory and web search
- Voice transcription
- 50 GB of attachment storage
- Best AI model not included
- Everything in Plus
- Grape AI on the best model
- Twice the AI allowance of Plus
- Speaker identification
- AI images generated in the chat
- 100 GB of attachment storage
| Notes, on every plan | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unlimited notes, folders and tags | ||||
| Voice recording | ||||
| Sync, backups and support | ||||
| Cross device sync | ||||
| Share folders and notes | ||||
| Attachment storage | 10 GB | 50 GB | 100 GB | |
| AI, widgets and themes | ||||
| Grape AI built in, no keys to manage | ||||
| AI chat about your notes | ||||
| Voice transcription | ||||
| Grape AI on the best model | ||||
| AI images generated in the chat |
- Everything in Free
- Cross device sync through your Dropbox or Google Drive
- Bring your own AI keys
- AI chat, agent, memory and web search
- Voice transcription
- AI flashcards, quizzes and mind maps
- Sharing and live typing not included
- Grape AI not included
You write a lot and do not want to pay
Free. Unlimited notes, folders, tags, recording and drawing, plus flashcards and quizzes you write yourself, with no account and no trial clock.
You want your notes on every device, and no AI
Sync. Notes and attachments stay in step between your laptop and your phone, folders can be shared with the people you work with, and each device keeps its own backups and version history, for less than a coffee a month.
You want the AI to just work on every device
Plus. Grape AI is included, so there are no keys to manage, and sync keeps your laptop and phone in step.
You lean on the AI every day
Pro. The best Grape AI model with twice the allowance, plus speaker identification, Brainrot videos, routines, live typing and the pictures Grape draws for your decks and chats.
You already pay for an AI provider
Lifetime. One payment and your own keys for AI chat, the agent, search, transcription, memory, flashcards, quizzes, mind maps, slide decks, mini apps, infographics and AI images, plus the widgets and the themes. Your devices sync through your own Dropbox or Google Drive, and sharing and Grape AI stay with Plus and Pro.
Every plan keeps your notes in a local database on your own device. Stop paying and your writing stays exactly where it is.
How to use it
Six Steps, About Ten Minutes
This is the whole onboarding. There is no workspace to design before you are allowed to write something.
- 01
Download and open it
No account, no setup wizard, no workspace to design first. Choose where your notes live and start typing. - 02
Bring your old notes across
Import from Apple Notes or Evernote, point Grape at a folder of Markdown files, or drag in the PDFs you keep reopening. - 03
Put everything in one place
Type, paste, record, attach, clip a page from Chrome or share one from your phone. Folders and tags are there when you want them and out of the way when you do not. - 04
Ask instead of scrolling
Open the agent and ask a question about your own notes. The answer comes back with the note it came from. - 05
Turn notes into the thing you needed
A summary, a deck of flashcards, a quiz, a mind map, or a clean export to send to somebody else. - 06
Put it on your other devices
Turn on sync and the same library shows up on your phone, while each device keeps its own daily backup.
FAQ
The Questions People Ask Before Downloading
No marketing hedging. If something is not in the app yet, these answers say so.
Help center
Short Guides for Getting Set Up
Installing, importing, turning on the AI, syncing and backing up, in a few minutes each.
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Free, Sync, Plus, Pro or Lifetime
What each plan includes and which one fits how you work.
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Install Grape on iPhone, iPad and Android
Where to get the mobile app on each platform, and what the first open looks like.
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Install Grape on Windows, Mac and Linux
Which build to pick for your computer, what the first launch looks like, and how updates arrive.
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