Cross device sync for designers
Sync your notes across every device
Pick up exactly where you left off.
Capture research sessions and critiques on your phone and pick the work back up on your laptop, with the same library open in both places.
Notes, attachments, decks, tags, chats and settings all travel
Runs in the background as you write, not on a schedule you manage
Each device still keeps its own local copy, so offline is unaffected
On Lifetime it runs through your own Dropbox or Google Drive, which Grape never sees
Capture there, finish here
The voice note from the walk home is open on your laptop.
No manual export step
Nothing to email yourself and nothing to copy between machines.
Local first, still
Sync adds a copy in the cloud, it does not take yours away.
More than the text
Attachments, decks, tags, chats and settings travel with the notes.
It runs while you write
No schedule to manage and no button to remember to press.
Off until you turn it on
Sync is opt in, so a local only setup stays exactly that.
01 Outcomes
Three problems, resolved
Not a feature grid. What changes when the sketch and the reasoning live in the same file.
01
The sketch is in one app and the reasoning is in another.
Draw the idea inside the note
An infinite canvas sits in the editor, so a wireframe and the thinking behind it stay together.
02
Six months on, nobody can say why the pattern was chosen.
Explain a decision six months later
Ask why a pattern was chosen and get the note where you argued it out.
03
Research sessions end as a folder of recordings nobody plays back.
Run research without a second tool
Record the session, get the transcript, and pull the quotes into the summary.
04 In use
What that looks like for designers
Three points in a project where the tool changes the work.
Kickoff
Collect the constraints, screenshots and references into one note per problem.
Exploration
Sketch on the canvas, write the tradeoffs underneath and link to related notes.
Critique
Record the feedback session so you are listening instead of typing.
The rest of the app
What Else Grape Does
Every part of the app is built around the same idea: keep what you write, and hand it back when you need it.
07 Questions
Questions Before You Install It
The rest of them live in the help center.
Keep both in the same note.
Drawing canvas, screenshots, research and the reasoning behind a decision in one place, so the rationale survives longer than the file name.