Voice recording and transcription for designers
Say it out loud. Keep it in writing.
Record research sessions and critiques straight into a note and Grape turns them into text you can search, quote and question, usually before you are back at your desk.
Record inside the editor without opening a second app
Drag in audio you recorded somewhere else and transcribe that too
The transcript lands in the note, searchable straight away
Ask the agent for the decisions and follow ups in the transcript
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.
The recorder is in the note
Hit record where you are already writing, with no second app open.
Audio from anywhere else
Drop in a recording you made elsewhere and it gets the same transcript.
Ask the transcript questions
Pull the decisions and the follow ups out of an hour of talking.
Results
Three things that stop being a problem
Feature lists are easy to write and hard to care about. This is what changes for designers.
Draw the idea inside the note
An infinite canvas sits in the editor, so a wireframe and the thinking behind it stay together.
Explain a decision six months later
Ask why a pattern was chosen and get the note where you argued it out.
Run research without a second tool
Record the session, get the transcript, and pull the quotes into the summary.
In practice
What that looks like for designers
A few moments in a normal week where the app earns its place.
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.
AI Agent
Chat that reads your library and can act on it
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Memory
The agent remembers what you tell it
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Semantic search
Search that works on what you meant
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Web clipper
Save any page from Chrome into a note
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Share to Grape
A page from the share sheet becomes a note
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Flashcards
Decks built from the notes you wrote
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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.