Apps for developers
A real app on the desk and in your pocket.
Most developers capture on a phone and think on a laptop. Grape is a real app on both, with the same library in each and debugging sessions and design discussions landing wherever you are.
Full workspace on desktop: sidebar, editor, chat, canvas and search
Ten second capture on mobile: open, talk or type, done
Keyboard shortcuts on desktop for everything you do often
The same library on every device once sync is on
Desktop for the long work
Writing up, cleaning up and asking bigger questions of everything.
Mobile for the moment it happens
Recording, chat and search are one tap from the note list.
Local on both
Each device keeps its own copy, so a dead connection changes nothing.
Ten second capture on mobile
Open the app, talk or type, and it is already saved when you look up.
Shortcuts for what you repeat
The desktop app has a key for everything you do twice a day.
One library on both
Turn sync on and the desk and the pocket hold the same notes.
Results
Three things that stop being a problem
Feature lists are easy to write and hard to care about. This is what changes for developers.
Stop solving the same bug twice
Describe the symptom in search and get the note where you already worked it out.
Keep decisions where you can defend them
Ask what you decided about a service and get the note, the date and the reasoning.
Point the AI at your own stack
Bring your own key, or run a local model through Ollama, and keep the workspace on disk.
In practice
What that looks like for developers
A few moments in a normal week where the app earns its place.
Debugging
Write the symptom, the theory and the fix in one note, with the log you kept attached.
Architecture review
Record the conversation and keep the decision log next to the diagram.
New project
Keep the setup steps in a runbook that actually gets found again.
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
Open
Memory
The agent remembers what you tell it
Open
Semantic search
Search that works on what you meant
Open
Voice and transcription
Meetings and lectures become searchable text
Open
Web clipper
Save any page from Chrome into a note
Open
Share to Grape
A page from the share sheet becomes a note
Open
Find it next time it breaks.
Runbooks, architecture decisions and the fix you worked out at midnight, in a local library you can search by meaning and keep offline.