Apps for founders
Note taking apps for desktop and mobile
A real app on the desk and in your pocket.
Most founders capture on a phone and think on a laptop. Grape is a real app on both, with the same library in each and investor and candidate calls 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.
The upshot
Three things you stop dropping
No feature tour. What changes when twelve conversations a day land somewhere that remembers them.
Without Grape
You promised something on a call two weeks ago and cannot recall to whom.
The investor remembers the last conversation better than you do.
The decision is written down. The reasoning was never written anywhere.
With Grape
Remember what you promised who
Ask your notes for the commitments from the last two weeks and get them with dates.
Walk into the next investor call warm
Pull up the note from the last conversation and the summary of what changed since.
Keep the thinking, not just the outcome
Record the argument, keep the transcript, and revisit why the call went the way it did.
A week
What that looks like for founders
Three points in a founder week where the app pays back its minute.
01
Fundraising
One note per investor, updated after every call, searchable across the whole round.
02
Hiring
Record interviews with permission and compare candidates from transcripts, not memory.
03
Weekly reset
Ask for everything you captured this week and turn it into next week.
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.
Questions
Questions Before You Install It
The rest of them live in the help center.
- Is this a CRM?
- No. It is the notebook next to your CRM. Grape holds the conversations and the thinking, and you keep pipeline data wherever your team already tracks it.
- Can I keep everything on my own machine?
- Yes. The database is local by default and sync is opt in. If you want AI without a hosted provider, point Grape at a local model.
- What is Grape, in one paragraph?
- Grape is a note app for Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Android with AI built into the middle of it rather than bolted on the side. You write, record and collect things the normal way, and then you can search by meaning, ask questions about your own notes, and turn any note into a summary, a set of flashcards, a quiz or a mind map.
- What makes it different from other note apps?
- Most note apps treat AI as an extra panel. In Grape the agent works on your workspace: it can read, create, edit, move, tag and delete notes, and every answer points back to the note it came from. Semantic search, voice transcription, flashcards, quizzes, mind maps and the drawing canvas all live inside the editor rather than in separate tools.
- Where do my notes actually live?
- On your device, in a local database, and you can choose where that file sits. Nothing needs to leave your machine for the app to work. If you turn on sync with a Sync or Pro plan, your notes are also stored in the cloud so your devices can stay in step. On Lifetime they sync through your own Dropbox or Google Drive instead, and Grape never sees them.
- Do I need an account to use it?
- No. Download the app and start writing. You only need an account for the paid plans, which is where cross device sync and built in AI come in.
One place remembers them.
Investor calls, candidate notes, customer promises and the strategy you rewrote on Sunday, in one library you can question instead of scroll.