Local first storage for freelancers
Work with no wifi and no worry.
Grape keeps four client folders in a database on your own machine, so when you switch clients a dead connection changes nothing about what you can open.
Writing, reading, organising, drawing and recording all work offline
You pick where the database file sits
Export any note, or the whole library, as Markdown, HTML or PDF
Run the AI locally through Ollama or LM Studio if you prefer
No account to start
Download, open, write. Accounts only matter for the paid plans.
Your choice of AI provider
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Ollama and more.
Export whenever you want
Markdown, HTML or PDF, one note at a time or the whole library.
Results
Three things that stop being a problem
Feature lists are easy to write and hard to care about. This is what changes for freelancers.
Switch clients without losing context
Ask what happened last with a client and start the call already caught up.
Turn the kickoff call into the brief
Record it, get the transcript, and ask for the scope and deliverables in writing.
Keep the admin somewhere you will look
Checklists, dates and follow ups in the same note as the work itself.
In practice
What that looks like for freelancers
A few moments in a normal week where the app earns its place.
New enquiry
Record the call, get the scope out of the transcript, and quote from that.
Delivery
One folder per client with the brief, the work notes and the checklist.
End of month
Ask what you delivered and what is still unpaid.
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
Semantic search
Search that works on what you meant
Open
Voice and transcription
Meetings and lectures become searchable text
Open
Flashcards
Decks built from the notes you wrote
Open
Quizzes
Test yourself before it counts
Open
Mind maps
One note laid out as a map
Open
Keep one clear head.
Briefs, calls, invoices to chase and the idea you had for a fifth project, in one library that costs nothing to start and works without a connection.