Local first storage for freelancers
A local first notes app that works offline
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.
You pick where the file sits
Point the database at any folder on your machine, and move it later.
The plane, the tunnel, the cabin
Writing, search, drawing and recording all work with no connection.
Local models if you want them
Run the AI through Ollama or LM Studio and nothing leaves the machine.
the gist
Three things that stop costing you unpaid hours
Not a feature tour. What changes when four clients live in one head that is not yours.
Every client switch costs twenty minutes of remembering where things stood.
Switch clients without losing context
Ask what happened last with a client and start the call already caught up.
The kickoff call was clear and the brief written afterwards is not.
Turn the kickoff call into the brief
Record it, get the transcript, and ask for the scope and deliverables in writing.
The invoice dates and follow ups are in a place you never open.
Keep the admin somewhere you will look
Checklists, dates and follow ups in the same note as the work itself.
a working month
What that looks like for freelancers
Three moments where the app gives you an hour back.
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.
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.