Features
Everything in the App, for Journalists
The same thirteen things that change the week, with every example written for journalists.
AI agent
Ask your notes. Get an answer.
Ask a story file a question in plain language and get the answer with the note it came from, so an hour before filing you are reading your own words instead of hunting for them. The agent can file, tag and tidy while it is in there.
Summaries from your own words
A week of meeting notes becomes three bullet points you can send on.
Tidying stops being your job
Ask it to file the loose notes into folders and add the tags you already use.
Web search in the same chat
When the answer is not in your notes, it can look it up and write it in.
Memory
Tell it once. It remembers.
Most journalists explain the same things to every new chat. Say once what you work on and how you want a story file written up, and the agent keeps it for every chat after, in a list you can read and edit.
Facts caught on the way past
Say you run a bakery while asking about customers. The bakery is kept and the question is answered.
Read it, fix it, delete it
The whole list lives in Settings under Personalization, as sentences rather than a black box.
Forget is a real command
Say forget that in the chat and the memory is deleted, not hidden.
Semantic search
Find it by meaning, not by memory.
Describe a story the way you remember it and the right note comes back. No naming convention to keep up with across a story file, and no scrolling through interviews and doorsteps you filed months ago.
No naming convention to keep up
Your filing can be a mess. Search reads what the note is about.
Best match first
Results are ranked by how close they are to what you described.
Folders and tags when you want them
Structure helps, it is just no longer the only way back to a note.
Voice recording and transcription
Say it out loud. Keep it in writing.
Record interviews and doorsteps straight into a note and Grape turns them into text you can search, quote and question, usually before you are back at your desk.
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.
Flashcards
Revise without making the cards.
Turn a story file into a deck without writing the cards. The questions come out of what you captured yourself, which is the version that matters for the copy.
The slow part is done for you
Writing the cards is what stops most people revising. Not anymore.
Ten minutes is enough
Short review sessions on the phone beat one long night before the exam.
Straight from your notes
No stranger on the internet deciding what matters in your course.
Adaptive quizzes
Find the gaps before somebody else does.
A quiz written from a story file shows the difference between having read something and knowing it. Useful an hour before filing, and more useful the week before that.
Reading is not knowing
A quiz shows you the difference in about two minutes.
Targets the weak spots
Answers you miss come back around, the ones you know do not.
One note, one quiz
No question bank to build and no separate app to keep in sync.
Ten questions, not a hundred
Short enough to run before a lecture, long enough to tell you something.
Practice in a queue
The quiz is on your phone, so five spare minutes becomes revision.
Straight back to the note
Every question points at the line it came from, so you can go and reread it.
Mind maps
See how one topic hangs together.
A long note about a story becomes branches you can follow, which is a different pass over the same material than reading a story file again.
Structure you cannot see in prose
Long notes hide their shape. A map puts it back on the surface.
Revision that is not rereading
Walking a map is a different pass over the same material.
Built from your note, not a template
The branches come from what you wrote, in your own words.
Brainrot videos
The note, as a video you cannot skip.
Turn a note about a story into a short narrated video, captions burning over a gameplay clip. The version of a story file that gets watched to the end, because it looks like everything else on the feed.
The format that gets watched
Vertical video, a voice narrating, captions landing on the beat.
Pick the voice and the world
Six voices over forty clips, so two notes never make the same video.
Captions with a look
Twenty one caption styles, from TikTok classic to neon to retro VHS.
The script is your note
Written from what you wrote, so the video teaches your material.
Under a minute
Long enough to cover a topic, short enough to actually watch twice.
Saved in the note it came from
The finished video sits with the writing, ready to replay or send on.
Infographics
The note, redrawn as a poster.
One poster drawn from a note: the sections as panels, the numbers as a chart. The fastest way to put a story in front of someone who was never going to read a story file.
A style for the audience
Corporate for the deck, hand drawn for the class, dark for the feed.
The shape the channel needs
A tall scroll for a phone, a landscape for a slide, a square for a post.
Made to leave the app
Export the poster and hand it to someone who will never read the note.
Slide decks
The note, ready to present.
A note about a story becomes the deck: a title, a section for each turn, bullets short enough to say out loud, a closing slide of takeaways. For journalists it is the presentation a story file was always going to have to become.
Written in the order you would say it
A title, sections where the note changes subject, and a closing slide of takeaways.
Edit on the slide, not in a form
Double click a line to rewrite it, drag a part to move it, hide what does not belong.
Pictures where they help
Grape draws a picture for the slides that suit one and leaves a quote alone.
Graph view
See the whole library at once.
See every note you have written about a story and the ones you forgot were connected. Most journalists find a theme running through a story file that they never filed as one.
Connections you did not plan
Two notes from different months turn out to be about the same thing.
Links do the work
Link note to note as you write and the map fills itself in.
Where your attention went
Note stats show what you have actually been writing about.
Drawing canvas
Draw the part words cannot carry.
Some of a story file is not sentences. Put a story on an infinite canvas inside the note, right next to the writing that explains it.
Diagrams without a second app
Boxes and arrows are two clicks away instead of a context switch.
Sketch, then explain underneath
The caption you write is what makes the drawing findable later.
Draw with a pencil in hand
Rough it out on the phone, tidy it up at the desk.
Handwriting notes
Write it by hand. Ask it like text.
Write interviews and doorsteps by hand on pages of ruled paper and Grape reads the words off the page on the device itself, so a page of a story file in your own hand turns up in search like any typed note and the agent can quote it.
Paper that behaves like paper
Pen, highlighter, eraser, shapes and text boxes on pages that stack the way a notebook does.
Your handwriting, searchable
The words are read off the page on the device itself, and nothing leaves it to do so.
The agent reads your pages
Ask what the lecture said on Tuesday and the answer comes from the ink.
Web clipper for Chrome
Clip the page. Keep it as a note.
A page worth keeping goes into Grape as a note, with the images and the source line, filed next to a story file. Ask it questions later the way you would ask anything else you wrote.
1Clip it where you are reading
2It is filed before you switch windows
Three ways to take a page
The readable article, only the part you highlighted, or just the title and the link.
Filed before it lands
Pick the folder and the tags in the panel, or set a default once and never see it again.
The pictures come too
Grape downloads every image into the note, so it reads offline and after the page is gone.
Share sheet
Share it to Grape. It is a note now.
Share a page from Safari or a file from any app on your phone and it lands as a note beside a story file, with the source under the title, ready to read at your desk.
Two taps from Safari
Tap share, tap Grape, tap Save. The page is a note before you are back in the browser.
See the note before it exists
The title and the body sit in fields you can correct, and what is there when you press Save is the note.
Filed on the way in
Choose the folder from the sheet, or skip it and find the page in your default folder.
Features
Everything Else It Does
Everything below is in the app today. Nothing here is a roadmap item.
Bring your own AI, or use ours
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Ollama, LM Studio and more.
Work with no wifi and no worry
Your notes live in a database on your device. You choose where the file sits.
Your prompts, one keystroke away
Save the instructions you use constantly and run them on any note.
Pick up where you left off
Notes, drawings, decks, tags, chats and settings stay in step across devices.
Keep the sketch in the note it belongs to
An infinite canvas inside the note for diagrams, wireframes and rough thinking.
Answers that need the web, in the same chat
Grape can search the internet and drop what it finds into the note.
Keep the PDF next to your notes on it
Drop PDFs into a note, page through them and write alongside.
A daily backup you never have to remember
Made automatically on the device you use and kept for thirty days.
Connect a note to the notes around it
Link note to note, then see the whole web in graph view.
Find things in three keystrokes
Nested folders, drag and drop, hashtags with autocomplete and pinned notes.
Move in from your old app in one go
Import Apple Notes, or a folder of Markdown, with the structure intact.
Write without fighting the editor
Tables, checklists, images, files and slash commands for the rest.
Own the file, not a subscription to your own words
No lock in. The database is yours, on disk, from day one.
Start the note already half written
Save any note as a template, with date variables that fill themselves in.
Get back the paragraph you deleted
Every note keeps a version history. Roll back to any earlier draft.
Record the call, not the room
Desktop captures system audio, your microphone, or both in one track.
Change your mind about a delete
Deleted notes wait in Recently Deleted, with their tags and history, on no timer.
Leave whenever you want, with everything
Export a note or the whole library as Markdown, HTML or PDF.
See how much you actually wrote
Note stats and writing insights across the whole workspace.
Say how you want answers once
A base tone and standing instructions the assistant follows in every chat.
Read at two in the morning without the glare
A dark theme that follows whatever your system is doing.
Use it in the language you think in
English, Español, Français, Português, Deutsch, Italiano, Türkçe and 日本語.
Desktop and mobile
The Same Notes at Your Desk and on the Train
Grape is a real desktop app and a real mobile app. One library, two ways of holding it.
Mac, Windows and Linux
The full workspace
Sidebar, editor, chat, drawing canvas and search in one window. This is where the long work happens: writing up, cleaning up and asking bigger questions of everything you have collected.
Keyboard shortcuts for everything you do often
A local database you can point wherever you like
A Chrome extension that clips pages straight into it
iPhone and Android
Capture in ten seconds
Open the app, talk or type, done. Recording, chat and search sit one tap from the note list, so the thought gets saved while you still have it.
Record and transcribe on the move
Grape in the share sheet, for pages and files from other apps
The same notes you left open on your desk
Install it on everything you write on. Free, and no account needed.
Get the apps How to use it
Six Steps, About Ten Minutes
This is the whole onboarding. There is no workspace to design before you are allowed to write something.
01
Download and open it
No account, no setup wizard, no workspace to design first. Choose where your notes live and start typing.
02
Bring your old notes across
Import from Apple Notes, point Grape at a folder of Markdown files, or drag in the PDFs you keep reopening.
03
Put everything in one place
Type, paste, record, attach, clip a page from Chrome or share one from your phone. Folders and tags are there when you want them and out of the way when you do not.
04
Ask instead of scrolling
Open the agent and ask a question about your own notes. The answer comes back with the note it came from.
05
Turn notes into the thing you needed
A summary, a deck of flashcards, a quiz, a mind map, or a clean export to send to somebody else.
06
Put it on your other devices
Turn on sync and the same library shows up on your phone, while each device keeps its own daily backup.
File the story the same day.
Transcripts, background, quotes and the thread you have been pulling for months, all searchable by meaning while the deadline is still hours away.