Grape
Adaptive quizzes for journalists

Turn your notes into a quiz

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.
Questions generated from the note in front of you
The difficulty follows how you are actually doing
See which topics you keep getting wrong
Or write and edit the questions yourself, on any plan
Works on the phone, so waiting anywhere becomes practice

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.
The lede

Three things that stop costing you the afternoon

No feature tour. What changes between the interview and the filed copy.
Without Grape
The quote is on a recording you have not had time to transcribe.
The story you dropped in March is in a folder you no longer open.
The documents are in four apps and the copy is in a fifth.
With Grape

The quote is text before you are back at the desk

Record on the phone, get the transcript in the note, and pull the line you need straight into the draft.

Reopen a story you dropped in March

Ask your notes what you had on a subject and get the answer with the note attached.

Keep the background in the same place as the copy

Documents, PDFs, links and your own notes sit in one folder rather than four apps.
On the job

What that looks like for journalists

Three points in a story where the app saves the hour.

In the field

Record, tag the note with the story slug, and move on to the next call.

Back at the desk

Read the transcript, mark the usable quotes and draft in the same note.

Six months later

Search the archive by what happened rather than what you named the file.
At a glance

From Notes to a Quiz

What goes in

One note, and the level you want: easy, normal or difficult, or adaptive to let the quiz pick as you answer.

What comes out

Ten multiple choice questions with four answers each, written from the note. In adaptive mode a wrong answer steps the next question down a level and two right in a row step it up.

Which plan

Pro, with Grape AI built in, or Lifetime with your own AI key. On Free and Sync you write the questions yourself, and every plan can edit a quiz by hand.
Compare the plans
Questions

Questions Before You Install It

The rest of them live in the help center.
How protected are my notes and sources?
Grape keeps everything in a local database on your device unless you switch sync on. It is not a secure comms tool and it makes no legal claim about source protection, so treat it the way you would treat any notebook you carry.
How accurate is transcription?
Good enough to work from and to search, not good enough to publish without checking. Always listen back before you quote.
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.

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.
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