Grape
Themes for lawyers

Paint the app the way you like it.

Twenty-four themes repaint the whole app around a matter file: the panels, the editor, the drawings and the notebook paper. Pick a light one for the day and a dark one for the late shift, so the app looks right the day before a hearing too, and both follow you to every device.
Twelve light themes and twelve dark ones, from Paper to Tokyo Night
One pick for light and one for dark, and System moves between them with your device
Your accent colour stays your own on top of any theme, on every plan
Part of Grape Pro, and your picks wait for you if the plan ever lapses

The palettes you already know

Nord, Dracula, Solarized, Catppuccin, Gruvbox, Rosé Pine, GitHub, One, Ayu, Everforest, Flexoki and Monokai, mapped onto every part of the app.

Paper, for long afternoons

A warm, low contrast page for reading and writing for hours without the glare of a white screen.

Midnight, for the small hours

True black, so an OLED screen switches its pixels off and the note is the only thing lit.

Drawings and paper follow

The canvas, the notebook pages and the automatic pen colour all take the theme with them.

Seventeen accents on top

Amber, teal, rose or any of the others, in the buttons and selections of whichever theme you are in.

The same look on every device

Pick Nord at the desk and the phone opens in Nord, with Pro keeping both picks in step through sync.
Summary

Three matters this resolves

Set out plainly, without claims the app cannot support. What changes when the file can be questioned.
1.
Finding one point means rereading the whole file.

Find the point without rereading the file

Search by the issue rather than the document name and get the note that covers it.
2.
The attendance note is written from memory, an hour after the call.

Attendance notes written from the call

Record where you are permitted to, and work from an accurate transcript instead of memory.
3.
The research is in one place, the reasoning in another, the extract in a third.

Keep research and reasoning together

PDFs, extracts and your own analysis live in the same note, in the same matter folder.
A matter

What that looks like for lawyers

Three points in a matter where the tool earns its place.
01

New matter

One folder, one chronology note, and everything else linked to it.
02

Research

Keep the PDF and your extract in the same note so the reasoning survives.
03

Before a hearing

Ask your notes for the chronology and the open points.
Questions

Questions Before You Install It

The rest of them live in the help center.
Is Grape suitable for privileged material?
Grape stores notes locally by default and sync is opt in, but it is a general note app, not a legal practice system. It makes no certification claims, so check it against your firm policy and your regulator before putting client confidential material in it.
Can I stop content going to an AI provider?
Yes. AI features are optional. If you use them, you can bring your own key with a provider your firm approves, or run a local model through Ollama or LM Studio.
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 Pro plan, your notes are also stored in the cloud so your devices can stay in step.
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 built in AI and cross device sync come in.

Search it how you remember.

Attendance notes, research, correspondence summaries and the point you spotted at 6pm, in a local library that answers questions about your own file.