Apps for product managers
Note taking apps for desktop and mobile
A real app on the desk and in your pocket.
Most product managers capture on a phone and think on a laptop. Grape is a real app on both, with the same library in each and customer calls and reviews landing wherever you are.
Full workspace on desktop: sidebar, editor, chat, canvas and search
Ten second capture on mobile: open, talk or type, done
Keyboard shortcuts on desktop for everything you do often
The same library on every device once sync is on
Desktop for the long work
Writing up, cleaning up and asking bigger questions of everything.
Mobile for the moment it happens
Recording, chat and search are one tap from the note list.
Local on both
Each device keeps its own copy, so a dead connection changes nothing.
Ten second capture on mobile
Open the app, talk or type, and it is already saved when you look up.
Shortcuts for what you repeat
The desktop app has a key for everything you do twice a day.
One library on both
Turn sync on and the desk and the pocket hold the same notes.
Outcomes
Three things that stop living in your head
Not a feature list. What changes when six meetings a day land somewhere that can answer back.
The follow ups are in your head until the next call pushes them out.
Get the follow ups out of the meeting
Record, then ask for what you agreed and who owes what, before the next call starts.
Someone asks why it was built that way and the doc is called Untitled.
Answer why we built it that way
Search by the decision, not the doc title, and get the note that explains it.
Ten customer calls, ten transcripts, and no time to read them.
Turn ten customer calls into one theme
Ask what came up repeatedly across a folder of interviews and get it summarised.
A quarter
What that looks like for product managers
Three points in a planning cycle where the app changes the work.
01
Discovery
Record every call into one folder and let search do the pattern finding.
02
Spec writing
Draft in the note where the research lives and link to the decisions it depends on.
03
Planning
Ask for a summary of everything you captured about an area this quarter.
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.
Leave with the notes written.
Customer calls, specs, decisions and the reason behind them in one searchable library, so the context does not live in your head or in a chat thread.