Apps for researchers
A real app on the desk and in your pocket.
Most researchers capture on a phone and think on a laptop. Grape is a real app on both, with the same library in each and interviews and field notes 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.
Results
Three things that stop being a problem
Feature lists are easy to write and hard to care about. This is what changes for researchers.
Stop rereading papers you already annotated
Ask what your notes say about a method and get the answer with the note it came from, ready to cite.
Turn interviews into text the same day
Record the session, get a transcript in the note, and code it while it is still fresh.
See how the threads connect
Link notes to each other and use the graph view to spot the argument forming across a year of reading.
In practice
What that looks like for researchers
A few moments in a normal week where the app earns its place.
Reading a new paper
Drop the PDF into a note, write alongside it, and tag it into the theme it belongs to.
Fieldwork day
Record on the phone, add photos, and let it all sync back to the desk copy.
Writing up
Ask for every note that touches a concept, then pull the quotes into the draft.
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.
AI Agent
Chat that reads your library and can act on it
Open
Memory
The agent remembers what you tell it
Open
Semantic search
Search that works on what you meant
Open
Voice and transcription
Meetings and lectures become searchable text
Open
Web clipper
Save any page from Chrome into a note
Open
Share to Grape
A page from the share sheet becomes a note
Open
Ask what you already read.
Papers, interviews, field notes and half formed arguments in one local library you can question in plain language, months after you filed them.