Pricing
What Grape Costs for Researchers
Three plans. Free covers the library itself, Pro adds hosted AI and sync, Lifetime unlocks the AI once with your own key or a local model.
- Unlimited notes, folders and tags
- Rich editor and drawing canvas
- Attachments, images and PDFs
- Voice recording
- Web clipper and share sheet
- Templates
- Note links
- Graph view
- Version history
- Daily backups
- Import and export, any time
- A local database you own
- Everything in Free
- Grape AI built in, no keys
- AI chat, agent, memory and web search
- Semantic search
- Voice transcription
- Speaker identification
- Flashcards, quizzes and mind maps
- Slide decks with AI pictures
- Brainrot videos and infographics
- Cross device sync
- Home screen widgets on iPhone
- Twenty-four themes
- Priority support
- Everything in Free
- Bring your own AI keys
- AI chat, agent and web search
- Semantic search
- Voice transcription
- Priority support
- Memory and personalization not included
- Flashcards, quizzes and mind maps not included
- Speaker identification not included
- Slide decks not included
- Cross device sync not included
- Widgets and themes not included
| Notes, on every plan | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Unlimited notes, folders and tags | |||
| Rich editor and drawing canvas | |||
| Attachments, images and PDFs | |||
| Voice recording | |||
| Web clipper and share sheet | |||
| Templates | |||
| Note links | |||
| Graph view | |||
| Version history | |||
| Daily backups | |||
| Import from Apple Notes and Markdown | |||
| Export as Markdown, HTML or PDF | |||
| AI | |||
| Grape AI built in, no keys to manage | |||
| Bring your own AI keys | |||
| AI chat about your notes | |||
| Agent that reads and edits notes | |||
| Semantic search | |||
| AI web search | |||
| Voice transcription | |||
| Memory and personalization | |||
| Speaker identification | |||
| Flashcards, quizzes and mind maps | |||
| Slide decks with AI pictures | |||
| Brainrot videos | |||
| Infographic posters | |||
| Devices, themes and support | |||
| Cross device sync | |||
| Home screen widgets on iPhone | |||
| Twenty-four themes | |||
| Priority support |
You write a lot and do not want to pay
Free. Unlimited notes, folders, tags, recording, drawing, version history and export, with no account and no trial clock.
You want the AI to just work on every device
Pro. Grape AI is included, so there are no keys to manage, and sync keeps your laptop and phone in step.
You already pay for an AI provider
Lifetime. One payment and your own keys for AI chat, the agent, search and transcription. Sync and the rest of Pro stay with Pro.
Every plan keeps your notes in a local database you can export at any time. Stop paying and your writing stays exactly where it is.
Questions
Before You Put a Card In
The rest of the questions live in the help center.
- Can I keep sensitive research data off the cloud?
- Yes. Grape is local first, so the database stays on your machine unless you turn sync on. If you need AI without sending text to a hosted provider, you can point Grape at a local model through Ollama or LM Studio.
- Does it handle citations?
- Grape is not a reference manager. It keeps your notes, PDFs and transcripts together and answers questions about them. Most researchers keep using Zotero or similar for bibliographies and use Grape for the thinking around them.
- 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.
Start on Free, Decide Later
Nothing about the free plan expires, and your notes are a local file either way.