Local first storage for therapists
A local first notes app that works offline
Work with no wifi and no worry.
Grape keeps a year of reflective notes in a database on your own machine, so the evening before supervision a dead connection changes nothing about what you can open.
Writing, reading, organising, drawing and recording all work offline
You pick where the database file sits
Export any note, or the whole library, as Markdown, HTML or PDF
Run the AI locally through Ollama or LM Studio if you prefer
No account to start
Download, open, write. Accounts only matter for the paid plans.
Your choice of AI provider
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Ollama and more.
Export whenever you want
Markdown, HTML or PDF, one note at a time or the whole library.
You pick where the file sits
Point the database at any folder on your machine, and move it later.
The plane, the tunnel, the cabin
Writing, search, drawing and recording all work with no connection.
Local models if you want them
Run the AI through Ollama or LM Studio and nothing leaves the machine.
what shifts
Three things that get lighter
Not a feature list. What changes when the reflection happens between sessions rather than late at night.
Every session ends with ten minutes of typing you do not have.
Ten minutes back after every session
Talk the reflection out loud between clients and let the transcript become the note.
Supervision arrives and the theme is a vague feeling rather than a note.
Prepare for supervision in one pass
Ask your notes what you have been noticing lately and bring a real theme instead of a vague sense.
The training notes are in a binder you have not opened since the course.
Keep learning where you can find it
Training notes, reading and frameworks in one library you can search by meaning.
a working week
What that looks like for therapists
Three moments where the app gives some time back.
Between sessions
Record two minutes of reflection while it is fresh.
Supervision prep
Ask for the pattern across your recent notes and take that in.
CPD
Keep course notes and reading in one folder with flashcards for the parts worth retaining.
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.
Not at eleven that night.
Private, local notes for reflection, supervision prep and your own practice development, with search that works the way you actually think about your work.