Local first storage for writers
Work with no wifi and no worry.
Grape keeps a notebook you have kept for years in a database on your own machine, so when a draft stalls 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.
Results
Three things that stop being a problem
Feature lists are easy to write and hard to care about. This is what changes for writers.
Nothing gets lost between notebooks
Every fragment lands in one library, on the laptop and the phone, and search finds it by what it was about.
Talk the scene out when typing is too slow
Record on a walk and read the transcript back as raw material for the next session.
Ask your own archive what you already said
Check whether a thought is new or something you wrote three years ago, without opening twenty files.
In practice
What that looks like for writers
A few moments in a normal week where the app earns its place.
First thing in the morning
Open the draft where you left it, with the research notes linked next to it.
Walking around
Record thirty seconds of dialogue on the phone before it evaporates.
Structural edit
Ask for a summary of what each chapter note actually covers and move things around.
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
Find it when you need it.
Fragments, research, scenes and three unfinished drafts in one place, with search that works on meaning so nothing you wrote at midnight disappears forever.