Locked notes for writers
Lock a note. Nobody else can read it, not even us.
A locked note is encrypted on your device with a password only you know. It syncs like any other note, but what reaches our servers is a sealed block of text: no AI reads it, no search indexes it, and we could not open it if we were asked to. On every plan.
Encrypted on your laptop or phone before it syncs, with AES-256 and a key stretched from your password
One password for every locked note, typed once and locked again after a few minutes
A recovery key shown once when you set the password, the one other way in
Left out of search, the AI, the index, widgets and exports while it is locked
Its title stays in the list on every device, so you can tell your locked notes apart
Sealed before it leaves
The note is encrypted on your device. The password never leaves it, and the server holds only a block it cannot read.
A recovery key, once
Grape cannot reset a locked notes password, because it never has it. The recovery key you saved is the one other way in.
One password, every locked note
Type it once and every locked note opens until Grape locks them again: after a few minutes, in the background, or when you say so.
The AI never sees it
A locked note is left out of chat, semantic search, the index and any AI app connected to your account.
Syncs sealed
It travels between your devices encrypted, and opens on the phone with the same password you set on the laptop.
Text notes, for now
Headings, lists, tables, code and links lock. A note with an image or a recording asks you to take it out first.
In short
Three things a notebook should have always done
Not features so much as relief. What changes when nothing you wrote can go missing.
1.
The line you need is in the other notebook, or a text to yourself.
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.
2.
The scene arrives on the walk and is gone by the time you reach the desk.
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.
3.
You cannot tell whether the thought is new or something you wrote in 2019.
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.
A writing day
What that looks like for writers
Three moments where the notebook does its quiet work.
01
First thing in the morning
Open the draft where you left it, with the research notes linked next to it.
02
Walking around
Record thirty seconds of dialogue on the phone before it evaporates.
03
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 become text, with who said what
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
Questions
Questions Before You Install It
The rest of them live in the help center.
- Will the AI rewrite my work?
- Only if you ask it to. Grape does not touch your text on its own. Chat, summaries and search read your notes, and every edit an AI makes is a normal note change you can roll back through version history.
- Can I work entirely offline?
- Yes. Writing, organising, recording and exporting all work with no connection. Only the AI features need the internet, or a local model if you prefer.
- 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 Sync or 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 cross device sync and built in AI come in.
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.