Grape for developers Write down how you fixed it. Find it next time it breaks.
Runbooks, architecture decisions and the fix you worked out at midnight, in a local library you can search by meaning and keep offline.
Local SQLite. Offline by default. Bring your own model, or run one on localhost.
Semantic search
Find it by meaning, not by memory.
Describe a service the way you remember it and the right note comes back. No naming convention to keep up with across a pile of runbooks and notes, and no scrolling through debugging sessions and design discussions you filed months ago.
No naming convention to keep up
Your filing can be a mess. Search reads what the note is about.
Best match first
Results are ranked by how close they are to what you described.
Folders and tags when you want them
Structure helps, it is just no longer the only way back to a note.
AI agent
Ask your notes. Get an answer.
Ask a pile of runbooks and notes a question in plain language and get the answer with the note it came from, so at midnight when something breaks you are reading your own words instead of hunting for them. The agent can file, tag and tidy while it is in there.
Summaries from your own words
A week of meeting notes becomes three bullet points you can send on.
Tidying stops being your job
Ask it to file the loose notes into folders and add the tags you already use.
Web search in the same chat
When the answer is not in your notes, it can look it up and write it in.
MCP server
Open ChatGPT or Claude. Your notes are already there.
Ask ChatGPT or Claude about a service and it answers from a pile of runbooks and notes. Connect Grape once and the AI app you already use can search your notes, read the ones it needs and save what it writes as a new note, on every device.
Connect it once
Add Grape in ChatGPT or Claude, sign in on grape.cool and choose Allow. That is the whole setup.
Ask where you already are
It searches your notes, reads the ones it needs and answers from what you actually wrote.
Keep the answer as a note
Ask it to save the plan and it lands in the folder you name, on every device you use.
Memory
Tell it once. It remembers.
Most developers explain the same things to every new chat. Say once what you work on and how you want a pile of runbooks and notes written up, and the agent keeps it for every chat after, in a list you can read and edit.
Facts caught on the way past
Say you run a bakery while asking about customers. The bakery is kept and the question is answered.
Read it, fix it, delete it
The whole list lives in Settings under Personalization, as sentences rather than a black box.
Forget is a real command
Say forget that in the chat and the memory is deleted, not hidden.
Voice recording and transcription
Say it out loud. Keep it in writing.
Record debugging sessions and design discussions straight into a note and Grape turns them into text you can search, quote and question, usually before you are back at your desk. On Pro it also says who said what.
Capture on the move
Talk into your phone on the walk back and read it at your desk.
Transcript and notes together
Your own scribbles sit above the transcript, in the same note.
Searchable the moment it lands
An hour of audio becomes text you can find six months later.
Who said what
Split a meeting by speaker, type in the names, and it reads like the conversation it was.
Audio from anywhere else
Drop in a recording you made elsewhere and it gets the same transcript.
Ask the transcript questions
Pull the decisions and the follow ups out of an hour of talking.
Drawing canvas
Draw the part words cannot carry.
Some of a pile of runbooks and notes is not sentences. Put a service on an infinite canvas inside the note, right next to the writing that explains it.
Diagrams without a second app
Boxes and arrows are two clicks away instead of a context switch.
Sketch, then explain underneath
The caption you write is what makes the drawing findable later.
Draw with a pencil in hand
Rough it out on the phone, tidy it up at the desk.
Find out what you have really been writing about.
Graph view
See the whole library at once.
See every note you have written about a service and the ones you forgot were connected. Most developers find a theme running through a pile of runbooks and notes that they never filed as one.
Connections you did not plan
Two notes from different months turn out to be about the same thing.
Links do the work
Link note to note as you write and the map fills itself in.
Where your attention went
Note stats show what you have actually been writing about.
Web clipper for Chrome
Clip the page. Keep it as a note.
A page worth keeping goes into Grape as a note, with the images and the source line, filed next to a pile of runbooks and notes. Ask it questions later the way you would ask anything else you wrote.
1Clip it where you are reading
2It is filed before you switch windows
Three ways to take a page
The readable article, only the part you highlighted, or just the title and the link.
Filed before it lands
Pick the folder and the tags in the panel, or set a default once and never see it again.
The pictures come too
Grape downloads every image into the note, so it reads offline and after the page is gone.
// usage
What that looks like for developers
Three points in a sprint where the tool earns its slot.
Debugging
Write the symptom, the theory and the fix in one note, with the log you kept attached.
Architecture review
Record the conversation and keep the decision log next to the diagram.
New project
Keep the setup steps in a runbook that actually gets found again.
// also
The Rest of the Feature Set
Everything here is in the current release. No roadmap items.
Bring your own AI, or use ours
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Ollama, LM Studio and more.
Work with no wifi and no worry
Your notes live in a database on your device. You choose where the file sits.
Your prompts, one keystroke away
Save the instructions you use constantly and run them on any note.
Pick up where you left off
Notes, drawings, decks, tags, chats and settings stay in step across devices.
Keep the sketch in the note it belongs to
An infinite canvas inside the note for diagrams, wireframes and rough thinking.
Answers that need the web, in the same chat
Grape can search the internet and drop what it finds into the note.
Keep the PDF next to your notes on it
Drop PDFs into a note and write alongside. Search and the AI read what they say.
A daily backup you never have to remember
Made automatically on the device you use and kept for thirty days.
Connect a note to the notes around it
Link note to note, then see the whole web in graph view.
Find things in three keystrokes
Nested folders, drag and drop, hashtags with autocomplete and pinned notes.
Move in from your old app in one go
Import Apple Notes, Evernote, or a folder of Markdown, with the structure intact.
Write without fighting the editor
Tables, checklists, images, files and slash commands for the rest.
Own the file, not a subscription to your own words
No lock in. The database is yours, on disk, from day one.
// comparison
grep, a chat window and Grape
grep finds the string. A chat model guesses the fix. Grape finds the note where you already fixed it, and the model runs on your key or your machine.
| A notes app | A chat assistant | Grape | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keeps every note in one place | |||
| Answers a question from your own notes | Only what you paste in | ||
| Points back to the note the answer came from | |||
| Records and transcribes, by speaker | Audio only, no text | ||
| Turns a note into flashcards, a quiz or a deck | If you paste it in | ||
| Works offline | |||
| A file on your disk you can take anywhere | Export, if the app allows it | ||
| Free to start |
// platforms
Desktop for the Work, Phone for the Pager
Mac, Windows and Linux for the long sessions. iPhone and Android for the fix you thought of on the way home.
Mac, Windows and Linux
The full workspace
Sidebar, editor, chat, drawing canvas and search in one window. This is where the long work happens: writing up, cleaning up and asking bigger questions of everything you have collected.
Keyboard shortcuts for everything you do often
A local database you can point wherever you like
A Chrome extension that clips pages straight into it
iPhone and Android
Capture in ten seconds
Open the app, talk or type, done. Recording, chat and search sit one tap from the note list, so the thought gets saved while you still have it.
Record and transcribe on the move
Grape in the share sheet, for pages and files from other apps
The same notes you left open on your desk
Install it on everything you write on. Free, and no account needed.
Get the apps // pricing
Free Tier, No Expiry, No Seat Count
Notes, snippets, recording and export cost nothing. The paid plans add the AI and sync, or bring your own key.
- Unlimited notes, folders and tags
- Rich editor and drawing canvas
- Voice recording
- Flashcards and quizzes by hand
- Locked notes, end-to-end encrypted
- A local database you own
- Everything in Free
- Cross device sync
- Share folders and notes
- 10 GB of attachment storage
- Daily backups and history on device
- Grape AI not included
- Everything in Sync
- Grape AI built in, no keys
- AI chat, agent, memory and web search
- Voice transcription
- 50 GB of attachment storage
- Best AI model not included
- Everything in Plus
- Grape AI on the best model
- Twice the AI allowance of Plus
- Speaker identification
- AI images generated in the chat
- 100 GB of attachment storage
| Notes, on every plan | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unlimited notes, folders and tags | ||||
| Voice recording | ||||
| Sync, backups and support | ||||
| Cross device sync | ||||
| Share folders and notes | ||||
| Attachment storage | 10 GB | 50 GB | 100 GB | |
| AI, widgets and themes | ||||
| Grape AI built in, no keys to manage | ||||
| AI chat about your notes | ||||
| Voice transcription | ||||
| Grape AI on the best model | ||||
| AI images generated in the chat |
- Everything in Free
- Cross device sync through your Dropbox or Google Drive
- Bring your own AI keys
- AI chat, agent, memory and web search
- Voice transcription
- AI flashcards, quizzes and mind maps
- Sharing and live typing not included
- Grape AI not included
You write a lot and do not want to pay
Free. Unlimited notes, folders, tags, recording and drawing, plus flashcards and quizzes you write yourself, with no account and no trial clock.
You want your notes on every device, and no AI
Sync. Notes and attachments stay in step between your laptop and your phone, folders can be shared with the people you work with, and each device keeps its own backups and version history, for less than a coffee a month.
You want the AI to just work on every device
Plus. Grape AI is included, so there are no keys to manage, and sync keeps your laptop and phone in step.
You lean on the AI every day
Pro. The best Grape AI model with twice the allowance, plus speaker identification, Brainrot videos, routines, live typing and the pictures Grape draws for your decks and chats.
You already pay for an AI provider
Lifetime. One payment and your own keys for AI chat, the agent, search, transcription, memory, flashcards, quizzes, mind maps, slide decks, mini apps, infographics and AI images, plus the widgets and the themes. Your devices sync through your own Dropbox or Google Drive, and sharing and Grape AI stay with Plus and Pro.
Every plan keeps your notes in a local database on your own device. Stop paying and your writing stays exactly where it is.
// quickstart
Six Steps, About Ten Minutes
No workspace to configure. Install, point it at a folder of Markdown, ask it how you fixed the pool timeout.
- 01
Download and open it
No account, no setup wizard, no workspace to design first. Choose where your notes live and start typing. - 02
Bring your old notes across
Import from Apple Notes or Evernote, point Grape at a folder of Markdown files, or drag in the PDFs you keep reopening. - 03
Put everything in one place
Type, paste, record, attach, clip a page from Chrome or share one from your phone. Folders and tags are there when you want them and out of the way when you do not. - 04
Ask instead of scrolling
Open the agent and ask a question about your own notes. The answer comes back with the note it came from. - 05
Turn notes into the thing you needed
A summary, a deck of flashcards, a quiz, a mind map, or a clean export to send to somebody else. - 06
Put it on your other devices
Turn on sync and the same library shows up on your phone, while each device keeps its own daily backup.
// faq
What Developers Ask Before Installing
Local models, Markdown fidelity and the data file first. Where something is missing, the answer says so.
// docs
Short Guides to the Setup
Installing, importing Markdown, pointing the app at Ollama, syncing and backups.
5 min read
Free, Sync, Plus, Pro or Lifetime
What each plan includes and which one fits how you work.
Read the guide
2 min read
Install Grape on iPhone, iPad and Android
Where to get the mobile app on each platform, and what the first open looks like.
Read the guide
2 min read
Install Grape on Windows, Mac and Linux
Which build to pick for your computer, what the first launch looks like, and how updates arrive.
Read the guide
// blog
Longer Posts on Notes and Building the App
On local first storage, models and how Grape itself gets built.
October 14, 2026
The Best Obsidian Alternatives in 2026
Ten apps to move an Obsidian vault to, picked by why you want to leave, and what each one does to your links and properties.
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September 24, 2026
The Best Evernote Alternatives in 2026
Seven apps to move your Evernote notes to, compared on price, platforms, offline use, AI and what happens to an .enex file.
Read the post
September 18, 2026
The Best AI Note Taking App for Mac
Five tests to run on any Mac notes app in an afternoon: search by meaning, ask across notes, record a call, keep the notes local.
Read the post
// changelog
Release Notes by Email
One message when something ships. No marketing.
Find it next time it breaks.
Runbooks, architecture decisions and the fix you worked out at midnight, in a local library you can search by meaning and keep offline.
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