AI notes for Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Android Take the note. Grape does the rest.
Record the meeting, dump the idea, sketch the thing you cannot explain yet. Then ask your own notes a question and get an answer instead of a list of search results.
Free to start. Works offline. Your notes stay on your device.
Results
Three things that stop being a problem
Feature lists are easy to write and hard to care about. This is what actually changes in the week.
You wrote it down. You still cannot find it.
Stop hunting for the note you know you wrote
Search by what you meant. The half remembered line comes back in about a second, even when you never used those words.
You typed through the meeting and missed half of it.
Leave the room with the notes already finished
Hit record, keep talking, and the transcript is sitting in the note before the next thing on your calendar starts.
A year of notes, and nothing to show for them but a folder.
Get something usable out of what you already wrote
Ask for a summary, a checklist or a set of flashcards and it comes back built from your notes, not from the internet.
AI agent
Ask your notes. Get an answer.
Grape has an agent, not just a chat box. It reads the workspace you already built, answers with the line you wrote, and carries out the tidying you ask for.
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.
Memory
Tell it once. It remembers.
The agent keeps a short list of lasting facts about you: your name, your job, the thing you are building, how you like your notes written. It reads that list in every chat, so you stop introducing yourself to your own notes.
- 1
Facts caught on the way past
Say you run a bakery while asking about customers. The bakery is kept and the question is answered. - 2
Read it, fix it, delete it
The whole list lives in Settings under Personalization, as sentences rather than a black box. - 3
Forget is a real command
Say forget that in the chat and the memory is deleted, not hidden.
Search the way you remember it, not the way you filed it.
Semantic search
Find it by meaning, not by memory.
Every note is indexed as you write it. Search for the pricing thing we argued about and the right note comes back, even though none of those words are on the page.
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.
Voice recording and transcription
Say it out loud. Keep it in writing.
Record straight into a note on your laptop or your phone. Grape transcribes it, so an hour of talking ends up as text you can search, quote and ask questions about, and on Pro it tells the speakers apart, so a meeting reads back as 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.
Flashcards
Revise without making the cards.
Turn any note into a deck and review it inside the app. The cards come from your own material, so you are drilling the version you were actually taught.
The slow part is done for you
Writing the cards is what stops most people revising. Not anymore.
Ten minutes is enough
Short review sessions on the phone beat one long night before the exam.
Straight from your notes
No stranger on the internet deciding what matters in your course.
Adaptive quizzes
Find the gaps before somebody else does.
Grape writes a quiz from your note and adjusts to how you answer, so the questions get harder where you are solid and stay on the parts you keep missing.
Reading is not knowing
A quiz shows you the difference in about two minutes.
Targets the weak spots
Answers you miss come back around, the ones you know do not.
One note, one quiz
No question bank to build and no separate app to keep in sync.
Ten questions, not a hundred
Short enough to run before a lecture, long enough to tell you something.
Practice in a queue
The quiz is on your phone, so five spare minutes becomes revision.
Straight back to the note
Every question points at the line it came from, so you can go and reread it.
Mind maps
See how one topic hangs together.
Grape turns a note into a map of its own ideas, so a wall of text becomes branches you can follow. Useful when you are revising, and useful when you are still working out what you think.
Structure you cannot see in prose
Long notes hide their shape. A map puts it back on the surface.
Revision that is not rereading
Walking a map is a different pass over the same material.
Built from your note, not a template
The branches come from what you wrote, in your own words.
Brainrot videos
The note, as a video you cannot skip.
Grape writes a short script from the note, has a voice read it out and burns the captions over a gameplay clip, word by word. Under a minute of the format that holds attention, made from the material you actually have to know.
The format that gets watched
Vertical video, a voice narrating, captions landing on the beat.
Pick the voice and the world
Six voices over forty clips, so two notes never make the same video.
Captions with a look
Twenty one caption styles, from TikTok classic to neon to retro VHS.
The script is your note
Written from what you wrote, so the video teaches your material.
Under a minute
Long enough to cover a topic, short enough to actually watch twice.
Saved in the note it came from
The finished video sits with the writing, ready to replay or send on.
Infographics
The note, redrawn as a poster.
Grape reads the note, plans a layout and has an image model draw it: the title at the top, your sections as panels, the numbers as a chart. One picture that says what the note says, ready to insert back in or export to share.
A style for the audience
Corporate for the deck, hand drawn for the class, dark for the feed.
The shape the channel needs
A tall scroll for a phone, a landscape for a slide, a square for a post.
Made to leave the app
Export the poster and hand it to someone who will never read the note.
Slide decks
The note, ready to present.
Grape reads the note and writes the deck: a title slide, a section for each turn the note takes, bullets that are fragments rather than sentences, and a closing slide with the three things to remember. Six templates, pictures drawn for the slides that suit one, edit any word on the slide itself, then present it full screen or export it as a PDF.
Written in the order you would say it
A title, sections where the note changes subject, and a closing slide of takeaways.
Edit on the slide, not in a form
Double click a line to rewrite it, drag a part to move it, hide what does not belong.
Pictures where they help
Grape draws a picture for the slides that suit one and leaves a quote alone.
Graph view
See the whole library at once.
Graph view maps every note and the links between them. It is the wide shot: the place where you notice you have written about the same thing five times in three different folders.
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.
Sketch the thing you cannot put into a sentence yet.
Drawing canvas
Draw the part words cannot carry.
Some thinking is spatial. Grape has an infinite canvas that lives inside a note, so the sketch and the writing about it never end up in two different apps.
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.
Handwriting notes
Write it by hand. Ask it like text.
A handwriting note is a notebook of ruled pages for an Apple Pencil, and the writing on them is read back into words on the device itself, so a page you wrote in a lecture turns up in search and the agent can quote it.
Paper that behaves like paper
Pen, highlighter, eraser, shapes and text boxes on pages that stack the way a notebook does.
Your handwriting, searchable
The words are read off the page on the device itself, and nothing leaves it to do so.
The agent reads your pages
Ask what the lecture said on Tuesday and the answer comes from the ink.
Write on the slides
Import a PDF and annotate it page by page, then export the lot back out as one.
Page forty is a tap away
A navigator shows the whole notebook as thumbnails, with a page added or removed from there.
Open the notebook at the desk
The pages sync like any note and open in the desktop app, where you can add to them.
Themes
Paint the app the way you like it.
A theme repaints the whole app: the page, the panels, the editor, the drawings and the paper of a handwriting note. Twenty-four come with the Pro and Lifetime plans, twelve light and twelve dark, and the pair you pick follows you to every device.
The palettes you already know
Nord, Dracula, Solarized, Catppuccin, Gruvbox, Rosé Pine, GitHub, One, Ayu, Everforest, Flexoki and Monokai, mapped onto every part of the app.
Paper, for long afternoons
A warm, low contrast page for reading and writing for hours without the glare of a white screen.
Midnight, for the small hours
True black, so an OLED screen switches its pixels off and the note is the only thing lit.
Web clipper for Chrome
Clip the page. Keep it as a note.
A Chrome extension that saves the page you are reading straight into the desktop app. The article arrives as a clean note with the ads gone, the images downloaded and a line under the title saying where it came from.
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.
Share sheet
Share it to Grape. It is a note now.
Grape sits in the share sheet on iPhone and Android. Send a page from Safari, a link from another app, or a photo, PDF or recording, and it lands as a note with the source written under the title.
1A page in Safari
2Two taps to share it
3A note in Grape
Two taps from Safari
Tap share, tap Grape, tap Save. The page is a note before you are back in the browser.
See the note before it exists
The title and the body sit in fields you can correct, and what is there when you press Save is the note.
Filed on the way in
Choose the folder from the sheet, or skip it and find the page in your default folder.
Locked notes
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.
Sealed before it leaves
The note is encrypted on your laptop or phone with AES-256 and a key stretched from your password. The password never leaves the device.
A recovery key, once
Grape cannot reset a locked notes password, because it never has it. You get a recovery key when you set it, and that 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, when the phone goes to the background, or when you say so.
Features
Everything Else It Does
Everything below is in the app today. Nothing here is a roadmap item.
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, page through them and write alongside.
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, 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.
Side by side
Next to What You Use Now
A notes app keeps things and a chat assistant answers things. Grape does both, from the notes you already have.
| 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 |
Desktop and mobile
The Same Notes at Your Desk and on the Train
Grape is a real desktop app and a real mobile app. One library, two ways of holding it.
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 In practice
What that looks like on a normal day
A few moments in a normal week where the app earns its place.
The call you could not write during
Record it, let the transcript land in the note, then ask for the three things you agreed to.
The idea at the bus stop
Open the phone, talk for forty seconds, and find it waiting on your laptop when you sit down.
The thing you definitely wrote down once
Describe it in your own words in search and let meaning matching do the remembering.
The pile that never got sorted
Ask the agent to file the loose notes into folders and tag them, then check its work.
The chapter you have to know by Friday
Turn the note into a deck and a quiz, and find out what you actually retained.
The project you picked back up
Ask what you had already decided and get the answer with the note attached.
Pricing
Free Is Not a Trial
Write as much as you like without paying anything. The paid plans add the AI and the syncing.
- 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
- Locked notes, end-to-end encrypted
- A local database you own
- Everything in Free
- Cross device sync
- Attachments synced
- 10 GB of attachment storage
- Version history and daily backups
- Import and export
- Priority support
- Grape AI not included
- AI chat, search and transcription not included
- ChatGPT and Claude connection not included
- Widgets and themes not included
- Everything in Free
- Grape AI built in, no keys
- AI chat, agent, memory and web search
- Connect ChatGPT and Claude
- Semantic search
- Voice transcription
- Speaker identification
- Flashcards, quizzes and mind maps
- Slide decks with AI pictures
- AI images generated in the chat
- Brainrot videos and infographics
- Cross device sync
- 100 GB of attachment storage
- Version history and daily backups
- Import and export
- Home screen widgets on iPhone
- Twenty-four themes
- Priority support
| 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 | |||
| Locked notes, end-to-end encrypted | |||
| Sync, backups and support | |||
| Cross device sync | |||
| Attachments synced | |||
| Attachment storage | 10 GB | 100 GB | |
| Version history | |||
| Daily backups | |||
| Import from Apple Notes and Markdown | |||
| Export as Markdown, HTML or PDF | |||
| Priority support | |||
| AI, widgets and themes | |||
| Grape AI built in, no keys to manage | |||
| Bring your own AI keys | |||
| AI chat about your notes | |||
| Agent that reads and edits notes | |||
| Connect ChatGPT and Claude | |||
| Semantic search | |||
| AI web search | |||
| Voice transcription | |||
| Memory and personalization | |||
| Speaker identification | |||
| Flashcards, quizzes and mind maps | |||
| Slide decks with AI pictures | |||
| AI images generated in the chat | |||
| Brainrot videos | |||
| Infographic posters | |||
| Home screen widgets on iPhone | |||
| Twenty-four themes |
- Everything in Free
- Version history and daily backups
- Import and export
- Bring your own AI keys
- AI chat, agent, memory and web search
- Semantic search
- Voice transcription
- Flashcards, quizzes and mind maps
- Slide decks
- AI images with your own image model
- Infographics with your own image model
- Home screen widgets on iPhone
- Twenty-four themes
- Priority support
- Cross device sync not included
- Grape AI not included
- ChatGPT and Claude connection not included
- Speaker identification not included
- Brainrot videos not included
You write a lot and do not want to pay
Free. Unlimited notes, folders, tags, recording and drawing, 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, with version history, backups, import and export, for less than a coffee a month.
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, transcription, memory, flashcards, quizzes, mind maps, slide decks, infographics and AI images, plus the widgets and the themes. Sync and Grape AI stay with Pro.
Every plan keeps your notes in a local database on your own device. Stop paying and your writing stays exactly where it is.
How to use it
Six Steps, About Ten Minutes
This is the whole onboarding. There is no workspace to design before you are allowed to write something.
- 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, 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
The Questions People Ask Before Downloading
No marketing hedging. If something is not in the app yet, these answers say so.
Help center
Short Guides for Getting Set Up
Installing, importing, turning on the AI, syncing and backing up, in a few minutes each.
5 min read
Connect ChatGPT, Claude or another AI app to Grape
Let an AI app you already use read and write the notes in your Grape account, what it can and cannot do, and how to disconnect it.
Read the guide
4 min read
Lock a note
Encrypt a note with a password only you know, what a locked note can hold, and how the recovery key gets you back in.
Read the guide
2 min read
Check how much AI you have used
Where the usage dialog lives, what the bars mean, and when your allowance resets.
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Blog
Writing About Notes, AI and the App
Longer pieces about note taking, working with AI and how Grape gets built.
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.
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September 11, 2026
Bear Alternative for Students
Bear costs less than Grape and is a fine place to type a lecture. What it will not do is anything with the note after class.
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September 10, 2026
NotebookLM Alternative for Students
NotebookLM reads the PDFs your professor uploaded. Grape holds the note you took in the lecture, and turns that into revision.
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