Comparison

Craft Pulse vs Grape

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Craft Pulse

Quickly capture text notes and checklists from your Apple Watch directly into your Craft documents. This app is designed to help you record thoughts and tasks without interrupting your current activity, offering a seamless integration into your workflow.

Highlights
  • Capture text notes from Apple Watch
  • Add checklists directly
  • Instant synchronization with Craft
  • Live document preview
  • Designed for on-the-go use
  • Integrates with Craft API
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Craft Pulse is the fastest way to capture text into your Craft documents directly from Apple Watch. Type or dictate a note, and it is instantly added to the top of your selected page. The app also displays a live preview of the document, making it easy to confirm that new entries were received successfully. Craft Pulse is designed for moments when opening your iPhone or Mac breaks your flow. Whether you are walking, commuting, in a conversation, or in a meeting, you can quickly record thoughts and tasks without interruption. This lightweight utility works with text and checklists, giving you a flexible way to send ideas, reminders, and todos into your workspace. Notes are transmitted using the Craft API so they remain within your existing workflow.

About

Grape

This AI-powered note-taking app helps you capture, organize, and instantly find information. It understands your notes to search, create, and edit them, supporting rich text, handwriting, voice recordings, and various file types. Study tools like flashcards and mind maps are also included.

Highlights
  • AI-powered note understanding and search
  • Rich text editor with multimedia support
  • Handwriting recognition and PDF annotation
  • Voice recording with AI transcription
  • Flashcard generation and adaptive quizzing
  • Mind map and slide deck creation
  • Cross-device sync and local storage
Features
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Think, write, and organize with AI. Grape is an AI powered note taking app that helps you capture ideas, organize knowledge, and find anything instantly. Unlike a chat app, Grape's AI understands your notes and can search, create, organize, and edit them for you. Whether you are taking meeting notes, studying, planning projects, or collecting ideas, Grape keeps everything in one place. AI that works with your notes - Chat with an AI that understands your whole workspace - Let the AI agent create, edit, move and organize notes for you - Search your notes by meaning, in plain language - Search the web without leaving your notes - Set custom instructions and save quick prompts you reuse - The AI remembers what matters to you across chats - Use Grape AI or bring your own API keys - Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, DeepSeek and more - Run local models with Ollama or LM Studio Capture everything - Rich text editor with headings, lists, highlights and spell check - Checklists and tables - Images, PDFs and audio files inside notes - Voice recordings with AI transcription - Speaker identification for meetings and interviews - Handwriting notebooks with pen, highlighter, rulings and page sizes - Write on PDFs and export a notebook as PDF - Handwriting that is searchable and readable by the AI - Drawing canvas - Links between notes and backlinks - Tags Study smarter - Generate flashcards from any note - Quiz yourself with adaptive difficulty - Build mind maps - Present a note as a slide deck - Make flashcards, quizzes, mind maps and slides by hand on any plan - Lay a note out as a shareable infographic - Watch a note as a short brainrot video - Summarize, extract key points and translate Stay organized - Folders and unlimited subfolders - Sort and group notes your way - Graph view - Pin important notes - Version history - Automatic backups - Templates with dynamic variables - Find text inside notes - Recover deleted notes Capture from anywhere - Share text, links and files to Grape from other apps - Home screen widgets for quick capture and recent notes - Clip web pages from Chrome - Import from Apple Notes and Markdown files - Desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux Make it yours - 24 themes plus light and dark mode - Accent colors - Your language and date format Your data stays yours - Local first storage, works offline - Cross device sync - Export as Markdown, HTML and PDF - No account required to get started Whether you are a student, developer, researcher, writer, or professional, Grape helps you think faster, remember more, and stay organized. Grape is free to use with unlimited notes. Grape Pro adds Grape AI, sync, voice transcription, the AI study tools, widgets and themes. Privacy Policy: https://grape.cool/privacy Terms of Service: https://grape.cool/terms

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Craft Pulse at none against Grape's 3. Grape's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Grape sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.00 per month. Craft Pulse asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Craft Pulse against 5.0 for Grape. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Craft Pulse ships an update every 7 months, Grape every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Craft Pulse versus Grape: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCraft PulseGrape
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFTRBND, LLCShiny Grape, LLC

Customer experience

Craft Pulse

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Grape

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Craft Pulse

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Grape

Subscriptions3
  • Grape Sync Monthly$3.001 Month
  • Grape Plus Monthly$9.001 Month
  • Grape Pro Monthly$19.001 Month

Questions

Is Craft Pulse free?
Craft Pulse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Grape free?
Grape is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Craft Pulse or Grape?
Craft Pulse and Grape are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Craft Pulse or Grape have ads?
Neither Craft Pulse nor Grape shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Craft Pulse or Grape?
Craft Pulse ships an update every 7 months, and Grape every 3 days. Most recently, Craft Pulse was updated on October 30, 2026 and Grape on November 5, 2026.

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