Comparison

Echologue vs Grape

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

Head to head
About

Echologue

Features
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Echologue: A Private Voice Journal You Can Ask Later Most journals are great for capture and terrible for retrieval. Echologue turns raw voice notes and daily entries into a structured memory you can actually ask about later. CAPTURE Use voice when typing is too much friction. Record what happened, who was there, how it felt, and the small thoughts you don't want to lose. Echologue handles the structuring. ASK YOUR HISTORY Entries become retrievable memory instead of dead text. Ask about a person, trip, mood, or time period and get an answer grounded entirely in what you actually recorded: * "What were the highlights of my trip in Barcelona?" * "How do I usually feel around this person?" * "What small insights keep coming back?" FACTS + FEELINGS Echologue separates objective facts from your emotional states, extracts people and themes, and indexes entries. By keeping what happened and how you felt distinct, your recall stays trustworthy instead of vague. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ 100% LOCAL-FIRST PRIVACY Your personal archive shouldn't be a cloud database. * On-Device Storage: Your journal history, semantic memory, and profiles live exclusively on your device's local database. * Zero-Retention AI: When AI helps structure an entry or answer a question, the processing is strictly ephemeral. Data is sent securely for processing and deleted immediately. It is never logged or used for training. Total Portability: You own your data. Export to JSON/CSV, or wipe your archive completely at any time. No account required.

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
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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

Screenshots

Echologue4 screens
Grape4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Grape at every 3 days against Echologue's every 2 weeks. Echologue's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Echologue sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month and Grape sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Echologue ships an update every 2 weeks, Grape every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Echologue versus Grape: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEchologueGrape
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperReformic OUShiny Grape, LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Echologue

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Montly$6.991 Month
3 purchases

Grape

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

Questions

Is Echologue free?
Echologue is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Grape free?
Grape is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Echologue or Grape have ads?
Neither Echologue nor Grape shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Echologue or Grape?
Echologue ships an update every 2 weeks, and Grape every 3 days. Most recently, Echologue was updated on October 25, 2026 and Grape on October 28, 2026.

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