Grape vs Panoo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Grape
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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 - 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 study tools, widgets and themes. Privacy Policy: https://grape.cool/privacy Terms of Service: https://grape.cool/terms
Panoo
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Panoo turns your notes into something you actually want to look at: colorful paper notes, pinned to a warm cork board. Write a note, choose its paper, its pattern and its pin, then drag it anywhere on the board. It looks like the board above your desk, and that is exactly the point. Notes you can see are notes you remember. A REAL WIDGET, NOT A SCREENSHOT You choose which note goes on your Home Screen. Add several widgets and give each one a different note. Edit the note and the widget updates itself. Small, medium and large on iPhone, plus an extra large size on iPad. IT SYNCS BETWEEN YOUR DEVICES Turn on iCloud sync and your notes and boards move between iPhone and iPad on their own. There is no server of ours in between: the data sits in your own iCloud storage. Leave it off and Panoo keeps working completely offline. YOU BUILD THE BOARD ⢠7 frame designs: plain wood, classic moulding, rope, aluminium, carved and more ⢠16 frame colors and two corner shapes, so hundreds of combinations ⢠15 paper patterns: plain, lined, grid, stripes, zigzag, hearts, stars ⢠12 pins: classic thumbtacks, glass beads, flowers, stars, even a little cat ⢠9 color palettes for your paper ⢠4 fonts, including handwriting ⢠Light and dark theme, both free MORE THAN A PRETTY BOARD ⢠Checklists: ticked items get a line through them, visible right on the board ⢠Mark a finished note as done and spot it on the board at a glance ⢠Reminders: a notification at the exact time you choose ⢠Several boards: keep work, home and shopping apart ⢠Pinch a note to resize it, twist it to any angle ⢠Share any note as an image ⢠Landscape on iPhone, and the whole app rotates on iPad BUILT FOR ⢠Anyone who keeps paper sticky notes on a desk ⢠People who live off shopping lists and to-do lists ⢠Students and workers who want class, meeting and idea notes in plain sight ⢠Anyone who wants a Home Screen worth looking at YOUR NOTES STAY YOURS No account. No sign-up. No ads, not one, in any form. Panoo never sends your notes to a server of ours. With iCloud sync on, the data only goes to the iCloud storage of your own Apple Account. FREE AND PREMIUM Panoo is free to use, and the free version is not crippled: unlimited notes, unlimited boards, unlimited reminders, iCloud sync, light and dark theme, 5 paper patterns, 3 pins, 3 frame designs, 4 frame colors, 2 palettes, 2 fonts and one widget note. Panoo Premium unlocks the rest: every pattern, pin, frame design and frame color, every palette and font, and as many widget notes as you want. Premium is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Pay once and it stays yours; restore it any time on any device signed in to the same Apple Account. SUPPORT Questions and ideas: info@koalstudios.com Privacy Policy: https://koalstudios.com/en/panoo/privacy Terms of Use: https://koalstudios.com/en/panoo/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Grape at daily against Panoo's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Grape sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.00 per month and Panoo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Grape ships an update daily, Panoo every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grape | Panoo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Daily ā better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 ā better | 16.4 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shiny Grape, LLC | KORAY ALAGOZ |
In-app purchases
Grape
- Grape Pro Monthly$19.001 Month
Panoo
- Lifetime Unlock$3.99





