Grape vs InkNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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 - 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
InkNote
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InkNote brings your documents, notes, scans and lecture recordings together in one workspace. WORK WITH YOUR DOCUMENTS • Import PDF, Word, Excel, text and image files. • Draw with Apple Pencil or place typed notes directly on the page. • Save selected passages in My Notes with a link to the source document and page. • Export notes and drawings as PDF. SCAN AND ORGANIZE • Scan several pages in sequence with the camera. • Delete pages, add another scan and reorder pages by dragging. • Apply scan filters to improve document appearance. LECTURE RECORDING AND TRANSCRIPTS • Record audio and convert speech to text. • Edit or copy the transcript. • On supported devices, refine text with Apple’s on-device model. NOTES, TEMPLATES AND PLANNER • Choose lined, grid, dot and youth-focused templates. • Use A3, A4, A5, A6 and A7 page sizes. • Plan with Apple Pencil or keyboard. • Take a short break with daily Sudoku and chess. ACROSS YOUR DEVICES • Enable iCloud sync to keep notes and attachments current across iPhone, iPad and Mac devices signed in to the same Apple account. • Turn syncing off at any time in InkNote settings. InkNote offers an auto-renewable annual subscription. Eligible new subscribers may receive a 3-day free trial. Unless cancelled, the subscription renews at the annual price shown by the App Store after the trial. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple account settings. If the subscription ends, access to view existing notes and export them as PDF remains available. Feature availability may depend on the device, operating-system version, language and system permissions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Grape at none against InkNote's shown. Grape also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Grape sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.00 per month and InkNote sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Grape ships an update every 3 days, InkNote every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grape | InkNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shiny Grape, LLC | TES MED LINK GmbH |
In-app purchases
Grape
- Grape Pro Monthly$19.001 Month
InkNote
- InkNote Annual3 Days trial$9.991 Year









