Rope Notes is an offline-first, local-network agentic workspace built for high-performance engineering. It runs a dedicated LSP client on-device and routes AI context pipelines over secure LAN/WAN to your private infrastructure.

Is Rope Notes a privacy focused IDE?

Yes, Rope Notes is built for air-gapped privacy. It never sends your source files through public cloud aggregators. All processing stays on-device or on your private network infrastructure.

Does Rope Notes support local LLM agents?

Yes, Rope Notes routes agentic prompt matrices to localized private server nodes including Ollama, vLLM, and private endpoints for complete data sovereignty.

Is Rope Notes available as a Mobile Dart IDE?

Yes, Rope Notes is built with Dart and targets mobile platforms, functioning as a Mobile Dart IDE that operates seamlessly across devices with a locked 60/120 FPS UI.

How does Rope Notes pricing work?

Rope Notes has $35 pricing for a lifetime license for the first 100 customers. After 100 licenses are sold, the price will increase to $50. After reaching 10,000 customers, the software will be completely open-sourced.

Language server

Dart analysis, Problems panel, Quick Fix, and desktop vs Android backends.

Rope Notes can analyze Dart code for errors, warnings, completions, hover info, and go-to-definition. Results appear in the editor and the Problems panel.

Enable and configure

Open Preferences → Language server (LSP / analyzer).
Turn analysis on and choose a backend when offered:
- Process — runs the Dart analysis server (typical on desktop).
- Isolate — runs analysis inside the app (typical on Android).
Optionally set a custom SDK path or remote LSP URL if you use advanced setups.

Status (connecting / ready / error) is reflected in the Problems UI.

Using diagnostics

Squiggles and gutter marks appear on open Dart files.
Open Problems (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+M) for a project-wide list.
Filter by message or filename; expand or collapse file groups.
Right-click a problem and choose a Quick Fix when available.

Closing a file clears its diagnostics when the server does not send an empty update.

Android notes

On Android, Rope Notes can use a bundled Dart/Flutter analysis environment so you get IDE-like feedback without a full desktop SDK install. First-time setup may download or extract SDK pieces; keep the device online for that step. After session transfer imports that rewrite package config, analysis restarts automatically so it picks up the new layout.

Limits

Analysis targets Dart (.dart files). Other languages may still have syntax highlighting without full LSP support.
Web builds do not run the language server.
Very large workspaces may take longer for a full workspace analysis on mobile.