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.

P2P sync

Pair devices, live-sync open files across the LAN, and manage trusted peers.

Live sync keeps open project files aligned across devices without a central cloud. Devices discover each other on the local network (and can use relay paths depending on configuration), pair with a short phrase, then exchange edits.

Configure everything under Preferences → Sync. The footer sync cloud icon jumps there when tapped.

Concepts

Term	Meaning
Pairing	Two devices exchange a 6-word phrase so they trust each other
Trusted peer	A device you have paired with before (may reconnect without re-entering a phrase)
Live sync	Continuous edit sync for the open project
Discovery	Finding peers on the LAN (mDNS)

Sync state for the project is stored under .rope_notes/ (ledger and trust files). Treat that folder as part of the project’s private runtime data.

Typical setup

Open the same project (or a transferred copy) on two devices.
On both: Preferences → Sync → enable discovery / listening as prompted.
Pair using the 6-word phrase shown on one device; enter it on the other (or approve as directed).
Start live sync. For unknown peers, confirm the approval dialog when asked.
Edit on either device; the other should catch up for open, synced files.

Trusted peers can reconnect more smoothly on later sessions.

Approvals

Pairing uses the phrase as proof; you may see a notification rather than a blocking dialog.
Live sync from an unknown peer asks you to approve in the UI (with a timeout).
Session transfer over the network uses the same pairing/trust machinery — see Session transfer.

Good practices

Pair on a network you trust.
Keep only the devices you need in the trusted-peers list.
If sync behaves oddly (duplicated file contents, repeated crashes on edit), stop live sync on all devices, delete the sync ledger files under .rope_notes/ (sync_state.loro and related .bak / .sha256 files) on each peer, then restart and re-pair. Do this only when recovering from corruption.

Platform notes

Available on desktop and mobile builds that include the sync library. Not available on web.