Kuku: open source.

Kuku

Kuku is a native, local-first AI Markdown workspace for macOS that transforms your notes into a connected knowledge system. Built with Tauri instead of Electron, it combines the speed of native performance with AI-powered search, editing, and linking—all while keeping your data offline and under your control.

Product Highlights

• Native macOS Performance: Built with Tauri for lightning-fast speed, not the sluggishness of Electron apps.
• AI-Powered Vault Intelligence: Search, edit, and link your notes with reviewable, Cursor-style diffs that you control.
• Wikilinks & Graph View: Navigate your thoughts visually with bidirectional linking and interactive graph exploration on plain Markdown files.
• True Offline-First: No cloud required, no vendor lock-in—your notes stay local and yours forever.
• Instant Context Retrieval: Get answers from your entire knowledge base in under a second without losing your train of thought.

Use Cases

• Personal Knowledge Management: Build a second brain that compounds over time, with AI-suggested connections between related ideas.
• Research & Writing: Upload documents for instant AI learning and retrieval, then edit with contextual awareness across your vault.
• Project Planning: Use wikilinks and backlinks to connect meeting notes, requirements, and deliverables in a living document system.
• Secure Note-Taking: Maintain sensitive information completely offline with zero data transmission without explicit permission.

Target Audience

Kuku is designed for macOS power users, researchers, writers, and privacy-conscious professionals who want Obsidian-like linking with modern AI assistance—without sacrificing speed, security, or open-source transparency.