Obsidian — but a lot has changed
Kuku is a truly native, local-first markdown editor for macOS — built with Tauri, not Electron. Notes are stored as plainmd files with wikilinks, backlinks, and graph view. Its AI agent doesn’t just chat — it searches, edits, and links your files, with every change shown as Cursor-style diffs you can review. Fast, lightweight, offline-first. No cloud. No lock-in. Obsidian + Cursor, without Electron.
kuku turns notes into a second brain by making new notes searchable and linkable. AI helps strengthen connections between ideas and surfaces relevant past thinking when needed, all grounded in human-readable Markdown as the source of truth.
kuku's Pro tier offers encrypted sync that carries Markdown, wikilinks, backlinks, graph state, and AI context across devices. Managed sync scales to 100,000+ indexed nodes and maintains one continuous working memory across macOS devices.
kuku is a native macOS Markdown editor that stores plain files locally with no cloud requirement. It is open-source (MIT license), self-hostable, and works offline-first. Users can bring their own Gemini API key or self-host the entire stack.
kuku provides instant context retrieval from notes in under a second with AI-powered search, wikilinks, backlinks, and graph view. Users get answers from past sessions as suggestions and follow-up prompts to keep thinking moving, all running locally on their Mac.
kuku's AI Agent uses Cursor-style inline diffs so users can see and approve every edit before applying it. AI can search the vault, read documents, create links, and apply patches with full visibility and control.