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.
Only if this was available on Windows and Linux without the AI then it could be an alternative to obsidian, for now it's just another AI slop product. The whole reason for having local-first files is privacy and freedom from the AI slop.
End users don't care what tech you use, if you want to brand yourselves as an obsidian alternative then please remove the AI slop features or make them opt-in like how obsidian does with plugins.
Edit: Because of the AI slop features it costs a lot ($12-$120 a month/yearly) unlike obsidian which is free and comes without the AI slop.
Have the similar idea, something similar i had found : https://github.com/brianpetro/obsidian-smart-connections
it also add link automatically, what's the performance difference we have here by having a standalone application vs a obsidian plugin?
Wow, I was just thinking like two days ago that I'd love a notes app that was like if Obsidian and Cursor had a baby so I'm super excited to try this!
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@lexllewellyn That is exactly the spec! Local-first foundation (Obsidian) + AI pair-programmer (Cursor). Hope it compiles perfectly with your workflow!
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@lexllewellyn Love that 😄 And yeah… feels like ChatGPT, Firecrawl, LangChain, and mem0 might be joining the family soon too. Stay tuned!
I'm using Obsidian now, but i need to change!
I love the feature to make a table easily like notion.
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@highlightyourproduct Markdown tables are notoriously painful to edit manually. We really wanted to bring that "Notion-smooth" UI to local text files. Happy to have you onboard!
@mansuiki @bigmacfive I straight up ditched Obsidian. What an insane app! The aesthetics are crazy. And that performance thing you mentioned, since I’m a dev, I’m always chasing the most optimized apps possible on my Mac. I loved it, bro. Best MD files app I’ve ever used.
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@cruzgiovanni Really appreciate the support and the kind words. We’ve made it open source, and we’re now preparing for the 1.0 launch. If anything comes up while using it, please reach out.
@mansuiki Excellent!! really looking forward to 1.0 🚀
Hi, it looks fantastic. I wonder know when to release the version of windows ?
why without Electron is being highlighted here?