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.
It feels like the base functionality is buggy. While typing, a trailing space is constantly being deleted (by the auto-save?), leading to garbled input.
Not being to enter a single sentence on first launch makes me stop using this immediately.
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@christian_berg2 My apologies. You likely hit a bug from a recent auto-save tweak.
We have already pushed a fix for this. If you update to the latest version, the issue is gone. Sorry for the frustration!
The local-first + offline approach is huge for anyone working from cafés and airports with spotty wifi. Really glad to see Tauri getting real traction for productivity apps — the performance gap vs Electron is immediately noticeable.Quick question: any plans for an iOS companion app down the road? Being able to capture quick notes on the go and have them waiting as .md files when I open my Mac would be the dream workflow.
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@curious_builder While a native iOS app isn't on the immediate roadmap, it is absolutely a feature we've always wanted. Since Tauri supports mobile targets, we are keeping a close eye on it for the future!
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.
Hi, it looks fantastic. I wonder know when to release the version of windows ?