I am building Kynora — a private, offline-first AI workspace for macOS, iPadOS, and iPhone. Chat with a local AI model, or upload documents to build a private knowledge base and get grounded, cited answers — with nothing ever leaving your device.
Cloud AI tools send your conversations and documents to a remote server. Kynora is being built to run the entire pipeline — parse, embed, retrieve, rerank, and generate — on your Mac, iPad, or iPhone.
Chat generation, embeddings, and vector search all run locally using Apple's MLX framework on Apple Silicon, or llama.cpp. LLM inference all run locally. No cloud inference backend. No telemetry from the app.
Talk to an open-source local AI model for everyday questions, drafting, and brainstorming — a private, on-device alternative to cloud chatbots. No documents, no accounts, no internet connection required.
Import PDF, DOCX, TXT, and Markdown files. Kynora chunks, embeds, and indexes them into a private, searchable knowledge base — entirely on your device.
Every answer from your documents traces back to the exact page and passage it came from — so you can verify it yourself instead of trusting a black box.
Once your models are downloaded, Kynora needs no internet connection at all. Airplane mode, no Wi-Fi, a remote cabin — it works identically everywhere.
Group conversations and documents into projects, keep an archive, and generate project-level summaries — all stored on-device.
Kynora is a private AI workspace for anyone who wants the benefits of AI without the cloud AI trade-offs.
If sending private documents or conversations to a cloud AI company feels like a bad trade, this is built for you — a private, on-device AI workspace where local AI models never send anything anywhere.
No cloud AI subscription required. Kynora is designed to run entirely on your own device, so there's no recurring monthly fee just to keep using AI.
Spotty Wi-Fi, a flight, or a fully offline environment — an offline AI assistant that runs locally is designed to work exactly the same with or without a connection.
Contracts, research, financial records, personal notes — a private document AI and local knowledge base is designed to keep everything searchable without any of it leaving your device.
Case files, contracts, and client documents are designed to stay on your device — private AI for lawyers built so nothing needs to leave your Mac, iPad, or iPhone for the sake of attorney-client privilege.
Filings, reports, and NDA-covered material are designed to stay local — ask questions across your financial documents with page citations, without any of it touching a cloud server.
Papers, notes, and unpublished data are designed to stay on your device — a private knowledge base for literature reviews and research, built with data residency in mind.
Turn your notes, readings, and papers into a private study companion — cited answers from your own material, with nothing uploaded to a cloud server.
Keep your research, interviews, and source material organized — designed to help you find any quote or fact in seconds, offline, always.