Turn your notes, readings, and papers into a private AI knowledge base — cited answers from your own material, with nothing uploaded to a cloud server.
Pasting your notes and drafts into a cloud chatbot has real, easy-to-miss downsides.
Uploaded drafts, unpublished writing, and personal notes can be retained or used to improve a cloud provider's models, depending on the plan and settings.
Many schools and universities now log or restrict which AI tools can be used with institutional accounts. Cloud usage is far easier to flag than on-device usage.
Cloud chat tools blur the line between summarizing your own notes and generating content to submit as your own — a real academic integrity risk worth avoiding entirely.
Libraries with weak Wi-Fi, exam halls, flights home for break, dorms with spotty connections — cloud AI simply isn't there when you actually need to study.
Kynora keeps every note, reading, and draft on your device — and every answer traceable to a source.
Kynora has no backend server. Your notes and readings are indexed and searched entirely on your Mac, iPad, or iPhone — there is nowhere for the data to go.
Every answer cites the source passage and page, so you end up checking the original material — not blindly trusting an AI's summary of it.
Import lecture notes, slides, and readings once. Ask questions across all of it instead of re-reading everything linearly before an exam.
Library, dorm, lecture hall, flight home for break — your entire knowledge base works without any internet connection.
Scanned course packets and handwritten notes become searchable, queryable text using Apple's Vision framework OCR — entirely on-device.
From exam prep to thesis research — on your device, without the privacy trade-off.
Import all your lecture notes and readings, then ask "what did we cover about X" and get a cited answer instead of re-reading everything from scratch.
Ask cross-document questions across assigned papers and readings. See our guide for researchers for the deeper version of this workflow.
Build a knowledge base from group research material without scattering sensitive drafts across cloud chat histories.
Ask questions across draft chapters and source material without uploading unpublished work anywhere.
Kynora is designed so no document data or queries leave your device during use. No network calls are made during document processing, embedding, search, or generation. See our full guide on using AI for school without the cloud.
Informational purposes only. Kynora is a tool for studying and organizing your own notes, readings, and drafts — it is not designed or intended to generate work for you to submit as your own. Academic integrity policies vary by institution and course; check your school's specific rules on AI use before relying on any AI tool for coursework. Features described reflect current product functionality and may evolve over time.
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