Hello — I'm Junichi, and I made Kosshi.
A few years ago I was writing a technical book and noticed that sketching the structure first made the writing go much more smoothly. Around the same time I was juggling several personal projects, with information drifting apart across different tools, and I started to want an outliner of my own.
What I was after was something that worked the same way on Mac and iPhone, could place images alongside text, and kept its data on my own devices. I couldn't find it, so I made one. That's Kosshi.
It's a native Mac and iOS app, with a rendering engine written from scratch, designed to stay smooth even with large outlines. Sync is over iCloud — no account, no server I run; your data lives only on your devices and in your iCloud.
If you live in an outliner, I'd love to hear what you find.
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feels like a very honest builder story, you needed a calm, private outliner that worked the same way across Mac and iPhone, so you made one.I like the no-account/no-server approach. Outlines often hold unfinished thinking, not just polished notes.what was harder to get right: performance with large image-heavy outlines, or keeping the experience simple across both Mac and iOS?
Kosshi
feels like a very honest builder story, you needed a calm, private outliner that worked the same way across Mac and iPhone, so you made one.I like the no-account/no-server approach. Outlines often hold unfinished thinking, not just polished notes.what was harder to get right: performance with large image-heavy outlines, or keeping the experience simple across both Mac and iOS?