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.
Products used by kuku
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Engineering & Development 3
Engineering & Development 3
GStackUse Garry Tan's exact Claude Code setup
5.0 (1 review)
Huge shoutout to the tools and communities that shaped our taste here: Obsidian for local-first linked thinking, Cursor for reviewable AI edits, Mem0/OpenMemory for the memory-layer idea, GBrain for pushing the “AI second brain” direction, and the Tauri/SolidJS/ProseMirror communities for making fast, hackable desktop software possible.
ZedThe Fastest AI Code Editor
5.0 (40 reviews)
Shoutout to Zed for proving that developer tools can feel native, fast, and deeply crafted without losing their hacker soul. Kuku is a very different product, but Zed’s taste for performance, focus, and beautiful systems-level software has been a huge inspiration for how we think about building an AI-native workspace.
Windsurf
Claude CodeLLMs 1
LLMs 1
Gemini 3 Deep Think by GoogleGoogle’s best model for logical thinking and understanding
5.0 (22 reviews)
Kuku uses Gemini for its tool-calling capabilities, which enables the AI to go beyond chat.
Gemini allows Kuku’s AI agent to search, read, and edit real files reliably with low latency and a generous free tier.
Design & Creative 1
Design & Creative 1
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