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Understand it. Learn it. Keep it — on your machine.

The local-first desktop app built on the DOCNEST engine. Chat with your documents, summarize, search, and — with Learn Mode — turn what you read into lessons that stick. Nothing leaves your laptop unless you allow it.

Learn Mode turns your own documents into animated lessons — the difference between looking something up and actually keeping it — running entirely on your machine.

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Free, open-source, and yours. Pick your platform.

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What it does

From document to understanding

Everything you'd want from an AI workspace — without sending your files to the cloud.

Chat with your documents

Ask questions and get grounded answers from the files you loaded — not from the open internet.

Summarize anything

Long reports, papers, and notes condensed to the parts that matter, in a click.

Learn Mode

Turns your knowledge into animated, step-by-step lessons so it actually sticks — not just a Q&A box.

Search & web Learn

Pull in what you need and fold it into your knowledge — kept as a file you own.

Local-first & private

Your documents and answers stay on-device. The app works offline, by design.

Keeps a .udf you own

What you learn is saved as an open, portable knowledge file — yours to keep and re-open anywhere.

The AI inside

Your choice of AI — and it's free

Knovex never charges you, and never locks you to one provider.

Today

Run it free, or bring your own

Run the AI free on your own machine, or connect a provider you already use (OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, Gemini). Either way, your documents never leave your laptop.

Coming soon

Zero setup — built-in AI

An upcoming release bundles Keepvidya's own on-device models — Shiva-Chat 1.5B & 7B — so Knovex just works out of the box. No accounts, no keys, nothing to install.

In the platform

Knovex is built on

Start with the app that's live today

Free, local-first, and yours. Download Knovex and keep what you learn.