Zettory
A local-first notes app for Mac that puts ideas to work.
Keep Markdown, links, images, and drawings on your Mac. Bring notes onto Kanban boards when a project takes shape, then find them with shared search or ask citation-backed questions with on-device AI.
Free up to 100 notes & 3 boards • No account or card • Apple Silicon • macOS 14+
Flexible Visual Notes
Capture ideas in the exact format that fits: Markdown text, saved web references, images with searchable OCR, and hand-drawn Excalidraw sketches. Everything stays connected in one local library.
Kanban Boards
Synthesize your notes into customizable Kanban boards without duplicating data. Drag note cards across custom columns while your original notes remain clean, safe, and portable.
Knowledge Base & RAG
Ask questions across your personal notes and inspect grounded sources. On-device semantic retrieval and local retrieval-augmented generation answer queries 100% privately on your Mac.
Desktop Quick Launcher
Search and jump back to your knowledge right from the desktop. Fast fuzzy search matches titles, tags, markdown text, diagram labels, and image OCR from any screen with a single shortcut.
Friction-Free Scratchpad
A flexible workspace to jot fleeting thoughts, paste temporary code snippets, or sketch quick ideas before organizing them into permanent notes or active project boards.
Local Image Analysis
Turn visual notes and diagrams into searchable knowledge. On-device AI extracts text summaries, structured keywords, and diagram insights while keeping your image data strictly on your Mac.
Privacy-safe illustrative previews with fictional content, not exact macOS screenshots or a running web app.
A personal tool built for focused, durable thinking
Why I built Zettory
As an engineer and builder, I take dozens of notes every week across architecture diagrams, research links, project plans, and rough sketches. Most tools force you into an all-in-one cloud silo with recurring subscriptions, or leave you with flat folders and no visual synthesis.
I wanted a tool that lets me capture quickly in whatever format fits (Markdown, links, OCR, or Excalidraw), pull those notes onto visual Kanban boards when planning work, and ask questions across all my accumulated knowledge with fast on-device RAG.
Crucially, I wanted my notes and knowledge workflow to stay on my Mac, work offline, and avoid a required cloud account or monthly subscription. So I built Zettory.
— Disha Kalra, Creator of Zettory
Your notes and AI stay on your Mac
Note content, search indexes, embeddings, OCR, and local RAG stay on your Mac. Online operations such as updates and license checks are separate; see the privacy policy.
One-Time Purchase
$18 once for Zettory Pro. No monthly subscriptions, no seat fees, and lifetime updates included.
Your library stays on your device
Notes and workspace data are stored locally in Markdown, JSON, and SQLite formats rather than in a hosted notes service.
Simple pricing, pay once
Free Tier
Zettory Pro
Requires Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) and macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Intel Macs not supported. See system requirements.
Frequently asked questions
What is Zettory?
Zettory is a local-first notes and knowledge workspace for Mac. It combines flexible notes (Markdown, links, image OCR, Excalidraw), visual Kanban boards, fast hybrid search, and citation-backed RAG question answering.
Does Zettory upload my notes to the cloud?
No. Zettory is strictly local-first. Notes, vector embeddings, SQLite indexes, and local RAG models run 100% on your machine. Zero note content or embeddings are ever sent to any external server.
How does the knowledge-base RAG Q&A work?
Zettory retrieves relevant note fragments using lexical and local vector embeddings, passes that bounded context to an on-device language model, and returns an answer with source citations you can inspect.
How does Kanban relate to Notes?
Kanban is an organization and synthesis layer over your notes. Instead of task silos, cards link directly to your notes. A single note can live on multiple boards without duplication.
What is Spotlight-style search?
Spotlight search is a fast keyboard-first overlay (Cmd+Shift+Space) that lets you search notes, boards, and tags from anywhere on your Mac using the same unified ranking engine.
What are the system requirements?
Zettory requires an Apple Silicon Mac (M1, M2, M3, M4 or newer) running macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Intel Macs are not supported.