Brainstorm with Friends on a Private AI-Powered Canvas

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Meet Kavim — the open-source canvas for brainstorming with friends (and AIs). Sketch, debate, drop ideas, continue each other’s thoughts, and do it all privately, without the chaos of cloud storage or corporate surveillance. 🎨🤝

Kavim is evolving faster than your group chat’s inside jokes. Your feedback, wild ideas, and bug reports help us shape the future of collaborative creativity. Jump into the Discord or open an issue on GitHub. We read everything — sometimes twice — and respond before your coffee gets cold. ☕

🚀 Installation

Getting started with Kavim is simple. Choose your platform to download the app:

Windows • macOS • Linux

macOS tip: If Gatekeeper says the developer can’t be verified, follow our Open Kavim When macOS Blocks It guide.

🌟 Features

💸 One AI Subscription Is Enough Already paying for an AI? Use it here. Connect your existing model and skip the extra “premium” plans.

👯 Collaborate with Friends & Family Brainstorm together in real time

🧠 Chat with AI & Branch Conversations Talk to multiple AIs, follow new threads, and watch ideas evolve on one shared canvas.

💾 Create & Store Everything Locally No clouds. Everything stays right where it belongs — on your device.

🛡️ Your Data Is Yours (Seriously) Your ideas never meet our servers. When you chat with an AI, your data goes only to the model you choose — and that’s it.

🛠️ Local development

See CONTRIBUTING

⚙️ Built with

📸 Screenshots

📝 Documentation

Explore Kavim's documentation to learn about features, setup, and usage.

❤️ Community

Join our growing community of creators and thinkers on GitHub Discussions and our Discord server. We follow a respectful, friendly Code of Conduct.

Ask questions, report bugs, suggest features, share your wildest brainstorms, or just hang out and swap AI tips. We’d love to see what you build on your canvas.

🤝 Contributing

Want to make the canvas even better? We welcome contributors of all shapes and skill levels.

• Report bugs or suggest new features.

• Help improve our docs — from typos to tutorials.

• Share your creative templates or ideas in Discord.

• Upvote features you’d love to see next.

See our CONTRIBUTING.md to learn how to send your first pull request.

Contributors

License

This project is primarily licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPLv3).

Portions of the software may be licensed differently:

• Code under any directory named ee (e.g., /ee, /src/ee/, etc.) is licensed under the separate terms defined in the EE_LICENSE file.
• Third-party components are distributed under their original licenses.

For full details, see the LICENSE file.