What is Lokus?

Lokus is an open-source knowledge management application that helps you capture, organize, and connect your ideas. Built with Tauri and Rust on the backend and React on the frontend, Lokus delivers a fast, secure, and privacy-first experience.
By the numbers:

• 500+ GitHub stars
• 10,000+ active users
• Contributors from around the world
• 100% local-first—your data never leaves your device

Why We Built Lokus

Knowledge management tools often come with a tradeoff: powerful features at the cost of privacy, or privacy at the cost of functionality. We believe you shouldn't have to choose.
Lokus was born from a simple idea: your thoughts belong to you. Every note, every connection, every insight stays on your machine—completely under your control.

Where Your Sponsorship Goes

As a student-led open-source project, we operate entirely on community support. Your sponsorship directly funds:

• Infrastructure: Domain costs, CI/CD pipelines, testing environments
• Security Audits: Ensuring Lokus remains safe and trustworthy
• Development: Bug fixes, new features, and performance improvements
• Community Growth: Documentation, tutorials, and contributor onboarding
• Sustainability: Helping maintainers dedicate more time to the project

Every dollar goes back into making Lokus better for everyone.

Our Vision

We're building more than an app - we're building a movement toward privacy-respecting productivity tools. With your support, we can:

Expand plugin ecosystem and integrations
Improve cross-platform support (macOS, Windows, Linux)
Develop mobile companions
Build AI-powered features that run locally
Grow our contributor community

Join the Lokus Community

Whether you're a user, contributor, or sponsor—you're part of something bigger. Together, we're proving that open-source, privacy-first software can compete with the biggest names in the space.
Thank you for believing in Lokus. 💜