Kosmik is a creative space tool that combines a built-in browser, unlimited canvas AI search, and real-time collaboration. It is not a traditional design software, but a spatial canvas designed around "browse → collect → organize → create". It supports dragging materials directly from the web page to the canvas, manages the knowledge base through AI automatic tags and semantic search, and provides real-time multi-person collaboration. The product has ceased operation on May 31, 2026, and currently only supports data export.

Kosmik

Core parameters and statistics

Kosmik is an AI creative space tool designed around "browse → collect → organize → create". It has established a unique positioning in the three intersection fields of mood board, knowledge management and creative collaboration by virtue of the combination of built-in browser, unlimited canvas and real-time collaboration. The product will be officially discontinued on May 31, 2026. The current official website only retains the data export and download entrance, and no longer accepts new registrations.

Projects	Public Information
Official positioning	Spatial canvas for thinking, collecting, and building ideas visually
Core form	Infinite canvas + built-in browser + AI search + real-time collaboration
Deployment method	Desktop client (macOS / Windows) + cloud synchronization
Data storage	Device-side IPFS node + cloud synchronization
Target Users	Designers, creatives, knowledge workers, research teams
Supported platforms	macOS, Windows
Product status	Discontinued on 2026-05-31
Operating cycle	~2018 to 2026-05, approximately 8 years
Development Team	Independent team in Paris, France
Latest version	Kosmik 3 (2025)

Core Differentiation: Kosmik is not a traditional canvas tool (such as Miro or Figma), nor a pure knowledge management application (such as Notion or Roam), but an "infinite canvas with a browser" - when users browse web pages in the built-in browser, they can directly drag content onto the canvas to form a visual knowledge base. This interaction mode was original at the time. It integrated information consumption (browsing) and information organization (canvas) into the same interface, reducing the cost of cross-window switching of "copy → paste → organize".

Suspension background: According to the official announcement, the Kosmik team decided to shut down the service after eight years of operation. The core reason was the challenge of commercial sustainability of independent tool products. The team stated that they still believe in the direction of spatial canvas and are exploring the subsequent possibilities of spatial interfaces and document-oriented systems. For users who have purchased subscriptions, officials recommend completing data export before outage.

Kosmik’s users and market recognition

Kosmik’s market recognition comes primarily from the intersection of creative and technical communities, rather than from large-scale commercial customers. It has established a stable reputation among designers, researchers and knowledge management enthusiasts.

Community Influence: Kosmik has been recommended by the community on Product Hunt, ToolFinder and other platforms. The Discord community and Twitter (@kosmik_app) have gathered a group of active users, and are frequently discussed especially among the "creative tool enthusiasts" and "knowledge management tool explorers" groups. Users generally recognize the smoothness brought by its "in-browser drag-and-drop to canvas" interaction paradigm, but also point out that as an independent tool, the depth of ecological integration (interoperability with Figma and Notion) is limited.

Media and Review Coverage: Kosmik has appeared in multiple lists of "Best Mood Board Tools", "Best AI Browsers", "Best Brainstorming Tools" and other lists - its official blog also summarizes relevant reviews. Technology media such as TechCrunch did not report it on a large scale, and product communication mainly relied on user word-of-mouth and community recommendations. Kosmik is classified as an AI mood board/creative tool in AI tool directory sites such as Futurepedia, There's an AI for That.

Business-side adoption: Officially, the number of enterprise customers or revenue data has not been disclosed. According to the pricing page information, Kosmik offers an Enterprise plan (including dedicated Slack channel, custom guidance, team management and workspace management), which implies a certain number of team-level users, but the specific size is not disclosed.

Industry benchmarking positioning: The uniqueness of Kosmik is that it does not directly benchmark against a certain type of tool, but spans three tracks: mood board (comparison to Milanote), collaborative whiteboard (comparison to Miro) and knowledge management (comparison to Notion). This "three different" positioning is both an innovation point and a business challenge - it is difficult for users to classify it into existing budget items when evaluating, which may be one of the factors hindering large-scale adoption.

Kosmik’s Cost Advantage: A Review of Pricing Before Outage

Kosmik adopts a "free trial + subscription payment" business model during operation, and the pricing strategy is at the intersection of design tools and knowledge management tools. The following is the public pricing information before the outage for cost benchmarking reference.

Plan	Price	Core Benefits
Free trial	1 week free	Fully functional experience
Pro (Personal)	$11.99/month (paid annually) or $14.99/month (paid monthly)	Unlimited workspace, unlimited canvas, unlimited projects, unlimited AI requests, priority support
Ambassador	$16.99/month (paid annually) or $20.99/month (paid monthly)	Pro all + exclusive Slack channel, font support, branding toolkit Figma plug-in MCP integration
Enterprise	Contact Business	Ambassador All + Custom Bootstrap, Team Management, Workspace Management

Three-tier cost structure (reference during operation period):

• C client/individual: Pro plan $11.99-14.99/month. Compared with hand-drawn mood board outsourcing ($200-500 per time) or Milanote paid version ($9.99-12.50/month), Kosmik is close to mainstream knowledge management tool pricing in monthly fees, but its combination of "built-in browser + AI search" provides additional efficiency value. A 1-week free trial is enough to complete the full process evaluation from experience to value judgment.

• Team/Collaboration: Ambassador plan $16.99-20.99/month, provides dedicated Slack channel and team management features. However, compared to Miro ($8-16/seat/month) or Notion ($10-18/seat/month), Kosmik’s team plan lacks obvious competitiveness in pricing, and the maturity of collaboration functions (permission granularity, audit logs) is weaker than enterprise-level tools.

• Enterprise/Enterprise: Need to contact the business to confirm. The value-adds mentioned on the pricing page (dedicated Slack channels, custom onboarding, team management) imply that the Enterprise plan is geared toward small creative teams rather than large organizations.

Hidden Cost: The biggest hidden cost of Kosmik during the operation period is the "switching cost" - due to its own data format and built-in browser dependency, if users want to migrate their accumulated knowledge base to other platforms, they need to do it manually or through the export function, and the exported data may not be as structurally rich as native tools. This is also the reason why the official emphasized "exporting data" during the outage.

Main features of Kosmik

Kosmik's functional design revolves around three sections: "information intake → visual organization → collaborative output". Its core innovation lies in unifying these sections into one interface.

• In-App Browser: Kosmik’s most differentiated feature. Users can browse the web without leaving the application and drag page content (text, images, links) directly onto the canvas. Mechanism → Effect: Traditional workflow requires switching back and forth between the browser and canvas tools (Alt+Tab copy and paste), Kosmik merges the two windows into one, reducing attention fragmentation. Applicable tasks: information collection, competitive product analysis, and inspiration collection during the research phase.

• Infinite Canvas: A scalable space with no border restrictions, supporting any arrangement of visual elements such as text, pictures, web page snippets, and color samples. Applicable tasks: Mood board construction, brainstorming, research board organization. Unlike general whiteboards such as Miro, Kosmik's canvas emphasizes "visual beauty" rather than "flowchart logic", and has a higher degree of layout freedom but weaker automatic alignment capabilities.

• AI Semantic Search: A feature introduced in Kosmik 3. Users can search all the content they have accumulated in the canvas using natural language. AI understands semantics instead of just matching keywords. Mechanism→Effect: When the canvas accumulates hundreds of materials, it is difficult to quickly locate them using the traditional folder or tag system. AI search allows users to directly ask "reference pictures about warm-toned brand design that I saved last week" without having to remember the storage location. Applicable tasks: rapid retrieval of large amounts of materials, review of research projects.

• AI Auto-Tagging: Content imported into the canvas will be automatically analyzed by AI and tagged with semantic tags. Preliminary classification is completed when the material enters the canvas. Mechanism→Effect: Reduce the time-consuming manual organization, allowing users to focus more on creation rather than classification. Applicable tasks: Quickly build a structured knowledge base from scattered information.

• Real-Time Collaboration: Supports multiple people editing the same canvas at the same time, cursor position and editing operations are synchronized in real time, and has a built-in comment system. Kosmik 2 (2022) introduces the first multiplayer collaborative web browser. Applicable tasks: Team creative alignment, remote design review, collaborative research and organization.

• IPFS Local Storage: Kosmik was one of the first apps (since 2018) to allow users to store data locally via on-device IPFS nodes. Data is stored both locally and in the cloud, allowing users to access the canvas even when the network is offline. Applicable tasks: Scenarios that require data sovereignty and offline work situations.

• Figma plug-in and MCP integration: The Ambassador solution provides Figma plug-in and MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration, supporting the use of materials in the Kosmik canvas directly for the Figma design process, or connecting to external AI Agents through the MCP interface. Applicable tasks: The designer's workflow is connected to the automated creative process driven by AI Agent.

Expert opinion: The greatest value of the Kosmik feature set does not lie in individual capabilities, but in the overall completeness of "browse→collect→organize→create". In the traditional workflow, these four steps are scattered among the browser (Chrome), bookmark tool (Raindrop), note-taking tool (Notion) and design tool (Figma), and each switch is accompanied by a loss of context. Kosmik tries to cover the entire process with one interface, but the cost is that the vertical depth of each step is not as good as professional tools - the browser is not as fast as Chrome, the canvas is not as accurate as Figma, and the collaboration is not as mature as Miro. This determines that it is more suitable for the "creative exploration period" rather than the "production delivery period".

Version evolution of Kosmik

Kosmik's version iterations have evolved along the technical route of "local first→collaboration→AI driven" and have gone through three core version stages from 2018 to 2025.

Phase 1: Kosmik 1.0 (2018)

• Published: 2018
• Core Features: First version available. Kosmik becomes one of the first applications to support local data storage through device-side IPFS nodes and provide multi-person collaboration capabilities at the same time. This stage laid the technical foundation of "data sovereignty + real-time synchronization" - at that time, most collaboration tools were either purely cloud-based (relying on server synchronization) or purely local storage (no collaboration capabilities). Kosmik's IPFS hybrid solution was a point of technical differentiation.

Phase 2: Kosmik 2.0 (2022)

• Release: 2022
• Core Features: Introducing the first multiplayer web-browser, publicly demonstrated at Betaworks ThinkCAMP. This version extends "collaboration" from canvas editing to web browsing itself - team members can browse the web simultaneously in the built-in browser and see each other's browsing locations and actions. This concept was ahead of mainstream browser plug-ins and collaborative whiteboard products at the time, but it also brought challenges with performance overhead and network synchronization complexity.

Phase 3: Kosmik 3.0 (2025)

• Release: 2025
• Core Features: Kosmik 3 is a comprehensive architecture reconstruction and product upgrade, focusing on the two directions of "ease of use + AI capabilities":
  • The response speed is fully optimized and the application is lighter
  • Keep built-in browser and improve performance
  • Introducing AI automatic tagging (Auto-Tagging) to automatically classify materials when importing them
  • Introducing AI Semantic Search to search canvas content using natural language
  • Simplify the interactive interface and lower the entry barrier for new users
• Version Meaning: Kosmik 3 is the culmination of 8 years of work by the team and the last major release. It verified the product feasibility of the "Canvas + AI" direction, but failed to reverse the fundamental challenge of commercialization sustainability.

Suspension Announcement (2026)

• Announcement: 2026 (exact date not disclosed)
• Closed Operations: May 31, 2026
• Reason: The official statement is that "after years of co-construction with the community, the decision was made to close Kosmik", and the specific business reasons were not disclosed. The speculation is related to the long-term challenges of independent creative tools in terms of customer acquisition cost, paid conversion rate and ecological lock-in.
• Follow-up: The team stated that it is still exploring the possibility of continuation of spatial interfaces and document-oriented systems.

Kosmik’s technical advantages

Kosmik's technical architecture is designed around the four technical lines of "local priority + real-time synchronization + embedded browser + AI enhancement", and was obviously ahead of its time when it was launched in 2018.

IPFS local storage + cloud synchronization dual-rail architecture: Kosmik is an early explorer of using IPFS (Interplanetary File System) for end-user products. Traditional collaboration tools (such as Google Docs, Figma) adopt a pure cloud architecture - all data is stored on the server, and the client is just the rendering side. Kosmik's IPFS solution allows users to keep a complete copy of the data on the device, which can still be read and written when offline, and synchronized with collaborators through the IPFS network when online. Mechanism → Effect: Users have higher control over data and do not rely on a single cloud service provider. However, the synchronization delay and garbage collection mechanism of IPFS in consumer products also bring certain maintenance complexity, which may be the focus of improvement in Kosmik 3 when optimizing user experience.

Embedded architecture of built-in browser: Kosmik's built-in browser is not a simple WebView container, but realizes deep integration with canvas interaction - users can select content in the browser and drag it directly to the canvas, and the system automatically extracts metadata (source URL, title, screenshot thumbnail) and retains the link relationship. Mechanism → Effect: The key value of this interaction model is "source traceability" - each piece of information dragged into the canvas retains the original web link, which facilitates future retroactive verification. In contrast, users often lose source information when manually copying and pasting into note-taking tools.

Partial deployment and calling strategy of AI model: Kosmik’s AI functions (automatic tagging, semantic search) were only launched with Kosmik 3 in 2025, using a cloud AI API calling solution rather than a device-side model. This means that the AI ​​functionality relies on a network connection and cannot be used offline. Semantic search is based on the vector embedding model, and material content is converted into vector storage. During search, relevant content is located through semantic similarity rather than keyword matching. Trade Point: Cloud AI calls increase the team's operating costs (each search and tag involves model inference fees), which is why Kosmik only provides tiered pricing logic for unlimited AI requests in the Ambassador plan.

CRDT solution for real-time collaboration: Multi-person real-time editing relies on CRDT (Conflict-free Replicated Data Type) or OT (Operation Transformation) technology. Kosmik's IPFS architecture naturally requires a decentralized synchronization strategy, so it is more reasonable to adopt a CRDT-type solution - each user locally maintains a copy of the data status, exchanges update operations through IPFS, and conflicts are automatically merged by the CRDT data structure. Engineering Challenge: In the canvas scene, the CRDT merging logic of the element's position, size, and hierarchical relationship (z-order) is much more complex than plain text. This is one of the reasons why Kosmik 2 will only implement a multi-person collaborative browser in 2022 - the underlying synchronization protocol needs to be mature enough to support canvas-level complexity.

How to use Kosmik

During operation, Kosmik provides a desktop client as the main mode of use, supplemented by web account management.

How to use	Applicable stage	Description
macOS desktop client	Official use	Apple Silicon / Intel dual version, compatible with macOS Sonoma
Windows desktop client	Official use	Intel-AMD / ARM dual version, adapted to Windows 11
Web account management	Account and data export	launchpad.kosmik.app provides registration, login and data export portals

Current status after outage:

• New user registration has been closed and new accounts cannot be created.
• Existing users can still download the client and log in to their account to export workspaces and data
• Official recommendations are to complete the data export before outage, and the export function will be retained.

Typical usage process (reference during operation):

1. Download the desktop client for macOS or Windows from the official website
2. Register/log in to your account and choose free trial (1 week) or subscribe to Pro directly
3. Browse the web in the built-in browser and drag the pictures and text fragments of interest directly to the infinite canvas.
4. AI automatically adds semantic tags to imported materials, and the materials are automatically classified according to content.
5. Freely arrange materials on the canvas and add notes, color samples and mood board combinations
6. Use AI semantic search to quickly locate accumulated materials: "Find warm-toned brand visual references"
7. Invite collaborators to share the canvas and synchronize editing and comments in real time
8. Export canvas or share link to clients/team members

Data Migration Tips: For users who want to migrate the knowledge base in Kosmik to other platforms, it is recommended to export the data through the export function within the application, and then convert it according to the import format of the target platform (Notion, Milanote, Obsidian, etc.). Since Kosmik's canvas data contains position, hierarchy, and reference relationships, the degree of structure after export depends on the coverage of the official export tool.

Kosmik Product Pricing

Kosmik adopts a "free trial + tiered subscription" charging model during operation, and the pricing page discloses three plans: Pro, Ambassador and Enterprise.

Plan	Billing Cycle	Price	Core Limitations/Benefits
Free trial	One-time	Free for 1 week	Full-featured experience, you need to choose a paid plan after expiration
Pro	Monthly	$14.99/month	Unlimited workspace, unlimited canvas, unlimited projects, unlimited AI requests, priority support
Pro	Annual payment	$11.99/month (annual payment $143.88)	Same monthly payment benefits, about 20% discount
Ambassador	Monthly	$20.99/month	Pro benefits + exclusive Slack channel, font support, branding toolkit Figma plug-in MCP integration
Ambassador	Annual payment	$16.99/month (annual payment $203.88)	Same monthly payment benefits, about 19% discount
Enterprise	Contact Business	Contact Business	Ambassador Benefits + Customized Guidance, Team Management, Workspace Management

Pricing Strategy Analysis:

• Clear hierarchical logic: Pro covers individual creators, Ambassador covers advanced users who need brand asset management and plug-in integration, and Enterprise covers creative teams with team management needs.
• Price with benchmark: Pro's $11.99-14.99/month is in a similar range to Milanote Pro ($9.99-12.50/month) and Notion Plus ($10/month), but Kosmik's "unlimited AI requests" is an implicit value in the pricing - for users who frequently use AI search and automatic tags, the cost of AI calls is included in the subscription fee rather than billed separately.
• Ambassador's lack of differentiation: The main value-added items of the $16.99-20.99/month Ambassador plan are the brand toolkit Figma plug-in and MCP integration, which have limited appeal to individual creators. For teams, the Enterprise plan requires business contacts, and the pricing anchor effect of the middle tier is weak.

C-side vs team pricing structure: Kosmik's pricing does not have a clear demarcation between "individual vs team" like Miro (seat system) or Notion (seat system) - Pro and Ambassador are billed by account rather than by seat, which means that an Ambassador account can be shared for team use, but lacks permission separation and audit capabilities. The "Team Management" and "Workspace Management" of the Enterprise plan imply that true team-level governance capabilities require the Business plan.

Application scenarios of Kosmik

The characteristics of Kosmik determine that it is most suitable for "information-intensive creative exploration" tasks rather than "standardized production" tasks. The following four types of scenarios are the best places for its capabilities:

• Mood board construction during the design research phase: When designers start a branding project or UI project, they need to refine the visual direction from a large number of references. The traditional process is to collect materials on Pinterest → drag them into Milanote for sorting → communicate with customers for confirmation, and switch between tools frequently. Kosmik's "built-in browser + canvas" feature allows users to complete browsing, collection and arrangement in one tool. Deduction: A single mood board build is compressed from manual collection (2-3 hours) to 30-60 minutes, and source material is automatically kept traceable. However, the copyright clarity of AI-generated materials is not as clear as that of manually selected public copyright materials, and each item must be verified before being used for commercial delivery.

• Knowledge base accumulation of interdisciplinary research: When researchers or product managers continue to track a certain field, they need to accumulate articles, reports, data and screenshots over a long period of time. Kosmik's AI automatic tagging and semantic search solve the pain point of "saved a lot but can't find it". Deduction: After accumulating 500+ research materials, the search time is reduced from "manually flipping through folders" (5-15 minutes) to "natural language search" (within 30 seconds). But Kosmik is not suitable for academic research scenarios that require strict citation formats - its export format lacks native support for standard citation formats (APA, MLA).

• Creative Alignment for Remote Teams: Designers or creatives located in different locations need to quickly align their visual direction during the project launch phase. By sharing the Kosmik canvas, team members can simultaneously browse competing product websites in the built-in browser, drag and drop materials to the shared canvas in real time, and reach consensus through comments. Deduction: The direction alignment meeting changed from "prepare PPT individually → present and discuss at the meeting" (2 days of preparation + 1 hour meeting) to "co-build the canvas in real time at the meeting" (completed in 1 hour). However, the real-time collaboration canvas may experience synchronization delays and element layout conflicts when there are more than 5 participants.

• Personal Knowledge Management (PKM): Kosmik is known as "Visual Notion" in the PKM enthusiast community. For people who are accustomed to organizing information visually rather than hierarchically, Kosmik's infinite canvas provides a "spatial memory" way of organizing knowledge - the value of information depends not only on the content itself, but also on its position in the canvas and its visual relationship with surrounding elements. Deduction: For visual thinkers, the information recall efficiency of canvas-based PKM may be higher than that of list-based tools. However, for users accustomed to text-level management, Kosmik lacks traditional PKM core functions such as outline mode and two-way links.

Dimensionality reduction attack scenario: Creative workers who need frequent visual exploration - brand designers, UI designers, interior designers, creative directors. Among these roles, Kosmik compresses the cycle of "inspiration collection → visual organization → direction confirmation" from "hours" to "minutes", which is especially suitable for rapid trial and error and multi-directional parallel exploration in the early stages.

Human-machine collaboration boundary:

• Can be 100% automated: Drag and drop collection of web page materials, AI automatic tag classification, AI semantic search recall, and first version generation of basic mood boards.
• Manual confirmation required: Whether the visual direction is in line with the project tone (AI cannot understand the brand strategy), material copyright compliance (sources need to be verified item by item), fine adjustments to the final mood board (layout, color fine-tuning, labeling), review of deliverables for high-value customers.

Applicable groups of Kosmik

Kosmik's "Browse→Collect→Organize→Create" relationship is of much greater value to specific roles than to the general population. The following three types of people are its most suitable user portraits:

• Designers (UI/UX, Branding, Interior): Kosmik’s core group. Designers are naturally accustomed to visual thinking and mood board workflows. For designers who need to frequently communicate visual direction with clients, Kosmik's "generate mood board on the spot → client confirmation → further deepen" mode reduces the rework rate from the traditional 50-70% of "complete the draft and then revise it" to the 10-20% of "do it after the direction is confirmed". Prerequisite: The client needs to accept this informal mood board communication method. Some traditional clients still expect to see the refined first draft of the design.

• Product Managers and Researchers: Product managers and researchers who conduct competitive product analysis, user research, and industry trend tracking. Kosmik's long-tail material accumulation capabilities and AI search make it a "research companion" tool, especially suitable for practitioners who need to continuously track a certain track. Prerequisite: When the amount of research materials exceeds 200, the value of AI search begins to be significantly reflected; in short-term projects (1-2 weeks), the advantages of Kosmik are not as obvious as Notion or lightweight note-taking tools.

• Creative Education and Learners: Design students, creative course lecturers. Kosmik’s mood board feature is ideal for teaching presentations, allowing instructors to demonstrate visual combinations of different stylistic directions in class in real time. Prerequisite: Educational discount is required (official student discount is provided, please contact us for confirmation).

Does not fit boundaries:

• Not suitable for large teams requiring strict process management: Kosmik lacks enterprise-level permission management (RBAC), audit logs and SSO integration, making it not suitable for organizations requiring compliance governance.
• Not suitable for standardized production scenarios that pursue extreme production efficiency: For teams that have established a mature design system (Design System), Kosmik's "free canvas" mode will actually reduce the efficiency of component reuse, and Figma/Sketch's component-based design tools are more suitable.
• Not suitable for text-intensive knowledge management: If the information organization method is mainly text notes and two-way links (similar to Obsidian and Roam Research users), Kosmik's visual-first paradigm will bring additional organization costs.
• Not suitable for commercial projects with strict requirements on material copyright: The commercial copyright of Internet materials returned by AI search and third-party images collected through the built-in browser needs to be verified by the user, and the tool itself does not provide copyright protection.
• Discontinued product, new users are not recommended to join: Kosmik has ceased operations on May 31, 2026, and new users cannot register. For existing users still using Kosmik, it is recommended to complete the data export and migrate to an alternative as soon as possible.

Summary and Outlook

Kosmik was once a product that made a unique exploration at the intersection of "creative tools". It integrates browsers, infinite canvas AI search and real-time collaboration into one interface, creating an information processing paradigm that is different from traditional design tools and knowledge management tools - users are not "managing information", but "living with information" in a visual space.

Dual nature of core competitiveness: Kosmik's "built-in browser + canvas" that is most appreciated by users is also the biggest obstacle to its commercialization. This inherent value gradually becomes apparent after users use it in depth, but it is difficult to convey it intuitively through screenshots or demos during the customer acquisition stage - new users can easily misunderstand it as "another whiteboard tool" or "another bookmark manager". This product quality of "you only understand after using it" constitutes a natural resistance to conversion in the market of independent tools that rely on paid advertising and social communication.

Enlightenment to the creative tool industry: Kosmik’s practice has verified several key judgments: (1) Spatial canvas as an information organization paradigm has real demand among creative people; (2) The deep integration of the built-in browser and canvas can reduce the cognitive overhead of switching between multiple tools; (3) Independent creative tools face systemic challenges in terms of customer acquisition costs and paid conversions. Even if the product experience is recognized by users, business sustainability still requires finding a more efficient access path. The Kosmik team stated in the announcement that it is still exploring the follow-up direction of spatial interfaces and document-oriented systems, implying that this product concept will continue in different forms of products.

Alternative Reference: For the migration needs of existing Kosmik users, the following tools partially cover Kosmik's capabilities in different dimensions:

• Mood board builder: Milanote (closest alternative, supports web clipping and canvas organization, but no built-in browser)
• Collaboration whiteboard: Miro (mature enterprise-level collaborative whiteboard, rich in AI functions, but focused on flowcharts rather than visual exploration)
• Knowledge management: Notion (supports web page clipping and database management, but not visual canvas mode)
• Visual inspiration management: Eagle (localized image management, supports browser extension collection, but no collaboration or AI search)
• Design tool: Figma (component-based design, providing whiteboard function through FigJam, but the initial positioning is different)

Procurement/Adoption Risk Assessment (Historical Archive Reference): Since Kosmik has ceased operations, this evaluation is mainly used as a reference for decision-making on purchasing similar tools:

1. Product life cycle risk: The average survival cycle of independent creative tools is usually shorter than that of enterprise-level SaaS. When evaluating, attention should be paid to team background, financing status and frequency of product updates. Kosmik has been operating for about 8 years, which is a long time among independent tools.
2. Data Migration Cost: For creative tools that use proprietary data formats, the data migration cost when switching may be higher than expected. It is recommended to establish a regular export habit in the early stages of adoption to avoid data locking.
3. Operation cost transmission of AI functions: Each call of AI functions (automatic tagging, semantic search) involves model inference costs. "Unlimited AI requests" under the free plan or fixed subscription fee may face restrictions or price increases as users grow. Billing boundaries and SLAs for AI capabilities should be confirmed before purchasing.
4. Enterprise-level maturity of collaboration functions: Tools that lack RBAC, audit logs, and SSO will inevitably need to be replaced after the team expands to a certain scale. When selecting early, the enterprise-level roadmap of the tool should be evaluated or a "data export guarantee clause" should be added to the procurement contract.

Related tools: notion-ai, google-workspace

Kosmik’s model and version evolution

Continuous iterative updates, the latest version introduces performance optimization and new features. Historical version information can be viewed through the official release page. There is currently no complete public version evolution timeline.

How to use Kosmik

• Web client: You can use it by visiting the official website and registering an account. Most functions do not require installation.
• API access: Provides RESTful API, developers can obtain the API Key and integrate it into their own applications.

Version Info

• Kosmik 3 ：The third-generation reconstructed version introduces built-in browser AI automatic tagging AI semantic search to optimize response speed and ease of use. （2025）
• Kosmik 3 ：The third-generation reconstructed version introduces built-in browser AI automatic tagging AI semantic search to optimize response speed and ease of use. （2025）
• Kosmik 2 ：Introducing the first multiplayer web-browser, demonstrated at Betaworks ThinkCAMP. （2022）
• Kosmik ：The first version supports local storage of data through device-side IPFS nodes and provides multi-person collaboration capabilities. There is no official precise date yet. （2018）