Kavya Studio
Productivity
Only for Mac
Free · In‑App Purchases
Mac
One purchase, no subscription, no account. Your notes are .md files in a folder you chose — and they stay there whether Kavya exists or not.
Kavya is a local-first writing app for people who think in Markdown.
Your vault is an ordinary folder on disk. Every note is a plain .md file—no vendor lock-in, full compatibility with Obsidian, VS Code, or any text editor.
WRITE WITHOUT DISTRACTION
• Live preview: the Markdown hides itself as you write
• A column 68 characters wide, so the line holds at any type size
• Focus, Typewriter, and Zen modes
• Six bundled fonts and smart typography
• Multi-cursor, split view, find & replace
NO BUTTON BARS
• Every command lives in the macOS menu bar and the command palette
• Selecting text pops up a small floating bar, and nothing else
• Custom themes: a .css file in your vault, and it travels with it
ORGANIZE AND CONNECT
• Three-panel layout with nested folders
• Tags, wikilinks, and automatic backlinks
• Saved filters: any search becomes a folder in the sidebar
• Glued sheets, for a chapter written in pieces
• Quick Switcher, Command Palette, and version history
CAPTURE
• Quick Capture (Cmd+N) from any app
• Daily notes, filed by year and month
• Templates and snippets with variables
MATHS AND EXPORT
• Formulas between $…$ and $$…$$, rendered offline by KaTeX
• Markdown, HTML, PDF, DOCX
• Presentation Mode: H1/H2 to slides
• Built-in PDF and EPUB reader
• Optional AI with your own API key — rewrite a selection, and Kavya records which sentences the machine wrote, in the file itself
NO SUBSCRIPTION
• Free up to 100 sheets
• One-time purchase unlocks unlimited
• No account required, no telemetry, no server
Your notes. Your files. Your writing—always accessible, always yours.
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Two things that were missing, and a long look at everything else.
MATHS AND LIVE PREVIEW
• Formulas between $…$ and $$…$$, rendered by KaTeX inside the app — no network, nothing sent anywhere. They appear in the editor as you write, in the preview, and in what you export to HTML and PDF.
• Live preview: asterisks, hashes and brackets hide themselves and leave what they mean. The element your cursor is touching still shows its markup, so you always see what you are typing.
THEMES YOU CAN WRITE
• A theme is a .css file. The four that come with Kavya are now files like any you write, and yours sit in your vault and travel with it.
• Pick one from Theme in the command palette. Arrow through the list and each is applied as you go, so you see it rather than read its name.
• View shows the CSS of any theme, and Duplicate drops an editable copy in your vault.
SHEETS
• Glue sheets together and the group becomes one card, with its own word count. It moves, archives and drags as a unit.
• Glue Sheets, Unglue and Unglue All now live in a Sheets menu, with shortcuts.
• Drag sheets onto a folder to move them. Hold still over a folded folder and it opens.
• Manual is a folder's natural order again — new sheets land on top, and visiting a tag no longer loses it.
THE SIDEBAR
• Inbox, Journal and Archive are the app's folders. They sit pinned at the top and cannot be renamed away.
• Folders you have never opened start folded, and every section remembers whether you left it open.
• Collapse All Folders, in the command palette.
SMALLER THINGS
• The command palette remembers what you use, and finds commands by other words — "journal" now finds the daily note.
• Attachments belong to a note, so they survive being opened in any other app.
• Back and Forward show their shortcuts in the Go menu.
• Fixed: the panel title stayed on the previous folder when you arrived from a link, a search or the daily note.
The developer, Juan Manuel Ferrera Diaz, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Juan Manuel Ferrera Diaz
- Size
- 8.1 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Unlimited Notes $19.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Juan Manuel Ferrera Diaz

