Kosmik

What Kosmik does

Kosmik is a Paris-based software company that built a desktop application for visual knowledge management and creative research. Founded in 2018 and incorporated in France, the company shipped a single unified product — Kosmik — targeting creative professionals, academic researchers, marketers, and small-to-medium teams who needed to organize multimodal research material (images, videos, PDFs, web pages) on an infinite spatial canvas rather than in linear folder hierarchies. The application's distinctive technical elements included a local-first on-device IPFS node combined with real-time multiplayer (claimed as a 2018 first), an in-app multiplayer web browser (demoed in 2022), AI-powered auto-tagging of visual content, a computer-vision-based AI Asset Finder that surfaces visually similar content from YouTube, Pinterest, and the web, AI search, generative Universe Templates, and a Chrome Web Clipper extension for zero-friction capture. The most recent release, Kosmik 3, arrived in 2025 and consolidated these capabilities into a re-engineered app.

Kosmik operated a product-led, community-led, direct-to-consumer go-to-market. Distribution was anchored on a self-serve launchpad (launchpad.kosmik.app), direct desktop downloads for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM), and an active community surface (Discord, Reddit r/kosmik_app, Twitter @kosmik_app, Substack newsletter). The company monetized through a freemium subscription model with a free 'Rover' tier, paid 'Plus' and 'Pro' tiers (between $6.99 and $14.99/month depending on billing cadence), a custom-priced Enterprise tier, and an announced but unreleased 'Ambassador' premium tier. The company supplemented its own acquisition funnel with SEO-optimized comparison articles that positioned Kosmik as the top recommendation in categories such as 'Best PKM Apps' and 'Best AI Browsers.' A single institutional funding event is on record: a $3.7M Seed round in December 2023, led by Creandum with participation from Alven, Betaworks, Kima Ventures, and Hanel Baveja.

Kosmik's operating status is now closed. In April 2026 the company announced that the Kosmik product will sunset on May 31, 2026, with subscribers receiving refunds and a data-export window; the founder noted the team is exploring options to continue work on spatial interfaces under a future entity, but no successor company, acquisition, or asset transfer is disclosed.

Name

Kosmik

Legal name

Kosmik

Website

https://kosmik.app

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Kosmik is a Paris-based software company (founded 2018) that built a desktop infinite-canvas application for visual knowledge management and AI-assisted research, serving creative professionals, academic researchers, and small teams. The company has announced the product will sunset on May 31, 2026.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Visual Knowledge Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Software Publishers (51321), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise Search, Indexing & Content Discovery (HDAEAGAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Topic/Interest-Based Content Discovery Apps (MPACAKAB)

Keywords

• Visual knowledge management
• Infinite canvas workspace
• AI mood board software
• Visual research collaboration
• Personal knowledge management

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription (Plus tier): Monthly or annual subscription plan ($6.99/month yearly or $10.99/month monthly) providing unlimited workspaces, members, guests, file imports, AI requests, and priority support. This is the core recurring revenue stream.
2. Freemium (Rover tier): Free forever tier with 1 workspace, unlimited universes and items, up to 100 files (15MB max per file), 3 members, 10 guests, and 50 AI requests per month. Drives top-of-funnel acquisition and converts to paid Plus tier.
3. Pro subscription tier: Pro tier at $11.99/month (billed yearly) or $14.99/month (billed monthly) offering unlimited workspaces, universes, items, file imports (no size limit), AI requests, workspace sharing, and priority support.
4. Enterprise contracts: Custom-priced Enterprise tier offering everything in Plus/Pro with custom integrations, dedicated Slack channel, and team onboarding services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Kosmik sells a desktop knowledge-management application (currently shipping as Kosmik 3, introduced 2025) that gives users an infinite visual canvas for collecting, organizing, and connecting images, videos, PDFs, and web links, with a built-in multiplayer web browser, AI auto-tagging, computer-vision-based visual similarity search, an OCR PDF reader with annotation, and real-time multi-user collaboration. The product is offered as a freemium (Rover) plus paid subscription tiers (Plus, Pro, Enterprise) for individual creators, researchers, and small/medium teams, with a Chrome Web Clipper extension as an auxiliary capture tool. The company has announced the product will sunset on May 31, 2026.

Product overview

Kosmik is a single unified desktop product — an AI-powered visual workspace and 'new take on the desktop metaphor' for knowledge management — currently shipping as Kosmik 3 (introduced in 2025) for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM). It bundles an infinite canvas, the built-in Kosmik Browser, an OCR-capable PDF reader, drawing/annotation tools, AI auto-tagging, AI Asset Finder, AI search, real-time multiplayer collaboration, and the Kosmik Web Clipper Chrome extension, with subscription tiers (Rover free, Plus, Enterprise, and an upcoming Ambassador tier). The company announced that Kosmik will sunset on May 31, 2026; in the interim the team is exploring options to continue work on spatial interfaces and document-oriented systems.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kosmik 3: The third major iteration of the Kosmik app, introduced in 2025, featuring a re-designed experience with built-in browser, auto-tagging, and AI search.

Products and services

• Kosmik Desktop App (Kosmik 3) Desktop knowledge-management application for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM) that provides an infinite visual canvas with a built-in multiplayer web browser, OCR-capable PDF reader with annotation, AI auto-tagging, AI Asset Finder, AI search, real-time multi-user collaboration with live cursors, and Universe Templates. Offered under free (Rover), Plus ($6.99/mo yearly or $10.99/mo monthly), Pro ($11.99/mo yearly or $14.99/mo monthly), and custom-priced Enterprise tiers. Currently shipping as Kosmik 3, with the company sunsetting the product on May 31, 2026.
• Kosmik Web Clipper Chrome (Chromium) browser extension that captures full web pages — including source URLs and metadata — directly into a Kosmik canvas, enabling zero-friction web clipping for visual research and mood-boarding. Available via the Chrome Web Store and serves both as a capture feature for Kosmik users and as a distribution channel for new user acquisition.

Quantifiable outcome

• Users report 50-70% time savings on research and organization tasks
• +2 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability9 records

Feature12 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• BetaworksminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerKosmik demoed its first multiplayer web-browser at Betaworks ThinkCAMP in 2022. Betaworks is a known startup studio/venture builder; the relationship appears to have included showcasing Kosmik's innovation at one of Betaworks' events rather than a deep commercial partnership.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Milanote: Visual moodboard and research board tool for creatives; directly overlaps with Kosmik's primary use case of organizing images, videos, notes, and links on a freeform canvas for designers and researchers.
• Heptabase: Visual knowledge-management tool that combines spatial cards, bi-directional linking, and AI features — directly comparable to Kosmik's spatial-canvas, PDF annotation, and AI search positioning for researchers and PKM users.
• Are.na: Visual bookmarking and collaborative canvas for collecting and connecting ideas — same freeform, image/text/link-first use case as Kosmik for creative and academic users.
• Padlet: Visual collaboration boards supporting images, videos, links, and real-time multi-user editing; comparable to Kosmik's "moodboard + multiplayer" core offering at a broader education-and-team level.
• Obsidian: Local-first, graph-based PKM tool with canvas support, PDF annotation, and AI plug-ins — strong overlap with Kosmik's research/knowledge-management positioning and local-first ethos.

Broad incumbents

• Miro: Large, well-funded visual collaboration whiteboard used for brainstorming, moodboarding, and research; competes with Kosmik in the team visual-collaboration segment but at vastly greater scale and breadth.
• Mural: Enterprise digital whiteboard for visual collaboration, workshops, and design thinking; broader in scope than Kosmik but overlaps in the "visual team canvas" use case Kosmik targets.
• Notion: Broad PKM, docs, and database platform that overlaps with Kosmik's knowledge-management and team-collaboration use cases, though it lacks Kosmik's spatial canvas and visual-research focus.
• FigJam: Figma's online whiteboard for design teams; competes with Kosmik in collaborative moodboarding and brainstorming but anchored inside the Figma design ecosystem.

Emerging players

• Scrintal: Visual research and mind-mapping tool for academics and content creators, combining canvas-based organization with bi-directional linking; comparable to Kosmik's researcher/academic segment.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/kosmik_app
• Facebookfacebook.com/kosmikapp
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kosmikapp

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors5 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Kosmik