Tools for developers who value craftsmanship

Rawnaqs is an open source organization building tools for developers who value privacy, local-first architecture, and craftsmanship.

رونق

Named after the Arabic word rawnaqs — the inner luster of something made with mastery. Every tool we build is designed to run on your machine, serve your needs, and stay entirely under your control.

No subscriptions. No cloud dependencies. No data leaving your hands.

Core Values

Privacy First

Your data stays on your machine. No telemetry, no analytics, no cloud sync. Zero trust required.

Local First

Everything runs locally. SQLite for storage, local LLMs for processing. No external dependencies.

Craftsmanship

Built with precision and care. Clean code, thoughtful design, tools that respect your workflow.

Projects

Khayal

A local-first, privacy-focused second brain. Capture anything — text, images, URLs. Process locally with your own LLM. Search semantically and by keyword. Your data never leaves your machine.

Go SQLite AGPL-3.0

Features

Capture text, images, URLs

Process with local LLM (Ollama)

Hybrid search: FTS5 + embeddings

Plain markdown vault

PWA with offline support

CLI + web interface

Quick Start

 $ brew install rawnaqs/tap/khayal

 $ khayal init

 $ khayal start

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Contributing

All Rawnaqs tools are AGPLv3 licensed

We welcome contributions. Whether it's a bug fix, feature, or documentation improvement — every tool in the Rawnaqs ecosystem is open for collaboration.

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