Ask it anything, write with it in any app, and ask your contracts and leases too. It can run with no internet, and answers from your files show the exact clause.
30 days free with every feature. For Macs with Apple silicon, macOS 15 or later.
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Citenookfound this in 2 of your files
Sample files, made up for this page. Click a number to see where each fact came from.
Most of the day you need a quick answer or a better sentence. Citenook does that too, privately, and keeps the proof for when it's about a client.
Explain a term, draft an outline, think through a plan. Pick Just ask and the AI answers from what it knows. With a model on your Mac there's no account and nothing leaves.
Works with Wi-Fi offSelect text in Mail, Word or anywhere, press Option and Space, and fix it, shorten it or rewrite it. It can learn your style from a few of your own emails.
“Can I paste this into ChatGPT?”
You don't have to. Citenook reads, searches and keeps your files on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded or synced, and we never receive your files or your questions.
“Which version did we sign?”
Ask once instead of opening twenty files. When two files disagree, you see both answers, each with its source. Keep one brain per client, so answers never mix clients up.
“Did it make that up?”
Check it in one click. Every fact has a small number that opens the file at the exact sentence. If your files don't say it, Citenook tells you instead of guessing.
Your files never leave it. The only choice is which AI writes the answer, and you make that choice for each chat.
Apple Intelligence, or a free model you download once. It works with Wi-Fi off, and no AI account is needed.
Nothing leaves your MacOpenAI, Anthropic, Google or OpenRouter. Your question and the passages it needs go straight to that company, under your key and their terms. Never through us.
File names stay on your MacUse the models you already run. Citenook finds them on its own.
On ProCitenook isn't certified for HIPAA, SOC 2 or similar rules. Check what your profession and your clients allow.
It catches the common kinds, but it can miss unusual names, more often outside English. For the most sensitive work, use a model on your Mac.
With an online AI, your request goes to the company you chose, under your own key and their terms. Citenook never uses your files to train anything.
Make one brain per client, project or subject. Add whole folders, and they stay up to date as files change.
No keywords to remember. Type .pdf to ask only PDFs, or in:Acme to ask only one brain.
Each fact opens the file at the right page, with the exact sentence highlighted in yellow.
Writing an email or a report? Select the text, press Option and Space, and the answer appears right there. Copy it, or insert it where you're typing.
Pro also helps with the bigger jobs:
For questions that span many files, it searches several times before it writes.
Replies and rewrites in a style it learns from a few of your own emails.
Save steps you repeat, like “what's due this week, written as an email”, and run them in one click.
ChatGPT needs your files uploaded. Citenook keeps them on your Mac and shows you where it read each answer.
| Question | Chatbots | Citenook |
|---|---|---|
| Your files | Uploaded to each chat | Read and searched on your Mac |
| Proof for each answer | Rarely | The exact sentence, highlighted in your file |
| Names, emails and ID numbers | Sent as you typed them | Hidden before anything is sent |
| See exactly what's sent | No | Preview every request, on every plan |
| Works offline | No | Yes, with a model on your Mac |
| Which AI answers | The provider's | Your choice, for each chat |
See how Citenook compares with Elephas, Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) and AnythingLLM.
Find the clause in the signed version, with the page to prove it.
Check invoices, notices and statements without opening each one.
Find what a report or referral said, without uploading patient notes.
Answer a client's question in the meeting, not in a follow-up email.
Quote the exact passage across hundreds of papers, not a paraphrase.
Look back through your session notes privately, on your own Mac.
Also for financial advisors, students, small business owners, and anyone with files that can't leave their hands.
No card needed. Every feature is on during your free month. Then pick the plan that fits, and cancel any time.
For your own documents
$6.58 a month
$79 billed yearly
$9.99 a month
Billed monthly
Buy Standard Buy StandardFor daily work across many files
$12.42 a month
$149 billed yearly
$19.99 a month
Billed monthly
Buy Pro Buy ProFor client work, with priority help
$19.08 a month
$229 billed yearly
$29.99 a month
Billed monthly
Buy Pro+ Buy Pro+Prices in US dollars. Yearly plans are billed once a year, monthly plans every month. Your own AI keys are billed by their services.
Something else? Write to support@citenook.com.
Your files are read and searched on your Mac, and we never receive them. With a model on your Mac, nothing leaves it at all, even with Wi-Fi off. With an online AI, only your question and the passages needed are sent, with personal details hidden first, and you can preview what goes. Citenook isn't certified for rules like HIPAA, so check what your profession and clients allow.
No. Files are read and searched on your Mac, and questions go only to the AI you choose. We receive your name and email when you get a key, and nothing about your files.
Your question and the passages chosen for that answer, nothing else. File names aren't sent. Names, emails, phone and ID numbers are hidden in your question, the passages and earlier messages, with the same placeholder for the same name, and put back when the answer comes in.
Yes. With Apple Intelligence or a model you've downloaded, everything happens on your Mac and no internet is needed. Online AI services, web pages and YouTube need a connection.
No. Models on your Mac are free to use. If you want an online AI, add your own key from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or OpenRouter, and pay them directly for what you use.
Macs with Apple silicon (M1 or later) on macOS 15 or later. Models on your Mac run best with 16 GB of memory or more. With 8 GB, Apple Intelligence or an online AI is the better choice.
Citenook never uses your files to train anything. Online AI services handle requests under your own account and their terms.
Nothing uploaded. Every answer with its proof.
30 days free with every feature. For Macs with Apple silicon, macOS 15 or later.