Cognira

Cognira is an independent AI assistant with an unusual setup: its own Retrain 12B model is served locally through MLX from a single 16GB iMac rather than forwarded to someone else's API. Its standout feature is teachable memory — tell it a preference, fact or word and it is saved to private memory immediately, and replies that use memory show exactly what was used, with a one-tap Forget option. That transparency around memory is rare and welcome in a category where assistants often remember things silently. There are no ads and no data selling, with a free tier and a kindness promo code for a month of Pro or Max. The single-machine setup means capacity and uptime cannot match big hosted providers, and a 12B model will trail frontier models on hard reasoning. For users who value privacy, independence and explicit memory control over raw capability, it is a genuinely interesting alternative.