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What is Kosmik?
Kosmik is a visual workspace built around an infinite canvas, a built-in browser and real-time collaboration, aimed at moodboarding, research boards, visual libraries and creative presentations. Its own site now carries a prominent notice that Kosmik is winding down, with a sunset date of May 31, 2026, and points existing users to instructions for exporting their data.
What it was designed to do
According to the site, Kosmik combined a few ideas that are usually separate tools:
- An infinite canvas for collecting and arranging images, references and notes spatially, rather than in a linear document.
- A built-in browser, so you can pull material from the web directly onto the canvas without switching apps. The team says it shipped a multiplayer web browser in 2022.
- Real-time collaboration, so a board can be worked on by several people at once.
- AI assistance in the most recent version, described as auto-tagging and AI search alongside the browser and canvas.
The site frames typical uses as research boards, visual libraries, creative explorations and team presentations — the kind of work where you are gathering references first and deciding what they mean afterwards.
The catch you need to weigh
Because the product is being discontinued, this is no longer a sensible place to start new work. Anyone evaluating it today should treat it as a short-term or archival tool only, and check the export instructions before putting anything important into it. If you are choosing a moodboarding or visual research tool now, prioritise one with a clear long-term roadmap and a straightforward way to get your files out.
Practical next step
If you already have boards in Kosmik, the immediate task is exporting your data well before the sunset date, and confirming the export opens correctly in whatever you move to. If you are simply looking for a comparable canvas-based tool, compare candidates on three things: whether the canvas is genuinely infinite, whether web capture happens inside the app, and how portable your boards are if you leave.
How do I export my data from Kosmik before it shuts down?
Kosmik’s own site says the app is winding down and will sunset on May 31, 2026. The page includes a link labeled “Learn how to export your data,” so use that as the primary route rather than trying to copy files out of the app manually.
What to do
- Open Kosmik and follow the “Learn how to export your data” link on the sunset notice.
- Export your canvases or boards while the service is still available.
- Check that images, notes, links, and any browser-based captures open correctly outside Kosmik.
- Store a second copy somewhere separate, such as cloud storage plus an external drive.
- If anything is missing or unclear, use the contact options mentioned on the page before the shutdown date.
Why this matters
Kosmik was built around an infinite canvas, a built-in browser, real-time collaboration, and later AI features such as auto-tagging and AI search. Those features made it useful for research boards, visual libraries, creative exploration, and team presentations, but they can also mean your work is stored in a format that is not automatically useful elsewhere. Exporting early gives you time to fix broken links or missing assets.
A practical reader scenario
If you used Kosmik as a visual research library, export each board and then sort the files into a simple folder structure by project or client. If you used it mainly for team presentations, export the board and immediately open it in your usual presentation or design tool to confirm the layout still makes sense.
Decision criterion
Treat the export as urgent if you still rely on Kosmik for active work. Treat it as routine if the boards are archival, but still do it before May 31, 2026. For a broader backup habit, you can also keep a copy in Dropbox or Google Drive.
What are the best alternatives to Kosmik for AI moodboarding?
Kosmik is not a safe long-term choice for AI moodboarding right now: its own site says it is winding down and will sunset on May 31st 2026, with export instructions and a download link as the main calls to action. Any alternative you pick should therefore be judged on two things: whether it does AI-assisted visual collecting, and whether it looks like it will still exist in three years.
What to look for
- AI that helps you collect, not just generate. The useful kind tags, searches and clusters images you already saved. Pure image generators produce pretty pictures but no searchable library.
- A real canvas plus a library. Moodboards fail when items live only on the board and cannot be reused in the next project.
- Export and ownership. Kosmik's shutdown notice is a reminder to check that you can get your boards out in a standard format.
- Collaboration model. Real-time multiplayer suits agencies; single-player tools are cheaper and simpler for solo work.
Practical alternatives
| Need | Option | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|
| Visual bookmarking with AI tagging and search | Savee | Invite-based, more library than canvas |
| Infinite canvas with AI features and team boards | Miro | Broad and heavy; AI is an add-on, not the core |
| Design-native boards and moodboards | Figma | Great for handoff, less good as a casual visual diary |
| Freeform canvas with strong search | Notion | Weak as a spatial moodboard tool |
A concrete next step
If you are a designer building a research board for a client, start by exporting your Kosmik canvases while the app is still live, then rebuild one real project in a candidate tool before committing. Test three things: can you drag in an image from the web in one action, can you find it again by describing it in words, and can you hand the board to a colleague without a screen-share walkthrough. If a tool fails the second test, its AI is decoration rather than a moodboarding feature.
When exactly does Kosmik sunset and what happens to my account?
Kosmik shuts down on May 31st, 2026. That date is stated directly on the site's homepage, which currently leads with the message "Kosmik is winding down …" rather than its usual product pitch.
The page does not spell out account-level details (whether accounts are deleted, whether billing stops automatically, or what happens to shared canvases). What it does provide is a data export path: the homepage repeats a "Learn how to export your data" link, which is the practical step to take. The farewell note also invites users to write in or book a call for help, so anything account-specific is best raised there rather than assumed.
H3 Practical next steps if you have boards on Kosmik
- Export your data well before May 31st, 2026, and open the exported files to confirm images, links and notes survived the transfer intact.
- If you collaborate with others, agree on a shared destination and deadline — a board only one teammate can export is a single point of failure.
- Keep your own copy of anything you linked out to. An exported board that points at a dead URL is only half a board.
- Check whether you are on a paid plan and what your renewal date is, so you are not paying past the point of usefulness.
H3 Where to move a visual board
| Option | Best for | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|
| A general whiteboard tool | Teams that need live multiplayer and commenting | Usually weaker at clipping and archiving web content |
| A design tool like Figma | Designers already working in that file structure | A moodboard sits inside a design workflow, not beside it |
| A note-and-database tool like Notion | Research boards you want to tag, search and cite | Less free-form spatial arrangement |
| A visual bookmarking tool like Raindrop.io | Collecting and organising reference links | Weaker as a blank canvas for spatial thinking |
Kosmik's own stated strengths were the built-in browser, real-time collaboration and an infinite canvas, with auto-tagging and AI search added in its 2025 version. If those browser-and-canvas habits are what you relied on, test candidates by rebuilding one real board in each rather than judging from feature lists — the built-in browser is the part most alternatives do not replicate.
For a concrete starting point: pick your single most important board, export it this week, and rebuild it in one candidate tool before committing your whole library.
Can I still download Kosmik and use it offline until the shutdown?
Yes, but only with important caveats: Kosmik's own site says the product is "winding down" and will sunset on May 31, 2026, and it still offers a "Download Kosmik" option. The page does not promise that the app will remain fully usable offline after that date, so treat any offline use as temporary and plan to export your data.
What the page actually says
- Kosmik is sunsetting on May 31, 2026.
- The site provides a download link and export instructions.
- The page does not state that downloads will stay available, that offline mode will keep working, or that servers will remain online after sunset.
Practical implication
If you download Kosmik now, you may be able to use it locally for a while, but you should not rely on it as a long-term offline tool. "Winding down" usually means hosted features, sync, accounts and collaboration will stop, even if a local app still opens. The safe approach is to assume the app may become unusable or unsupported after May 31, 2026.
What to do next
- Download Kosmik from Kosmik while the option is still available.
- Follow the site's export instructions immediately and save your boards in a portable format.
- Test whether the exported files open without Kosmik, and keep a second copy in cloud storage or on an external drive.
- If offline access matters to you, verify it yourself before the shutdown: disconnect from the internet, open the app, and check whether your boards still load.
- For ongoing moodboarding after sunset, compare alternatives such as Milanote, Miro or Figma's FigJam, and check each one's import options before committing.
Decision criterion
Stay with Kosmik only if you are comfortable treating it as a short-term, export-first tool. If you need a moodboard or visual research space that will still be supported next year, migrate now rather than waiting until the shutdown date.
How does Kosmik's built-in browser and AI search support creative workflows?
Kosmik's own site now leads with a sunset notice: the app is scheduled to shut down on May 31, 2026, and the page points users to data-export instructions. That changes the practical answer to your question. The built-in browser and AI search were designed to keep research and visual collecting inside one infinite canvas, but for most people the sensible move today is to evaluate Kosmik as a short-term or experimental tool, not a long-term home for client work.
What the features were built to do
- Built-in browser: Instead of switching to a separate browser, saving screenshots, then re-uploading them, you could browse and pull references directly onto the canvas. The company describes it as the first multiplayer web browser, introduced in 2022, so teammates could browse and collect together in the same space.
- AI search and auto-tagging: Added in the 2025 "Kosmik 3" release, these were meant to make a large, messy board retrievable — find a reference by describing it rather than remembering where you dropped it.
- Infinite canvas plus local-first storage: Kosmik's site notes that as early as 2018 it stored data locally via an on-device IPFS node while still supporting multiplayer.
The workflow logic is sound: research, collection and presentation happen on one surface, so a moodboard doubles as the research trail. The trade-off is lock-in. A canvas that holds your browsing history, tags and visual library is hard to reconstruct elsewhere, which is exactly why the export step matters now.
A concrete scenario
A brand designer building a direction board for a client would open Kosmik, browse competitor sites and image references in-canvas, drop them in loose clusters, tag them by theme, and later use AI search to pull "warm neutrals" or "packaging" when assembling the final presentation. On a team, a strategist could add references to the same board live during a call. That is genuinely faster than a folder of screenshots — but if the board is still needed after May 2026, it has to live somewhere else.
What to do instead
- Export anything you still need, following Kosmik's own export guidance, and verify the files open outside the app.
- For new work, pick a tool with a clearer long-term horizon. Broad canvas and whiteboard tools such as Miro or Figma (FigJam) cover collaborative boards, while Are.na suits slow, research-heavy visual collecting and Raindrop.io handles bookmark-and-tag libraries.
- Decide by durability first: if the board is a deliverable or an archive, choose a tool whose export format you can actually reopen. If it is a disposable thinking space, a sunsetting app is a reasonable short-term experiment.
The honest summary: Kosmik's browser-plus-AI-search combination addressed a real friction point in moodboarding, and its local-first, multiplayer approach was unusual. But a shutdown date is a harder constraint than any feature list, so treat the features as a design reference for what to look for elsewhere rather than a reason to commit.
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