Cunari began with a simple belief: researchers should not have to choose between expensive premium tools and free alternatives that fall short of professional quality.
Waqar saw the same problem again and again: the academic tools with the best quality were often priced beyond the reach of students, researchers, and institutions in developing economies.
At the same time, many free alternatives were accessible but could not always offer the same reliability, polish, privacy, and professional workflow that serious research demands.
Cunari was created to close that gap — not by lowering expectations, but by building high-quality academic software with fair access at its core.
Powerful, polished, and reliable — but often priced for wealthy institutions and stronger economies.
Accessible, but often limited in quality, design, privacy, or long-term reliability.
Professional academic software built with fair access, privacy, and real research conditions in mind.
We chose to begin with reference management because it is one of the most common pain points in academic work.
MyCiter is Cunari’s first product: a native, offline-first reference manager built to help researchers manage citations, read literature, organize references, and keep writing without unnecessary friction.
Cunari is proudly built in Pakistan. For us, that is not a limitation — it is a statement that globally competitive software can be built here with care, discipline, and ambition.
Our goal is to create focused academic tools that serve researchers everywhere, especially those who have too often been priced out of quality software.
Where a researcher is born should never decide the quality of the tools they get to work with.
Explore MyCiter today, or join the waitlist to hear about the tools we build next.
