Local-first

Your files never leaveyour machine.

Deska is a desktop app, not a website with a folder picker. Your code, your layouts and your keys live on your own computer, and the cloud stays off until you turn it on.

Where the line is

Nothing crosses the line unless you turn it on.

Your workspace lives on your own computer. You reach the cloud only when you choose to, nothing is uploaded behind your back.

EVERYTHING ON YOUR MACHINE · NO CLOUD REQUIRED
The line, drawn

What stays, and what only leaves when you ask.

This is the whole list. Everything on the left is written to your disk and nowhere else.

Stays on your machine

Processed and stored locally, always.

  • ·Your repository and every file in it
  • ·Terminal sessions and their scrollback
  • ·Panel layouts, spaces and snapshots
  • ·Settings and locally stored agent sessions
  • ·Your notes and dictation history
  • ·Provider keys you add under Settings
Leaves only for the feature you used

Nothing here happens in the background.

  • Signing inYour email and an authentication identifier.
  • BillingHandled by Stripe. Deska never stores full card numbers.
  • Managed AIYour prompt, audio for voice, and a context snapshot: project name, relative paths, panel titles, terminal status.
  • Reaching your desk remotelyTraffic to the machine you connected, over an encrypted relay.
  • Crash reports and usage dataOnly while the toggles are on, scrubbed of home paths and secrets.
  • A Deska Cloud machineOnly if you have one, and then only what you put on it. Your own computers are never copied to it.

BYOK ON ANY PAID PLAN SENDS AI REQUESTS STRAIGHT TO YOUR PROVIDER

01

Nothing is uploaded behind your back

Files, layouts, spaces, snapshots and history are written to your own disk. There is no automatic cloud sync of workspaces, and Deska has no copy of your project.

02

Your keys, your account

On any paid plan you bring your own provider keys and requests go from your machine straight to the provider, never through us.

03

The cloud is something you add

Sign in to sync your plan or reach your desk from the phone, and add a Deska Cloud machine if you want one that stays on. Skip all of it and the workspace still runs, offline, on your own computer.

Worth knowing

Where files live
Your own disk, always
Workspace cloud sync
None today
A machine of ours
Only if you subscribe to Deska Cloud
Managed AI sends
Prompt, audio, context snapshot
BYOK requests
Straight to your provider
Crash reports
Scrubbed, switchable off
Billing
Stripe · no card numbers stored

About your data

One canvas for everything you build.Free to start.

The complete workspace on one computer, with 30 voice minutes a month.

Mac

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Apple Silicon · Intel

Linux

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AppImage · Debian

Windows

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Windows 11 & 10 · x64
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