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.
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.
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.
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
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.
BYOK ON LIFETIME SENDS AI REQUESTS STRAIGHT TO YOUR PROVIDER
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.
Your keys, your account
On a Lifetime license you bring your own provider keys and requests go from your machine straight to the provider, never through us.
The cloud is opt-in
Sign in to sync your plan or reach your desk from the phone. Skip it and the workspace still runs, offline, on your machine.
Worth knowing
- Where files live
- Your own disk, always
- Workspace cloud sync
- None today
- 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 forever.
The full workspace, with monthly credits to run AI on us. No card needed.