For Windows · macOS · Linux
Full IDE · offline-friendly · privacy-first
The whole workspace. Off the web tab.
The desktop client is a full IDE — a Monaco editor, a server-side debugger, git and a multi-terminal — alongside a wrapped browser, a local model manager and a content crawler that all run at native speed. It's the most capable askFinz surface, for the moments you don't want a browser between you and the work.
Desktop bundles a real development environment — editor, debugger, source control and terminals — with the browser, local-model and crawler features. It is the only askFinz surface that runs all of these in one window.
A Monaco-based editor with multi-file editing, a language-server (LSP) backbone for completions and diagnostics, and AI inline autocomplete served by a local model. The editing surface is the same engine that powers professional code tools.
A server-side debugger (DAP) with live, verified breakpoints. Cross-language debugging ships today for Python, JavaScript / TypeScript and Go. Rust support is coming. Desktop leads the web IDE on languages.
Source control is built in — inline diffs, blame, branch switching and staging — so you can review and commit without leaving the editor.
Run as many shells as the job needs, side by side, in the same window as the editor and the debugger. Builds, tests and scripts stay next to the code they touch.
The desktop client bundles a chromium-based browser pinned to the askFinz workspaces, with the navigation chrome we ship inside the product. It's the same interface as the web — without the browser tab.
A storage pane keeps a folder on your machine in sync with your askFinz workspace, so the files you edit and the files the agents see are the same files.
Pin a set of local AI minds and the desktop client will use them when the network drops. Useful on a flight, on a sensitive client site, or when you simply prefer the work stays on your machine.
Point it at a corpus on disk — a paper archive, a code repository, a folder of contracts — and it works through them at native speed. The output feeds Search and Research.
The desktop debugger runs server-side over the Debug Adapter Protocol, with breakpoints we've verified hit live. Set them, step through frames, inspect variables — across more languages than the web IDE.
Cross-language debugging ships today for Python, JavaScript / TypeScript and Go. Rust is on the roadmap and not yet available.
The desktop client is a full IDE and a dedicated home for the workspaces, with offline support. It is not a screen-sharing host, a remote-desktop server, or a video-conferencing tool. We hear those requests and we've catalogued them — but they don't ship today and we won't pretend they do.
If you need to give an askFinz agent control of your screen, that's the job of the Navigator agent inside the web product — read how Navigator pauses, on purpose.
Desktop is the most capable development surface: it carries the full IDE — editor, debugger, git and terminals — and it leads the web IDE on debugging languages, with a curated set of local-first models for offline-friendly, low-latency work. The cloud version on *.askfinz.ai has the full agent fleet, larger context windows and the most capable frontier models. Reach for Desktop when you want everything in one native window; reach for Cloud when you want the frontier models and the whole fleet.
| OS | Distributable | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | askFinz-Setup-x64.exe | Windows 10 / 11 (x64). Code-signing pending; private-access installer is unsigned during this window. |
| macOS | askFinz.dmg | macOS 12 Monterey or newer (Apple Silicon and Intel). Notarisation pending; private-access build is unsigned. |
| Linux | askFinz.AppImage | Most x64 distros. Run `chmod +x` after download. No package-manager listing yet. |
Code-signing is being finalised. Until then, private-access installers may trigger the operating system's “unverified developer” warning the first time they open. We email a checksum with every drop so you can verify what we sent.
Email hello@askfinz.com with your platform; we send a signed checksum and a download link valid for 72 hours.
