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Browser · askFinz Drive · then the coder
Its own browser. Its own drive.
The first release is two things. A real web browser the agents drive — it navigates, signs in where you already have access, and reads the pages a crawler is refused. And askFinz Drive, which keeps a folder on your disk and your workspace as one file store, so what you edit is what an agent reads. The coder — editor, debugger, terminals — follows on the same subscription.
The browser and the drive come first, because they are what the desktop is for: a machine of your own that an agent can actually work on, and a folder it can actually read. The development environment — editor, debugger, source control and terminals — is built and follows them, on the same subscription. Each card below says which half it is in.
Not a window onto the web app: a real browser the agents drive. It navigates, signs in where you already have access, works through a task across sites, and reads pages a crawler is refused — the same route the extension takes, on your own machine.
Cloud storage of the familiar kind, built for work a machine also does. A folder on your disk stays in step with your workspace, so the file you edit and the file an agent reads are one file — written twice, in two countries.
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.
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 across Python, JavaScript / TypeScript and Go. Built and tested; it arrives with the coder rather than with the browser and the drive.
Source control 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 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. It arrives with the coder, after the browser and the drive.
Cross-language debugging is built and verified for Python, JavaScript / TypeScript and Go, and ships with the coder release. Rust is on the roadmap after it.
The first release is the browser and the drive, with local models and the folder reader. The development environment is built and follows them — we would rather say that than let a download page imply you get all of it on day one. 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 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 surface that runs on hardware you own: a browser an agent can drive without asking anyone's permission, your files on your own disk, and local models for offline, low-latency work. The cloud version on *.askfinz.ai has the full agent fleet, larger context windows and the most capable frontier models, and it is where the twenty-nine workspaces live today. Reach for Desktop when the work should stay on your machine; 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.
