Chat with Work Desktop
Your chats and bots, on your computer. Only where you allow.
Chat with Work Desktop, the open-source app for Mac, Windows, and Linux, lets your chats and bots work on your computer as you allow: folders you choose, files it changes with your approval, commands in a sandbox, scans of paper, and your browser.
Free: 30 answers a day, plus 300 trial credits for every other model. No card.
It reads
- Folders you lend
- Scans you make
- Pages in its own browser tab group
With your approval
- Create, edit, and move files
- Delete to the trash
- Word and Excel files
- Commands in a sandbox (Mac, Linux)
- Clicks and typing in your browser
Never
- Folders you didn't lend
- Password, payment, or one-time code fields
- Sites you didn't allow
Scan
Scan paper. A bot files it.
Scan from the app with a USB scanner. It makes a searchable PDF on your computer, so our servers do no OCR, and sends it into a new chat or to a bot, like the mail scanner recipe.
Commands
Your tests, run where you allow.
On Mac, Linux, and Windows 11 24H2 and later, once your organization turns commands on and you allow a folder on the computer. Each runs in a sandbox with limits, without the network unless the folder allows it, and asks first.
Install
Mac, Windows, and Linux. Open source.
- Mac
- Homebrew, or the app from the latest release
- Windows
- WinGet, or the installer from the latest release
- Linux
- Arch (AUR), Debian and Ubuntu (.deb), Fedora and openSUSE (.rpm)
- Source
- github.com/crmne/chatwithwork-desktop, the only open-source part of Chat with Work
FAQ
Your computer, your rules.
Can AI work with files on my computer, safely?
Chat with Work Desktop lends your Mac, Windows, or Linux computer to your chats and bots, only in the folders you choose. It reads there by itself; every file change, command, and browser action asks first, and the app on your computer enforces what's allowed.
Can it scan paper documents?
Yes. Chat with Work Desktop drives a USB scanner and makes a searchable PDF on your computer, so our servers do no OCR, then sends it into a new chat or to a bot that files it.
Does it run commands on my computer?
On Mac, Linux, and Windows 11 24H2 and later, only once your organization turns commands on, and only in folders you allow on the computer. Each command runs in a sandbox with limits and no network unless the folder allows it, and asks first, unless you chose Allow everything in that chat.
Is Chat with Work Desktop open source?
Yes, it's the only open-source part of Chat with Work. Its source and install guide are on GitHub.
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Everything else it does
Everywhere else you work.
- Chats across your tools Ask every tool you connect in one question, approve each change, and share chats with your team in projects.
- Bots They start on a time or an event and do the chores that repeat, asking first unless you let them run.
- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Google Docs Ask beside the document with what you selected, and apply each edit yourself.
- iPhone and Android Your chats and bots in your pocket: ask, follow your bots, and approve what waits for you.
- Slack, Teams, Discord, and Campfire Ask where your team already talks, with your own integrations.
- Documents, spreadsheets, and decks It runs code in a sandbox to calculate and to build Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on your templates.
- Self-hosting Chat with Work on your own servers, with the models you choose, local ones included.
Lend it one folder.
Sign up, install Chat with Work Desktop, and share a folder. Nothing you don't share is readable.
Free: 30 answers a day, plus 300 trial credits for every other model. No card.