One program that can see your screen, run your machine, remember everything you've done,
and build the tools it doesn't have yet.
Most AI assistants live in a browser tab and forget you the moment you close it. Desire lives on your machine, has hands, and remembers.
✦ Offline by default · Local models · Online is a setting, not a condition ✦
AI assistants are tourists on your computer. They can talk about your files but not open them, describe a workflow but not run it, and they forget you between sessions. Desire closes those gaps.
| The gap | What Desire does instead | |
|---|---|---|
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No hands | Runs applications, files, downloads, browsers, and the OS itself, under a permission model you control |
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No eyes | Sees the screen by default, and can be told to stop, so "what is this?" needs no copy-paste |
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No memory | A local database plus vector index, so you can recall a task from last week from a vague description |
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No privacy | Runs offline by default. Local models. Online is a switch you flip |
Genesis. If Desire doesn't have the tab you need, you ask for it and it builds one, in the app's own design language. Desire isn't a fixed set of features. It's a substrate that grows features on request.
A desktop application organized as 109 shipped modules, and it keeps growing. New surfaces land most sessions. A few of the ones worth meeting first:
| Surface | What it is |
|---|---|
| Atlas | The home dashboard. Tasks, goals, calendar, health, finance, journal, notes, and learning in one place |
| Mission Control | Watch the agent work in real time, with its own browser and a rewindable action timeline |
| Arcane | The Agent Studio. Build subagents and full agents with their own roles, tools, permissions, and budgets |
| Sidera | Encrypted peer-to-peer: chat, calls, screenshare, file transfer, and remote control |
| Envoy | Voice command of both the app and the machine |
The full surface list (109 shipped, more each session)
Looks · Atlas · Machine Vision · Overview · Chat · Studio (classic) · Studio · Dispatch · Routines · Capabilities · Control Tower · Helios · Mission Control · Spine · Arcane · Lyceum · Obligations · Follow-Through · Clarity · Work Map · Decisions · Signal · Wire · Flow · Deals · Learning Map · Self & Tools · Self-Improvement · Advisory Board · Guardian · Vigil · Missions · CODEX Review · Lattice · Query · Privacy · Runtimes · Watch · Bridge · System Health · Awareness · Crew · Spaces · Mods · Model Hub · Time Machine · Echo Ambient · Resonance · Lingua · Board · Loadouts · Glyphs · Session Packs · Provenance · Intelligence · Commitments · Genesis · Memory · Chronicle · Vault · Synapse · Inkwell · Terminal · Execution · Directives · Creator · Armory · Constellation · Relay · Lens · ECHO Audio Hub · Echo · Photo Editor · Video Editor · 3D Design · Nocturnum · Finance · Financial Markets · Reverb · Search · Nova Browser · Orbit · Nexus · Sidera · Call Setup · Messaging Bots · Conflux · Smart Home · Sigil · MOSAIC · Marketplace · Do It Again · Sync · Velocity · Monitor · Protocols · Tessera · Folio · Crucible · Weave · Press · Trove · Workbench · Envoy · Recall · Undo Ledger · Atelier · Rewind · Pulse
Last updated 2026-10-24. Refreshed on every push.
| ~1.58M lines of TypeScript | ~8,200 TS/TSX files (~23,000 tracked total) | 109 modules shipped | 4 shared packages + 6 apps |
| 5,636 commits since 2026-06-21 | ~45 commits/day | 1,277 smoke-test suites | 8-stage CI |
Grab the installer for your platform from the latest release:
| Platform | File | |
|---|---|---|
| macOS | Desire-<version>-arm64.dmg |
Apple Silicon |
| macOS | Desire-<version>-x64.dmg |
Intel |
| Windows | Desire-Setup-<version>-x64.exe |
64-bit |
| Linux | Desire-<version>.AppImage |
x64 |
| Linux | Desire-<version>-arm64.AppImage |
ARM64 |
Desire runs offline out of the box. Online features are opt-in, per-feature, from inside the app.
Macs need macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. Builds are unsigned: on macOS, right-click the app and choose Open on first launch; on Windows, click More info → Run anyway if SmartScreen warns you; on Linux, chmod +x the AppImage.
No app store needed. Desire's desktop app serves a companion page over your own Wi-Fi: open Bridge in Desire, start it, and open the URL it shows on your phone with the one-time pairing code. Choose Add to Home Screen and it behaves like an installed app from then on.
From your phone you can see what Desire is working on, approve or decline what it is waiting on, send it a quick task, share your clipboard both ways, and use the phone as a trackpad for your computer.
Electron, React, TypeScript, and Vite, over a local SQLite database with an on-device vector index, so your data and your models stay on your machine.
- 5,636 commits since June 21, 2026, roughly 45 commits a day
- ~1.58M lines of TypeScript/TSX application code across ~8,200
.ts/.tsxfiles (~23,000 tracked files total) - A monorepo of 4 shared packages (
core,db,protocols,ui) + 6 apps (desktop,server,mobile,operator, and two browser extensions)
© 2026 Takshil Pant. All rights reserved.
Desire is proprietary software, licensed for personal use only. See LICENSE. You may download and run the official builds for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may not redistribute, share, resell, or use Desire commercially, and no rights are granted to any source code. Third-party open-source components remain under their own licenses.
✦ Built to live on your machine, not in someone's cloud. ✦