Claude for Desktop

Desktop AI partner. Fast, focused, & designed for deep work

4.8•16 reviews•

1.3K followers

Desktop AI partner. Fast, focused, & designed for deep work

4.8•16 reviews•

1.3K followers

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Reviewers say Claude for Desktop stands out for removing friction from daily work: they like the desktop app’s hotkey, file drops, multiple workspaces, and long context that helps retain codebase memory across sessions. Users describe it as highly usable for coding and switching between chat, cowork, and code modes, though some note slower responses, occasional glitches, and a sense that it has become less sharp lately. Founders of Clipto and LayerProof also credit its MCP connectors and planning help in building products from scratch.

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What's great

I am a solo founder building a UK live-music marketplace and Claude for Desktop is the tool I open before my IDE most mornings. What sets it apart from the browser version isn't a feature, it's the friction it removes, global hotkey, file drops, stays out of the way, doesn't make me babysit a tab.

Projects plus the long context window mean I can keep real working memory of the codebase across sessions instead

of re-explaining the stack every time.

What needs improvement

Claude spends a bit too much time thinking these days and it's been a little less intelligent it seems lately but I have been managing Claude with Codex, which seems to help but everything takes twice as long.

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What I would love next would be more connectors and more autonomous workflows, then I won't need to consider anything else.

The only other thing I really use is Codex.

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What's great

Love the fact I can have several different workspaces and modes in the app – I can switch between accounts, between chat, cowork and code easily.

What needs improvement

Could be a little more responsive during switches, and occasionally glitches showing text from one in another space, but overall superbly usable.

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used Claude for Desktop to build Local

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Huge help in getting this project off the ground :)

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