Claude for Desktop Reviews

Reviewers like Claude for Desktop for reducing friction in daily work: they open it before the IDE, rely on hotkeys, file drops, multiple workspaces and modes, and value its long context for carrying codebase memory across sessions. The main complaints are slower responses, occasional glitches when switching spaces, and a sense that it has become a bit less sharp lately. Founders of JDoodle.ai, LayerProof, and Ara also highlight MCP connectors and help with building apps from scratch.