What does Context Desktop do?
Context Desktop is the Context app for Mac, Windows and Linux: your workspaces and your own deployments in tabs, with Cascade dictation into any app. It is available to download now.
Context Desktop opens your workspace web app in tabs, across Context Cloud and your company's own deployment, so tasks, channels, files and permissions match the web. It adds Cascade dictation: press Option+Space on a Mac, or Control+Alt+Space on Windows and Linux, and speak. The app does not read your local files or control your browser; agents do their work in the workspace's sandboxes.
Download the installer for your computer from Get the app: a signed and notarized disk image for Macs with Apple silicon or Intel, a setup program for Windows on x64 or Arm, and an AppImage or deb for 64-bit Linux. Windows may show a SmartScreen prompt for this build; choose More info, then Run anyway. After that the app updates itself in the background and installs the update when you restart.
Written for people using context, founders and small teams. Last reviewed 2026-09-15.
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