Desktop app
Cloud brain, local hands.
ModulawAI for Desktop runs on your Mac, works offline, and, when you allow it, uses your machine the way you would. Your browser sessions, your files, your applications.
Version 1.0.0 · macOS 12 or later · Signed and notarised by Apple · Not sure which? Apple menu → About This Mac. “Apple M1” or later means Apple Silicon.
macOS · Apple Silicon and Intel
Offline
Cases and tasks without a connection
Local
Your browser, your logged-in sessions
Armed
Nothing acts until you allow it
Notarised
Signed and checked by Apple
Capabilities
What the desktop app adds.
Works offline
Cases, clients, tasks and notes are held on your machine and sync when you reconnect. Court buildings, flights, bad hotel wifi.
Uses your browser
Research on sites you are already signed in to: subscription databases, court portals, registries. No credentials to hand over.
Reads your files
Point it at a matter folder and it works with what is there. Access is confined to folders you approve. Nothing else on the disk is reachable.
Operates your Mac
For the tasks with no API, it can drive applications directly (click, type, navigate) while you watch, with a stop button.
Nothing to install first
The local tools ship inside the app. No developer tooling, no command line, no separate runtime to set up.
Off by default
Every local capability starts disabled. You switch on what you want, for as long as you want it, and can stop everything instantly.
Everything logged
Every action taken on your machine is recorded locally: what was asked, what was allowed, what ran.
Updates itself
New versions are checked, verified against our signature, and applied. A tampered update is refused, not installed.
In depth
A closer look.
Why local
The work that lives on your machine.
A great deal of legal work is not reachable from a server. The subscription database you are signed in to. The court portal with no API. The folder of scanned exhibits a client emailed you. The desktop app closes that gap: the reasoning stays in the cloud, the hands are on your machine.
- Research inside services your firm already pays for, using your own session
- Work with local folders without uploading them anywhere first
- Keep working through an outage, then sync
Control
Permission is the boundary, not a prompt.
An assistant with access to your machine has to be contained, not merely asked politely. File access is limited to folders you nominate. Irreversible actions stop and ask. A set of catastrophic operations is refused outright, whatever the instruction says. Anything switched on expires on its own, and one button halts everything mid-task.
FAQ
Questions, addressed.
Which download do I need?
Apple menu → About This Mac. If the chip reads “Apple M1”, “M2”, “M3” or later, choose Apple Silicon. If it reads “Intel”, choose Intel. Both are the same application.
Is Windows available?
Not yet. A Windows version is in progress and will be distributed through the Microsoft Store. The web app works in any modern browser in the meantime.
Do I need a separate licence?
No. The desktop app signs in with your existing ModulawAI workspace and is included in your plan.
What does it do with my files?
Only what you allow. You nominate the folders it may use, and it cannot reach anything outside them. Files are not uploaded anywhere as a side effect of being read.
Can it act without me asking?
No. Local capabilities start switched off. You enable the ones you want, they expire on their own, and irreversible actions stop and ask first. A stop button halts anything in progress.
Does it work with no internet?
Cases, clients, tasks and notes stay available and editable offline, then sync when you reconnect. Features that call an AI model need a connection.
Offline
What still works with no connection.
Court buildings are famous for bad signal, so it matters exactly where the line falls. Anything that reads or edits your own data keeps working. Anything that has to ask a model, or fetch a judgment, needs a connection.
| Works offline | Needs a connection |
|---|---|
| Reading and editing cases, clients, tasks and notes | Asking the assistant anything |
| Opening documents already synced to the device | Retrieving a judgment or statute you have not already pulled |
| Recording time and writing attendance notes | Drafting with AI, and document analysis |
| Reviewing your calendar and deadlines | Sending anything, and syncing changes to the team |
What it is allowed to do on your machine.
A desktop application that can read local files and take actions deserves more scepticism than a web page, so the defaults are deliberately restrictive.
- It sees only the folders you nominate. Nothing outside them is reachable, and reading a file does not upload it anywhere as a side effect.
- Local capabilities start switched off. You turn on the ones you want, and they expire on their own rather than staying on forever.
- Irreversible actions stop and ask. Anything that cannot be undone requires you to confirm it first.
- There is a stop button. Anything in progress can be halted.
- No separate licence. It signs in with your existing workspace and is included in your plan.
Keep reading
Related reading.
Put it on your Mac.
Free with your workspace. Installs in a couple of minutes, and the setup guide walks through the permissions.