Yantra on Your Desk: The Floating Bar, Hotkeys and Stealth
What the desktop app adds to a browser tab: a floating always-on-top bar, global hotkeys, local speech-to-text, a character on stage and privacy mode.
Yantra Team2 min read
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The web app is where most people meet Yantra. The desktop app is where it stops being a tab. It is a floating bar that stays on top of whatever you are doing, answers to a hotkey, listens locally, and knows when to hide.
The bar
A compact chat with a composer, a microphone and a character stage, always on top if you pin it. Cmd+Shift+Y shows it, Cmd+Shift+H hides it. On Linux, Ctrl replaces Cmd. Windows is coming.
Inside the bar, Cmd+Shift+V pastes clipboard text into the focused on-screen field, and Cmd+Shift+R holds to record and sends when you release. Cmd+Shift+M is the microphone, Cmd+Shift+V toggles audio.
Local voice
Speech-to-text runs on your machine, and voice memory stays local. Dictation does not leave the laptop until you send.
A character on stage
Characters from the Character studio can stand beside the bar. Cmd+Option+1 through 9 switch slots. Two ship with Yantra: Aria, the friendly default, and Seraphina, with 28 emotion sprites, 115 presets and 23 background scenes.
Stealth and privacy
- Screen-share stealth: Yantra windows are hidden from Zoom, Loom, OBS, Google Meet and other recorders. You can use it during a call and nobody sees it.
- Privacy mode: the eye icon stops activity tracking.
Cmd+Shift+Etoggles the activity tracker. - On-device redaction: the Privacy app's names and addresses engine runs locally, and Contract Review redacts on your machine before anything is sent.
Local control
The desktop app can run the agent locally and control your mouse and keyboard, so the agent can act on your own desktop rather than only the cloud Computer.
The tray
Show or hide the bar, open the dashboard, Preferences with Cmd+,, toggle the character stage, pin always on top, launch at login, hide the dock icon, check for updates.
A timer in the menu bar
Switch to the Clockbook profile and the bar becomes a time tracker: the same timer the Timer app shows and the agent stops when you say "stop my timer".
Who gets it
Team and Enterprise plans include the desktop app. Basic includes a seven-day desktop trial. Downloads are for macOS on Apple Silicon and Intel, and Linux as .deb and AppImage.