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Oppermind Desktop

The Windows app: install it, find your way around the window and Desktop settings, show Lato on your desktop, keep chats, workers and teams there as widgets, and speak instead of typing.

Updated 26 Oct 2026

On this pageInstall and sign in The window Desktop settings and updates The app's own questions Show Lato on your desktop Use Lato's quick chat Put a chat, worker or team on the desktop Speak instead of typing

Install and sign in

Oppermind Desktop is the Windows app. Download it from Settings, Apps and extensions, or from the Desktop Co-pilot panel with Download Oppermind Desktop (Windows), then run the installer and sign in the way you do on the web; a browser sign-in hands back to the app on its own. The window is your whole workspace: chats, workers, teams, editors and Doc Manager.

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Apps and extensions

Use Oppermind where you already work.

Oppermind DesktopThe Windows app: your whole workspace plus the computer co-pilot that reads your screen, types and runs jobs on your PC.Download for Windows

Word, Excel and PowerPointA task pane that reads your selection and edits the open document.Download add-ins (.zip)

Chrome extensionSide panel on any page; chat with page context; drive the tab.Open Chrome Web Store

iPhone and AndroidThe full product in your pocket, plus the keyboard and share sheet.Get the app

Apps and extensions: Oppermind Desktop is the first tile.

Try this

✦Settings → Apps and extensions → Oppermind Desktop → Download for Windows. Run the installer, then sign in.

What you getThe app opens on your workspace, and the This computer button in the top bar opens Desktop settings.

The window

The top-left button opens the app menu with File, Edit, View, Go and Help, and the This computer button beside the window controls opens Desktop settings. Editors can pop out into their own window, and every download or export shows a bubble at the top right with Show in folder. With Keep running when the window closes on, closing the window leaves the app running in the system tray.

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Download completeQ3 supplier contract.pdfShow in folder×

The app window and the download bubble.

Try this

✦Export a document to PDF from its editor.

What you getA Download complete bubble appears with the file name; Show in folder opens the folder on your PC.

Desktop settings and updates

Desktop settings starts with Computer control: one switch for Any app on this computer, Pause, the screens Lato can use, and the status of Chrome, Edge, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and your phone. Below it are Desktop buddy, Local MCP servers, Startup and windows, Appearance, and Updates and support, where Export diagnostics leaves out your conversations, files and credentials. Updates install by themselves while you are not using the app; if one has waited a couple of days, Oppermind tells you a minute before it restarts, and Restart and install lets you do it sooner.

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Authorize this computer?

Allow the account signed in to Oppermind to use computer control on this PC. Lato will be able to see your whole screen and send pictures of it to Oppermind while the agent runs. Your existing control permissions apply to Lato. Devices signed in to this account can also view and control this PC while the agent runs.

CancelAuthorize

The first time you turn on computer control, the app asks before it links this PC to your account.

Try this

✦Click This computer in the top bar, turn on Any app on this computer and answer the question that appears.

What you getAuthorize this computer? asks once; after Authorize, the badge changes from Stopped to Ready and Lato can work in apps on this PC.

The app's own questions

Anything the app needs to ask opens as a dialog in the app's own style, for example Quit with unsaved changes, Authorize this computer, Resume computer control, Restart to install the update and Log out of Oppermind. A popped-out editor with unsaved changes asks Leave this editor? with Keep editing and Close editor. Read the question before you answer, or choose Cancel to go back.

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Quit with unsaved changes?

Save your work before quitting to keep your changes.

CancelQuit

An unsaved-changes question, in the app's own style.

Try this

✦Close the window while a document has unsaved changes.

What you getQuit with unsaved changes? appears with Cancel and Quit; Cancel takes you back to the document.

Show Lato on your desktop

In Oppermind Desktop on Windows, choose Show Lato on desktop in the account menu, or turn on Show Lato on the desktop under Desktop buddy in Desktop settings. Lato then floats in a small window above your other apps; drag it anywhere, or drop it at the left or right edge of the screen to tuck it away as a tab that peeks out when you point at it. It hides while the Oppermind window is in front unless you turn off Hide while Oppermind is in front, and it is kept out of the pictures Lato takes of your screen during computer control.

Lato and three small widgets, for a chat, a strict worker and a team, floating on a plain desktop, with one widget tucked as a tab at the screen edge. — Lato and your widgets stay above other apps, and any of them can tuck away at the edge.

Try this

✦Open the account menu, choose Show Lato on desktop, then drag Lato to the right edge of the screen.

What you getLato tucks away as a small tab on the right edge; point at it to peek it out, or drag it back onto the screen. Hide Lato from desktop in the same menu turns it off.

Use Lato's quick chat

Click Lato for a quick chat without opening the full app: a small window with the chat's title, the conversation, Open in Oppermind, and the same message box as the app, with its + menu, chips and send button. Point at Lato for New chat, Talk to Lato, Updates when a worker or team has finished or needs you, Open Oppermind and More. Lato's label shows Listening, Working, Done or Needs you, and nothing when it is idle.

The quick chat window over the desktop, with the chat title, Lato's latest reply, a follow-up message, Open in Oppermind and the message box. — The quick chat is the app's own chat in a small window, so the + menu and chips work the same way.

Try this

✦Click Lato and type: Rewrite this so it sounds friendlier: We need your timesheet by 5pm today.

What you getLato shows Working, then the answer appears in the quick chat; Open in Oppermind opens the same conversation in the full app.

Put a chat, worker or team on the desktop

While Lato is shown, choose Show on desktop from a row's right-click menu or its hover icon in the sidebar, or from the button in a chat, worker or team header. Each one becomes its own small widget with its status, up to six at a time; click it to talk to just that one, or point at it for Open in Oppermind and Hide from desktop. Widgets tuck away at the screen edge the same way Lato does.

The Oppermind Desktop sidebar with a row's menu open and Show on desktop highlighted. — Show on desktop gives a chat, worker or team its own widget, so you can check it without opening the app.

Try this

✦Right-click the Weekly pipeline summary worker in the sidebar and choose Show on desktop.

What you getA widget for that worker appears on the desktop; click it to open its chat and approvals in a quick window, or choose Hide from desktop to remove it.

Speak instead of typing

Voice input works in Oppermind Desktop: with the message box empty, click the microphone, speak, and your words appear in the box. The microphone turns off as soon as you stop, and Talk to Lato opens a quick chat that is already listening. Voice input counts toward your plan's usage.

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With the box empty, the send button is the microphone.

Try this

✦Click Voice input in an empty message box and say: Draft a short thank-you note to the Harbour Cafe team for hosting our launch.

What you getYour words appear in the message box as text; check them, then send.

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