Virlow

Desktop

Virlow for Windows,
macOS and Linux.

The Virlow desktop app opens your workspace in its own window, with the same account, notes, workspaces and AI memories you have on the web. It also runs the local AI connector, so Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop and Codex on the same computer can use your notes, with the encryption key staying on the computer.

Download for desktop Or open the web app
The Virlow desktop app showing the Atlas project: workspaces, a note list and a spec open with its properties.
The full workspace in its own window: workspaces on the left, notes in the middle, room to write on the right.

01 / Workspace

Everything from the web,
in its own window.

The desktop app is the Virlow web app in a native window. Sign in with the same account and you get the same notes, folders, workspaces, themes and memories, encrypted with your master password exactly as they are in the browser.

It keeps its own window and its own place in the taskbar or the Dock, away from your browser tabs.

  • The full editor. Everything the web app does, from tables and code blocks to properties and links between notes.
  • Your sign-in, kept safe. The app stores it with your system's keychain, so you are not asked to sign in at every launch.
  • Same account everywhere. What you write here is there on the web, iPhone and Android.

02 / AI on this computer

Your AI tools,
with the key at home.

The app runs the local AI connector. Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop and Codex on the same computer connect to the vault the app holds, and can search, read and write your notes and memories.

Connect a client from Settings, under Desktop, and paste the snippet the app gives you into that client's configuration. The AI connections page covers every way to connect.

  • A key per client. Each AI tool gets its own key, and you can revoke any of them in Settings.
  • Nothing until you unlock. Nothing is decrypted for a client until you unlock, and the app only keeps a key while at least one client is connected.
  • Lock from the tray. Lock the vault from the tray or menu bar icon, without opening the window.

03 / Always there

Starts with your computer,
stays out of the way.

Turn on Launch at login and Virlow is ready when you are. On Windows and Linux, Keep running when the window is closed leaves it in the tray, so your AI tools stay connected after you close the window.

  • Tray menu. Open or hide Virlow, lock the vault, check for updates or quit.
  • Updates itself. Installed copies update on their own. Install once and you are done.
  • Signed for Windows. The Windows installer is signed by Bata Labs LLC.

Download

Get Virlow for your computer.

Every link downloads the newest release. Older versions and release files are on GitHub.

Where your notes are read

In the desktop app, as on the web, notes are encrypted on your computer with your master password, and the local AI connector decrypts on your computer for the clients you connected. Two optional features send content off your computer: the hosted connector, which decrypts on Virlow's server while your vault is unlocked so web AI apps can use it, and code execution, which runs your code on Virlow's service. The security page has the details.

Get the app

Your notes,
on every device.

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