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The Cowork desktop app has a Desktop App tab under Settings that doesn’t exist in the web app, covering everything that only makes sense when Dume is running as a native app on your machine.

What lives here

  • Updates — Cowork checks for updates automatically and can install them in the background; this is where you’d check your current version or trigger a manual check.
  • System tray — Cowork runs in your system tray so it can keep routines and background sessions going without a window open. Close the window and Dume keeps running; quit from the tray icon to actually exit.
  • Sleep prevention — a toggle to keep your machine from sleeping while Dume is actively working on something, useful for a long-running local routine or task you don’t want interrupted.
  • System permissions — macOS and Windows both gate microphone access (for voice mode and dictation) and other OS-level permissions behind explicit consent; this is where Cowork surfaces those prompts and lets you jump to system preferences if you denied one by accident.
  • Chrome profile access — if you use the agent-browser skill for browser automation, Cowork can optionally reuse your existing Chrome profile and its logged-in sessions instead of starting from a blank browser. This requires your explicit consent and is off by default.

Why some of this doesn’t exist on web

The web app runs in your browser, which can’t manage its own updates, doesn’t have a system tray, can’t prevent your OS from sleeping, and can’t reach into a local Chrome profile. See Web app vs. Cowork desktop for the full comparison.