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To be honest, I looked down on the Desktop app at first. The terminal was working fine — type claude and get to work. Why bother installing another app?
Then last week I was working on three requests at once, flipping between three terminal windows, and pasted session A’s diff into session B. That’s when I decided to give Desktop a serious week. Here’s the conclusion up front: it’s not a terminal in a wrapper. It’s the same engine with a completely different way of working. The features below are the ones I actually paid for with real use.
First, get this straight: the session is the core unit
Open the Code tab. Every conversation is a “session” — its own chat history + its own project folder. You can run several in the sidebar at once, and they don’t interfere with each other.
The important part is the four settings when you create a session: runtime (local / cloud / SSH), project folder, model, and permission mode. Don’t just smash Next. Especially the environment field — more on how useful cloud sessions are later.
