Chatto Desktop

Native desktop wrapper for Chatto built with Tauri v2.

Loads your Chatto instance in a native webview with system tray integration, native notifications, auto-start, and deep link support.

Features

• System tray — show/hide window, quick access to settings, autostart toggle
• Native notifications — bridges the web Notification API to OS-native notifications
• Auto-start — optionally launch at login
• Deep links — chatto:// protocol handler
• Window title tracking — reflects the current instance, space, and channel
• Window state persistence — remembers size and position across restarts

Development

Prerequisites

• mise for toolchain management (installs Node, Rust, pnpm)
• macOS, Linux, or Windows with Tauri v2 prerequisites

Setup

mise install                    # install pinned Node, Rust, pnpm
pnpm install                    # install frontend dependencies
mise exec -- pnpm tauri dev     # launch in dev mode

All build commands should be run through mise exec -- to use the correct toolchain versions.

Build

mise exec -- pnpm tauri build   # produces .app, .dmg (macOS), .msi (Windows), .deb/.AppImage (Linux)

License

AGPL-3.0-or-later