What am I installing?

Pieces for Developers and Pieces OS application windows.

Pieces Desktop App#

When you download Pieces for Developers, you'll get two applications: Pieces for Developers | OS Server and the Pieces for Developers | Flagship Desktop App. Click on each below to find out more about what you are installing:

Pieces for Developers | Pieces OS

Pieces OS is our background service that runs offline and on-device. It's required to enable:

Individual products in the Pieces for Developers Suite to communicate
Local, Private, and Secure Machine Learning Models
Real-Time Search and Suggestions

Pieces for Developers | Desktop Application

Pieces Desktop is our flagship desktop application. It's a visual GUI that gives you the best experience with your snippets allowing you to:

Navigate snippets visually through the carousel
Transform snippets from one language to another
Sort Snippets by suggestions
Describe a snippet to get a solution to an answer
Manage your custom cloud domain
and so much more!

Bring Order to the Chaos#

Ditch the hundreds of .txt files and siloed tooled and organize your snippets in one place. Add helpful context to save time and avoid headaches in the future, or let Pieces do it for you.

Navigate the carousel to view and edit your snippets with your <-- arrow key and --> arrow keys. Note that if you are in list view this will change to Up`` and Down```.

Manage the context and metadata of saved code snippets.

Use cmd/ctrl + i to add or edit information about a snippet such as Related Links, Tags, Related People, Sensitives, and more. Read more

Offline Deep Search

Pieces for Developers ships with a first-in-kind search engine designed specifically to project Natural Language Queries onto a Technical Language Vector Space, completely offline and on-device.

Maximize your time#

Automatically discover commonly used snippets in your workflow or extract code from a screenshot. Pieces Desktop is loaded with next-gen features that make your life as a developer a little easier.

Share code snippets and context in a single click.

Press cmd/ctrl + l to get a sharable link for your code snippet that you can send to anyone even if they dont have Pieces installed. You can also share via a Github Gist! Read more about Sharing

Extract code from screenshots with Pieces OCR.

Drag & drop a code screenshot from a YouTube video and in seconds all of the code is available to use. Press t to toggle between the code and the original image. Read more about OCR

No-brainer security

Use Pieces connected to the cloud or not - it’s up to you! All Pieces data is stored locally on your device and you can use almost all features without even being connected to the Internet!

Don't Forget The Essentials#

Everything in the Pieces Desktop App was designed for ultimate productivity. From keyboard shortcuts to responsive layouts, it’s these little things that help it fit right into your flow.

Both dark and light mode versions of Pieces.

Use cmd/ctrl + t to switch between Light and Dark Mode. By default, Pieces ships in Dark Mode, but if you’re looking for a little afternoon pick-me-up, give Light Mode a try!

Press cmd or ctrl k to view all the shortcuts in Pieces

Almost all features in Pieces can be accessed via keyboard shortcuts. To view all shortcuts, tap ⌘ + K in Pieces.