Rovo Desktop Entering Open Beta!

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Hi Atlassian Community,

I’m thrilled to share that Rovo Desktop is now in Open Beta, available today on macOS and Windows! It’s a big milestone for Rovo, and we couldn't be more excited to bring it to more teams.

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What is Rovo Desktop?

Rovo Desktop is a dedicated macOS and Windows application that brings Rovo's AI capabilities directly to your operating system. It's a first-class desktop experience designed to fit in to how you actually work.

With Rovo Desktop, you get:

• Chat and Agents - All accessible from your desktop, engineered for performance

• Simple Shortcuts - Opening up Rovo either in full-chat or compact mode is just a shortcut away from anywhere in your workflow

• Native desktop capabilities - Use speech-to-text to talk with Rovo, pull context from open applications, and easily capture screenshots

• Max Mode - The best way to execute complex and multi-step tasks (requires an active Rovo Dev subscription)

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How to install Rovo Desktop

Prerequisites

• You’ll need an Atlassian account with access to Rovo. For example, Jira, Confluence, or the Rovo standalone app.

• Depending on your organization’s settings, you may need to log in via SSO and to allow network/firewall access to Atlassian domains. Read more about access

Install Instructions

• Get started with Rovo Desktop

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Some things to try

To make the most of Rovo Desktop, we recommend giving some of these features a shot.

Use Shortcuts to open Rovo Desktop

Want to open Rovo with just a button press? Try out these shortcuts!

• Press cmd+shift+e to open full chat

• Press cmd+e to open compact mode

Try out App Context

Need to quickly give Rovo context on something you have open in another app? Just select that app from the app context menu within Rovo.

• Click the computer icon in the prompt box to open the app context menu

• Choose the app you'd like Rovo to use for context

• Rovo now sees what you see

Tip: Enable the “Rovo auto-selects app based on usage“ slider to let Rovo decide which app to pull context from

Get work done with Max mode

Max mode is Rovo's new reasoning mode, built to take on complex, multi-step tasks so your team doesn't have to micromanage every prompt. Instead of steering the process step by step, you describe the outcome you want, whether it's a cross-project status report, a competitive brief, a project plan, or more, and Rovo handles the rest. It reads errors, adjusts its approach, and delivers a finished output.

What makes Max on Rovo Desktop uniquely powerful is its expanded toolset: it can work with your local files directly, including documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, source code, and more.

Some of our favorite prompts to try:

• "Check on all the projects I'm following and create a Confluence page with the actions I need to take."

• "Take this list of 10 bugs <Insert Links> and check whether fixes have already been made for them."

• "Analyze these 5 spreadsheets <Add folder to context> with quarterly financial data and update the Q3 report."

• "Find all the examples of caching in this code repository <Insert Link> and write the results in a slide deck."

Please note that Max mode on desktop uses Rovo Dev CLI, so you will need an active subscription to Rovo Dev to make the most of this mode for now. See pricing details: Rovo Dev Pricing

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We want your feedback!

During open beta, we're especially interested in hearing about your experience with:

• Onboarding and setup

• Navigation and discoverability

• Performance and reliability

• Max mode

Drop your thoughts, questions, and feedback in the comments below; we’d love to hear it!

[agala]

Awesome! Absolutely love seeing Rovo Desktop hit open beta! 🎉

[Tapiwa Samkange]

User adoption of Rovo has received a real boost! Having used Rovo desktop for the last two days, I believe it will make Rovo even more accessible to users. I love it and I think many of our users will too. 

@James Steven when is Rovo Desktop due to transition out of the 'Beta' phase, please?