Your apps, working together. Your workspace, on your terms. Whistleblower-level* security, built into the foundation.
Platinum Desktop puts human-centered design, shared protection, and a growing family of applications on the computer you already use. Choose your tools, make it yours, and let every compatible app add to what you can do.
*“Whistleblower-level” describes our security ambition, not a standardized rating or a guarantee of anonymity or safety. External security audit pending. Explore the security model ↓
From your first playable idea to ambitious, production-scale games, create without unnecessary barriers. An intuitive development environment meets powerful tools, high-performance technology, and native extensibility, giving you the freedom to build what you envision without fighting the engine along the way.
Platinum Files gives the things you keep a comfortable home in your desktop.
Browse and organize files alongside the applications that use them. Familiar folders, connected tools, and a workspace you can arrange around your work belong to the everyday Desktop experience.
Computers should make sense to human beings, not require human beings to learn to think like computers.
A document should remain the same thing wherever you work on it. A control should behave the way it looks. Your tools should respect your choices and let you arrange the work around you.
We call this Humanist Design: consistent rules, useful objects, room to explore, and sophisticated software that feels natural to use.
Read our Humanist Design philosophyA new app should add more than another window.
A supported picture, model, or document can be opened in a compatible tool and stay connected to the same work. Fewer exports, duplicate files, and “which version was that?” moments.
Menus, controls, permissions, and themes share a foundation. A new application can feel like a new tool in a place you already know.
Add an application with a useful view or operation, and compatible work can benefit from it. Your environment grows around what you choose to do.
A project note includes a view of a supported model. A compatible editor changes the model. The connected view in the note keeps up. The explanation and the thing it explains can stay together.
Choose the one that feels right to you.
A classic desktop can be comfortable. A modern workspace can be just as personal. Platinum’s shared theme system lets compatible apps follow your preferences, while keeping the layouts and specialized tools their work needs.
Float a palette, dock a toolbar, or give a document its own window where the app supports it. You get to have an opinion about your own computer again.
Platinum puts security into the shared foundation: recognizing applications, checking protected components, controlling access, and protecting communication.
Those responsibilities should not depend on every developer independently getting every detail right—or on you knowing which technical questions to ask. Apps use the common rules. For stronger protection, users can opt into kernel enforcement on both supported native platforms, including direct-syscall blocking for native extensions. The watchdog also works in user-space mode to detect and investigate suspicious app behavior, with fewer enforcement capabilities.
Security research showed how much could change when software stopped trusting everything around it. Earlier desktops showed how much better tools could feel when they were consistent, personal, and easy to explore.
Too often, those ideas lived apart: in research prototypes, specialist security environments, or the tools people still miss. Getting the benefits could mean becoming an administrator, accepting extra machinery, or giving up the experience you wanted.
Platinum brings those ambitions into the same application environment: defined boundaries, permissioned cooperation, modern cryptography, and a responsive GPU-backed interface.
We take compartmentalization seriously—the principle explored by specialist systems such as Qubes OS—and apply our own application-platform architecture to the everyday experience. Platinum Desktop installs alongside your existing system.
You should be able to try a different way of computing without making computer maintenance your new hobby.
Join our beta testers to try Platinum Desktop and help shape the experience. Tell us about your computer and the applications you would like to test; we’ll follow up about access and setup.