Desktop native menu vs Web

The desktop app adds a row of OS-native menus (File / Edit / View / Navigate / Window / Help) — this article covers them from the Apps perspective.

🚧 Desktop app in development — this article is a preview; content may change on launch.

The OS menu bar

The Electron desktop app adds an OS-level menu bar at the top of the window — six menus on Windows / Linux (macOS adds a leading app menu too):

Menu	Roughly contains
File	New Book, New Chapter, Save, Export Book, Settings, Quit
Edit	Undo / redo, cut / copy / paste, delete, select all
View	Zen Mode, toggle Sidebar / AI / Outline, zoom, fullscreen
Navigate	Home, Writing Studio, Beta Readers, Account, Quick Open
Window	Minimize, zoom, close / front
Help	Keyboard Shortcuts, Check for Updates, About

For an item-by-item breakdown: Desktop native menus, detailed

Web / PWA don't have this menu bar

Web and PWA versions have no OS menu bar — the same features are reached from the in-app toolbar.

In other words: same features, just a different entry surface. The desktop app adds an OS-menu shortcut, but nothing here is desktop-exclusive.

Related

• Desktop native menus, detailed
• Desktop install
• PWA install