FAQ
Questions, answered.
What Mosaik is, what it works with, where your data lives and how to get in.
General
What is Mosaik?
A desktop app that puts chat, projects and a coding agent in one window. It is built for people who use AI every day and want control over how it behaves, without side questions derailing the work in front of them.
What is a mosaic?
Mosaik's word for a project of any kind: a book, an app, a workshop, a hobby. A mosaic keeps a brief, goals, open tasks and memory, and carries them into every conversation inside it. Writing, Research, Art and Code are tabs inside a mosaic, so the work for one project stays together.
What is quick-ask?
Select words in any message and press Ctrl Shift K to ask about them in a popover beside the chat. The answer knows the conversation but is never added to it, so your main thread stays where you left it.
Is Mosaik a website or a desktop app?
A desktop app. Your conversations and projects live on your own computer, not in a browser tab or on our servers.
Which operating systems does it run on?
Mosaik is developed on Windows first, and its test suite also runs on Linux. Confirm the platforms and minimum versions supported at launch.
I used OpenRouter Chat. Is this the same app?
Yes. Mosaik was called OpenRouter Chat. On first launch it copies (never moves) your old chats, projects and settings into Mosaik's own folder and leaves the old one exactly as it was, and a remembered API key moves across with it.
Models and cost
Which models can I use?
Any model available on OpenRouter. You pick a default model, and can override it for a single chat, a project or a coding tier.
Do I need an OpenRouter account?
Yes. Mosaik reaches models through your own OpenRouter API key, so you are never locked to one vendor. You paste the key once, test the connection, and save it.
How much does Mosaik cost?
Pricing for Mosaik itself is to be announced. Model usage is billed by OpenRouter to your own account, at OpenRouter's prices.
How do I keep spending under control?
Mosaik shows what each turn cost as you go, and how full the context is. A crew's plan shows its spending cap before you approve it, and research reports show the model and the cost of each question.
Can I change how the model behaves?
Yes. That is one of the two reasons Mosaik exists. Set the model, system prompt, temperature and output limit for the whole app, and override any of them for one conversation. Your instructions win over Mosaik's own guidance.
Privacy and data
Where does my data live?
On your computer. Conversations, projects and settings are kept in a local database in your application-data folder.
Where is my API key kept?
In your operating system's credential store, if you choose to remember it, or only for the current session if you don't. It is never written to logs.
What leaves my computer?
Your prompts go to the model provider you chose, through OpenRouter. Web searches go to the search services that answer them, and pages the app reads are fetched from their sites. See our privacy notice for what this website collects.
The coding agent
Is it safe to let it edit my code?
The agent edits your files directly and runs commands in your project. It is not an operating-system sandbox, so Mosaik gives you three safety nets: a command policy (read-only and test commands run, installs and deletes ask first, destructive commands are refused), a checkpoint for every turn that can be undone, and plans that wait for your approval.
Do I need git?
No. Checkpoints work with or without git. In a git repository, each session also works on a branch of its own that you merge back or throw away, and your own uncommitted changes are never committed or switched.
Does it follow my project's conventions?
Yes. Each mosaic has rules the agent follows, and it also reads AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md and similar files. Commands in a project's .mosaik/commands or .claude/commands folder become slash commands.
Early access
When can I try it?
Early access opens in small waves. Everyone on the waitlist hears from us in the order they joined. Join the waitlist.
What will you do with my email?
Only send you your invitation and the occasional note about Mosaik's launch. We don't share it, and you can ask to be removed at any time.
How do I get off the waitlist?
Write to us from the address you signed up with (see Contact) and we'll remove it.
Still wondering?
The fastest way to know is to try it. Join the waitlist, or ask us directly.