# Factory App

Use the Factory App for a visual Droid workspace with local machine access, project switching, and reviewable sessions.

Use the Factory App when you want a visual workspace for Droid sessions, project switching, model controls, machine connections, and review state. Preview whatever Droid makes, from code to documents to live sites, and comment right where a change belongs. The app keeps local, web, and mobile review surfaces connected to the same Factory runtime.

## When to use the app

- You want to review Droid sessions, diffs, and project state outside a terminal.
- You switch between projects or machines often.
- You need a guided path to local machine access and Factory-managed cloud computers.
- You want web and mobile review surfaces for work that starts on your workstation.

## What the Factory App brings to your workflow

The app is a dedicated workspace with Droid built in, organized around reviewing and refining whatever a session produces.

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    Documents, presentations, spreadsheets, PDFs, live websites, and full code diffs render beside the session that produced them.
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  <Card title="Point-and-comment feedback" icon="comment">
    Design mode selects an element and says what to change; inline code review comments on a diff line by line. Droid acts on the feedback in place.
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  <Card title="Local machine connection" icon="computer">
    Work directly on your local filesystem with your full development environment, informed by project context, documentation, and team knowledge.
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  <Card title="Organized, connected sessions" icon="folders">
    Filter and group sessions across projects and machines, synchronized with Jira, Notion, Slack, Linear, PagerDuty, and MCP tools.
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