> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.mauvely.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What is Mauvely?

> How Compose, Snap, Cloud and Sotto fit together, what each one is for, and which of them you actually need.

Mauvely is four separate applications that share a look, an account, and a purpose: producing
training material. They are genuinely separate — you can use any one of them on its own, and none
of them requires the others.

## The four apps

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Compose" icon="pen-nib" href="/suite/compose">
    A desktop course authoring tool. Lessons made of blocks, exported as SCORM or HTML5.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Snap" icon="camera" href="/suite/snap">
    A screenshot tool whose library is a plain folder of image files. In development.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Cloud" icon="cloud" href="/suite/cloud">
    Browser-based storage where files are encrypted before they are uploaded.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Sotto" icon="microphone" href="/suite/sotto">
    Press a shortcut, speak, and the text appears in whatever app has focus. Nothing leaves the machine.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Which one do you need?

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="I need to build a course for an LMS" icon="graduation-cap">
    **Compose.** It exports SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 packages, which is what Moodle, Cornerstone,
    TalentLMS, SCORM Cloud and most others import. It also exports plain HTML5 if there is no LMS
    involved.

    Start with [your first course](/get-started/your-first-course).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="I need to store or share large files privately" icon="lock">
    **Cloud.** Files are encrypted in your browser before upload, so the server holds ciphertext it
    has no key for. You can share a file with another Mauvely user, or by link with an optional
    password, an expiry date and a download cap.

    See [Cloud overview](/cloud/overview).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="I dictate faster than I type, and my material is confidential" icon="microphone">
    **Sotto.** It runs Whisper locally with GPU acceleration; no audio ever leaves the machine and
    there is no account. Currently Linux only, targeting KDE Plasma on Wayland.

    See [Sotto overview](/sotto/overview).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="I take a lot of screenshots of software" icon="camera">
    **Snap** is being built for exactly this, but it is not finished and is not downloadable yet.
    Today, use whatever screenshot tool your desktop ships and insert the images into Compose as
    Image blocks. See the [Snap roadmap](/snap/roadmap) for what is coming.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## What the apps share

**One account.** A single Mauvely account signs you in to Compose, Snap and Cloud. Sotto has no
account at all and never asks for one. See [Accounts](/get-started/accounts).

**One visual language.** Compose and Snap deliberately use the same window chrome, the same
control shapes and the same colour ramps, so moving between them does not feel like changing tools.

**Files you own.** Compose saves to a `.course` file on your disk. Snap's library is a folder of
ordinary PNGs. Sotto writes into whatever app you are already using. Nothing is locked inside a
service — Cloud is the only app that stores anything remotely, and it stores it encrypted.

## What Mauvely is not

* It is **not a hosted LMS**. Compose produces packages; something else delivers and tracks them.
* It is **not a team collaboration platform** today. Cloud can share individual files and folders
  with named people or by link, but shared team workspaces are [planned, not built](/cloud/overview#planned).
* It is **not cross-platform everywhere**. There is no macOS build of anything, and Sotto is Linux
  only.