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

Compose

A desktop course authoring tool. Lessons made of blocks, exported as SCORM or HTML5.

Snap

A screenshot tool whose library is a plain folder of image files. In development.

Cloud

Browser-based storage where files are encrypted before they are uploaded.

Sotto

Press a shortcut, speak, and the text appears in whatever app has focus. Nothing leaves the machine.

Which one do you need?

I need to build a course for an LMS

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.

I need to store or share large files privately

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.

I dictate faster than I type, and my material is confidential

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.

I take a lot of screenshots of software

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 for what is coming.

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.

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 for everyone. Compose produces packages. Delivery inside an organisation is Learn, Mauvely’s own LMS and part of Enterprise; everyone else exports a package and uses their own LMS.
It is not a team collaboration platform on its own — Cloud shares individual files and folders with named people or by link. Workspaces add a shared drive for a team, on Pro and above.
It is not cross-platform everywhere. There is no macOS build of anything, and Sotto is Linux only.