# Features offered by IPFS-Desktop

This document is intended to capture the list of features offered by IPFS-Desktop, whether they're fully done, or in-progress.

## Legend
- :grey_question: : Status unknown
- 🥚 : In design phase
- 🐣 : Work in progress
- 🐥 : Try it out (implementation exists, but requires additional work or setup)
- 🐓 : Shipped (works out of the box when ipfs-desktop is installed)


## Native OS features

| Feature | Linux/BSD | macOS | Windows |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
| System Tray/Menubar Icon | 🐓 |🐓 | 🐓 |
| [Automatic updates](https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-desktop/issues/668) | 🐥 | 🐓 | 🐓 |
| [System-wide protocol handler](https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-desktop/issues/807)  | 🥚   | 🐓   | 🐓  |
| [Dropbox-like mounting of MFS](https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-desktop/issues/618) | 🐣    | 🐣   | 🐣  |
| ["Add to IPFS" from Native File Manager](https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-desktop/issues/678)  |  :grey_question:    |  :grey_question:    | 🐓 |
| [Add 'ipfs' to PATH](https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-desktop/issues/727) | 🥚  | 🥚 | 🥚 |

## Kubo related features

| Feature | Linux/BSD | macOS | Windows |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
| GUI for starting/stopping Kubo | 🐓 |🐓 | 🐓 |
