Getting started

Everything you need to go from installer to your first applied edit.

01 · Install

Install and sign in

  • Download the installer for Windows or macOS from the download page and run it.
  • Sign in with your email. Codeply sends a 6-digit code, no password to remember, no API key to paste, no model to pick. The AI engine is built in.
  • Codeply lives quietly in your system tray after that. It doesn't need to stay in focus.
02 · Use it

The hotkey and the write box

  • Press Alt + C (Cmd + C on macOS) from anywhere to summon the write box.
  • Paste a snippet you copied from an AI chat, or just type what you want changed in plain English, "make the button blue," "add a loading spinner here," whatever it is.
  • Hit Apply. Codeply figures out which file it belongs in (if you're watching a project folder), produces a small verified diff, and writes it.
03 · Set up watching

Watch a project folder

Open the dashboard and set a Watch folder under Settings. With a folder watched, Codeply can automatically detect which file a pasted snippet belongs in, even across multiple files in one paste, using your project's structure and framework conventions. Without a watched folder, you can still target a specific open file directly.

04 · The CLI

Codeply from the terminal

A real coding agent in your shell: it reads your codebase, edits and creates files, searches for patterns, and runs commands, checking its own work along the way. Same job as tools like Claude Code, just built into Codeply.

  • Install with one line, no npm knowledge needed:
    irm https://codeply.app/install.ps1 | iex (Windows)
    curl -fsSL https://codeply.app/install.sh | sh (macOS / Linux / WSL)
  • Sign in with codeply login, same account as the desktop app.
  • Run codeply with no arguments for the full interactive agent, or codeply apply "<instruction>" --file path/to/file for a single one-shot edit.
  • Prefer your own model? codeply provider ollama switches to a local or cloud Ollama model.