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A desktop OS for x86 PCs, or a Windows app that runs it in a window, that puts every app on an infinite canvas with shared team canvases and AI agents.
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Claim this listing →Shortlist Novastart only if you are a solo operator or a very small team on Windows PCs that wants a visual, always-saved workspace and is willing to change operating system or run a heavy virtual machine to get it. Mac users should rule it out for now: the site mentions Intel Macs, but no Mac download exists.
Before paying, try the free plan through the Windows app on a machine with at least 8 GB of RAM and virtualization enabled, and confirm that the specific web apps you rely on behave well inside its windows. Check how you will be billed: plans are in US dollars, monthly only, and the site has no Terms of Service, no refund policy, no named payment provider and no GST invoicing, so expect forex and card charges on top and little written recourse. The honest trade-off against a browser whiteboard such as Miro or a tiling window manager on your existing laptop is that Novastart gives you a persistent canvas of live apps plus watchable AI agents, but at the cost of a new, months-old OS from a small, recently launched US company with no public docs yet. If you mainly need a shared whiteboard for diagrams and sticky notes, a conventional whiteboard tool is the safer pick.
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Novastart is listed under Productivity & Knowledge, reviewed for Indian buyers. All-in it runs about ₹979/mo for a GST-registered business ($10/mo sticker plus about 3.5% card forex). FindThatSoftware rates it best for solo knowledge workers who juggle many browser apps and want each project laid out on its own saved canvas; a poor fit for teams on Macs (no Mac download is offered even though the site mentions Intel Macs) or that cannot dedicate or virtualize a PC.
Registered business, per month
₹979
Novastart advertises $10/mo. A GST-registered business in India pays about ₹979 a month (₹11,748/yr) once the roughly 3.5% card forex markup is added, with GST reclaimed as input credit. If you cannot reclaim GST, it is about ₹1,155 a month.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
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Audit your spendNovastart is made by Marketplace Distributors LLC, a small company in Manhattan Beach, California, whose About page names co-founders Thomas and Nick Fraher and says the product went live publicly in September 2026. It replaces the usual desktop with one zoomable canvas where every app is a window with a fixed place, grouped into canvases and folders that reopen as you left them; the vendor says Gmail, Excel, WhatsApp, Notion and about thirty other web apps open as app windows, any site opens in a bundled Chrome, and Linux apps and ONLYOFFICE also run. You get it either as Novastart OS, an ISO that replaces the existing system on an x86 PC, or as a desktop app that runs the whole OS inside a window, which the vendor describes as a computer running inside yours, and which needs 8 GB of RAM, about 32 GB of disk and hardware virtualization switched on. The install page says the app runs on Windows 10 or 11 or an Intel Mac, but the only app download offered is a Windows installer, so there is no Mac version you can actually get; the vendor also mentions an Ubuntu package for existing Ubuntu desktops, but no download for it is linked. Both downloads are served from a public cloud storage bucket rather than the vendor's own domain. On the Team plan you share a canvas or folder by email and teammates click and type in your windows, streamed peer to peer from your machine rather than through a server. AI agents, which the vendor says run on OpenAI computer-use models, each get their own visible cursor, can be paused or corrected mid-run, and are billed per use from prepaid credits on every plan. The vendor says canvas data stays on your own machine, but agent screenshots and instructions are sent to OpenAI, the privacy policy discloses ad-tracking cookies and update checks that send your network address, and the site has no Terms of Service page while its documentation and developer links in the footer are not live yet.
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