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Download for macOS Apple Silicon · .dmg · latest

Download for Windows Portable ZIP · 64-bit · latest

Download for Linux AppImage · latest

First launch (macOS)

The download is a .dmg for Apple Silicon Macs (M1 or later).

  1. Open the .dmg and drag Bistro into your Applications folder.
  2. The app isn't notarized by Apple yet, so the very first launch needs one extra step: in Applications, right-click (or Control-click) Bistro → Open → Open. After that it launches normally by double-click.

If you'd rather do it from the terminal, you can instead clear the download quarantine flag once:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Bistro.app

First launch (Windows)

The Windows download is a portable ZIP, named with its version (e.g. Bistro-0.1.5-windows-x64.zip) — there's no installer yet.

  1. Extract the ZIP. Right-click the downloaded ZIP → Extract All. You'll get a Bistro folder.
  2. Run the app. Open the Bistro folder and double-click bistro.exe. Keep the folder's contents together — bistro.exe needs the files beside it (bistro-sidecar.exe, duckdb.dll, and the node_modules folder) to work.
  3. If Windows shows "Windows protected your PC" — that's SmartScreen warning about an app that isn't code-signed yet. Click More info, then Run anyway. This is expected for now and safe.

Tip: move the Bistro folder somewhere permanent (e.g. C:\Users\<you>\Bistro), then right-click bistro.exe → Send to → Desktop (create shortcut) for quick access.

First launch (Linux)

The download is named with its version, e.g. Bistro-0.1.5.AppImage. Mark it executable and run it — the commands below match whatever single AppImage you just downloaded:

chmod +x Bistro-*.AppImage
./Bistro-*.AppImage

If your distro doesn't have FUSE installed, the AppImage runtime will print a hint pointing at your package manager. On Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt install libfuse2.

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