The desktop app is macOS and Linux
There is no Windows build, there is not one coming, and that is now a decision rather than a gap. A household on Windows uses the phone apps.
What changed
The same three files, a different sentence about them
The note from 10 September listed three desktop builds — macOS on Apple silicon, macOS on Intel, and a Linux AppImage — with a fourth line under them reading Windows, not built. Nothing about the files has changed since, and that note is still accurate.
What has changed is what the fourth line means. It described a platform nobody had got to. It now describes one nobody is going to, and three is the number of desktop builds by decision rather than by accident.
Why say it out loud
A platform named and not built is a promise made by accident
Windows was named in places and built nowhere, which to anybody reading it looks like a build on its way. That is worse than an absence. An absence can be answered; a half-declaration invites somebody to wait for a thing nobody is making, and they find out by waiting.
Dropping it takes nothing away from anybody who had it, and it replaces a wait with an answer: a household on Windows uses the iPhone and Android apps. The desktop app is a way to reach Ridgeback from a computer, and it is not where the product lives.
Not built
There is no Windows build and nobody is working on one. That is a statement about what is being built now, not a promise about every version there will ever be.
Where it runs
- macOS, Apple silicon
- Download, signed and notarised
- macOS, Intel
- Download, signed and notarised
- Linux, AppImage
- Download, not signed
- Windows
- Not built, and not planned