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The desktop app

The desktop app is the whole Pounce experience on your Mac: the same fleet, live sessions, filters, and diff review as the phone — in a resizable window, with keyboard and voice — plus the Bridge built in, so installing it also makes the machine pairable.

Download Pounce.dmg — signed and notarized, macOS 14 or later on Apple Silicon. Open the DMG, drag Pounce to Applications, launch.

Intel Macs are not supported. If you’re on an Intel Mac, run npx use-pounce instead — see Install — and drive it from your phone.

On first launch the app starts hosting the agents on that Mac and shows the pairing QR — scan it with your phone and the machine joins your fleet.

The app checks for updates and installs them automatically — you’ll always be on the latest release without doing anything. New versions land in the changelog.

The full desktop app is macOS-only today. On Windows and Linux, run the headless Bridge (or npx use-pounce) — your phone provides the UI.