Desktop app · preview

37Studio in its own window

The same studio as the Docker version, as a normal app on Windows and Linux: the same brands, projects, agent and publishing, with no Docker to install. It's a preview, so tell us on GitHub what breaks.

Files from the latest release on GitHub.

Download

Windows Windows 10 and 11, Intel or AMD. A .zip with the app and a Start-menu installer.
Windows (.zip)
Ubuntu and Debian Ubuntu 24.04 or newer, Debian 13 or newer. Installs ffmpeg and Python with it.
.deb, Intel/AMD .deb, ARM
Other Linux Fedora, Arch and the rest: the bare program. Needs GTK 4 and WebKitGTK 6.0.
.tar.gz, Intel/AMD .tar.gz, ARM

Not sure which Linux file? dpkg --print-architecture or uname -m says amd64/x86_64 (Intel/AMD) or arm64/aarch64 (ARM). Each release also has .sha256 files to check the downloads against.

On a Mac? The desktop app doesn't run on macOS yet. Use the ready-made Docker app, which works on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs today.

Install

  1. Download the Windows .zip above.
  2. Right-click it → Properties → tick Unblock → OK, then unpack it. Windows marks downloaded files and refuses to run what it marked.
  3. In the unpacked folder, right-click install-windows.ps1 → Run with PowerShell. It copies 37Studio to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\37Studio and adds it to the Start menu. No admin rights needed.
  4. Install the tools the agent uses.
  5. Press the Windows key, type 37Studio and open it. Overview → Finish setup lists anything still missing.
"Windows protected your PC"? The app isn't signed yet, so the first start may show this. Click More info → Run anyway. Signing comes with the first release out of preview.

From a terminal instead of right-clicking: powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\install-windows.ps1. You can also run 37studio.exe straight from the unpacked folder; keep its name, because the agent runs 37studio commands from that folder.

Your work is kept in %AppData%\37Studio on Windows and ~/.local/share/37studio on Linux. Links, the timeline editor and social sign-ins open in your browser, and downloads and backups ask where to save.

Tools the agent uses

The Docker version ships these inside its image. The desktop app uses the ones on your computer, so install them once:

ToolWhat for
Claude Codethe editor agent, the Assistant, captions and replies
ffmpegcutting, checking and encoding video
Node.js 22 or newerrendering, previews and the timeline editor
Python 3 with venvtranscription and YouTube or Drive imports (about 200 MB more installs itself the first time)
Noto fonts (Linux)Bangla, other scripts and emoji in rendered videos
Git for Windows (Windows)the shell the agent runs its commands through on Windows

Windows

winget install Git.Git Gyan.FFmpeg OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS Python.Python.3.13
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

Open a new terminal before the second line, so it finds npm.

Ubuntu and Debian

sudo apt install ffmpeg nodejs npm python3 python3-venv fonts-noto-core fonts-noto-color-emoji
sudo npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

Ubuntu before 26.04 and Debian before 13 come with an older Node.js: install version 22 or newer from nodejs.org and leave nodejs npm out of the first line.

Then add your Claude key in Settings → Keys, as in step 4 of the setup guide. Everything after that is the same as the Docker version.

Desktop or Docker?

Pick the desktop app ifyou're on Windows or Linux, don't want Docker, and are happy to install a few tools yourself. Nothing runs in the background but the app itself.
Pick the Docker version ifyou're on a Mac, run it on a server, or want every tool bundled and set up for you. It's the fully supported way, and it updates itself on each start.

Both keep their data in a different folder. To move your Docker brands and videos into the desktop app, see docs/desktop.md on GitHub.

Updates and removing

  • Updates: Settings → About says when a new version is out. Download it from this page and install it the same way. On Windows, close 37Studio first, then run install-windows.ps1 again.
  • Remove on Windows: .\install-windows.ps1 -Uninstall. Your work in %AppData%\37Studio stays.
  • Remove on Ubuntu or Debian: sudo apt remove 37studio. Your work in ~/.local/share/37studio stays.

Troubleshooting

The agent stops on its first step on Windows

Git for Windows is missing. Install it with winget install Git.Git, then close 37Studio and open it again.

Something is missing

Overview → Finish setup lists each missing tool with the command to install it. After installing, press Check again. On Windows, open 37Studio again so it sees the new PATH.

Ubuntu: the window doesn't open from the app menu

Ubuntu only lets programs with an AppArmor profile use the sandbox the window is drawn in. The .deb from 0.9.1 on adds the profile itself. With 0.9.0 or the .tar.gz, add it once in a terminal (change the path if you unpacked the .tar.gz somewhere else):

app=/usr/lib/37studio/37studio
printf 'abi <abi/4.0>,\ninclude <tunables/global>\nprofile 37studio %s flags=(unconfined) {\n  userns,\n}\n' "$(realpath "$app")" | sudo tee /etc/apparmor.d/37studio
sudo apparmor_parser -r /etc/apparmor.d/37studio

The program doesn't open on Linux

Run ./37studio from a terminal to see why. Usually GTK 4 or WebKitGTK 6.0 is missing: install gtk4 and webkitgtk6.0 (Fedora) or libgtk-4-1 and libwebkitgtk-6.0-4 (Ubuntu, Debian).

Stuck? Open an issue on GitHub, or read the full desktop guide, which also covers building the app yourself.