Gruve for macOS early build
The desktop app — your lobby, your nets, your apps. Apple Silicon.
Free, no account required to browse your own machine
Signed & notarized by Apple — no security prompt, no Terminal
Drag it to your Applications folder before opening — macOS runs apps from Downloads out of a read-only copy, which blocks Gruve from updating itself
The mesh is built in; nothing else to install
Download for macOS
Apple Silicon · v0.4.2 · signed & notarized · unzip → drag to Applications → open
Windows download
The desktop app for Windows 10/11 — host or join, same as everywhere. (Unsigned for now: SmartScreen says “More info → Run anyway”.)
Download for Windows
Linux download
AppImage and .deb — for the homelab machines that were always going to end up running half the net anyway.
Download for Linux
iPhone TestFlight
Your gruve apps in your pocket — and pin any of them to the home screen as its own icon. In private beta on TestFlight.
Request a TestFlight invite
Gruve for servers headless
One file, no installer, no display. SSH into a box, run it, and you get the whole lobby as a terminal UI — networks, who's online, shared ports, files, and what each machine is allowed to see.
Single self-contained binary — the mesh is compiled in, nothing to place beside it
Run it in a terminal for the UI; under systemd it stays headless on its own
Shows you an invite phrase to paste into Gruve on your laptop or phone
Download for Linux (x86_64)
chmod +x gruve-linux-x86_64 && ./gruve-linux-x86_64 · also for macOS and Windows
Every desktop platform is on v0.4.2 — same lobby, same mesh, everywhere, plus a terminal UI for servers. The Mac app is Apple-signed and notarized (opens clean, no xattr). All three update themselves from here on: a toast when there's a new version, plus auto-update in Settings. (On a Mac, keep Gruve in Applications — an app left in Downloads runs from a read-only copy and can't replace itself.) The iPhone app is in private TestFlight beta. (release notes). Already running Gruve? Future updates install themselves.
