❯ spanna install
Download Spanna
Native macOS desktop app. Same product, same Vault as the web client.
❯ heads up
Spanna desktop is macOS-only
Open this page from a Mac to grab the installer, or start with a free account now and pick a surface later.
❯ get startedtarget
One file, every Mac
A single Universal binary that runs natively on both Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4) and older Intel Macs. No arch picker, no wrong choice.
spanna-mac.dmg
Universal · Apple Silicon + Intel
- channel
- stable
- size
- ~180 MB
- requires
- macOS 12.0+
- price
- $0
# checksums and signed-update verification: /docs/desktop-installation
❯ ls platforms
Other platforms
Windows
Win 10 / 11 · signed installer
Linux
deb / rpm / AppImage
iOS / Android
browse + run queries on the move
# want notified when Windows / Linux ship? drop us a line
/etc/install
What you're installing
Signed & notarized
macOS builds are code-signed and Apple-notarized — no Gatekeeper warnings on first launch.
No account required
Use the desktop app entirely offline. Sign in with a Free account for encrypted desktop sync across installs.
Auto-updates by default
Background delta updates with one-click rollback. Disable from Settings → Updates if you'd rather pin.
❯ why-desktop
Why install desktop when the web client is free?
performance
Native rendering
10k-row collections paint without a network round-trip per query.
local-only mongo
Reaches what the browser can't
localhost, VPN-only, and SSH-tunnelled databases. Browsers can't reach those; desktop just connects.
offline
Works on a plane
Open and edit any locally-cached document without a connection. Sync resumes when the network comes back.
Open it on the database you opened five minutes ago.
no sign-up · no credit card · < 2 min from download to first query