Version 1.0.0

Download Garden Desk.

One file. The app, the model, and everything it runs on. No account, no keys, no setup.

macOS

Apple silicon. 24 GB unified memory or more.

Download the disk image

Garden-Desk-1.0.0-macos-arm64.dmg · Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple

Windows

NVIDIA graphics. 16 GB GPU memory or more.

Download the archive

Garden-Desk-1.0.0-windows-x64.zip · Extract, then start the app. This build is not signed yet, so Windows shows a warning. Check the SHA-256 first.

The download is large. The model is inside it, so the app never downloads anything later.

Each release lists the SHA-256 of every file in its notes on GitHub. Compare it before you open a download.

What is in the download

The Garden Desk application.
Bonsai 2, our Q4 build of Qwen3.8-27B, an Apache-2.0 open model.
The inference runtime and the sealed work environment.

There is no first-start download and no model picker.

Build it yourself

You can also build Garden Desk from source. Clone the repository:

git clone git@github.com:alex-alecu/garden-desk.git

Open a terminal in the garden-desk folder. On macOS:

bash setup.sh

On Windows, use standard PowerShell:

powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\setup.ps1

Setup asks before it installs missing tools and downloads. Then it starts the app. For later starts, use pnpm start. Setup and platform requirements ↗

All versions

Every release, with its notes and files, is on GitHub. Release history ↗