Installation

Tabularis ships as a native desktop application built with Tauri. There are no servers, no sign-ups, and no internet connection required to run it.

System Requirements

Linux: install required system libraries

# Debian / Ubuntu
sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libsecret-1-dev

# Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S webkit2gtk libsecret

# Fedora
sudo dnf install webkit2gtk4.1-devel libsecret-devel

Download a binary

Download the package for your platform from GitHub Releases:

macOS

Open the .dmg, drag tabularis to your Applications folder, then launch it. On first run, macOS may ask you to confirm opening an app from the internet — click Open.

Windows

Run the .msi installer and follow the wizard, or use the standalone .exe if you prefer not to install. WebView2 is required; it ships pre-installed with Microsoft Edge and is present on all up-to-date Windows 10/11 machines.

Linux — AppImage

chmod +x tabularis_*.AppImage
./tabularis_*.AppImage

Linux — .deb

sudo dpkg -i tabularis_*.deb

Linux — .rpm

sudo rpm -i tabularis_*.rpm

Updates

Tabularis checks for new releases against the GitHub Releases API on startup (if autoCheckUpdatesOnStartup is enabled, which is the default). When an update is available, a notification appears in the UI with the option to download and install it automatically.

To disable update checks, set checkForUpdates: false in your config.json. See Configuration for the full reference.

Build from source

You need:

• Rust (edition 2021 — install via rustup)
• Node.js (LTS recommended) with npm
• Tauri CLI v2 (installed automatically as a local dev dependency)

# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/debba/tabularis.git
cd tabularis

# 2. Install frontend dependencies
npm install

# 3a. Start the development build (hot-reload)
npm run tauri dev

# 3b. Produce a release binary
npm run tauri build

The compiled binary and installer packages are written to src-tauri/target/release/bundle/.