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Download WordCraft 0.5.0

Released October 11, 2026. Every link below points to the project’s GitHub release; nothing is re-hosted or repackaged here.

Don’t want to install anything? Run WordCraft in your browser. It is the same app, compiled to WebAssembly. Choose the desktop app for AutoSave, the fonts installed on your computer, settings and recent documents that are remembered, Read Aloud, the Zotero integration, and agent control over MCP.

Windows

Installers and executables are code-signed. The MSI installs for all users and needs administrator rights; the portable zip runs from any folder. Both include wordcraft-cli, the command-line tool and MCP server.

Installer, x64 (most PCs)wordcraft-0.5.0-windows-x64.msi71 MB
Portable, x64wordcraft-0.5.0-windows-x64-portable.zip85 MB
Installer, ARM64 (Snapdragon and other ARM PCs)wordcraft-0.5.0-windows-arm64.msi69 MB
Portable, ARM64wordcraft-0.5.0-windows-arm64-portable.zip83 MB
Installer, 32-bitwordcraft-0.5.0-windows-x86.msi70 MB
Portable, 32-bitwordcraft-0.5.0-windows-x86-portable.zip83 MB

macOS

One universal build for Apple silicon and Intel, signed and notarized, for macOS 11 or newer. The command-line tool is a separate download.

App (.dmg)wordcraft-0.5.0-macos-universal.dmg92 MB
Command-line tool and MCP server (wordcraft-cli)wordcraft-cli-0.5.0-macos-universal.zip77 MB

Linux

Built for glibc 2.35 or newer (Ubuntu 22.04 and later). The AppImage runs on most distributions and can update itself with AppImageUpdate; the Flatpak is sandboxed (flatpak install --user <file>). The packages include wordcraft-cli. The RISC-V tarball needs glibc 2.39 or newer.

AppImage, x86_64wordcraft-0.5.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage82 MB
Debian / Ubuntu, x86_64wordcraft-0.5.0-linux-x86_64.deb87 MB
Fedora / RHEL / openSUSE, x86_64wordcraft-0.5.0-linux-x86_64.rpm86 MB
Flatpak, x86_64wordcraft-0.5.0-linux-x86_64.flatpak63 MB
Tarball, x86_64wordcraft-0.5.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz86 MB
AppImage, ARM64wordcraft-0.5.0-linux-aarch64.AppImage80 MB
Debian / Ubuntu, ARM64wordcraft-0.5.0-linux-aarch64.deb85 MB
Fedora / RHEL / openSUSE, ARM64wordcraft-0.5.0-linux-aarch64.rpm85 MB
Flatpak, ARM64wordcraft-0.5.0-linux-aarch64.flatpak61 MB
Tarball, ARM64wordcraft-0.5.0-linux-aarch64.tar.gz84 MB
Tarball, RISC-Vwordcraft-0.5.0-linux-riscv64.tar.gz85 MB

FreeBSD

Tarball, x86_64wordcraft-0.5.0-freebsd-x86_64.tar.gz88 MB

If the app doesn’t start on Windows

The Windows app draws with DirectX 12 by default. If it flashes up and quits, a graphics driver may be the cause; the project’s README explains how to pick another backend with the WGPU_BACKEND environment variable (for example vulkan) and where the log file is.

Verify your download

Each release publishes a SHA256SUMS.txt file. Compare it with the checksum of your file, for example shasum -a 256 wordcraft-0.5.0-macos-universal.dmg on macOS or Get-FileHash in PowerShell.

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/storytold/wordcraft
cd wordcraft
cargo run --release -p wordcraft -- --sample

WordCraft is written in Rust and dual-licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0. See the repository for details.