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One download. It installs everything your plan covers. Per-user, no administrator, no telemetry.

Pioneering Hub

one download

The Hub is the whole shelf. It installs the apps, manages the Chrome extensions, and keeps both up to date — so this is the only file you ever fetch from us.

Windows 11 · Intel or AMD (x64) Pioneering Hub installer
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Windows 11 · ARM64 Pioneering Hub installer
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macOS 14 · Apple silicon Pioneering Hub installer
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Free to download — no account, no sign-in. A subscription is what the Hub installs from, not what lets you have the Hub.

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What it installs
Perch, and the Anti-Blur, Sodium, Argon and Typeswap extensions — whichever your plan covers. None of them is a separate download and none ever will be, which is why none of them has a block on this page. What they do.
Needs
Google Chrome
Not code-signed
Neither build carries a certificate an operating system recognises, so macOS and Windows will each warn the first time. Why, what it costs you, and what you can verify instead.
Downloading one, then opening the browser it runs in
The Hub's dashboard: a Pro subscription, active on the stable channel, listing one app and four extensions.
What your plan covers, from a signed answer
The Hub's extensions page: Anti-Blur and Sodium loaded into the browser with switches on, Argon in the plan but not downloaded yet.
Extensions, loaded into a browser the Hub opens
The Hub's apps page: the browser bar showing two extensions loaded, and Perch 0.18.0 up to date with an Open button.
Apps, read off this computer

From source

The repository is private while the account system is being built, so this is here for reference rather than as an invitation. It is what the build takes once you have the tree.

macOS

./build.sh

Windows

dotnet publish windows\Perch.Setup -c Release -p:PayloadRid=win-x64
You will need
Xcode command line tools on macOS · .NET 8 SDK on Windows

what you are agreeing to

One sign-in

Paid tools ask for your account once, on this machine. After that the app checks your subscription about once a day and sends three things: a salted device hash, whether this is macOS or Windows, and its own version number. The answer is cached with a week of grace, so an aeroplane or an outage on our side changes nothing.

No telemetry

No analytics, no usage counters, no record of what you opened, shared or typed. The subscription check is the only request either app makes on its own.

No administrator

Both installers are per-user. Nothing is written outside your own account, and uninstalling puts it in the bin rather than deleting it.