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Download · Early access · Version 1.0.0

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Free, with no account and nothing to sign in to. Whatever you record stays on the device you record it on.

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Windows

For most PCs and laptops, with an Intel or AMD processor. Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.

Rootwork-Setup-1.0.0-x64.exe · 110 MB

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Windows on ARM

For PCs with a Snapdragon or other ARM processor, like the newer Surface and Copilot+ laptops.

Rootwork-Setup-1.0.0-arm64.exe · 104 MB

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Linux

For most PCs and laptops with an Intel or AMD processor. Unpack it, run the install script, and it's in your applications menu.

Rootwork-1.0.0-linux-x64.tar.gz · 133 MB

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Linux on ARM

For ARM machines: a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5, or a Linux laptop with an ARM chip.

Rootwork-1.0.0-linux-arm64.tar.gz · 134 MB

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Everything else

Android arrives with the full release. Same app, still free.

21 October 2026

Coming 21 October

If Windows says it protected your PC

Rootwork isn't signed with a paid certificate, so the first time you open the installer Windows doesn't recognise it and puts up a blue box. It's a warning about the publisher being unknown, not about anything found in the file.

  1. Choose More info, the small link under the message.
  2. Choose Run anyway.
  3. The installer opens. It takes about a minute.

Which Windows do I have?

Open Settings, then System, then About, and look at System type. If it says ARM-based processor, take the ARM download. Anything else, take the first one.

This page guesses for you where it can, and marks the one it thinks is yours.

Updating

Run the newer installer over the old one. Your records stay where they are. Uninstalling asks before it deletes anything, and keeps your records unless you say otherwise.

Checksums (SHA-256) Windows x64 · de27aeb73fad87b9da814c7a3a07c0597fa5c83e7ac23fbd4cf9b05a9c1c4547 Windows arm64 · 01fb60e124e528b4411e59fbde3bc6493a871f68705c42f1f14e0d050ad67b43 Linux x64 · bb62fb43dc2c9b9af7f923ed206f79eac177c59705498174083d60f07b71fc37 Linux arm64 · c677a486fb802babf75e5483152d8f1fac496b9c2e539e9f429e2449abafae78

Installing on Linux

Linux is early access and hasn't had the testing Windows and iPhone have. It's built for 64-bit Intel/AMD and for ARM, and ships as a tarball with no root needed.

  1. Unpack it: tar xzf Rootwork-1.0.0-linux-*.tar.gz
  2. Run ./install.sh inside the folder. It installs for your user and adds Rootwork to your applications menu.
  3. To remove it later, run ./uninstall.sh. Your records stay unless you add --delete-records.

Not sure which you need? Run uname -m. If it says x86_64, take the first one. If it says aarch64, take the ARM one.

If it won't start and mentions the sandbox, that's a setting on newer Ubuntu releases. The README in the folder explains the two ways around it.