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get outl.
one binary. your notes.
Native builds for macOS, Linux and Windows — plus iOS and Android. No Electron, no account, no cloud. Pulled straight from the latest GitHub beta.
desktop app
The native app — the full outl experience with the editor, daily
journal and tree view. Linux ships as
.deb,
.rpm and
.AppImage: there's no apt/dnf
repo yet, so grab the package for your distro and install it like
any other. On Windows the desktop app is still in progress — the
CLI / TUI below runs today.
macOS desktop · .dmg beta
Linux desktop · .deb beta
Linux desktop · .deb beta
Linux desktop · .rpm beta
Linux desktop · .rpm beta
Linux desktop · .AppImage beta
Linux desktop · .AppImage beta
Windows desktop · .exe beta
cli & tui
The terminal binary — vim-style TUI plus the outl
command. Extract the archive and drop it on your PATH.
homebrew
recommended
$
brew tap outlmd/outl https://github.com/outlmd/outl $
brew trust outlmd/outl $
brew install outl-beta
prefer the cask?
brew install --cask outl-desktop-beta
— auto-updates with every beta.
Docker — an always-on peer optional
You don't need this. Two devices sync directly, and that is the
normal setup. But P2P converges only when two devices can reach each
other, and a laptop shut at 18:00 never overlaps a phone edited at
22:00. A box that stays awake closes that gap — on hardware you own.
outl serve holds the P2P endpoint
itself, so the container is a peer, not a server your notes pass
through. Turn it off and the rest of your devices carry on.
$ docker compose build
$ outl peer pair --name laptop
$ docker compose run --rm outl peer pair --ticket <ticket>
$ docker compose up -d
● it's a beta
outl is pre-1.0 and ships fast. The format is plain markdown on
disk, so your notes are never locked in — but expect rough edges.
Stable brew install outl lands with 1.0.
● verify your download
Every archive ships a .sha256.
Compare it with shasum -a 256 <file>
before extracting. Builds are also attested on the
release page.
got it running?
point your LLM at it.
outl ships an MCP server — Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT can read and write your notes as a second brain.