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title: "Personal Desktop"
date: "2020-12-15T12:02:23-04:00"
subsection: Personal Edition
weight: 1
---

Personal Desktop is a fully contained, standalone app meant for a single user, that is quick to install on Mac, Windows, or Linux.

#### macOS

To install Personal Desktop for macOS:
1. Download the [Mac package](https://releases.mattermost.com/focalboard/0.5.0/focalboard-mac.zip)
2. Unzip the .zip archive
3. Copy the `Focalboard.app` file to your Applications folder
4. Open it from the Applications folder
    a. If you see a Gatekeeper error, right click on Focalboard.app, then click "open".

#### Windows

To install Personal Desktop for Windows:
1. Download the [Windows package](https://releases.mattermost.com/focalboard/0.5.0/focalboard-win.zip)
2. Unzip the .zip archive
3. Copy the folder to your Program Files folder (optional, you can put it anywhere)
4. Open `focalboard.exe` from within the folder

#### Linux Desktop

To install Personal Desktop for Linux:
1. Download the [Linux package](https://releases.mattermost.com/focalboard/0.5.0/focalboard-linux.tar.gz)
2. Unpack the .tar.gz archive
4. Open `focalboard` from within the focalboard folder