# Install the desktop app

> The desktop app runs the Eventory dashboard natively and holds the alert connection itself, so a closed tab, a quit browser or a locked machine no longer means silence. It launches with your computer, sits in the menu bar, and posts each alert as a system notification with sound that opens the event when clicked. Install from the download page, sign in once, close the window: it keeps running.

Page: https://eventory.ai/docs/guides/desktop-app. Category: Developers.

## Before you start

- A Mac or Windows computer and an Eventory account.

## Steps

### 1. Download and open

Get the installer from the [download page](https://eventory.ai/download). Open it and move the app to Applications on a Mac, or run the installer on Windows. Under a minute, nothing to configure.

![The Eventory desktop app download page.](https://eventory.ai/docs-screenshots/download-page.webp)

*The download page for the desktop app.*

### 2. Sign in once

Sign in with the same provider you use on the web. The app stays signed in from then on; you will not be asked again on the next launch.

The app keeps its own session. Signing in here does not sign the browser out, and the browser does not sign the app out.

### 3. Allow notifications

The first alert asks the system for permission to notify. Allow it, and set the alert style to one that stays on screen rather than a banner that fades, so a restock you were away for is still there when you look.

### 4. Close the window

Closing the window hides it; the app keeps running in the menu bar and keeps the connection open. Quit from the menu bar icon if you really want it gone. It launches with your computer by default, so there is nothing to open in the morning.

## What it adds over the web app

The dashboard is the same. The difference is what happens when you are not looking at it.

- The browser can be closed: the app holds the alert connection itself.
- It starts before you do: launches with the computer and sits in the menu bar.
- Native notifications: posted by the system with sound, clickable straight to the event.

## Desktop app, extension and Discord

The three are complementary. Discord is the shared channel the team reads. The desktop app is your own machine telling you, with sound, even with nothing open. The Chrome extension is for when you are already on the ticketing site and want live availability on the page.

Most users run Discord plus one of the other two; running all three is fine, the alerts are the same.

## What a native notification contains

The same alert the web app shows: the event, the site, the sections that changed with quantity and price, and the filter set that matched. Clicking it opens the event in the app, where the Notifications page has the full history. Sound follows the system's notification sound, so changing it is a system setting, not an app one.

On a Mac the notifications respect Focus modes: a Do Not Disturb schedule silences them like any other app. If alerts seem to stop at night, check Focus before checking the app.

## Updates

The app updates itself: it checks for a new version on launch and installs it on the next restart. If an alert format changes on the web, the desktop app follows within a release.

## Frequently asked questions

### Does the desktop app use my plan's events?

No. It shows the same Watchlist and alerts as the web app; nothing is counted separately.

### Can I run it on two computers?

An account is meant for one desktop at a time; signing in on a second signs the first out. Give a colleague their own user instead.

### I closed the window and alerts stopped. Why?

Check the menu bar for the Eventory icon. If it is not there the app was quit, not closed; open it again and it stays in the menu bar.

### Is there a mobile app?

The web app works on a phone, and Discord on mobile carries the alerts. Sign-in on mobile uses the same providers.

## Next steps

- [Choose where alerts are delivered](https://eventory.ai/docs/guides/alert-delivery): Send Eventory alerts to a Discord channel, your own webhook, the dashboard or the desktop app, and route one event's alerts somewhere different from the rest.
- [Use the Chrome extension on a ticketing site](https://eventory.ai/docs/guides/chrome-extension-live-availability): Install the Eventory Chrome extension, sign in, and read live section availability, Eventory's market data and the seat map on the ticketing site's own event page.
- [Read your notifications](https://eventory.ai/docs/guides/notifications-page): The Notifications page: the live stream and the searchable history in one list, the two view modes, and every filter from minimum restock size to price.

API documentation: https://eventory.ai/docs