Download Briar Desktop for Linux, Windows and macOS

Briar Desktop is now available for download for Linux, Windows and macOS operating systems. For Linux, we provide .deb and .jar files, for Windows there’s an .msi file and for macOS there’s a .zip file.

Thank you to everyone who has tested Briar Desktop and sent feedback! We’ve fixed a lot of bugs and made many improvements thanks to your feedback.

Latest Release: Briar Desktop 0.6.5-beta (20 February 2026)

For Windows, an .msi Installer is available:

• Windows .msi: Compatible with Windows 10 and 11.

For macOS, a .zip file is available for each processor architecture, you only need one file:

• macOS Apple silicon (ARM) .zip: Compatible with macOS on Apple silicon processors.
• macOS Intel (x86) .zip: Compatible with macOS on Intel processors.

For Linux, choose the appropriate version for your system, you only need one file:

• Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) and compatible .deb: Linux Mint 22.X (Wilma, Xia), elementaryOS 8.X (Circe), Trisquel 12 (Ecne).
• Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) and compatible .deb: Linux Mint 21.X (Vanessa, Vera, Victoria, Virginia), elementaryOS 7.X (Horus), Trisquel 11 (Aramo).
• Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal) and compatible .deb: Linux Mint 20.X (Ulyana, Ulyssa, Uma, Una), elementaryOS 6.X (Odin, Jólnir), Trisquel 10 (Nabia).
• Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) and compatible .deb: Linux Mint 19.X (Tara, Tessa, Tina, Tricia), elementaryOS 5.X (Juno, Hera), Trisquel 9 (Etiona).
• Debian stable (bookworm) and compatible .deb: MX Linux MX-23 (Libretto).
• Debian oldstable (bullseye) and compatible .deb: MX Linux MX-21 (Wildflower).

If your system is not based on any of the distros above, you can download this jar file:

• Generic Linux .jar: run using java -jar <file> and make sure to use JRE 17.

For other Linux distributions or users not willing to install a debian package, we also provide AppImage binaries:

• Linux x64 AppImage
• Linux arm64 AppImage

If you know how to use SHA-256 checksums you can check that the file you’ve downloaded matches the checksum below:

• briar-desktop-ubuntu-24.04-0.6.5-beta.deb: c4ea477c35915b79b1eaa6d4f04014c343fae069cc62b215642e4d2689cbb1c5
• briar-desktop-ubuntu-22.04-0.6.5-beta.deb: 578577df4563ca1ea0bb3d496c18105ce8de778bdce6d46103fd49c5513a2e71
• briar-desktop-ubuntu-20.04-0.6.5-beta.deb: 6d4d73d6744e89935c84b9ce4a2484a2bb6f0738e330ccfffb88ff28e2168bf6
• briar-desktop-ubuntu-18.04-0.6.5-beta.deb: 8717952dfbe72f5b849168f2881d85457bc05e03ef5d75c2ac50923ebdd5dbc1
• briar-desktop-debian-bookworm-0.6.5-beta.deb: 902a150b1584bbd688f8eb9579d9419c3a163342402a42f8ec853b207bebd890
• briar-desktop-debian-bullseye-0.6.5-beta.deb: 96dc37af2a48507154f96fadbb9389047480d2e374a1fd69a506e9e9977b0936
• briar-desktop-linux-0.6.5-beta.jar: 60316f33a1227077bab3b4834e2291c920933bd214c03ac4b4edfbddb6af7e6c
• briar-desktop-x64-0.6.5-beta.AppImage: fca914bb6b5b7246bf6cd4d37e5832c4ccec7ad07b258f77700a27da6cc13cc9
• briar-desktop-arm64-0.6.5-beta.AppImage: e33c48a0c4c0925f9d6e9e418bccff225b020c9b183b6783544e8f44705f03dd
• Briar-Desktop-0.6.5-beta.msi: df25efe50dde0940ece29055107621ba270fe1e4ff9ec20ded6492fde95564f1
• Briar-Desktop-intel-0.6.5-beta.zip: 43cb5b22f9658627af3c32ef6b3678dbbb5fe931cf49038362df9aeb45e4e045
• Briar-Desktop-silicon-0.6.5-beta.zip: 4c7e93797999f16e69071d0733ac36191cc854447da350cefec0a9f7291891fa

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For a comparison of Briar’s Android app and the desktop client, see this table: