Windows Beta

There is a Windows build. It files downloads by the day exactly as the Mac app does — and about half of everything else is not there yet.

It is a separate implementation of the same rules: Rust for the engine, Tauri for the window and the tray icon. The two apps share no code, only a written contract, so they cannot quietly drift apart on what a sweep does.

It starts filing as soon as it is running. Unlike the Mac app, it does not ask first — there is no Start Filing button yet, so installing it and leaving it open is enough to move files. Switch on Preview mode on the Filing tab before you point it at a folder you care about; a preview walks the folder and touches nothing.

Getting it

The installer is published as a pre-release, separately from the macOS releases and on its own schedule. It is a 1.2 MB NSIS installer for 64-bit Windows, and it is not code-signed.

Download 0.1.0 for Windows

Later builds are tagged win-* on the releases page and marked as pre-releases. Windows versions its own numbering and sits at 0.1.0 until it reaches parity with the Mac app, so a Windows 0.1.0 and a macOS 1.9.0 are the same week's work, not eight versions apart.

What it needs

64-bit Windows.
WebView2, which draws the window. It ships with Windows 11 and with Windows 10 from 21H2, so in practice it is already there.

Windows will warn you about the installer. It is not signed with a code-signing certificate, so SmartScreen shows “Windows protected your PC”. More info then Run anyway gets past it. Certificates are billed yearly and reputation accrues per certificate, so signing is waiting until the app is worth putting a subscription behind — the tradeoff is written up in the Windows README.

What works

The filing engine is complete and tested, and it is the part everything else is built to serve:

Daily and monthly folders, the window that keeps recent downloads loose in the root, and type folders with their extension lists.
The skip list, including glob patterns, partial downloads and the settling rule that leaves a file alone while something is still writing to it.
Never overwriting a name — collisions count up, as they do everywhere.
Preview mode.
The window: Status, Filing, Schedule and About.
The tray icon and its menu.
The daily schedule, including catching up a run missed because the machine was off or asleep.
Start at sign-in, from the Schedule tab or the tray. Windows is the source of truth rather than the settings file — Task Manager's Startup tab can switch it off behind the app's back, so the state is read back from the OS on every launch.

What is not there yet

Roughly in the order they are worth doing:

Asking before the first sweep — see the warning above.
Putting it back — the answer to “what if I try this and hate it”. Until it lands, undoing a sweep on Windows means moving folders by hand.
Watching the folder — the setting is stored and honoured by nothing, so only the daily run and the tray's File now sweep.
Clearing old dated folders.
Duplicates.
Large files and Catch Up.
Notifications after a sweep.
The updater. There is none, so nothing tells you a new build exists and nothing installs it — check the releases page when you think of it.

Where the two differ

	macOS	Windows
The day a file is filed under	Date added, a real per-folder attribute	No equivalent exists, so creation time stands in
Permission to read Downloads	A prompt, and a banner if it is refused	None needed
Where removals go	The Trash	The Recycle Bin
Settings	`UserDefaults`	`%APPDATA%\Tideline\settings.json`

The permission difference removes a whole chapter: there is no prompt to explain and no privacy settings to send you to, which is why First launch does not describe anything you will see on Windows.

The rest of this manual describes the Mac app. The filing rules on Filing, Type folders and Schedule are the same on both — they come from the shared contract. Everything else here is macOS until the list above is empty.

Bugs and missing pieces go in the issue tracker; being told which of the unported features you want most is genuinely how the order gets decided.