SoreQen for the desktop
One window that is always a keystroke away, and the same account, conversations and models as the website.
SoreQen for Windows
Windows 10 or later, 64-bit. Draws with the WebView2 runtime, which Windows 11 already has and which the installer fetches on Windows 10 if it is missing.
Download for WindowsInstaller. Adds a Start menu entry and updates itself · 1.9 MB · version 0.2.0
Other ways to install it on Windows
- Portable executable · 5.0 MBRun it from anywhere. No installer, no Start menu entry, nothing written outside the folder you put it in. It tells you when a new version is out, but does not replace itself.
- MSI package · 2.6 MBFor Group Policy, Intune and anything else that deploys by MSI. Updates itself like the installer.
Other platforms
A macOS build has to be compiled and notarised on a Mac, and this project does not have one yet. The app itself is cross-platform and the code is ready. It is the toolchain and the Apple Developer account that are missing, not the work.
x86-64. The packages depend on libwebkit2gtk-4.1 and GTK 3, which most desktop distributions already have; the AppImage bundles them, which is why it is much larger than the packages and why it runs on distributions they do not cover. 3 other formats below.
What it adds
- Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + Space summons and hides the window from inside any other app.
- Lives in the tray. Closing the window puts it there rather than quitting, so the shortcut always has something to summon.
- Signs in through your real browser. Google runs its own login page, where your password manager works and the address bar is visible.
- Says something useful offline, with its own screen and a retry, not the webview’s error page.
- Keeps itself up to date. New versions download in the background and install when you restart, or ask first if you switch off automatic updates in the tray menu. Every update is signed and checked before it is installed.
Worth knowing
- It is not code-signed yet. Windows will show “Windows protected your PC” on first run. Choose More info → Run anyway. A signing certificate is bought, not earned, and this one has not been bought yet. We would rather say so than have you wonder.
- A few megabytes, not a few hundred. It draws with the browser engine your system already has instead of shipping a second one.
- No account needed to try it. The same trial as the website, with an account asked for where one genuinely becomes necessary.
Every build
All of version 0.2.0, x86-64. Verify one with sha256sum on Linux or Get-FileHash in PowerShell.
| Platform | File | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows | SoreQen-Setup-0.2.0-x64.exe | 1.9 MB | e9d58f67dace38ff7610c7cca9bb17bbd41cacb9087fc4415b807b0346f780b9 |
| Windows | SoreQen-0.2.0-x64-portable.exe | 5.0 MB | 0ba6f156474601684343eadb53b89e9c832f0a737135f507004b6ac579740f66 |
| Windows | SoreQen-0.2.0-x64.msi | 2.6 MB | e223c2a0b5aaf6fa9fc5ba9d03182f7b2591bfe157efceda103c39e9da43aa5b |
| Linux | SoreQen-0.2.0-amd64.AppImage | 74.7 MB | 8174923fe86ef1a59bf7a28a262eb984435e185e451e8e1b886a7eabea29d00f |
| Linux | SoreQen-0.2.0-amd64.deb | 2.9 MB | fce456d4bd7aae33a8e61196e835aefc44b3e4582739f231cf8e67c8428db8e2 |
| Linux | SoreQen-0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm | 2.9 MB | 0cb3ff721da233384f8f6e55eb097b86c40702b06500535b34b6d537522c3a6c |
| Linux | SoreQen-0.2.0-x86_64.tar.gz | 2.8 MB | 7bfd5a76010f2e26070facb6a0583da7a0a89cee4ba1321a9a8a3d0946331378 |
Version 0.2.0. Every checksum above is also published at /download/checksums.json, generated from the files themselves rather than typed, so you can verify that what you downloaded is what we built. By installing you agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy.