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mac · v0.1.5

Get Wend for Mac.

A small menu-bar app that listens for notes from your phone, runs them through Claude on your machine, and streams the result back. Free during alpha.

Download Wend.dmg
42.5 MB · macOS 13.0+ · released August 9, 2026

Not notarized yet. macOS Gatekeeper will warn you on first launch. Right-click the Wend icon in Applications, choose Open, then Open again in the dialog. One-time step.

Install in 30 seconds.

  1. 1

    Download the DMG

    The download starts immediately. ~42MB — universal binary, runs on Apple Silicon and Intel.

  2. 2

    Open it and drag Wend to Applications

    Standard macOS install. The DMG shows a Wend icon and an Applications shortcut — drag one onto the other.

  3. 3

    Right-click → Open the first time

    Because the build is not yet notarized, double-clicking will be blocked. Right-click (or Control-click) the Wend icon in Applications and choose "Open". Click Open in the dialog. You only do this once per machine.

  4. 4

    Look for the W in your menu bar

    Wend lives in the menu bar — top-right of your screen. Click it to open the onboarding window, scan the QR with your phone, and send your first note.

What you’ll see.

Menu-bar icon

A small W glyph at the top of your screen. Click for the onboarding panel and to see the daemon's tunnel URL.

Onboarding window

QR code (or 6-digit OTP) to pair with the phone, plus a status row showing your current Tailscale or local URL.

No window after that

Once paired, Wend is invisible. Notes you send from the phone trigger claude -p in the background; results stream back.

Push notifications

When a run completes, your phone pings — no need to keep the app open. Configure per-note in the phone app.

Get the phone half.

Wend is a two-piece app. The Mac runs the work; the phone is where you write, send, and read. The iPhone build is in TestFlight beta — link goes live alongside the App Store launch.

Join the TestFlightApp Store listing — soon.

For the careful.

Verify the DMG before you mount it:

shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/Wend.dmg
# expected:
# 9f85bb56d92f3230d58d67ff286236901a6ea1d3784b94db27b178ea6f0f680e  Wend.dmg

Hash refreshed on every release. See /downloads/mac.json for the canonical manifest.