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Get Wobu

Wobu is free. Every download is built straight from the public source code and published on GitHub — there is nowhere else to get it, and nothing in the installer talks back to us.

Your computer will warn you. Here is why.

Signing an app costs money every year, and Wobu has not paid it yet. So Windows and macOS cannot tell who made the file, and they say so — loudly. That warning is doing its job. Before you click past it, check the download actually came from the releases page, and never install a copy of Wobu somebody sent you from anywhere else.

There is no automatic updating, and Wobu never checks for it. When a new version comes out, download it and install it over the old one. Your worlds are ordinary folders somewhere else on your disk, so nothing of yours is touched.

More detail on installing →

Pick your computer

  • Windows

    .msi, .exe

    Either one works — take the .msi if you are not sure. Run it. Windows will say the publisher is unknown, because we have not paid for a signature yet: choose More info, then Run anyway. If it ever names a publisher you have not heard of, stop — that is not us.

    Latest release

  • macOS

    .dmg

    Open it and drag Wobu into Applications. The first time you open it, right-click the app and choose Open, then confirm. Double-clicking will not work until you have done that once — macOS blocks apps that have not been signed.

    Latest release

  • Linux

    .AppImage, .deb, .rpm

    Take the .deb on Debian or Ubuntu, the .rpm on Fedora, and the .AppImage anywhere else — make it runnable with chmod +x Wobu_*.AppImage and open it.

    Latest release

The button takes you to the newest release. Scroll to Assets and pick the file for your machine.

Or build it yourself

For the technically inclined. You will need Node.js 22, the Rust toolchain (it installs its own version), and the Tauri 2 prerequisites for your system. 

git clone https://github.com/krazyjakee/wobu.git
cd wobu
npm ci
cd src-tauri && rustup toolchain install --no-self-update && cd ..
npm run tauri dev

Once it opens

Make a new world, and start with the two pages already waiting in it: Art Style for how everything should look, and World Canon for what is true in it. Add your peoples and places before your favourite character — that order pays off fast. Then drop in your AI account keys under Settings. They go into your computer's password store, never into the world folder.

Read the guide Licence and legal