Install on macOS, Windows & Linux

Updated Sep 10, 2026 · 5 min read

Download the right build for your OS, get past the first-run prompts, and activate your license.

Meshory ships a native build for each platform. Grab yours from the downloads page. Every build is the same app; only the installer differs.

macOS

The macOS build is a single universal app for both Apple Silicon and Intel, and it's signed and notarized by Apple. Open the disk image and drag Meshory to your Applications folder. It needs macOS 12 Monterey or later and about 4 GB of RAM.

Windows

Windows gets a standard 64-bit installer for Windows 10 and 11. The early-access build isn't code-signed yet, so on first run Windows SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC". This is expected: nothing is wrong with your download.

1. 1When the blue SmartScreen dialog appears, choose More info.
2. 2A Run anyway button appears. Click it to continue.
3. 3Setup then proceeds normally. This only happens once per build.

Your antivirus may react to the same missing signature, and it looks nothing like the SmartScreen dialog: McAfee, Norton and similar tools tend to quarantine or silently delete the installer, sometimes naming a generic detection like Artemis or Real Protect. Meshory contains no malware. These engines score an installer partly on how many people worldwide have already run it, and a freshly released, unsigned build from a small studio starts at zero, so the heuristic fires on the absence of reputation, not on anything found in the file.

1. 1Read the detection name first. McAfee usually reports something like ti! followed by twelve hex characters, and those characters are the opening twelve of your own file's SHA-256. Compare them to the checksum on the downloads page and you have confirmed the download without installing a thing.
2. 2For the whole hash, run Get-FileHash YourDownload.exe -Algorithm SHA256 in PowerShell and compare the result to that same page. A match means the file is byte-for-byte what our build servers produced.
3. 3Open the VirusTotal report linked beside the Windows checksum to see how every major engine rates the exact file we published. You are welcome to upload your own copy there instead, so none of this rests on our word.
4. 4Restore the file from your antivirus quarantine, then add it to that tool's allow list or exclusions. The wording differs per product; it is usually under Quarantine, Protection History, or Exclusions.
5. 5If your antivirus offers a Submit or Report as safe option, use it. Those reports are what get a build de-listed for everyone else too.

If the Windows installer does nothing

Sometimes SmartScreen blocks the installer without showing its blue dialog: you run it, no window opens, and no warning appears. Turning SmartScreen off gets past this, but it also stops SmartScreen from checking everything else you download. Unblocking the one file does the same job and leaves SmartScreen on.

1. 1Confirm the download first with the checksum steps above. Only unblock a file whose SHA-256 matches the one on the downloads page.
2. 2Right-click the installer and choose Properties.
3. 3On the General tab, tick Unblock at the bottom, next to the note that the file came from another computer, then click OK.
4. 4Run the installer again. Setup should now open normally.

No Unblock checkbox? Then SmartScreen isn't what stopped the installer. Check your antivirus's quarantine or protection history as described above, and Smart App Control below.

On Windows 11, Smart App Control lives under Windows Security → App & browser control. When it is on, it blocks unsigned apps outright, with no Run anyway button and no way to allow a single app, so Unblock won't help and Meshory can't be installed while it stays on. Turning it off affects every app on the PC, and on some Windows 11 versions it can't be turned back on without reinstalling Windows, so weigh that before you change it.

Linux

Linux ships as a portable AppImage for any modern distro, no package manager needed. Mark it executable and run it. It expects glibc 2.31 or newer on x86_64, and the AppImage bundles its own runtime, so it doesn't depend on the libfuse2 package that Ubuntu 24.04 and other recent distros stopped shipping. Prefer your package manager? A .deb package is offered next to the AppImage on the downloads page.

chmod +x Meshory*.AppImage && ./Meshory*.AppImage

Activate your license

On first launch, paste the license key from your purchase email and activate. Activation is a quick online check, so you'll need a connection that first time. After that the license is verified locally and the app launches fine offline; it just re-confirms the license automatically whenever you're online (a machine kept fully offline for months will eventually ask to connect once). Your license isn't locked to a device: install Meshory on as many computers as you own, with no activation limits. See One license, many computers for details.

First launch also walks you through a short setup: what previews should show (the picture that came with a model, or Meshory's own render), how you want to browse (your real folder tree, or one flat grid of every model across your sources), when previews are rendered (as you browse, or all upfront after each scan), and whether to share anonymous usage stats. Every one of those can be changed later in Settings; How previews are generated explains the two preview choices.

On a free trial, Settings → License shows the trial as a trial: how many days are left, when it ends, and that buying picks up right where you left off, library included. The same panel takes a new key over one that is already activated.

No key yet? Pick one up on the pricing page, or start the free 14-day trial, which is a full license for two weeks. Every purchase is a one-time payment with a 14-day money-back guarantee.