Download Maus
Free and open source, for macOS, Windows, and Ubuntu, with Android and iOS apps to carry your bots around. The harness is embedded, so there is nothing else to install — download it, paste the keys you already have, and meet your first bot.
Apache 2.0 licensed · your own API keys · always the latest build
How to install
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Download the .dmg for your chip — Apple silicon for M-series Macs, Intel for anything older.
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Open the .dmg and drag Maus to your Applications folder.
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Open it from Applications. The build is signed and notarized, so macOS opens it without a Gatekeeper warning.
How to install
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Download the .exe installer.
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Run it. The installer needs no administrator rights.
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SmartScreen will warn about an unknown publisher — the build is not code-signed yet. Choose More info, then Run anyway.
How to install
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Download the .deb package.
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Install it with apt — sudo apt install ./Maus-amd64.deb — or double-click it in your file manager.
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Not on Ubuntu? Take the .AppImage instead, mark it executable, and run it; it works on most other distributions.
Android
Android 8.0 or newer · Maus on a computer
How to install
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Android build coming soon. Follow @tryMaus on X for updates.
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Open the APK on your phone. Android asks you to allow installs from this source the first time — allow it, then install.
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Open the app and pair it with Maus on your computer. Your computer keeps running the bots; the phone is a remote for them.
Once it opens
Bring a key, or a CLI you already have
Bots run on the claude, codex, and grok CLIs installed on your machine, using your existing logins — or on API keys you paste into settings. Any one of them is enough to start.
Nothing else to install
The harness server is embedded in the app. There is no separate daemon, no Docker, and no account to create.
Everything stays on your disk
Transcripts, keys, and events live in ~/.maus. Local-first is the default, not a setting.
Not yet available
iOS
iPhone, via TestFlight · Companion app for the desktop · Not on the App Store yet: the iOS build is coming soon.
Before you download
- Every download link points at the newest published release, so they never go stale. Older builds are on the releases page.
- The whole app is Apache 2.0 licensed. Read the before you install it if you would rather.
- Something wrong with a build? Open an issue.
- New to the project? The introduction to Maus covers what it does and how it compares to Grok Bot.