Getting it
From the Mac App Store and the Microsoft Store.
A native application for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs (macOS 11 Big Sur or later) and Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit, arriving in Winter 2027. It will be published through the platform stores rather than as a file to download from here — installed, updated and reinstalled the same way as everything else on your machine.
Apple Silicon and Intel, both native.
Separate builds for Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3 and later) and for Intel Macs, so neither runs under translation. Requires macOS 11 Big Sur or later.
Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit.
Installed from the Microsoft Store. No runtime to install first and no background service left running afterwards.
No iPhone, iPad, Android or web version.
Desktop only, and deliberately — a synced mobile companion would require a server holding a copy of your collection, which is the specific thing this application exists to avoid. The reasoning in full.
The store listings are not open yet
Watch Vault Archive arrives in Winter 2027 on the Mac App Store and the Microsoft Store. Rather than put a button here that leads nowhere, this is the honest state of things.
No warning to click past.
Applications distributed through the stores are signed and checked by Apple and Microsoft before they are listed, so there is no Gatekeeper block, no “Windows protected your PC,” and no right-click → Open. It opens the way anything else from the store opens.
Handled by the store, not by the application.
The application has no updater of its own and never checks for one. New versions arrive the same way every other store application updates, on your machine’s own schedule and under your own settings.
On a new machine, years later.
The store keeps the record that you own it, so reinstalling does not depend on finding an installer, an email or a licence key. Your collection is separate from all of that — it lives in an encrypted backup you keep, and restoring one is never gated.
Before you start — two things worth knowing
The application opens locked and asks for a passphrase immediately; there is no “set this up later,” because later would mean storing your collection unprotected in the meantime. And the recovery key shown once during setup is the only other thing that can ever open your collection. Write it down, on paper, where your important documents live. There is no reset.