Microsoft Store
RecommendedEasiest via the Microsoft Store: Windows installs quittum and keeps it up to date by itself. No security warning appears.
A double-click installs quittum. It fetches the rest itself: Ollama and the AI model (about 3 GB) land in its own data folder, and nothing of it is installed on your system. Text recognition comes with the Windows package; on the Mac it comes from macOS. After that it needs no internet at all.
quittum 0.1.64 for macOS
Notarised by Apple.
You are on a phone. Download the file on your Mac, or send yourself the link.
Easiest via the Microsoft Store: Windows installs quittum and keeps it up to date by itself. No security warning appears.
Or download the file directly, with a checksum below to verify it.
Open the downloaded file and drag quittum into the “Applications” folder.
macOS asks once because the file comes from the internet, not because anything is missing. Choose “Open”; quittum is notarized by Apple and then starts like any other app.
Select the licence file from the e-mail under “Lizenz”.
These steps only apply to the direct download. In the Microsoft Store, SmartScreen does not ask.
If the browser flags an unknown file while downloading: choose “Keep”.
In the blue window “Windows protected your PC” click “More info”.
The publisher reads “Unknown” until the signature is in place. After that the setup runs as usual.
Select the licence file from the e-mail under “Lizenz”.
This lets you check that the file was not altered on the way. If the output matches the checksum shown here, it is our file.
shasum -a 256 quittum-0.1.64-apple-silicon.dmg
Get-FileHash quittum-0.1.64-setup.exe -Algorithm SHA256
You get a licence file by e-mail. Select it in quittum under “Lizenz”, that's it. There is no activation and no sign-up.
quittum checks the licence file on your computer. With an internet connection, quittum regularly reports how many devices use the licence; no receipts are transmitted.
To process your own documents, quittum needs a purchased licence. The download itself is free. See packages