# The OpenUncensored desktop app is now on Windows, with branching and image editing

_2026-11-11. The uncensored AI assistant for your computer now runs on Windows 10 and 11 as well as the Mac: chat, a coding agent, image generation and editing, plus branching conversations. How to install it and what is new._

The OpenUncensored desktop app now runs on **Windows 10 and 11**, as well as on the Mac. It is an uncensored AI
assistant on your own computer: it chats, it works on your files and runs code as a coding agent, and it generates
and now edits images, on any of the uncensored models on OpenUncensored.

This release also adds two things people asked for: **branching conversations** and **image editing with reference
pictures**.

![The OpenUncensored app on Windows 11 editing a picture it made earlier into a new scene](https://openuncensored.com/blog/desktop-windows-edit.jpg)

## Install it

**Windows** (10 or 11, 64-bit): open PowerShell and run

```powershell
irm https://openuncensored.com/install.ps1 | iex
```

or [download the installer](https://openuncensored.com/download#windows). The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows may show
"Windows protected your PC": click **More info**, then **Run anyway**. The PowerShell command skips that step. It
installs for your user only, so no administrator password is needed.

**Mac** (Apple Silicon): open Terminal and run

```bash
curl -fsSL https://openuncensored.com/install.sh | sh
```

Then paste an OpenUncensored key, or buy credits inside the app. Both versions update themselves.

## What is new

**Windows.** The same app as on the Mac: chat, the coding agent, image generation and editing, and the model picker
ranked by the [OpenUncensored Score](https://openuncensored.com/rankings). On Windows the agent runs commands in PowerShell and knows it,
so it writes PowerShell rather than bash. Before shipping, this release ran end to end on a clean Windows 11 machine:
it generated an image, edited it, wrote and ran a program, branched a conversation, and restarted.

**Branch a conversation.** Hover any reply and click **Branch from here** to try a different direction in a new
conversation, while the original stays exactly as it was. Hover one of your own messages and click **Edit in a
branch** to change it and send it again. The agent in a branch remembers everything up to the branch point, including
the files it made, and the branch links back to where it came from.

![A branched conversation that still knows the file name of an image made before the branch](https://openuncensored.com/blog/desktop-branch.jpg)

**Edit images with references.** Give the assistant existing pictures (your character, a photo, an earlier result)
and ask for a new scene, pose or style. It keeps the same face and outfit, using
[Qwen Edit Uncensored](https://openuncensored.com/models/qwen-edit-uncensored) by default, or any editing model you name. More in
[the image editing announcement](https://openuncensored.com/blog/uncensored-image-editing-api).

## What it costs

The app is free. You pay only for what you use from your prepaid credits: model usage for chat and the agent, and a
few cents per image. Your balance is a hard cap, so there are no surprise bills.

## The code is open

The app is open source: [github.com/DhruvAtreja/open-uncensored-desktop](https://github.com/DhruvAtreja/open-uncensored-desktop).
Each release on GitHub has the Mac zip and the Windows installer, with their checksums.