Exegesis
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Desktop · Windows & Linux

Exegesis at the desk.

The same study workspace as on your phone — commentaries, confessions, playable hymn scores, letters, and word study one tap from the verse — now as a native app for Windows and Linux. Sign in with the account you already use and your notes, studies, highlights, and streak are waiting.

Pick your platform

Direct downloads. Free, no account needed to install, and the app keeps itself up to date from then on.

Linux AppImage · nothing to install

64-bit distribution with a GTK 3 desktop

Download for Linux
File
exegesis-linux.AppImage

On a Mac, phone or tablet? Get Exegesis for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac or the web →

First launch

Neither build is code-signed yet, so each adds a one-time prompt the first time you open it. After that it runs like any other app.

Windows

  1. Open the downloaded exegesis-windows.exe. If SmartScreen says “Windows protected your PC”, choose More info, then Run anyway — the installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows has not seen it before.
  2. Follow the setup wizard. It installs Exegesis and adds a Start menu shortcut.
  3. From then on Exegesis checks for newer builds itself and offers each one inside the app. You never need to come back here.

Linux

  1. Mark the AppImage executable: chmod +x exegesis-linux.AppImage
  2. Double-click it, or run it from a terminal. There is no install step — keep the file wherever you want the app to live; updates replace it in place. ./exegesis-linux.AppImage
  3. If it will not start, two system libraries may be missing: FUSE 2, which every AppImage needs, and WebKitGTK, which the sign-in window uses (already present on GNOME desktops). On Debian or Ubuntu: sudo apt install libfuse2 libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0
  4. On Fedora: sudo dnf install fuse webkit2gtk4.1

Check what you downloaded

Each card above prints the SHA-256 of the file currently published. Compare it with the hash of your copy — they must match exactly — and you know the download arrived whole and untouched. The app runs the same check before it installs an update.

Windows (PowerShell)

Get-FileHash .\exegesis-windows.exe -Algorithm SHA256

Linux

sha256sum exegesis-linux.AppImage

Good to know

  • One account, every device. Sign in and the notes, studies, highlights, and library you built on your phone are already here — and what you add at the desk goes back the other way.
  • Updates arrive in the app. Exegesis checks for a newer build when it opens and now and then while it runs, downloads it in the background, verifies it, and installs it on your next quit.
  • Features land on the phone first, so a surface or two may still be catching up on the desktop.
  • Only install from this page, so you always get a known-good build. Found a problem? Write to [email protected].