MakeVox for Mac

MakeVox for Mac is everything you have on makevox.ai, in its own window. Type in the editor or talk to it, the same as on the web, and keep writing when the Wi-Fi drops: your changes wait on the Mac and sync when you're back. It runs on macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

Download it

Go to makevox.ai/download and choose Download for Mac. You get a .dmg installer, signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple. The page lists the version, the size and the file's SHA-256 if you want to check it.

Install it

1. 1Open the .dmg from your Downloads.
2. 2Its window shows MakeVox on the left and Applications on the right, with an arrow between them. Drag MakeVox onto Applications, the way the arrow points. If the Applications icon looks like a blank square, drop it there anyway: it's still your Applications folder. Updates only install there, so don't run it from the open .dmg.
3. 3Open MakeVox from Applications. macOS asks once whether to open an app downloaded from the internet. Choose Open.

Sign in

Use the MakeVox account you already have. Your stories, your plan and your credits are the same on the Mac, the web, iPhone and iPad. You can sign in with your email right in the app. Apple, Google, a passkey or any other way you sign in finishes in your browser:

1. 1Choose Continue with Apple, Continue with Google, or Sign in with your browser. Your browser opens on the sign-in page, and the app shows a short code like K7Q-2MX.
2. 2Finish signing in there, then type the code from the app when it asks.
3. 3Your browser asks to open MakeVox. Allow it, and the app opens on your stories, signed in.

Updates arrive by themselves

The app checks for a new version when it starts and downloads it in the background. When it's ready you'll see Restart to update. Restart when it suits you, or just quit and the new version opens next time. To check yourself, choose MakeVox › Check for Updates… in the menu bar.

Working offline

• Writing works with no connection for as long as you need. The sidebar shows how many changes are waiting, and they sync when you reconnect. If the same scene changed on another device meanwhile, the app asks which version to keep, or keeps both.
• The pictures in your stories are kept on the Mac, so they show up offline too.
• Film can come with you. In a story with rendered film, choose Keep film on this Mac. It tells you the size before it downloads anything, and film is never removed on its own.
• Writing with AI, new pictures and new film still need a connection. The app says so beside those buttons rather than trying and failing.

Settings › Offline & storage shows what the Mac is keeping: the space your pictures and film use, story by story, and lets you remove what you no longer need offline.

Where your backups go

Once a day, each story you edit on the Mac is saved as a file in Documents › MakeVox Backups, one folder per story, and the last 7 versions are kept. Scripts are saved as .fountain files and everything else as .md, so any text editor opens them. The first time, macOS asks to let MakeVox use your Documents folder. Settings › Offline & storage › Daily backups has Show in Finder, and a switch to turn backups off.