Desktop App 🌀 Bulka

The Bulka desktop app

Bulka ships as a desktop app for Windows, Linux and macOS: all of Bulka runs locally. Download the latest version.

  • Windows installer Bulka_<version>_x64-setup.exe → a “Bulka” shortcut. Installs without admin rights and updates itself from new releases.
  • Windows portable Bulka-portable.zip → unzip → Bulka.exe. Nothing is written to the system: delete the folder and the app is gone.
  • Linux Bulka_<version>_amd64.AppImage (runs on any distribution, updates itself) or Bulka_<version>_amd64.deb.
  • macOS (Apple Silicon, macOS 13.5 or newer) Bulka_<version>_aarch64.dmg. The app is not notarized by Apple: start it once, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → “Open Anyway”. If macOS says the app is damaged, run xattr -cr /Applications/Bulka.app in Terminal.

What’s inside

The app starts a built-in server and opens a window: the full Bulka without a browser. Windows 10/11 x64 needs WebView2 (Windows 11 has it; otherwise the installer fetches it).

Local and private

  • Keys, settings and recordings stay on your machine: on Windows in the app folder (webview-data, recordings), on Linux in ~/.local/share/app.bulka.desktop, on macOS in ~/Library/Application Support/app.bulka.desktop.
  • Close the window and everything stops (no server left running in the background).
  • Recordings and WAV exports go to the recordings folder, and the folder opens after saving.

Desktop-only features

Building from source

Repository timoncool/Bulka, folder desktop/ (Tauri v2): bash desktop/build.sh builds the app for the current OS, bash desktop/pack-portable.sh the Windows portable, desktop/build-linux-docker.sh Linux in Docker. Details are in desktop/README.md.