--- title: Install Relic | Relic Help description: Get Relic on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iPhone and iPad, with the download for each one and what the first launch asks you for. canonical: https://relic.space/help/install source: https://relic.space/llms.txt --- Get started # Install Relic Get Relic on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iPhone and iPad, with the download for each one and what the first launch asks you for. Updated 10 September 2026 · Every platform Every download is on the front page of [relic.space](https://relic.space/#download), which picks out the one for the machine you are reading on. Pick your platform below for the details. ## [Windows](#windows) 1. Get the installer If you use winget, one line does it. Otherwise download the installer from the [download section](https://relic.space/#download) and open it. terminal winget install relic 2. Run it Relic installs into your own user folder, so there is no administrator prompt. It puts a shortcut in your Start Menu. 3. Find it in the tray Relic has no window of its own sitting on your desktop. It waits in the tray, next to the clock. Press Ctrl \+ Shift \+ Q from any app to open it. 4. Let it update itself Relic checks for a new version on its own. The tray menu has Check for updates…, and it becomes Install update once one is ready. ## [Mac](#mac) 1. Open the disk image The Mac download is a disk image. Open it and open Relic inside. 2. Let it move to Applications On that first launch Relic offers to install itself properly, under the heading **Relic runs from your Applications folder**. Press **Install and reopen** and it copies itself across and opens again from there. The other button is **Quit**. If your Mac refuses the copy, Relic opens your Applications folder in Finder and asks you to drag it in yourself. 3. Find it in the menu bar Relic lives in the menu bar at the top of the screen. Click the icon, or press Ctrl \+ Shift \+ Q from any app. 4. Decide about Accessibility On first run Relic asks for one macOS permission, under the heading **Let Relic paste for you**. It uses it to put the item you pick straight into the app you were just in. Press **Open Accessibility settings** to grant it, or **Skip for now**. Skipping costs you nothing else: Relic still keeps everything you copy, and picking an item still copies it. You press ⌘V yourself. Why the move matters Relic run straight from the disk image is a copy that disappears when you eject it, and it takes your settings with it. macOS does the same thing with a temporary copy when an app is opened from anywhere but Applications. Moving it across once is what makes everything you set up afterwards stick. ## [Linux](#linux) Two downloads, the same build. The tarball is the default because it depends on nothing at all. The AppImage is one file, so it is the only one Relic can update by swapping in place. 1. Take the tarball, or the AppImage Both are on the [download page](https://relic.space/#download). Extract the tarball anywhere and run the app inside it. For the AppImage, make it executable first. terminal # the tarball: extract it, then run the app inside tar -xf relic-*-linux-x64.tar.gz ./relic-*-linux-x64/relic_app # the AppImage: make it executable, then run it chmod +x relic-*-x86_64.AppImage ./relic-*-x86_64.AppImage 2. Make sure FUSE is there, for the AppImage The AppImage mounts itself with FUSE. Current distributions ship what it needs (it runs on a stock Ubuntu 24.04, which has fuse3). On an older machine with nothing usable, run it with `--appimage-extract-and-run`, or take the tarball. 3. Let it add itself to your launcher Nothing installs system-wide and there is no package manager step. On first run Relic writes its own launcher entry and icon into \~/.local/share/applications/, so it shows up in your launcher like anything else. Its vault lives in \~/.local/share/relic. 4. Check which session you are in Relic is built for X11, and it is honest about the difference. On X11 everything works: the shortcut from any app, summoning the window, and pasting your pick back where you were. On Wayland the desktop does not hand any app a global shortcut or let it press keys, so the shortcut reports itself as unavailable and there is no paste-back. Capture and sync still work. Use your desktop's own shortcut settings to open Relic if you want a key for it. terminal echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE Plain GNOME has had no system tray for years. Relic asks the session first, so on a desktop with no tray it points you at your keyboard shortcut instead of at an icon that is not there. Install the AppIndicator extension and the icon appears. ## [Android](#android) 1. Install from Google Play Relic is on [Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=relic.space.app&referrer=utm%5Fsource%3Drelic.space%26utm%5Fmedium%3Dwebsite%26utm%5Fcampaign%3Dhelp-install). 2. Sign in Sign in with the same account you use on your computer and your vault comes down to the phone. A phone will not let an app watch the clipboard in the background, so Relic on Android does not capture on its own. You send things in with the share sheet, or paste them into the app. Everything already in your vault is there to search. [Capture on Android](https://relic.space/help/capture-on-android) shows the ways in. ## [iPhone and iPad](#iphone-and-ipad) 1. Install from the App Store Relic is on the [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/relic-clipboard-vault/id6800556025). The same download covers iPhone and iPad. 2. Sign in Sign in with the same account you use on your computer and your vault comes down to the phone or the tablet. The same rule applies here. iPhone and iPad do not let an app read the clipboard in the background, so you send things in with the share sheet rather than having them picked up for you. [Capture on iPhone](https://relic.space/help/capture-on-iphone) shows the ways in. ## [What happens next](#next) On a computer, the first launch walks you through making a vault or signing in to one you already have. That is the [first run](https://relic.space/help/first-run), step by step, including the recovery kit you should save somewhere safe. * New to Relic? [How Relic works](https://relic.space/help/the-basics) explains the handful of words the app uses. * Already set up? [The Relic window](https://relic.space/help/the-popup) is the tour of the window you will live in. * Adding a second computer or a phone? [Add a device](https://relic.space/help/add-a-device) is the short version. * Curious what runs where? The [platforms section](https://relic.space/features#platforms) on the features page lists it. Related [Your first runGet started](https://relic.space/help/first-run)[How Relic worksGet started](https://relic.space/help/the-basics)[Add a deviceSync and devices](https://relic.space/help/add-a-device)[Settings: GeneralSettings reference](https://relic.space/help/settings-general)