Installing the Windows desktop app

The Windows desktop client isn't published yet. This article is a placeholder so you know what your options are in the meantime.

Status today

The downloads page lists Windows with a Coming soon tag and a disabled download button. The backend's downloads manifest declares the platform (windows-x64) but no installer file is staged, so the card stays in its placeholder state.
The Tauri framework supports Windows, so this is mostly a project of wiring the Windows build into the release pipeline and signing it. Both are on the near-term roadmap.
There is no recommended way to build the Windows app yourself today. If your firm's IT has compiled a pre-release internally, you can use that, but it's not something we publish or support externally yet.

Use the web app. Time-tracking feature parity with the desktop is essentially complete in the browser:

Open Edge, Chrome, or Firefox.
Go to your firm's TAB URL, usually https://tab.<your-firm>.gbossone.com. Your firm admin can provide it.
Sign in via Sign in with GBOSS Platform.
Start, stop, and edit timers from the dashboard banner and the Time entries page.

The web app gives you:

The same client/project picker.
The same Start / Stop timer behaviour, with the same one-timer-per-user enforcement.
The same long-running flag (8h by default, configurable per-firm).
The same approval flow.

The only things you give up by staying on the web are:

The system-tray icon (which today is a static menubar icon on Mac with Show window / Quit, no colour state yet).
The 10-minute idle prompt that asks what to do when you walk away from a running timer.

For most users on a stable office network, those aren't deal-breakers, the web app is a perfectly good day-to-day experience.

Pin the tab. In Edge or Chrome, right-click the TAB tab and pick Pin tab. It stays in place across browser restarts.
Install as an app. In Edge: … menu → Apps → Install this site as an app. You get a window that looks and behaves a lot like a native app, including its own taskbar icon. Chrome has the same feature under … → Cast, save and share → Install page as app (wording varies).
Keep the tab open. The timer keeps running on the server regardless of whether the tab is open, but leaving it open means you can see the running time at a glance and stop it with one click.

Watch the Help → Get desktop app page for the Windows card to switch from Coming soon to a working download.