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Install Kadro ADE

Kadro ADE runs on macOS and Windows — a couple of minutes from download to the sign-in screen. The macOS build is signed, notarized, and self-updating; Windows ships as a 64-bit installer.

Updated 2026-06-12

Requirements

  • macOS 13 (Ventura) or later on an Apple Silicon Mac, or Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit).
  • A Kadrotools account. The app opens to a sign-in screen on first launch — creating an account is free and takes a minute.

Download

Get the current release from kadrotools.ai/download. It detects your OS and points at the latest build — the signed DMG on macOS, the 64-bit installer on Windows.

Install

On macOS

  1. Open the downloaded DMG.
  2. Drag Kadro into your Applications folder.
  3. Eject the DMG.
  4. Open Kadro from Applications or Spotlight.

macOS releases are signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so macOS opens them without warnings. If you ever do see a Gatekeeper warning on a fresh download, don’t work around it — re-download from the official link and tell us at support@kadrotools.ai.

On Windows

  1. Run the downloaded .exe installer.
  2. The Windows build isn’t code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may show “Windows protected your PC.” Click More info → Run anyway to continue.
  3. Follow the installer, then launch Kadro from the Start menu.

Only run the installer from the official link. Code signing for Windows is on the way.

First launch

Kadro ADE opens to a sign-in screen rather than an empty workspace. Click Sign in with Browser (or Create account), finish in your browser, and switch back — the app picks up the sign-in automatically and continues. The full first-run walkthrough is in Getting started.

Where Kadro ADE keeps its data

Your preferences — theme, default shell, keybinding overrides, and your sign-in session — live in the standard per-OS location:

macOS    ~/Library/Application Support/ai.kadrotools.kadro/
Windows  %APPDATA%\ai.kadrotools.kadro\

Your projects and files stay wherever they already are. ADE opens terminals in your project directories; it doesn’t copy or move anything.

Updates

On macOS and Windows you never need to come back to this page. Kadro ADE checks for new releases on launch and about once an hour while running. When one is available, an update pill appears in the sidebar above your profile — click Restart and the app relaunches on the new version.

You can still install manually at any time from kadrotools.ai/download; the download page always points at the current public ADE release.

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