Installation

Dynomatic ships as a signed desktop installer for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Downloading it starts nothing and costs nothing. Your 14-day free trial begins inside the app, when you start it, and no account is required to begin.

Download the installer

Go to the download page. The page detects your platform and recommends a build, and every build stays listed under All platforms so you can grab one for another machine.

macOS

Two disk images are published. Pick Apple Silicon (Dynomatic-aarch64.dmg) for Macs with M-series chips and Intel (Dynomatic-x64.dmg) for the rest.

1. Open the .dmg file.
2. Drag Dynomatic to Applications.
3. Launch it from Applications.

macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or later is required.

Windows

Two installers are published. The .exe installer (Dynomatic-Setup.exe) is the standard choice. The .msi installer (Dynomatic-Setup.msi) exists for enterprise and group policy deployments.

1. Run the installer.
2. Follow the setup wizard.
3. Launch Dynomatic from the Start menu.

Windows 10 or later, 64-bit, is required.

Linux

Two packages are published. The AppImage (Dynomatic.AppImage) works on most distributions. The .deb package (Dynomatic.deb) is for Debian, Ubuntu, and derivatives.

To run the AppImage, make it executable with chmod +x Dynomatic.AppImage, then run it. You can add it to your launcher afterwards.

To install the .deb package, run sudo dpkg -i Dynomatic.deb, or double-click the file in your file manager, then launch Dynomatic from the application menu.

Ubuntu 18.04 or an equivalent 64-bit distribution is required.

First launch

With no default profile configured, Dynomatic opens on a full-window welcome screen. It offers three ways forward.

• Any AWS profiles it detects in ~/.aws are listed under Detected, and one click connects with the profile you pick.
• Add connection opens an inline panel for creating a profile by hand. See Connect to AWS.
• Try sample data starts Sample mode, which needs no AWS account at all.

The app remembers window position, size, and maximized state across launches, and restores them against the display they were saved on. If that display is gone, the window re-centers.

A Get started panel appears in the bottom-right corner with four milestones, Connect to AWS, Run a query, View your query history, and Try the command palette. It tracks genuine completion, so a milestone flips only once you have really done it. Dismiss it permanently from the panel, or reset it later from Settings under Onboarding.

Auto-update

Dynomatic checks for updates in the background, 5 seconds after launch and then every 4 hours. Updates are signed and verified before they install.

When one is available, an update dialog offers Download. It shows live progress and speed while downloading, then Install & Restart when the new version is ready. A failed download keeps the bytes it already fetched, so Retry resumes rather than starting over. View changelog opens the release notes.

Dismissing the dialog dismisses that version only, so the next release prompts again. The status bar carries an update segment showing the app version and the current update state, and you can open the dialog from there at any time.

Note: Update checks only run in release builds. They are the one piece of network traffic Dynomatic makes on its own behalf, alongside the sign-in and trial verification tick described in Account and licensing.