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 for Macs with M-series chips and Intel 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 is the standard choice. The .msi installer exists for enterprise and group policy deployments.

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

To install the .msi silently, run this from an elevated PowerShell in the folder that holds the download:

msiexec /i (Get-Item Dynomatic_*_x64_en-US.msi) /qn

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

Linux

Three packages are published for x86_64. The AppImage runs on most distributions. The .deb package is for Debian, Ubuntu, and their derivatives. The .rpm package is for Fedora and other rpm-based distributions.

To run the AppImage, make it executable and start it:

chmod +x Dynomatic_*_amd64.AppImage
./Dynomatic_*_amd64.AppImage

To install the .deb package, install it with apt, which also installs its dependencies:

sudo apt install ./Dynomatic_*_amd64.deb

To install the .rpm package, install it with dnf:

sudo dnf install ./Dynomatic-*.x86_64.rpm

Launch the .deb or .rpm install from your application menu.

Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36, or a later release is required.

Package recipes can pin a release at https://app.dynomatic.io/api/downloads/linux/<version>/<format>, where <format> is appimage, deb, or rpm.

Dynomatic stores secrets in the Secret Service, which GNOME Keyring and KWallet provide, so you stay signed in after a reboot. If no Secret Service provider is running, Dynomatic stores secrets in its own encrypted database instead.

Note: If you signed in on a build earlier than 1.2.0 and have not rebooted since, sign in once more after you update.

Dynomatic opens links through the desktop portal. If the portal request fails, Dynomatic falls back to xdg-open. The AppImage uses the Wayland libraries installed on your system rather than bundled copies, so its window renders in a Wayland session.

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.

When you click Sign in with Browser, Dynomatic opens your browser. While it waits for the browser sign-in, the sign-in screen shows the sign-in link with Copy link and Open again. If your browser did not open, copy the link into a browser, or click Open again.

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.

On Linux, the AppImage replaces its own file. A .deb or .rpm install asks for your password, then installs the new package.

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.