Ampersand
0.3.0

What changed

• Native builds for Windows 10 and 11 and for Debian, Ubuntu and beyond — x86_64 and ARM on both. Not a wrapper or a web version: the same Rust and Tauri app, compiled for each platform, with the window controls, keyboard shortcuts and file dialogs each system expects.
• Your vault is the same folder of markdown files everywhere, so a vault written on a Mac opens on a PC and the other way round, encrypted notes included.
• On Windows, Ampersand can remember your vault passphrase behind Windows Hello, the way Touch ID works on a Mac. It only appears where Hello is actually set up — on a machine with no fingerprint, face or PIN enrolled, nothing is offered and you keep typing the passphrase, because storing it with nothing guarding it would be worse than the small inconvenience.
• Windows installers are not yet certificate-signed, so Windows warns once on first run — choose More info, then Run anyway. That warning is about the certificate rather than the file, and the download page explains it. Linux packages come from signed apt and dnf repositories.
• Linux is community-supported: every release is built and signed, and reported issues get fixed, but the app is developed on macOS so Linux-specific problems can take longer.
• The vault now also locks when your machine sleeps, not only after an idle timeout — on every platform. Closing the lid is how most people leave a desk, and a long auto-lock interval used to sail straight through it.

Ampersand updates itself in place, so you are probably already on a newer build than this one. If you are installing fresh, the download page always has the current release for macOS, Windows and Linux.