Install StoryCut

You can install StoryCut as an app. It gets an icon in your Dock, taskbar, Start menu or Home Screen, and opens in a window of its own without the browser's tabs and address bar. It's the same StoryCut as in your browser, with the same projects, and it updates itself whenever StoryCut does.

Install it

Where your browser offers it, Install the app on your account page opens the browser's own install prompt. Otherwise, the account page links here, and these are the steps:

Chrome or Edge, on a Mac, Windows, Linux or a Chromebook: open StoryCut, then choose Install StoryCut from the browser's menu (in Chrome, it's under Cast, save, and share), or the install icon at the end of the address bar.
Safari on a Mac: open StoryCut, then choose File › Add to Dock.
Chrome on Android: open StoryCut, then choose Add to Home screen or Install app from the browser's menu.
iPhone or iPad: open StoryCut in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen, and keep Open as Web App on.
Firefox doesn't install web apps on most computers. Use StoryCut in a tab there, or install it from another browser.

To remove it, uninstall it from the app window's menu, or remove it like any other app.

What's the same, and what isn't

It needs a connection, just like StoryCut in a tab. Your projects live in your StoryCut account, so you can pick up on any device. Opened with no connection, StoryCut says it's offline, and loads by itself once you're back.
Your footage stays on your device. StoryCut never uploads it, installed or not.
On a computer or an Android phone, the installed app and your browser share StoryCut's storage, so videos you attached and takes you recorded in one are there in the other.
On an iPhone or iPad, the installed app keeps its own storage, apart from Safari's. Sign in once more in the app, and attach your media files again there. A take recorded into browser storage in Safari stays in Safari.
There's no back button in the app's window. StoryCut's own navigation takes you everywhere, and links that leave StoryCut open in your browser.

Install it

Where your browser offers it, Install the app on your account page opens the browser's own install prompt. Otherwise, the account page links here, and these are the steps:

Chrome or Edge, on a Mac, Windows, Linux or a Chromebook: open StoryCut, then choose Install StoryCut from the browser's menu (in Chrome, it's under Cast, save, and share), or the install icon at the end of the address bar.

Safari on a Mac: open StoryCut, then choose File › Add to Dock.

Chrome on Android: open StoryCut, then choose Add to Home screen or Install app from the browser's menu.

iPhone or iPad: open StoryCut in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen, and keep Open as Web App on.

Firefox doesn't install web apps on most computers. Use StoryCut in a tab there, or install it from another browser.

To remove it, uninstall it from the app window's menu, or remove it like any other app.

What's the same, and what isn't

It needs a connection, just like StoryCut in a tab. Your projects live in your StoryCut account, so you can pick up on any device. Opened with no connection, StoryCut says it's offline, and loads by itself once you're back.

Your footage stays on your device. StoryCut never uploads it, installed or not.

On a computer or an Android phone, the installed app and your browser share StoryCut's storage, so videos you attached and takes you recorded in one are there in the other.

On an iPhone or iPad, the installed app keeps its own storage, apart from Safari's. Sign in once more in the app, and attach your media files again there. A take recorded into browser storage in Safari stays in Safari.

There's no back button in the app's window. StoryCut's own navigation takes you everywhere, and links that leave StoryCut open in your browser.