# 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.