Installing CogniPage

What you need

Around 400 MB of disk space is enough to begin with. If you later switch on on-device transcription, its speech model adds between 32 MB and 181 MB depending on which one you choose — and only then.

Installing on macOS

1. Download the right build

   The download page picks for you, but if you are choosing by hand: Apple Silicon for M1 and later, Intel for older Macs. Not sure? Apple menu → About This Mac tells you which chip you have.

2. Open the .dmg

   Double-click the downloaded file. A window opens with the CogniPage icon and an Applications shortcut.

3. Drag CogniPage into Applications

   Then eject the disk image — you can delete the .dmg afterwards.

4. Open it from Applications

   The first launch takes a few seconds longer while macOS verifies the notarisation. Because our builds are signed and notarised, you should not see a security warning at all.

Installing on Windows

1. Download the installer

   A single .exe. It installs CogniPage and nothing else — no toolbars, no bundled offers, no browser extensions.

2. Run it, and get past SmartScreen

   Our Windows build is not code-signed yet, so Windows shows "Windows protected your PC" the first time. Choose More info → Run anyway. A signing certificate is in progress; until then, you can verify the file yourself.

3. Follow the installer

   If WebView2 is missing, Windows fetches it as part of the install. Windows 11 always has it already.

Checking you got the file we published

Every Windows release is published with a SHA-256 checksum next to the download. To confirm your copy matches, open PowerShell in your Downloads folder and run:

Get-FileHash .\CogniPage_*_x64-setup.exe -Algorithm SHA256

Compare the result with the published value. On macOS this is unnecessary — the Apple Developer ID signature and notarisation already do it, and macOS refuses to open a modified build.

The first launch

CogniPage opens on Home, with permission cards at the top. Nothing is captured yet: capture cannot start until you grant the operating-system permissions and approve a source. Both are covered next, in Granting permissions.