# Platforms and updates

_Where Fishies runs today, what's coming, and how each version keeps itself up to date._

## Where Fishies runs

Fishies is a live aquarium, not a boxed release: the web version is the one build everyone is always on, and every native app opens the same server-authoritative aquarium as the browser. What ships and where changes as the alpha grows; this page always describes the current, real state, not the plan.

## Desktop

The desktop app installs on Windows, macOS and Linux from the download links on the game's site. It runs the same build inside its own window and adds a proper launcher, without changing what the browser already gets right. In the desktop app, pressing Escape on the aquarium with nothing open asks whether you want to quit the game.

- Windows: x64, 32-bit (x86) and ARM64 builds, for Windows 10 and 11.
- macOS: one universal build for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, also on the Mac App Store.
- Linux: AppImage, .deb and .rpm packages, still experimental; a virtual machine or an NVIDIA GPU without its proprietary driver can leave graphics running on slow software rendering.

## Mobile

The Android, iPhone and iPad apps share the same aquarium as everywhere else.

- Android: Google Play, a direct APK download, and an itch.io build, for Android 7.0 (API level 24) and up.
- iPhone and iPad: the App Store, for iOS 15 and up.

## Other storefronts

Beyond the game's own download page, Fishies is starting to reach other storefronts.

- itch.io: the desktop and Android builds are published there today.
- Steam: planned, not yet available; there is no store page yet.

## Keeping up to date

Nobody has to go looking for a new version.

- The desktop app checks for updates itself and installs them without a separate download; the file you first downloaded keeps working as the updater. While it is open it also looks for a newer version every half hour and when you come back to its window, and offers a Restart button once it is ready.
- Google Play, itch.io and the browser all serve the current build automatically. The web version needs nothing at all: reloading the page is enough.

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