# Desktop Helper

> What Animanager Desktop Helper is, when you need it and what it does on your computer. Without Blender, you can start in the browser with nothing to install.

Web page: https://animanager.com/desktop-helper

**Animanager Desktop Helper**

## Your computer, connected to Animanager. Only when your work needs it.

A small app for Mac and Windows. Most of Animanager needs nothing installed.

**In the browser**

## Start today with nothing to install.

The grid, chat, review, the canvas, the timeline and file uploads and downloads all run in the browser. Producers, reviewers and clients never need the Helper.

**Blender pipeline**

## Open each stage with what it needs.

Get files prepares the stage on your computer with what earlier stages published. You publish from the same folder.

### Stage folders

One folder per project, shot and stage.

### Blender in the background

Some jobs run your own Blender without opening a window.

**Also on the Helper**

## The heavy jobs, on your own machine.

### Large files

Files over 512 MB and downloads over 256 MB, with progress and retries.

### MCP for AI agents

Claude or Codex can work in your productions.

### Blender activity

Share your Blender session with the team.

### Render node and video export

Render for your studio's farm, available on request, and export the edit to a video file.

[See the MCP](https://animanager.com/mcp)

**On your computer**

## One folder. Only the jobs you ask for.

### One work folder

Everything goes into one Animanager folder.

### Not a sync client

It never scans or uploads the rest of your computer.

### Your account, your access

It only reaches the studios and files you can. It renders only if you add the computer as a node.

**Download**

## Install it where the work happens.

Install the Helper, choose Connect and continue in Animanager. It is not signed yet, so your computer warns you the first time. The guide shows how to open it.

### macOS: Mac with Apple silicon

A zip with the app.

[Download for macOS](https://wawmdzimokdkxsgdrurw.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/animanager-downloads/desktop-helper/Animanager-Helper-mac-arm64-install.zip?v=1.0.57)

### Windows: Windows, 64-bit

An installer. Updates install from the Helper.

[Download for Windows](https://wawmdzimokdkxsgdrurw.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/animanager-downloads/desktop-helper/Animanager-Helper-win-x64.exe?v=1.0.57)

### User guide: Open it the first time

How to install, open and connect it, step by step.

[Open the guide](https://animanager.com/guide/desktop-helper#open-the-helper-the-first-time)