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github-actions released this 03 Nov 15:34

v2026.1103.4954

6a1d9e2

What's new

New ways to install Quill

Mac: a disk image. Open quill-macos-aarch64.dmg and drag Quill onto the Applications folder. Apple signed and notarized both the disk image and the app.
Mac with Homebrew: brew install --cask shinycake/tap/quill-app
Windows: an installer. quill-windows-x86_64-setup.exe installs Quill for your account with no administrator rights, adds it to the Start menu and lists it in Settings › Apps. It isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen asks once: choose More info, then Run anyway.
Windows with Chocolatey: choco install quill, once Chocolatey's moderators approve the package
Linux with Flatpak: flatpak install --user https://shinycake.github.io/quill/flatpak/quill.flatpakref
The zips, the Linux packages and the one-line install commands work as before.

Linux: Flatpak

Quill can run as a Flatpak. Inside the sandbox it names its windows, notifications and launcher badge after the Flatpak, so your desktop groups them with the Quill icon. Settings it can't change from the sandbox, like start at login and the tg: link handler, show a note instead.
Quill has its own signed Flatpak repository, which updates with your other Flatpak apps.

Not yet tested on real hardware

The Windows installer was installed, run and uninstalled in CI, never on a real PC
The Flatpak was built and started in CI, never on a real Linux desktop

What's Changed

Other changes

Say Quill for Mac is notarized on the site and in the README by @shinycake in #1334
Give each sticker placement test its own base picture by @shinycake in #1335
feat(linux): package Quill as a Flatpak by @shinycake in #1336
Styled Mac disk image, Windows installer and package-manager channels by @shinycake in #1337

Full Changelog: v2026.1103.4940...v2026.1103.4954

Downloads

Platform	File	Size
macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon (disk image)	`quill-macos-aarch64.dmg`	45.7 MB
macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon (zip)	`quill-macos-aarch64.zip`	61.0 MB
Linux x86_64 (glibc 2.35 or later)	`quill-linux-x86_64-bundle.tar.gz`	70.5 MB
Linux arm64 (glibc 2.35 or later)	`quill-linux-aarch64-bundle.tar.gz`	68.5 MB
Windows 10 or later, x86_64 (installer)	`quill-windows-x86_64-setup.exe`	42.6 MB
Windows 10 or later, x86_64 (zip)	`quill-windows-x86_64.zip`	64.2 MB

quill-linux-x86_64 and quill-linux-aarch64 are the bare executables the in-app
updater installs into an existing Linux package. latest.json is a machine-readable summary of this release.

Installing

macOS (Apple Silicon, macOS 14+). Download quill-macos-aarch64.dmg, open
it and drag Quill to Applications. Quill is signed with a Developer ID and
notarized by Apple, so it opens without a warning. With Homebrew:

brew install --cask shinycake/tap/quill-app

Or paste this into Terminal to install or update Quill in Applications:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/macos-install.sh | bash

Windows (x86_64, Windows 10+). Download and run
quill-windows-x86_64-setup.exe. It installs Quill for your user, with no
administrator rights, adds a Start menu shortcut and lists Quill in
Settings > Apps. The installer is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn
the first time: choose More info > Run anyway. With Chocolatey:

choco install quill

Or paste this into PowerShell, which installs the same way without the
SmartScreen prompt:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/windows-install.ps1 | iex

quill-windows-x86_64.zip is the same app unpacked: unzip it anywhere and run
quill.exe. No Visual C++ Redistributable is needed.

Linux (x86_64 or arm64, glibc). Paste this into a terminal to install or
update Quill for your user, with no root needed:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/linux-web-install.sh | bash

It picks the package for your CPU (quill-linux-x86_64-bundle.tar.gz or
quill-linux-aarch64-bundle.tar.gz), checks its SHA-256, installs it under
~/.local with a desktop entry, and names any system library that is missing.
To do it by hand, unpack the tarball with tar -xzf, then run
quill-linux-<arch>/quill in place or quill-linux-<arch>/install.sh (pass a
prefix to install elsewhere). Quill can update this package in place from
Settings.

Telegram API credentials

This build includes Quill's own Telegram API credentials, so it connects without any setup. TELEGRAM_API_ID / TELEGRAM_API_HASH in the environment (or a quill.local.env file) still take precedence.

Source code and licenses

Quill is MIT-licensed; the source is this tag. Each package lists its
third-party components in THIRD_PARTY.md. The LGPL libraries it ships (FFmpeg
and the tgcalls inside libquill_calls) are attached as quill-source-*
archives; LGPL-SOURCES.txt has the exact upstream URLs and commits and a
written offer for the corresponding source.

Checksums (SHA-256)

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Quill is an independent, unofficial Telegram client. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Telegram. It is early, experimental software provided under the MIT License, without warranty of any kind.

Contributors

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Assets 17

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Source code (tar.gz)

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Quill 2026.1103.4940

github-actions released this 03 Nov 05:32

v2026.1103.4940

87df093

What's new

Mac users: download this version from the site once

Quill for Mac is now signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so macOS opens it without warnings. Your current copy can't install this update by itself, because it was signed the old way. Download Quill from the site once and replace the app. Your accounts and settings stay. Updates work as usual after that.

Smoother on a Mac

Mac windows now draw on Apple's Metal display link, which times each frame to the display.
In Low Power Mode on a Mac or battery saver on Windows, Quill draws at most 30 frames a second. To keep full speed, turn off "Save Power on Low Battery" in Settings › Battery and Animations.
The text cursor stops blinking after 10 seconds without typing, so an idle window draws nothing.
Quill now uses GPUI Kit 0.9, and the built-in menus, pickers and dialogs follow your Quill language.

Chats

Polls have a new look, and every option lines up on the same side as the first one. Hebrew in polls wraps between words.
Chat wallpapers the other person sets now show in your chat too.
Clicking a notification opens the chat with the cursor in the message box.
The story list loads all the stories, not just the first page.
In a secret chat, the message menu offers only what secret chats allow.
"Highlight words with emoji" is now off by default. When it's on, the first word of a draft lights up once you type a space after it.

Settings

Picking a search result scrolls to that setting, centers it and highlights it.

Not yet tested on real hardware

These passed automated tests, but we haven't run them on the real thing:

The Metal display link with real video, HDR pictures, live resizing, moving a window between displays and Low Power Mode
The first notarized Mac build, installed from the site

What's Changed

Other changes

Offer only what a secret chat allows in the message menu in #1320
Turn emoji word highlights off by default and light the first word in #1321
Focus the composer when a notification opens a chat in #1322
Load every page of the story lists in #1325
Show wallpapers the other side sets in #1326
Land on the setting from search: center it and highlight it in #1327
Redesign the poll bubble and wrap Hebrew by words in #1328
Keep every poll row on the side of the first option in #1329
Move to GPUI Kit 0.9.0 and gpui-pre 0.3.11 in #1330
Use GPUI Kit 0.9 power mode, idle caret and kit translations in #1331
Prepare macOS releases for Developer ID and notarization in #1333
Pace macOS windows with CAMetalDisplayLink in #1332

Full Changelog: v2026.1102.4879...v2026.1103.4940

Downloads

Platform	File	Size
macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon	`quill-macos-aarch64.zip`	61.0 MB
Linux x86_64 (glibc 2.35 or later)	`quill-linux-x86_64-bundle.tar.gz`	70.5 MB
Linux arm64 (glibc 2.35 or later)	`quill-linux-aarch64-bundle.tar.gz`	68.5 MB
Windows 10 or later, x86_64	`quill-windows-x86_64.zip`	64.2 MB

quill-linux-x86_64 and quill-linux-aarch64 are the bare executables the in-app
updater installs into an existing Linux package. latest.json is a machine-readable summary of this release.

Installing

macOS (Apple Silicon, macOS 14+). Paste this into Terminal to install or
update Quill in Applications:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/macos-install.sh | bash

It downloads quill-macos-aarch64.zip, checks its SHA-256 and signature, and
installs Quill.app. Quill opens straight away, with no security warning.

If you download the zip in a browser instead, macOS blocks the first launch,
because Quill is not notarized (it has no paid Apple Developer ID; it is only
ad-hoc signed). Move Quill.app to Applications and run
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Quill.app in Terminal, or open
Quill once, then go to System Settings > Privacy & Security, click
Open Anyway next to the Quill message, and confirm.

Linux (x86_64 or arm64, glibc). Paste this into a terminal to install or
update Quill for your user, with no root needed:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/linux-web-install.sh | bash

Windows (x86_64, Windows 10+). Paste this into PowerShell to install or
update Quill for your user, with no administrator rights needed:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/windows-install.ps1 | iex

It downloads quill-windows-x86_64.zip, checks its SHA-256, installs it in
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Quill with a Start menu shortcut, and adds Quill to
Settings > Apps so you can remove it there. Quill starts without a SmartScreen
warning (Smart App Control, when turned on, is a separate check and may still
block it). If you download the zip in a browser instead, unzip it anywhere and
run quill.exe. The zip is not code-signed, so SmartScreen warns the first
time: choose More info > Run anyway. No Visual C++ Redistributable is
needed.

Telegram API credentials

Source code and licenses

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Assets 13

Quill 2026.1102.4879

github-actions released this 02 Nov 15:22

v2026.1102.4879

4ab0bb3

What's new

This release finishes a full sweep of Quill for performance, stability and memory.

Sending photos and files

HEIC, HEIF, AVIF, JPEG XL, BMP and TIFF pictures now offer the compressed photo option when you drop or attach them, and WebM offers video. Quill converts them to JPEG for sending. On a system that cannot decode a format, the file goes out as a file.
You can drop, paste or pick more than 10 files. They go out in groups of ten.
A dragged GIF gets the same drop zones as other media and stays a GIF.
A photo edit now finishes in the background. Send waits for it, so the original never goes out by mistake.

Disk space and the cache

Quill now keeps its cache to 1 GB and clears files nobody opened for 31 days, the limits Telegram Desktop starts with. This is set once per account, only on accounts that never chose limits. If you pick "No limit" in Settings › Data and Storage, it stays that way.
The cleanup also covers files in the Downloads list. A downloaded file you have not opened for 31 days, or the oldest ones once the cache passes 1 GB, leave the list and download again when you open them. Files you saved with Save or Save as are copies outside the cache and are never removed.
The low disk warning now shows in every Quill window: chat windows, calls and voice chats too. It stays until enough space is free.
Downloads that Quill paused because the disk was low now resume by themselves once space is free, also after Quill restarts or reconnects.
Freeing space during a call no longer ends the call.
While a call keeps Quill connected on a full disk, downloads and an update download pause instead of filling the disk.
Quill warns before a low disk would stop it from opening your account, even with a large message database or several accounts.
A data folder on a drive that was unplugged now counts as unwritable, so Quill disconnects safely instead of reading the internal disk.
The full disk notification no longer offers Reply and Mark as read.
"Show cached files" on the full disk screen says so when the folder cannot open.

Stability

On Windows, Quill no longer crashes, freezes or quits silently when GPU setup fails or the GPU is lost, and it no longer leaves blank windows when recovery gives up.
On Linux, lost GPUs, Wayland input, D-Bus and the tray no longer cause crashes or hangs.
On a Mac, Quill survives a failed Metal setup. Closing the window no longer leaves a dead app, and notifications arrive while the window is hidden.
Quitting during a call now hangs up. A Dock Quit or a log out asks before ending a running export.
Malformed animated stickers are refused before they reach the renderer.
Text with hundreds of stacked marks no longer slows down the chat or draws over nearby lines.
If an account cannot open, Quill says why. It reconnects right after a network change, and says when a running copy of Quill is frozen.

Fewer freezes

A long multi-line paste no longer freezes Quill on every keystroke.
Settings saves, photo edits, drag hovers, opening call devices and starting audio no longer hold up the window.
The window keeps drawing and answering input through a flood of updates, including on big accounts.
Videos keep playing after their sound ends, and a clip that shows no picture now ends or fails.

Lighter on the machine

Chats draw with less work during scrolling and while stickers play, and Quill redraws only what animates.
A GIF file in a chat no longer holds hundreds of megabytes to show one picture.
An open chat no longer grows without limit in memory.
Converting video is about 4 times faster on Linux.

Also fixed

Date pickers accept a time in the repeated hour on the night clocks go back.
Stickers with no thumbnail show their first frame in the panel.
A song you return to resumes where you stopped, instead of slightly ahead.

Changed behavior

On a Mac, closing hides only the main window, and a Dock click brings it back.

Not yet tested on real hardware

These fixes passed automated tests, but we have not run them on the real thing:

120 Hz and HDR displays, and GPU loss on Windows and Linux
Calls between two real devices
A real IPv6 router change
A really full disk with a live connection
Sending a real HEIC, and decoding HEIC on Windows and Linux

What's Changed

Other changes

Keep Quill repainting on Windows when the system reports a bad refresh rate in #1277
Fix the minimise step of the agent chord test on macOS in #1278
Stop Quill freezing on Windows when a GPU reset meets a window opening or closing in #1279
Stop leaving blank windows on Windows when GPU recovery gives up in #1281
Draw a chat with 10 to 20% less CPU while a sticker plays in #1280
Open chats load their pictures first on a cold login, and file updates stop slowing down as more downloads run in #1286
Stop Windows freezes on call and recording start, keep animation timers on pace, and survive brief file locks in #1283
Delete a web proxy's data on Windows even when WebView2 is slow to exit in #1289
Keep videos playing after their sound ends, and end or fail clips that show no picture in #1282
Keep the window drawing and answering input through a flood of updates in #1287
Close cleanly and show how much space is needed when the disk fills up in #1284
Stop Linux crashes, UI hangs and redraw loops around lost GPUs, Wayland input and the tray, and convert video about 4 times faster without writing past the frame buffer in #1285
Stop a long multi-line paste from freezing Quill on every keystroke in #1294
A GIF file in a chat no longer holds hundreds of megabytes to show one picture in #1292
Animate long text spoilers with about a quarter of the CPU in #1293
Refuse malformed animated stickers before they reach the renderer in #1288
Say why an account did not open, and reconnect right after the network changes in #1291
Stop freezes from settings saves, photo edits and drag hovers, take drops of more than 10 files, and keep edits, marks and slow mode safe in #1290
Quill stays lighter on the main thread while updates stream in, on big accounts and background accounts too in #1297
Scroll the emoji panel on macOS with about a third less CPU work in #1301
Date pickers accept a time in the repeated hour on the night clocks go back in #1295
Stop an open chat growing without limit and let exports finish off screen in #1298
Survive a failed Metal setup, skip the shader compile at first launch, and draw less during drags and scrolls in #1300
Hang up when quitting mid-call, and stop call endings, the microphone and big voice chats from stalling the app in #1296
Make the chat window photo edit test pass on macOS in #1304
Start audio without holding up the window, and at the right speed from the first sample in #1302
Notifications arrive while the window is hidden, closing the window on a Mac no longer leaves a dead app, and an idle Quill wakes less in #1299
Redraw only what animates, for about a third less work per frame in #1303
Notice a lost microphone at once, open call devices without freezing the app, and stop fetching sharp video nobody can see in #1306
On Windows, Quill no longer crashes, freezes or quits silently when GPU setup fails or the GPU is lost, and every PR now compiles the Windows build in #1307
A Dock Quit or a log out now asks before ending a running export, and quitting after Stop leaves nothing in the cache in #1308
Quill keeps decoding, file writes and shader setup off the UI thread, and the tray badge stops recounting on every update batch in #1309
Quill notices more network changes, explains a data folder it cannot open, and says when a running copy is frozen in #1310
Stop Linux hangs, stuck threads, idle wakeups and endless GPU recoveries around D-Bus, the tray, idle time, keymaps and lost GPUs in #1311
Wake the app ten times less while the caret blinks, and keep a minimized window from hiding Quill in #1312
Filter hostile text on every surface, keep failed settings saves, and send files as albums in #1313
Pick a time in a repeated hour just before it first shows, and see suggested post times and the voice chat countdown on the same clock as the pickers in #1314
Stickers and emoji play evenly on fast displays, draw the window less often, and keep playing while a video sticker opens ...

Assets 13

Quill 2026.1031.4046

github-actions released this 31 Oct 21:38

v2026.1031.4046

70535ef

What's new

Chats in their own windows

A sticker chat in its own window no longer leaks while the main window is minimized or closed. Memory grew about 25 MB a second, past 1.3 GB in under a minute. It now stays level.
A round video or GIF in a chat window now plays while the main window is visible. It used to stay stuck on its grey placeholder while Quill reopened the player 57 times a second. On a Mac, CPU drops from 95% to 16%.
A clip keeps playing when you switch to another Quill window. Before, it froze or dropped to a stutter. It also wakes with its last picture, without a green flash.
Stickers in a chat window no longer reload or replay from the start each time the main window switches chats.
A main window fully covered by its own chat window stops animating and gives back about 14 MB of screen buffers. On a 120 Hz Mac it was drawing about 100 frames a second that nobody could see.

Less CPU for voice notes and music

Audio at normal speed no longer runs the speed stretcher's search. That search cost about a quarter of a core on a Mac for any voice note, audio file or, on Linux and Windows, video soundtrack, and it always landed on the same answer.
Opus voice notes take about 55 times less CPU to decode.

Also fixed

Animated emoji in the chat list keep their place when you switch chats. They used to restart from the first frame, and now and then flashed a star or a plain emoji.
A highlighted word's emoji bar stays open on the way to it. It used to swap or close as soon as the pointer crossed another word.
Sticker suggestions can be closed, with Esc or a new close button, and come back when the text changes.

What's Changed

Other changes

Keep a word's emoji bar open on the way to it, and let sticker suggestions be closed in #1260
Product page: agent setup for every system, plainer copy in #1261
README: agent setup for macOS, Windows and Linux, with Codex in #1262
Site: the headline quill traces every stroke of every letter in #1263
Play audio at 1x without the speed stretcher's search in #1265
Record why returning freed heap at idle isn't worth it in #1266
Free a chat window's sticker frames while the main window is minimized or closed in #1267
Stop a main window's animations while its own chat window covers it in #1264
Keep a chat window's stickers playing when the main window switches chats in #1268
Play Opus voice notes with about 55 times less decoding CPU in #1270
Slow the headline quill by about 30% in #1271
Write the site headline by hand, then morph it into the headline font in #1272
Carrier host tests no longer fail at random or wait on the clock in #1273
Keep a chat window's round videos and GIFs playing while the main window draws in #1269
Keep the chat list's animated emoji where they are when you switch chats in #1274
Build the Mac release on macOS 15 and keep it running on macOS 14 in #1276

Full Changelog: v2026.1031.4016...v2026.1031.4046

Downloads

Platform	File	Size
macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon	`quill-macos-aarch64.zip`	59.4 MB
Linux x86_64 (glibc 2.35 or later)	`quill-linux-x86_64-bundle.tar.gz`	69.0 MB
Linux arm64 (glibc 2.35 or later)	`quill-linux-aarch64-bundle.tar.gz`	67.2 MB
Windows 10 or later, x86_64	`quill-windows-x86_64.zip`	62.8 MB

quill-linux-x86_64 and quill-linux-aarch64 are the bare executables the in-app
updater installs into an existing Linux package. latest.json is a machine-readable summary of this release.

Installing

macOS (Apple Silicon, macOS 14+). Paste this into Terminal to install or
update Quill in Applications:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/macos-install.sh | bash

It downloads quill-macos-aarch64.zip, checks its SHA-256 and signature, and
installs Quill.app. Quill opens straight away, with no security warning.

Linux (x86_64 or arm64, glibc). Paste this into a terminal to install or
update Quill for your user, with no root needed:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/linux-web-install.sh | bash

Windows (x86_64, Windows 10+). Paste this into PowerShell to install or
update Quill for your user, with no administrator rights needed:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/windows-install.ps1 | iex

Telegram API credentials

Source code and licenses

Checksums (SHA-256)

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Assets 13

Quill 2026.1031.4016

github-actions released this 31 Oct 04:40

v2026.1031.4016

04644b4

What's new

Quill stays light through a long session

The last release fixed the big leak in animated stickers. This one goes after what built up slowly over hours of use: message text, pictures in other windows, stickers and emoji nobody was looking at any more, and windows that kept drawing when nothing on them changed.

Message text takes far less memory. Each laid-out line carried room for 32 styles where it almost always uses one, and Quill kept each message laid out at up to four widths, two of which nothing ever draws. It now keeps only the widths a message can be drawn at, within 64 MB in all, where a long scroll through a channel of long posts used to hold well over 100 MB. Scrolling back stays as smooth as before.
Animated stickers and emoji close 5 seconds after the last window stops showing them, with their frames. Before, closing the emoji panel over a chat of plain text kept every clip from it open, up to 96 MB, until a sticker played again.
A chat opened in its own window keeps its pictures within a budget, like the main window. Before, every picture it showed stayed in memory until Quill quit.
Avatars and custom emoji go into small GPU textures of their own, so one left on screen no longer keeps a 4 MB texture alive.
Ads, poll results and profile details of chats Quill has let go of are released with them.
A closed video gives back what macOS kept for it. 200 videos opened and closed used to leave 995 video clocks behind.
On a Mac, a window that keeps a small animation going hands back its spare screen buffer, about 20 MB, as an idle window already did. And more windows now go idle: a paused voice note or song redrew 4 times a second, a message effect you hadn't seen yet redrew 120 times a second behind other apps, and a field focused in a window in the background blinked its hidden caret.

Less CPU, and a Mac that can sleep

Quill closes the speakers half a second after the last sound. Before, one notification sound kept the speakers open, and macOS awake, for as long as Quill ran. Muted clips no longer hold the speakers either.
Opening the speakers takes up to 75 ms on a Mac. Quill now does it on a thread of its own instead of the one that draws the window, so the first sound, and every voice note, video or call sound after a quiet spell, starts without stalling the window.
On a 120 Hz Mac, a clip and animated emoji in the same chat each drew on their own schedule, so the window drew about twice as often as either needed. They now share one 60 Hz tick: 52 frames a second down to 33, and 12.7% CPU down to 9.6%, for a clip beside three emoji.
Once any app had read the window's layout (window managers like Tiles do it on a click), Quill redrew the whole window on every frame until it quit, about 18% CPU with nothing happening. It now redraws only what changed, as before.
With the history scrolled up, a clip passing the bottom of the chat redrew the whole chat 30 times a second. CPU 16% down to 11.5%.

Also fixed

Clicking the jump-to-latest button, the date pill or the corner buttons over a video or photo also opened the media viewer on it.

What's Changed

Other changes

Give small pictures atlas textures of their own by @shinycake in #1240
Keep the parsed account registry between reads by @shinycake in #1241
Let go of a spare drawable while something animates by @shinycake in #1242
Free pictures chat windows and cut-short wallpaper fades kept by @shinycake in #1243
Blink the caret in an active window only by @shinycake in #1244
Close the audio output after half a second of silence by @shinycake in #1245
Cut laid-out text memory and a per-frame file check by @shinycake in #1246
Free each closed video's output and let muted clips release the speakers by @shinycake in #1247
Keep cached slices' accessibility nodes instead of redrawing every slice by @shinycake in #1248
Cover clips only under the jump button itself, and only while it shows by @shinycake in #1249
Let a click on the jump button, date pill or corner buttons stay off the clip under it by @shinycake in #1251
Keep the agent revoke test from racing agent access turning off by @shinycake in #1254
Tests catch views, subscriptions and tasks left behind by a closed surface by @shinycake in #1255
Animated emoji and clips share one 60 Hz tick on 120 Hz displays by @shinycake in #1252
Open the audio device off the UI thread, first sound included by @shinycake in #1253
Leak tests run frame callbacks and count every kind of observer by @shinycake in #1258
Let go of ads, poll rows and info panel data of chats no longer kept by @shinycake in #1250
Close sticker and emoji clips nothing draws, and give their frames back by @shinycake in #1259
Stop idle windows redrawing for a paused track or an unplayed effect by @shinycake in #1257
Keep message text laid out once per message, not at every measured width by @shinycake in #1256

Full Changelog: v2026.1030.3995...v2026.1031.4016

Downloads

Platform	File	Size
macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon	`quill-macos-aarch64.zip`	59.7 MB
Linux x86_64 (glibc 2.35 or later)	`quill-linux-x86_64-bundle.tar.gz`	69.0 MB
Linux arm64 (glibc 2.35 or later)	`quill-linux-aarch64-bundle.tar.gz`	67.2 MB
Windows 10 or later, x86_64	`quill-windows-x86_64.zip`	62.8 MB

quill-linux-x86_64 and quill-linux-aarch64 are the bare executables the in-app
updater installs into an existing Linux package. latest.json is a machine-readable summary of this release.

Installing

macOS (Apple Silicon, macOS 14+). Paste this into Terminal to install or
update Quill in Applications:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/macos-install.sh | bash

It downloads quill-macos-aarch64.zip, checks its SHA-256 and signature, and
installs Quill.app. Quill opens straight away, with no security warning.

Linux (x86_64 or arm64, glibc). Paste this into a terminal to install or
update Quill for your user, with no root needed:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/linux-web-install.sh | bash

Windows (x86_64, Windows 10+). Paste this into PowerShell to install or
update Quill for your user, with no administrator rights needed:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/windows-install.ps1 | iex

Telegram API credentials

Source code and licenses

Checksums (SHA-256)

27552e39be6ebabb7ea62fea43aef2a59a0f654f1a0c1994cb3043fb2ac935b6  LGPL-SOURCES.txt
96a8eb4027bec80eb5e4493bdfd1b02bc2e96119c488036...

Contributors

shinycake

Assets 13

Quill 2026.1030.3995

github-actions released this 30 Oct 04:15

v2026.1030.3995

af70a91

What's new

Quill gives memory back

After 40 minutes of ordinary use, Quill 2026.1029 could sit at 500 MB or more on a Mac. Most of that came from one leak in animated stickers. The rest was pictures and glyphs that stayed in memory after nothing showed them any more.

When an animated sticker's next frame wasn't ready in time, Quill showed an earlier one and then never let it go, in memory or on the GPU. On a 120 Hz Mac, a chat full of stickers could add about 20 MB a second, and leaving the chat gave none of it back. Frames now go as soon as they stop showing, and stickers animate as before.
Rounded video tiles used a corner mask the size of the whole tile, and each new tile or window size made another. They now share four small corner masks.
Pictures Quill makes itself, like a rotated photo, an edited photo's preview, a video cover or a sign-in QR code, leave the GPU when they're replaced or closed.
After a moment of idle, Quill lets go of wallpaper pictures for window sizes you've left, emoji the screen no longer shows, and pictures from sticker packs opened in a dialog. One trip through the emoji panel used to keep about 16 MB on the GPU until you quit.
While Quill is in the background, photos of chats you've left are released. While it's in front, the photos it keeps for scrolling back give up their GPU copy at idle and keep their decoded picture, so they still show at once when you scroll back.
Replied-to messages, pinned lists and message translations are released once a chat's history is dropped, and a rotated photo goes when the viewer closes.

Measured on an M1 Pro Mac with Quill's demo data, 2026-10-29 and 30:

A chat of animated stickers and the GIF and sticker tabs grew Quill by more than 1 GB in a minute. With this release, the same run leaves it within a few MB of where it started.
Browsing photos, stickers, the emoji panel and several chats, then idling for 90 seconds, left Quill about 50 MB above a fresh launch with only the sticker fix. With the rest of this release it's about 23 MB.

Also fixed

In calls on stereo speakers, or on headsets that don't run at 48 kHz, the other person sounded sped up and high-pitched, and heard their own voice echo back. Both are fixed on macOS, Linux and Windows.
Emoji suggestions:
- Every word that matches an emoji lights up as soon as you finish typing it.
- Right-click a word to get suggestions for it, to stop suggesting emoji for that word, or to turn suggestions off. Settings › Chats › Emoji lists the words you've turned off.
- :word and a word you point at share one bar, as wide as the message box, and it opens into a grid.
- With Premium, your custom emoji follow the standard ones.
On Windows, one closed connection could stall every later one, which hung Agent access and launch requests. That no longer happens.

What's Changed

Other changes

Fix the Windows hang where a closed pipe stalls every later close by @shinycake in #1231
Emoji suggestions: every matching word, a full-width bar, custom emoji by @shinycake in #1232
Stop leaking sticker frames a late view showed by @shinycake in #1233
Round video tiles with small corner masks, not a mask per tile by @shinycake in #1234
Retire pictures Quill keeps in its own state when they are replaced by @shinycake in #1235
Drop wallpaper pictures and emoji glyphs no longer shown once Quill is idle by @shinycake in #1236
Play call sound at its real speed on stereo and non-48 kHz speakers by @shinycake in #1238
Let go of pictures and chat side tables left behind after use by @shinycake in #1237
Free the atlas textures of pictures kept off screen, and forget dropped chats' translations by @shinycake in #1239

Full Changelog: v2026.1029.3985...v2026.1030.3995

Downloads

Platform	File	Size
macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon	`quill-macos-aarch64.zip`	59.7 MB
Linux x86_64 (glibc 2.35 or later)	`quill-linux-x86_64-bundle.tar.gz`	68.9 MB
Linux arm64 (glibc 2.35 or later)	`quill-linux-aarch64-bundle.tar.gz`	67.1 MB
Windows 10 or later, x86_64	`quill-windows-x86_64.zip`	62.7 MB

quill-linux-x86_64 and quill-linux-aarch64 are the bare executables the in-app
updater installs into an existing Linux package. latest.json is a machine-readable summary of this release.

Installing

macOS (Apple Silicon, macOS 14+). Paste this into Terminal to install or
update Quill in Applications:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/macos-install.sh | bash

It downloads quill-macos-aarch64.zip, checks its SHA-256 and signature, and
installs Quill.app. Quill opens straight away, with no security warning.

Linux (x86_64 or arm64, glibc). Paste this into a terminal to install or
update Quill for your user, with no root needed:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/linux-web-install.sh | bash

Windows (x86_64, Windows 10+). Paste this into PowerShell to install or
update Quill for your user, with no administrator rights needed:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/windows-install.ps1 | iex

Telegram API credentials

Source code and licenses

Checksums (SHA-256)

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Contributors

shinycake

Assets 13

Quill 2026.1029.3985

github-actions released this 29 Oct 18:07

v2026.1029.3985

0b5ee7b

What's new

Calls run on Telegram's own engine

Voice and video calls, group calls, screen sharing and live streams now run on tgcalls, the call library Telegram Desktop uses, on macOS, Linux and Windows. It replaces ntgcalls. Please report any call that misbehaves.
Conference calls. Telegram's end-to-end encrypted group calls now work. The encryption emoji show under the call's title, and the Add People box searches your contacts.
Calls show the other person's low battery and the connection's signal bars, as Telegram Desktop does.
In group calls, everyone's speaking level drives their row, and Quill tells you when you talk while muted.

Emoji suggestions

Typing : and a word suggests emoji from Telegram's emoji keywords, so :happy finds 😊. Recently used emoji come first.
Words in the message box that have an emoji, like "pizza" or "cake", get a soft highlight. Point at one to swap it for its emoji. Turn it off in Settings > Chat > Emoji ("Highlight words with emoji"). Lookups stay on your device.
Sticker suggestions go away after you send the emoji they were for.

Also new

macOS shortcuts work as they should again: Cmd+H hides Quill, Cmd+Opt+H hides other apps, and the Ctrl text keys (Ctrl+K, Ctrl+F and the rest) edit text instead of triggering Quill commands. The app menu has Services and Show All, and shows Settings (Cmd+,) from launch.
On Linux and Windows, Quill no longer binds Super-key chords that belong to the desktop.
Reordering pinned chats is easier to follow: the row lifts off as a card and a dashed outline marks where it will land.
Updated GPUI Kit (0.8.1), GPUI (0.3.10) and other dependencies.

What's Changed

Other changes

Dependency refresh: lockfile, actions/cache v6, resvg 0.49 by @shinycake in #1208
Pinned chats: normal hover cursor, clearer drag reorder by @shinycake in #1209
Move Quill to gpui-kit 0.8.1 and GPUI 0.3.10 by @shinycake in #1210
Pin TDLib to 4c6377a (still 1.8.69) by @shinycake in #1211
Fix the Windows build after GPUI 0.3.10 by @shinycake in #1214
Pin the dashboard workflow to the commit that reads STATUS.md by @shinycake in #1213
Build Telegram's tgcalls into libquill_calls by @shinycake in #1212
Make the UI bridge tests deterministic by @shinycake in #1215
Calls on tgcalls, part 2: C API for 1:1 calls and the Rust loader by @shinycake in #1216
Calls on tgcalls, part 3: the 1:1 engine, and a tgcalls teardown deadlock fix by @shinycake in #1217
tgcalls: group calls and screen-share presentations by @shinycake in #1218
tgcalls: live streams (broadcast parts, RTMP video) by @shinycake in #1220
Dismiss sticker suggestions after sending an emoji by @shinycake in #1219
Restore native macOS shortcuts: Cmd+H hides Quill, Ctrl text keys work again by @shinycake in #1221
Show the Settings chord (⌘,) in the macOS menu from launch by @shinycake in #1224
Suggest emoji from Telegram's emoji keywords in the composer by @shinycake in #1222
Calls run on tgcalls; ntgcalls is gone by @shinycake in #1223
Highlight composer words that have an emoji by @shinycake in #1225
Calls: peer low battery, signal bars, speaking levels, mute hint (tgcalls parity) by @shinycake in #1226
Windows: build and ship quill_calls.dll (tgcalls calls on Windows) by @shinycake in #1227
Calls: conference calls (end-to-end encrypted group calls) on tgcalls by @shinycake in #1228
README: the call engine is tgcalls by @shinycake in #1229
Calls: contact search in the conference "Add People" box by @shinycake in #1230

Full Changelog: v2026.1028.3950...v2026.1029.3985

Downloads

Platform	File	Size
macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon	`quill-macos-aarch64.zip`	59.6 MB
Linux x86_64 (glibc 2.35 or later)	`quill-linux-x86_64-bundle.tar.gz`	68.9 MB
Linux arm64 (glibc 2.35 or later)	`quill-linux-aarch64-bundle.tar.gz`	67.1 MB
Windows 10 or later, x86_64	`quill-windows-x86_64.zip`	62.7 MB

quill-linux-x86_64 and quill-linux-aarch64 are the bare executables the in-app
updater installs into an existing Linux package. latest.json is a machine-readable summary of this release.

Installing

macOS (Apple Silicon, macOS 14+). Paste this into Terminal to install or
update Quill in Applications:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/macos-install.sh | bash

It downloads quill-macos-aarch64.zip, checks its SHA-256 and signature, and
installs Quill.app. Quill opens straight away, with no security warning.

Linux (x86_64 or arm64, glibc). Paste this into a terminal to install or
update Quill for your user, with no root needed:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/linux-web-install.sh | bash

Windows (x86_64, Windows 10+). Paste this into PowerShell to install or
update Quill for your user, with no administrator rights needed:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/windows-install.ps1 | iex

Telegram API credentials

Source code and licenses

Checksums (SHA-256)

27552e39be6ebabb7ea62fea43aef2a59a0f654f1a0c1994cb3043fb2ac935b6  LGPL-SOURCES.txt
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Contributors

shinycake

Assets 13

Quill 2026.1028.3950

github-actions released this 28 Oct 19:37

v2026.1028.3950

6c52c1a

What's new

Smoother emoji effects

The effect that plays when you tap an animated emoji like 👏 or 😂 no longer stutters. When an effect is too heavy to draw at 120 fps, it now plays at its own 60 fps, and every frame stays on screen for the same length of time.

Also new

Chats open at the first unread message, with the unread bar at the top, and messages count as read only once they're on screen.
The update button now sits in the title bar as one compact pill.
Agent access: window control no longer refuses to start when no screen reader is running, and a message an agent sends from the message box clears the draft.

What's Changed

Other changes

Move the update button into the title bar as a fixed-size progress pill by @shinycake in #1204
Hold the window driver only for a real screen reader by @shinycake in #1203
fix(history): mark messages read only once they are on screen by @shinycake in #1205
feat(history): open chats with the unread bar at the top, like tdesktop by @shinycake in #1206
Keep the emoji tap effect smooth by @shinycake in #1207

Full Changelog: v2026.1028.3936...v2026.1028.3950

Downloads

Platform	File	Size
macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon	`quill-macos-aarch64.zip`	62.2 MB
Linux x86_64 (glibc 2.35 or later)	`quill-linux-x86_64-bundle.tar.gz`	100.6 MB
Linux arm64 (glibc 2.35 or later)	`quill-linux-aarch64-bundle.tar.gz`	95.2 MB
Windows 10 or later, x86_64	`quill-windows-x86_64.zip`	66.2 MB

quill-linux-x86_64 and quill-linux-aarch64 are the bare executables the in-app
updater installs into an existing Linux package. latest.json is a machine-readable summary of this release.

Installing

macOS (Apple Silicon, macOS 14+). Paste this into Terminal to install or
update Quill in Applications:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/macos-install.sh | bash

It downloads quill-macos-aarch64.zip, checks its SHA-256 and signature, and
installs Quill.app. Quill opens straight away, with no security warning.

Linux (x86_64 or arm64, glibc). Paste this into a terminal to install or
update Quill for your user, with no root needed:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/linux-web-install.sh | bash

Windows (x86_64, Windows 10+). Paste this into PowerShell to install or
update Quill for your user, with no administrator rights needed:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/windows-install.ps1 | iex

Telegram API credentials

Source code and licenses

Quill is MIT-licensed; the source is this tag. Each package lists its
third-party components in THIRD_PARTY.md. The LGPL libraries it ships (FFmpeg,
ntgcalls and the FFmpeg/GLib inside ntgcalls) are attached as quill-source-*
archives; LGPL-SOURCES.txt has the exact upstream URLs and commits and a
written offer for the corresponding source.

Checksums (SHA-256)

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Contributors

shinycake

Assets 16

Quill 2026.1028.3936

github-actions released this 28 Oct 16:37

v2026.1028.3936

bdba48e

What's new

Animated emoji

An emoji sent on its own now turns into a large animated sticker, as on other Telegram apps. It plays when you send it and when it scrolls into view, and it keeps your skin tone.
Tap it to play it again along with its full-screen effect. When you read an emoji someone sent you in a private chat, its effect plays on its own, and they aren't told you tapped it.
Messages of two or three custom emoji show larger too.

Smoother, sharper stickers

Animated stickers are drawn by a new renderer, ThorVG, at your screen's full resolution. The soft edges and light halo are gone.
Stickers play at up to 120 fps on high-refresh displays, and stay at the sticker's own rate on 60 Hz screens or when power saving is on.
The sticker panel uses less memory.

Also new

One click on a voice note, song, GIF or video starts the download and plays it when it's ready. A second click cancels.
Music and voice rows in Shared Media play in place instead of jumping to the message.
The media viewer has a Reply button.
Link underlines in wrapped text now stay under the words.
Downloads that Telegram started by itself can be cancelled.
Fixed a macOS bug where a window brought back from a notification could stop redrawing.
Agent access: one switch in Settings > Advanced turns it on or off, and there's a copyable setup prompt for agents.

What's Changed

Other changes

Underline wrapped links only under their own glyphs by @shinycake in #1192
Media viewer: Reply button by @shinycake in #1193
Render animated stickers with ThorVG by @shinycake in #1194
Agent access: one switch that hides it all, plus a setup prompt by @shinycake in #1195
fix(media): one press downloads and plays; a second press cancels by @shinycake in #1196
fix(shared-media): music and voice rows play in place by @shinycake in #1198
Fix frozen window after clicking a notification on macOS by @shinycake in #1199
Stream animated stickers at screen resolution by @shinycake in #1197
fix(downloads): cancel a transfer TDLib started on its own by @shinycake in #1200
Show lone emoji as animated stickers by @shinycake in #1201
Play the emoji effect when an incoming emoji is read by @shinycake in #1202

Full Changelog: v2026.1027.3908...v2026.1028.3936

Downloads

Platform	File	Size
macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon	`quill-macos-aarch64.zip`	62.2 MB
Linux x86_64 (glibc 2.35 or later)	`quill-linux-x86_64-bundle.tar.gz`	100.6 MB
Linux arm64 (glibc 2.35 or later)	`quill-linux-aarch64-bundle.tar.gz`	95.1 MB
Windows 10 or later, x86_64	`quill-windows-x86_64.zip`	66.2 MB

quill-linux-x86_64 and quill-linux-aarch64 are the bare executables the in-app
updater installs into an existing Linux package. latest.json is a machine-readable summary of this release.

Installing

macOS (Apple Silicon, macOS 14+). Paste this into Terminal to install or
update Quill in Applications:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/macos-install.sh | bash

It downloads quill-macos-aarch64.zip, checks its SHA-256 and signature, and
installs Quill.app. Quill opens straight away, with no security warning.

Linux (x86_64 or arm64, glibc). Paste this into a terminal to install or
update Quill for your user, with no root needed:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/linux-web-install.sh | bash

Windows (x86_64, Windows 10+). Paste this into PowerShell to install or
update Quill for your user, with no administrator rights needed:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/windows-install.ps1 | iex

Telegram API credentials

Source code and licenses

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Contributors

shinycake

Assets 16

Quill 2026.1027.3908

github-actions released this 28 Oct 00:25

v2026.1027.3908

a33c941

What's new

Agent access

AI agents on your computer, such as Claude Code, Claude Desktop or Cursor, can now use your Telegram account through the Quill you already have running. It's off until you turn it on in Settings > Agent access.

Agents start with Saved Messages and bots. They have to ask for any other chat, and you allow it in Quill. Your contacts stay hidden until you share them.
The Agent access page says in plain words what agents can do right now. Every tool is listed as available, asks first or off, with the reason. Account changes, money and Stars, and changes beyond one chat always wait for your click. Agents can never sign you out or delete your account.
Activity shows what each agent did, with a link to the message and Undo for its sends. Revoke disconnects one agent, and turning off Allow agents keeps them all out.
If you let them, agents can click and type in Quill's window, only in the chats they're allowed. A glow sweeps around the window while one is driving, and pressing a key or moving the mouse hands control back to you.
Each app gets one line to copy to connect it. Agents that don't use MCP can use the quill agent command line, and Claude Code can install a ready-made Quill skill.

Telegram Premium

AI compose, with your own writing styles.
Video profile pictures play beside messages and in the chat list.
Stealth Mode for stories.
Birthday gifts, sent from the suggestion or a recipient list.
Rich message drafts that sync between your devices.
Each Premium upsell opens on its own feature preview.
Limit boxes show the limits Telegram reports.
Read times, Premium privacy options, and a wallpaper for both sides of a chat.
All chats can move among your folder tabs.

Also new

Accept or reject requests to turn on sharing in a chat.
The chat menu's Translate brings back a hidden translate bar.
Captionless photos and albums no longer sit in a bubble.
Message effects play once per message, in chat windows too.
Reactions stop at your per-user limit.
Voice and video notes are blocked to people who don't accept them.
New chats can be hidden into the archive.
The "Updated to" banner shows only once.
macOS releases are now signed with a stable identity, so the keychain stops asking for access after each update.

What's Changed

Other changes

ci(macos): sign releases with the Apple Development identity by @shinycake in #1162
fix(update): show the "Updated to" banner only once by @shinycake in #1163
Parity: add Premium benefit gaps by @shinycake in #1164
fix(viewer): keep the thumbnail strip up while the pointer rests on it by @shinycake in #1165
Drop the bubble around captionless photos and albums by @shinycake in #1166
feat(translate): chat menu Translate brings back a hidden translate bar by @shinycake in #1167
feat(sharing): accept or reject requests to enable sharing by @shinycake in #1168
fix(effects): play message effects once per message, like tdesktop by @shinycake in #1170
feat(agent): Agent access phase 1, channel, token auth and quill mcp by @shinycake in #1169
feat(folders): move All chats among the folder tabs with Premium by @shinycake in #1171
feat(reactions): trim to the per-user limit and open Premium for locked reactions by @shinycake in #1172
feat(agent): Agent access phase 2, grants, read tools, events and request_access by @shinycake in #1173
feat(ai-compose): Premium AI compose box and custom writing styles by @shinycake in #1174
feat(stories): Stealth Mode box with Premium lock, cooldown and periods by @shinycake in #1176
Parity: drop story Premium limits by @shinycake in #1178
Agent access phase 3: write tools, paced sends, activity log, connected strip by @shinycake in #1177
feat(userpics): play Premium video userpics beside messages and in the chat list by @shinycake in #1175
feat(agent): td_call, raw TDLib requests under grants with a click for the deny list by @shinycake in #1182
feat(chat): block voice and video notes to users who refuse them by @shinycake in #1179
feat(chatlist): suggest hiding new chats and gate the archive-and-mute switch by @shinycake in #1181
feat(gifts): send birthday gifts from the suggestion and a recipient list by @shinycake in #1183
feat(premium): open each upsell on its own feature preview by @shinycake in #1180
feat(premium): read time box, privacy Premium rows and wallpaper for both by @shinycake in #1184
feat(premium): limit boxes and toasts read from TDLib for more limits by @shinycake in #1185
feat(composer): rich message drafts with sync, discard and the paste notice by @shinycake in #1186
fix(effects): play message effects and video userpics in chat windows by @shinycake in #1187
Agent access phase 5: drive Quill's window by @shinycake in #1188
Agent access phase 6: quill agent CLI and the Settings > Agent access page by @shinycake in #1190
Agent docs: keep LF line endings on Windows checkouts by @shinycake in #1191

Full Changelog: v2026.1024.3682...v2026.1027.3908

Downloads

Platform	File	Size
macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon	`quill-macos-aarch64.zip`	62.2 MB
Linux x86_64 (glibc 2.35 or later)	`quill-linux-x86_64-bundle.tar.gz`	100.5 MB
Linux arm64 (glibc 2.35 or later)	`quill-linux-aarch64-bundle.tar.gz`	95.1 MB
Windows 10 or later, x86_64	`quill-windows-x86_64.zip`	66.5 MB

quill-linux-x86_64 and quill-linux-aarch64 are the bare executables the in-app
updater installs into an existing Linux package. latest.json is a machine-readable summary of this release.

Installing

macOS (Apple Silicon, macOS 14+). Paste this into Terminal to install or
update Quill in Applications:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/macos-install.sh | bash

It downloads quill-macos-aarch64.zip, checks its SHA-256 and signature, and
installs Quill.app. Quill opens straight away, with no security warning.

Linux (x86_64 or arm64, glibc). Paste this into a terminal to install or
update Quill for your user, with no root needed:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/linux-web-install.sh | bash

Windows (x86_64, Windows 10+). Paste this into PowerShell to install or
update Quill for your user, with no administrator rights needed:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shinycake/quill/main/scripts/windows-install.ps1 | iex

Telegram API credentials

Source code and licenses

Quill is MIT-licensed; the source is this tag. Each package lists its
third-party components in `THIRD...

Contributors

shinycake

Assets 16

Releases: shinycake/quill

Release list

Quill 2026.1103.4954

What's new

New ways to install Quill

Linux: Flatpak

Not yet tested on real hardware

What's Changed

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Uh oh!

Quill 2026.1103.4940

What's new

Mac users: download this version from the site once

Smoother on a Mac

Chats

Settings

Not yet tested on real hardware

What's Changed

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Uh oh!

Quill 2026.1102.4879

What's new

Sending photos and files

Disk space and the cache

Stability

Fewer freezes

Lighter on the machine

Also fixed

Changed behavior

Not yet tested on real hardware

What's Changed

Other changes

Uh oh!

Quill 2026.1031.4046

What's new

Chats in their own windows

Less CPU for voice notes and music

Also fixed

What's Changed

Other changes

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Installing

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Uh oh!

Quill 2026.1031.4016

What's new

Quill stays light through a long session

Less CPU, and a Mac that can sleep

Also fixed

What's Changed

Other changes

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Installing

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Contributors

Uh oh!

Quill 2026.1030.3995

What's new

Quill gives memory back

Also fixed

What's Changed

Other changes

Downloads

Installing

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