The desktop designer — Windows today, macOS soon
A free desktop app for building dashboards offline: the same canvas and chart engine as DataSquares BI, running on your laptop against local files — then publish to your workspace when you're ready.
- Windows today, macOS on the way — a true desktop designer
- Fully offline: local files, embedded analytics engine, no server
- Publish to your workspace and pull dashboards back to your desk
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On your desktop
Build offline, publish when ready
Turn local files into fast extracts, design on the same canvas as the web with no connection, then publish to your workspace.
Local files
Revenue
$4.2M
Embedded engine · no server required
Publish
to your workspace
A closer look
Inside Studio
Design offline on a local engine
Studio ships an embedded columnar engine, so you can model and query local data with no connection and no license. Drop in a file and it becomes a fast extract in seconds.
- Embedded columnar analytics engine, fully offline
- Import CSV, TSV, Excel, and Parquet files
- Refresh any extract from its original source
Pull from files and databases
Go beyond files: connect straight to PostgreSQL or MySQL and pull tables down as local extracts. Passwords are sealed in your OS keychain, never written into the project.
- PostgreSQL and MySQL pulls into fast local extracts
- Credentials encrypted by the OS keychain, never on disk
- Git-diffable .dsproj project folders you fully own
Same canvas, then publish
It's the exact designer from the web app — drag fields onto wells, format every visual, then sign in and publish to your workspace, or pull a dashboard down to iterate locally.
- Drag fields onto axis, values, and color wells
- Publish and pull round-trip over the workspace API
- Export dashboards to PNG and PDF
What you can do with Studio
The same engine as the web
Studio runs the identical canvas, chart renderer, field wells, and format panel as DataSquares BI — what you design offline is exactly what publishes.
Offline by design
An embedded columnar engine queries your data locally. Airplane mode is a supported workflow, not an error state.
Local files & extracts
Import CSV, TSV, Excel, and Parquet, or pull tables from PostgreSQL and MySQL into fast local extracts you can refresh on demand.
Project files you own
Everything lives in a portable .dsproj project — zip it, mail it, version it. Credentials stay in your OS keychain, never in the file.
Full authoring surface
Drag fields onto wells, pick from the chart library, and use the complete format panel — typography, colors, axes, conditional formatting.
Publish & pull
Sign in to your workspace to publish a finished dashboard, or pull an existing one down to iterate locally. Local PNG and PDF export included.
Windows
Desktop today · macOS on the way
100% offline
Author with no connection
CSV · Excel · DB
Files plus Postgres & MySQL
How it works
Create a project
A .dsproj file on your machine
Import your data
Files or database pulls become local extracts
Design offline
The full canvas, no connection required
Publish
Send it to your workspace when it's ready
Frequently asked questions
Windows is shipping today; the macOS build is on the way. When it lands, analysts on MacBooks finally get a desktop designer instead of a VM.