The desktop designer — on Windows and macOS
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 and macOS — the desktop BI app Mac users never got
- Fully offline: local files, embedded analytics engine, no server
- Publish to your workspace and pull dashboards back to your desk
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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.
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
Yes — Windows and macOS are both first-class. If your analysts carry MacBooks, they finally get a desktop designer instead of a VM.