Overview
System requirements
What Pip needs from your machine, and what it costs to keep it running.
Windows#
- Operating system
- Windows 10 or Windows 11
- Architecture
- 64-bit (x64)
- Install type
- Per-user — no administrator rights, no elevation prompt
- Download size
- About 12 MB
- Licence
- One key per machine — how activation works
Footprint#
Pip is a native app with a Rust core, not a browser in a trench coat. The scanner runs every 5 seconds, the metrics sampler every 1.5 seconds, and the engine emits deltas rather than snapshots — so on an idle machine there is nothing to send and nothing to render.
macOS and Linux#
Windows is where Pip is best today. Detection leans on Windows-native tricks — enumerating sockets without elevation, reading each process's working directory — so a good macOS or Linux version is a real port rather than a recompile.
macOS builds
When a release includes a macOS build it is published on the download page alongside the Windows one. Until then, treat every page in this help centre as Windows-first.
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