Distribute

Tauri provides the tooling you need to distribute your application either to the platform app stores or as platform-specific installers.

Building

Tauri builds your application directly from its CLI via the build, android build and ios build commands.

npm run tauri build

yarn tauri build

pnpm tauri build

cargo tauri build

See the distributing section to learn more about the configuration options available for each bundle and how to distribute them to your users.

Bundling

By default the build command automatically bundles your application for the configured formats.

If you need further customization on how the platform bundles are generated, you can split the build and bundle steps:

npm run tauri build --no-bundle
# bundle for distribution outside the macOS App Store
npm run tauri bundle --bundles app,dmg
# bundle for App Store distribution
npm run tauri bundle --bundles app --config src-tauri/tauri.appstore.conf.json

yarn tauri build --no-bundle
# bundle for distribution outside the macOS App Store
yarn tauri bundle --bundles app,dmg
# bundle for App Store distribution
yarn tauri bundle --bundles app --config src-tauri/tauri.appstore.conf.json

pnpm tauri build --no-bundle
# bundle for distribution outside the macOS App Store
pnpm tauri bundle --bundles app,dmg
# bundle for App Store distribution
pnpm tauri bundle --bundles app --config src-tauri/tauri.appstore.conf.json

cargo tauri build --no-bundle
# bundle for distribution outside the macOS App Store
cargo tauri bundle --bundles app,dmg
# bundle for App Store distribution
cargo tauri bundle --bundles app --config src-tauri/tauri.appstore.conf.json

Your application version can be defined in the tauri.conf.json > version configuration option, which is the recommended way for managing the app version. If that config value is not set, Tauri uses the package > version value from your src-tauri/Cargo.toml file instead.

Signing

Code signing enhances the security of your application by applying a digital signature to your application’s executables and bundles, validating your identity of the provider of your application.

Signing is required on most platforms. See the documentation for each platform for more information.

macOS Code signing and notarization for macOS apps

Windows Code signing Windows installers

Linux Code signing Linux packages

Android Code signing for Android

iOS Code signing for iOS

Distributing

Learn how to distribute your application for each platform.

Linux

For Linux you can distribute your app using the Debian package, Snap, AppImage, Flatpak, RPM or Arch User Repository (AUR) formats.

AppImage Distribute as an AppImage

Debian Distribute as a Debian package

Flathub Distribute as a Flatpak

RPM Distribute as an RPM package

Snapcraft Distribute on Snapcraft.io

Code signing

macOS

For macOS you can either distribute your application directly to the App Store or ship a DMG installer as direct download. Both methods requires code signing, and distributing outside the App Store also requires notarization.

App Bundle Distribute macOS apps as an App Bundle

App Store Distribute iOS and macOS apps to the App Store

DMG Distribute macOS apps as Apple Disk Images

Code signing and notarization

Windows

Learn how to distribute to the Microsoft Store or configure a Windows installer.

Microsoft Store Distribute Windows apps to the Microsoft Store

Windows Installer Distribute installers for Windows

Code signing

Android

Distribute your Android application to Google Play.

Google Play Distribute Android apps to Google Play

Code signing

iOS

Learn how to upload your application to the App Store.

App Store Distribute iOS and macOS apps to the App Store

Code signing

Cloud Services

Distribute your application to Cloud services that globally distribute your application and support auto updates out of the box.

CrabNebula Cloud Distribute your app using CrabNebula