No — there is no DeskRest for Windows today. The app is built exclusively for macOS 14.2 and later, and as of the current release (v1.19.1, May 2026) no Windows build exists — though the official FAQ does list Windows and other platforms as planned expansions based on user demand. If you found this page while searching for a deskrest.exe download: any Windows installer claiming to be this app is not an official release, and you should treat it as unsafe.
Why there’s no Windows version
DeskRest leans hard on features that only exist on modern macOS: it detects video calls and meetings to postpone breaks, plugs into Focus Filters, responds to Apple Shortcuts and Siri, and lives in the Mac menu bar. Those integrations are the product — porting them would mean rebuilding most of the app on a platform with different system hooks. A one-person team that shipped ten releases between December 2025 and May 2026 gets that velocity precisely by staying on one platform.
What about “deskrest.exe” files?
Search data shows people looking for deskrest exe, deskrest windows download and similar terms in every market we’ve checked. To be direct: the developer publishes builds in exactly two places — the .dmg on the official download page, and the Mac App Store. There has never been an official .exe. Files with that name on third-party download portals are at best mislabeled and at worst malware wearing a small app’s brand — the same pattern behind most “deskrest virus” worries, which we unpack in Is DeskRest safe?
What Windows users can do instead
Until the planned expansion actually ships — the developer ties it to user demand, so it has no date — the honest advice is simple: the 20-20-20 rule — every 20 minutes, look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds — works with any reminder tool, including plain OS timers and calendar nudges. Pair it with a longer movement break every 60–90 minutes and you’ve replicated the core of what any break app enforces; the hard part was never the timer, it’s the consistency. Any platform news will show up in the developer’s official release channel, which we mirror in the DeskRest version history.
If you also have a Mac
On a Mac, setup takes about 5 minutes: grab the build from the download page, then follow the getting-started guide to tune your break rhythm and start a streak.
