Installation

AddaxAI is a desktop app. Download it for your system and run the installer.

WindowsWindows 10 and 11DownloadAddaxAI-Setup.exemacOSApple Silicon onlyDownloadAddaxAI-arm64.dmgLinuxDebian and UbuntuDownloadAddaxAI-amd64.deb

Intel Macs

Only Apple Silicon is supported (M1, M2, M3, M4 and M5). Intel Macs cannot run AddaxAI.

Install

Windows

Run the setup .exe and follow the installer.

AddaxAI is code signed, but Windows can still show a SmartScreen warning. This is more likely on work computers, which are often locked down harder. Click More info, then Run anyway. If your computer blocks the app completely, ask whoever manages it to allow it.

macOS

Open the dmg and drag AddaxAI into your Applications folder.

The first time you open it, macOS may ask you to confirm because it was downloaded from the internet. Click Open. If the option is greyed out, open System Settings, then Privacy & Security, and click Open Anyway there.

Linux

Double-click the .deb file. The App Center opens and shows it as addaxai from an unknown publisher, with a "potentially unsafe" warning.

That warning is normal. Ubuntu shows it for every app installed outside its own store. Click Install.

When it finishes, find AddaxAI in the app grid.

Updating

Your projects, corrections and settings live outside the app, so they survive an update. Install the new version over the old one.

Windows

Run the new setup .exe. It replaces the old version.

macOS

Open the new dmg, drag AddaxAI into Applications, and click Replace.

Linux

The App Center shows a greyed out "Installed" button for a newer file and offers no update. That is a limitation of the App Center for packages from outside its store.

Update from a terminal instead, in the folder you downloaded to:

sudo apt install ./AddaxAI-amd64.deb

GPU acceleration

AddaxAI runs on any computer. A GPU only makes it faster.

• Apple Silicon: the GPU is always used. Nothing to install.
• Windows and Linux: an NVIDIA GPU is used automatically. The models ship with CUDA 12.8 builds, so recent cards including the RTX 50-series run at full speed. You need an NVIDIA driver of version 555 or newer.

Without a supported GPU everything still works, just slower.

Uninstall

Windows

Open Settings, then Apps, find AddaxAI and click Uninstall. The uninstaller asks whether to also remove your user data.

macOS

Drag AddaxAI from Applications to the Trash.

To also remove logs, models and the database, delete the folder at /Users/<username>/AddaxAI.

Linux

sudo apt remove addaxai

To also remove logs, models and the database, delete the folder at /home/<username>/AddaxAI.

Deleting your user data

The AddaxAI folder holds the database with every label and count you confirmed. Removing it cannot be undone, and re-running the AI does not bring your corrections back. See where your files live.