Desktop app
TALISK_HQ for desktop
What you get over the browser
- Tabs. Keep Bills, the General Ledger and your inbox open at once and switch between them instantly. How tabs work
- Sign in through your own browser. Connecting Gmail or Outlook hands off to the browser you already use, so your saved password and live session are there.
- Native printing. Invoices and reports hand off to your computer's own printing instead of the browser's.
- Always to hand. Talisk sits in the menu bar on Mac and the system tray on Windows, shows the unread count on its icon, and tells you when mail arrives.
Installing on Mac
- Open the downloaded .dmg and drag Talisk into your Applications folder
- Open Applications in Finder
- Right-click Talisk, or hold Control and click it, and choose Open
- macOS will say the developer cannot be verified. Click Open to confirm
- That is a one time step. From then on it opens like any other app
Why macOS asks. The Mac app is not yet signed with an Apple developer certificate,
so macOS cannot check who built it and asks you to confirm the first time. Opening it from the
right-click menu is how you give that confirmation. The app connects only to talisk.ai, and your
books and mail stay behind the same login and the same encrypted database as the web app. Signing
is on its way, and this step will disappear when it lands.
If macOS says Talisk is damaged. That message means the download was quarantined,
not that anything is wrong with it. Open Terminal, which you can find with
Spotlight, and paste this:
xattr -cr /Applications/Talisk.app
Then right-click and Open again as above.
Installing on Windows
- Open the downloaded Talisk-setup.exe
- Windows will show a blue screen saying it protected your PC. Click More info, then Run anyway
- The installer runs without asking for an administrator password. Talisk installs for your account only
- That is a one time step. From then on it opens from the Start menu like any other app
Why Windows asks. The Windows app is not yet signed with a code signing
certificate, so Windows cannot check who built it and warns you the first time. The warning is
about the missing certificate, not about anything Windows found in the file. The app connects
only to talisk.ai, and your books and mail stay behind the same login and the same encrypted
database as the web app. Signing is on its way, and this step will disappear when it lands.
If Windows asks to install WebView2. Talisk draws its window using the same
engine Microsoft Edge uses. Windows 11 already has it, and most Windows 10 machines do too. If
yours does not, the installer fetches it for you, which needs a working internet connection the
first time.
Something not working? Email mark@talisk.ai and a human will answer.