The goal of this project is to give you a desktop application that you can download and run games from itch.io with. Additionally you should be able to update games and get notified when games are updated. The goal is not to replace the itch.io website.

You can download it from https://itch.io/app, see Installing the app for detailed instructions.

If you'd like to develop the app instead, read the Getting Started page of the developer guide.

# Install dependencies
npm install
# Start the app in development mode (watches for changes and rebuilds)
npm start
# Type check the project
npm run ts-check
# Build assets
npm run compile
# Use a local/development version of butler instead of the bundled one
BROTH_USE_LOCAL=butler npm start

itch-setup is the installer program for the itch app.

It's a Go executable that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and downloads the latest version of the app directly from https://itch.io.

Although itch-setup is normally served from https://itch.io/app, the canonical source to download it (e.g. for packaging purposes), is the following download server:

• https://broth.itch.zone/

broth is maintained by itch.io employees, and serves various packages related to the itch app.

itch is released under the MIT License, see the LICENSE file for details.

Here are some other apps people have started:

• Mitch