●  Echora for Mac

Your footage stays on your Mac. The story is built in the cloud.

The app works with media right on your disk and exchanges timelines with DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro. Only compressed audio and text ever leave your machine.

First build in progressThe download will appear right here once the notarized build is published. Until then, use the web version: one account works for both.Continue in the browser →

Project · WED_0912◆ two clients, one database
Video files are never uploaded. Only you keep the links to them.

Build: Universal, one file
Signature: Developer ID, notarized by Apple
System: macOS 13 Ventura or later
Updates: Checked inside the app

Why a separate app

Everything the web does. Plus your disk and your NLE.

The web takes one audio file and one XML at a time. The app sees the whole project folder, finds media next to the timeline on its own and returns the result to where it came from.

Media on disk

Import an XML and the app locates the sources next to it, builds the mixed track and compresses it for upload.

File bookmarks survive a restart. Paths do not break when you move the project.

Cloud engine

POST /audio · 38 MB AAC
← transcript · speakers
← story v3 · 14 quotes

Transcription, speakers and the story are computed on the server. The project opens in both the web and the app.

NLE round trip

Resolve, Final Cut and Premiere: three exports from one story, each keeping its link to the original timeline.

FCPXML for Final Cut, FCP7 XML for Premiere and Resolve.

Installation

Three steps, no Terminal

01

Download the archive

Click “Download for Mac”. Safari unpacks the archive by itself; in other browsers, double-click the zip.

Echora-x.y.z.zip → Echora.app

02

Drag it to Applications

Move Echora.app into your Applications folder. The app is signed and notarized, so Gatekeeper opens it without workarounds.

Echora.app → /Applications

03

Sign in

Same login as on the website. Projects, subscription and story versions are shared between the web and the app.

Sign in → the same projects as on the web

On first launch macOS asks for permission to access your project folders. Without it the app cannot see your media. Your video still never leaves the machine.

Updates

The app offers new versions itself

Once a day, quietly

The check runs in the background. When a new build is available, you see a dialog with the changes.

Never mid-work

An update is never installed without your consent and never interrupts an import or export.

Manually: Echora → Check for Updates…

Same feed as the automatic check. The beta channel is available on request via support.

First build

Version, date and the list of changes will appear here after publication.

Questions

The essentials

How is the app different from the web version?

The web takes one audio file and one XML at a time. The app works with the project folder on disk, builds the mixed track itself and returns XML to your NLE. The story engine is the same.

Do I need a separate subscription?

No. The subscription belongs to your account, not to a client. The trial and the plans are the same as on the website.

Does it run on Intel?

Yes. The build is universal: one file for Apple Silicon and Intel. The minimum system is macOS 13 Ventura.

What exactly goes to the cloud?

The compressed audio track and the transcript text. Video files, proxies and NLE projects stay on your disk.

Will there be a Windows version?

Not yet. On Windows and Linux use the web version: the account and projects are shared.

Your media stays put.
The story is minutes away.

Download the app and open any of your projects: it is already there.

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