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Wordwave, ready to install.

One file. Download it, open it, and you are working in about a minute. Put it on a USB stick and it installs on another computer just as happily.

Choose your computer

Download Wordwave

Pick the version that matches the computer you are installing on.

Download for Mac About 180 MB

You do not need a licence key to start. Wordwave runs straight away and exports real video, with a small “Made with Wordwave” mark in the corner. A key removes the mark. Nothing is time-limited.

Installing

A minute on either kind of computer.

On a Mac

  1. Double-click the .dmg file you downloaded. A window opens.
  2. Drag the Wordwave icon onto the Applications folder beside it.
  3. Open Wordwave from Applications or Launchpad. That is it.
You should see no warnings. Wordwave is signed and notarised with Apple, so macOS recognises it. If you are told the app “cannot be opened” or is from an unidentified developer, the download was incomplete: delete it and download again.

On Windows

  1. Double-click Wordwave-Windows-Setup.exe.
  2. Windows shows a blue “Windows protected your PC” box. Click More info, then Run anyway.
  3. Choose where to install, or accept the suggestion, and click through. Wordwave opens when it finishes.
That blue box is expected, and it is not a virus warning. It appears because Wordwave is published by a small company rather than a large one, and it will keep appearing until enough people have installed it. It says nothing about whether the file is safe.

On a school computer

Built to install without ringing IT.

Most teachers will be installing this on a machine they do not own. That was designed for rather than hoped about.

No administrator password

On Windows, Wordwave installs into your own user account, not the whole machine, so it never asks for an admin password. On a Mac, if you cannot write to Applications, drag it to the Applications folder inside your home folder instead and it works the same.

A USB stick is fine

Download the installer at home, copy it to a USB stick, and run it at work. Nothing about it needs the internet, at install time or afterwards.

Nothing to unblock

Wordwave never opens a network connection, so there is no domain for a school filter to allow and no port to open. If a policy blocks it, it will be a policy about installing software in general, not about Wordwave.

If your school locks installs down

Some systems refuse any program that is not on an approved list. Send your IT team the one-page fact sheet (PDF): it explains what Wordwave installs, that it never connects to anything, and that no student data leaves the room.

Before you install

What it needs

macOS
13 Ventura or newer. Apple Silicon and Intel both supported, as separate downloads.
Windows
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
Disk space
About 400 MB once installed, plus room for the videos you make.
Microphone
Optional: only for recording your voice in Wordwave. The first time, your computer asks whether Wordwave may use it. Click Allow.
Internet
None, ever. Not to install, not to run, not to license.

Trouble installing? Email hello@designedlearningco.au and say which computer you are on. Replies come from the person who wrote it.