App

Desktop app

DDM as a program for Windows, macOS and Linux – and documents opened straight in Word, Excel and the rest.

The desktop app is DDM as a program of its own on your computer – everything the app in the browser can do, and one thing more: it opens documents straight in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or whichever program your computer uses for the file.

Installing

Download the installer for your computer:

Computer	Download
Windows	DDM for Windows
Mac (Apple silicon and Intel)	DDM for macOS
Linux	AppImage · .deb · .deb for ARM

The links always lead to the newest version.

Windows – open the downloaded file and follow the installer.
Mac – open the .dmg file and drag DDM into the Applications folder.
Linux – install the .deb file through your software manager. Make the AppImage executable (right-click › Properties › Allow executing file as program) and double-click it.

The installers are not signed yet, so your computer warns you the first time:

Windows shows Windows protected your PC. Click More info, then Run anyway.
macOS says DDM cannot be opened. In the Applications folder, right-click DDM, choose Open and confirm with Open. From then on DDM starts like any other program.

Arch Linux

On Arch Linux, you install and update DDM with pacman. Add this to /etc/pacman.conf:

[ddm]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = https://app.documentdistributionmanager.com/api/desktop/arch/$arch

Then install DDM with:

sudo pacman -Sy ddm-desktop

Signing in

The first time, sign in as you do in the browser – with your e-mail and password or through your company's sign-in. With Stay signed in, it stays that way.

If you open DDM in the browser at an address of your company's own, click Choose another server under Connected to … on the sign-in page, enter that address and click Connect. Use the default server takes you back to the server the app comes with.

Opening documents in Word, Excel and the rest

Where the app in the browser offers Download, the desktop app also has a button – in the viewer in its place – that opens the document in the right program:

File	Button
Word document	Open in Word
Excel spreadsheet	Open in Excel
PowerPoint presentation	Open in PowerPoint
anything else, such as a PDF	Open in app – in the program your computer uses for it

What you keep offline opens without a connection, too. Documents that can only be read in the app do not have this button.

The document opens read-only: DDM is where documents are kept, and the valid version changes only there. To work on with the content, save a copy of your own with Save as. Changes do not go back to DDM.

In a list on a computer, the same icon is next to Download.

Updates

When there is a new version, DDM asks shortly after it starts: DDM … is available. Update now?

Update downloads the new version, installs it and restarts DDM. On Linux, your computer asks for your password.
Later – DDM asks again at the next start.

On Arch Linux, updates come with sudo pacman -Syu; DDM only tells you that a new version is out.

Report a bug

Tell the DDM team from the app what does not work – with the technical details that help find the bug.

Mobile app

DDM as an app for iPhone, iPad and Android – everything the app in the browser can do, from the App Store or Google Play.