# Is the Safe desktop app deprecated?

**URL:** <https://forum.safefoundation.org/t/is-the-safe-desktop-app-deprecated/3583>\
**Category:** Safe Apps\
**Created:** [June 20, 2023, 12:36am UTC](https://forum.safefoundation.org/t/is-the-safe-desktop-app-deprecated/3583 "2023-06-20T00:36:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![adamhurwitz.eth](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.safefoundation.org/adamhurwitz.eth/32/167_2.png) [@adamhurwitz.eth](https://forum.safefoundation.org/u/adamhurwitz.eth)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 12:36am UTC](https://forum.safefoundation.org/t/is-the-safe-desktop-app-deprecated/3583/1 "2023-06-20T00:36:48Z")

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Has the product focus shifted from the desktop app to the web app?

- The new [safe.global/wallet](https://safe.global/wallet) site does not include a download to the Safe desktop app.
- The repository [github.com/safe-global/safe-react](https://github.com/safe-global/safe-react) for the desktop has been deprecated.

I don’t recall seeing a public announcement to update users on the product shift. If I did not miss a public announcement, then it could be good to update users through social channels and in-app notifications so that they can prioritize using the web over the desktop app in order to have the latest updates and theoretically be more secure.

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**Author:** ![lorny](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.safefoundation.org/lorny/32/2474_2.png) [@lorny](https://forum.safefoundation.org/u/lorny)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.safefoundation.org/t/is-the-safe-desktop-app-deprecated/3583/2 "2023-06-21T11:20:57Z")

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We _will_ be deprecating this soon. More info to come on this shortly.

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**Author:** ![adamhurwitz.eth](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.safefoundation.org/adamhurwitz.eth/32/167_2.png) [@adamhurwitz.eth](https://forum.safefoundation.org/u/adamhurwitz.eth)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.safefoundation.org/t/is-the-safe-desktop-app-deprecated/3583/3 "2023-06-21T19:24:42Z")

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This is great to know!

I wonder what the security tradeoffs between the web and desktop apps are.

- It seems that the desktop app has a smaller attack vector because it runs locally from a user’s machine
- The web app is potentially easier to update and can receive security updates faster