SOV NETWORK
SOV NETWORK
No Play Store, no app store account — download it directly from the network itself. Verify the signature before you install anything.
Why not in an app store? Because no single company should be able to switch off a network that belongs to its users. Every release is signed, the code is open, and every node proves the exact code it runs. Read why →
New here? You join on an Android phone. Joining is a palm scan and a live face check with the phone's camera, and it is how the network knows each account is one real person. Get the Android app below (or scan this code with your phone). The Windows, macOS and Linux apps are for citizens who have already joined, who restore their wallet with their 12 words, and for running a node. There is no iPhone app yet.
Install directly on your phone. 138 MB. Version 1.2.36.
Download APK
Had a version before 1.2.0 installed? Uninstall it first — it was signed with a different certificate and Android will not update it in place. Then install this one and restore your wallet from your recovery words.
Portable — also runs as a full node. 92 MB. Version 1.2.36.
Download for Windows
M1 and later. Also runs as a full node. Unsigned/ad-hoc — unpack it, then
right-click the app and choose Open. If macOS refuses anyway, open System Settings →
Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway. 101 MB. Version 1.2.36.
Download for Apple Silicon
Intel Macs. Also runs as a full node. Unsigned/ad-hoc — unpack it, then
right-click the app and choose Open. If macOS refuses anyway, open System Settings →
Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway. 102 MB. Version 1.2.36.
Download for Intel
Also runs as a full node. Make it executable, then run it — no install. 108 MB. Version 1.2.36.
Download for Linux
Every release ships its checksums — compare your download against SHA256SUMS.txt before installing. Each release also carries a signed sov-manifest.json — the file the app itself verifies (Ed25519, against the trust key built into it) before it will self-update.
On a Mac, why the warning? The Mac builds are not signed by Apple. Signing means
buying an identity from Apple and renewing it every year, and SOV has no company to put on it —
that is the point of the project, not an oversight. So macOS treats the app as coming from an
unidentified developer. Unpack it, right-click the app and choose Open; if macOS still refuses,
allow it once in System Settings → Privacy & Security. If you prefer the Terminal:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "SOV Node.app".
Check the download against SHA256SUMS.txt
first — that tells you the file is the one the network published, which is the thing worth knowing.
GitHub down or blocked where you are? The same v1.2.36 files are also seeded over BitTorrent by a network node — no account needed. Use the .torrent file if your client finds no peers: it carries a web seed, so the download completes from either source, and the checksums above still apply.
Android — magnet link · .torrent file
Windows — magnet link · .torrent file
macOS (Apple Silicon) — magnet link · .torrent file
macOS (Intel) — magnet link · .torrent file
Linux — magnet link · .torrent file
Also on IPFS — content-addressed, so the address itself is the hash of the file and proves it is unmodified. These are the v1.2.36 files, pinned by the SOV nodes themselves. With an IPFS client, fetch them by CID as below. Public web gateways refuse files this large, so use an IPFS client (for example IPFS Desktop or kubo).
Android: ipfs get bafybeig4gx5dwchbcw27rcq7yu3bne6hxtma7awhnkamo5sfeebyve5oka -o sovnode-android.apk
Windows: ipfs get bafybeidrzm6xx4c4mh3fxj6rwjbluqbccibxdmzvxw77bzh7rrqzved4ve -o sovnode-windows-x64.zip
macOS (Apple Silicon): ipfs get bafybeib5k62pg7t5e7hw76ms3mc4327m4jogwrdrqfhycnr77dewogf6zi -o sovnode-macos-arm64.tar.gz
macOS (Intel): ipfs get bafybeie6p7hqa62pzhc62nxjcl7jvhk7gzrxl7p5o4nstqqjri32r6dide -o sovnode-macos-x64.tar.gz
Linux: ipfs get bafybeiblsvkjjes3og6krdpp2x34u75ohajhmtthezkng6wwwnwxatd4qm -o sovnode-linux-x64.AppImage
For a machine with no desktop — a VPS or a home server. This is the node software itself, version 1.4.99-plain, the exact package every node on the network runs. Get it whichever way suits you; the checksum is the same for all of them.
Download sov-relay.snap
In a terminal: curl -LO https://github.com/sov-network/relay-releases/releases/latest/download/sov-relay.snap
Checksum: sov-relay.snap.sha256
(SHA-256 0bcb7cd5aced1bead302cf7479012d22c3331bb2c550aae9679259ef73c5964c)
By torrent: sov-relay.snap.torrent ·
magnet link
On IPFS: ipfs get bafybeicq4lr3hsricbe3bfwlny2sh3pwaafnyenvbarob2m5pqrfeilnnm -o sov-relay.snap
Then follow the operator guide: install, run setup with your SOV ID, and leave the network address blank — the node finds the network by itself.
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