Pekan Desktop is heading to the Microsoft Store
Pekan Desktop now builds as a Microsoft Store package alongside the existing direct download. The Store edition is free, unlimited and entirely local: it keeps your board, your projects and your agent runs on your own machine, and it never asks you to create an account. Microsoft signs, hosts and updates it, so installing and staying current takes no more thought than any other Store app.
The two editions are built from the same code but are genuinely different products at runtime, decided by a single build-time switch rather than by whatever happens to be set in the environment. In the Store edition the account panel is not merely hidden, the bridge it would talk over is never created, so starting the app and working locally makes no request to any Pekan service. The built-in updater is switched off unconditionally, including for the internal testing flags that can normally turn it on, because Microsoft Store owns updates for that package. Settings says so plainly instead of showing an empty space.
One smaller change reaches both editions: the interface fonts are now bundled with the app rather than fetched from Google Fonts on every launch. Pekan renders correctly with no network connection, first paint no longer waits on a third party, and starting the app is not reported to anyone.
The packaging path refuses to guess. Store identity, artwork and version mapping are validated before anything is built, so a package can never be produced carrying placeholder details, and a manual workflow builds an inspectable package without ever touching the direct-download update feed.
Highlights
- A free, unlimited, account-free local edition built for Microsoft Store.
- The Store build never contacts Pekan services or runs its own updater.
- Interface fonts ship with the app, so it renders fully offline.