The main purpose of IOTA is to serve the machine economy by enabling feeless M2M (Machine-to-Machine) payments, tamper-proof data security as well as whole range of new tools and products that we’re working on and will talk more about soon. As we are working hard to achieve that vision together with some of the largest companies in the world, it is important to keep the user-friendliness of our products in mind.

Because of its novel nature, IOTA can be hard to grasp for newcomers, and even for people coming from other Blockchain projects. As we’re working on more tutorials and blog post that help support this learning effort, one of the most anticipated projects of the community was our GUI. As such, today we’re happy to announce that the IOTA GUI is officially ready for use!

How to get it

The GUI is mostly oriented towards people who have none, or very little development experience. As such, we provide ready made packages that enable you to utilize the GUI with a simple 1-click-install process.

All you have to do is download the relevant package for your OS from here: https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/releases (look out for the “Latest Release” tag). We provide packages for macOS, Windows and Linux (deb, rpm and tarballs) for both, 32-bit and 64-bit.

If you want to compile the Wallet yourself, you can simply follow the instructions as set forth here: https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet-packager. Remember to install the necessary dependencies on your machine in order to be able to compile successfully with Electron.