Download

Get Vise

Three surfaces, one license — pick the one that fits the job. Free to start · fully offline · no account required.

As you code

IDE extension

For every developer · Xcode via build-phase

Scan right in your editor — a dedicated Vise panel with Explain / Fix / Suppress. Same panel in all three:

VS Code coming soonJetBrains coming soonVisual Studio coming soon

The extensions are built and tested — the marketplace listings go live at launch.

Deep audits & triage

Desktop app

For AppSec engineers, consultants & team leads

Free to download & run at Basic depth. Full-repo audits in a rich GUI — triage, ranking, reports. Pro unlocks AST/taint depth, a built-in local AI for fixes (no Copilot needed) & branded reports. Local-first: client code never leaves the machine.

Windows x64 Windows ARM64 macOS Apple Silicon Linux AppImage Linux .deb

In your terminal & CI

CLI

Free locally · CI/CD is Enterprise

Run vise-scan from any terminal — free, like the IDE. SARIF / SBOM output for GitHub Code Scanning. Unlimited automated runs in a CI/CD pipeline require Enterprise.

Windows x64 Linux x64 macOS Apple Silicon

These are pre-release builds and are not code-signed yet. Your system will say so, and it is expected:

Chrome may flag the download as dangerous and leave a .crdownload file. Click the arrow next to it in the downloads bar and choose Keep — otherwise the file stays half-downloaded and will not run.
Windows shows “Windows protected your PC — unknown publisher”. Choose More info then Run anyway.
macOS refuses to open it on double-click. Right-click the app and choose Open, then confirm.

Signed builds — which remove every one of these warnings and show ViseSec as the publisher — ship at launch. Until then you can confirm any download against SHA256SUMS.

Want to try Pro? The 14-day Pro trial starts inside the app — no card and no checkout. Install the Desktop app, then start it from the first-launch screen or Settings → License. It can be started once per machine; when it ends, Vise keeps working at Basic depth.

Already bought a license? Open Vise → Settings → paste your key (or set vise.licenseKey in VS Code). Activation contacts our service once to bind the key to your machine; after that every scan runs fully offline. Lost your key? We’ll re-send it.

Installing

Windows

Run vise-setup-win-x64.exe (or the ARM64 build on a Snapdragon / Surface Pro X machine).
The installer adds a Start Menu entry, puts vise-scan on your PATH, and registers an uninstaller.
Launch Vise from the Start Menu.

Pre-release builds are unsigned, so Chrome may block the download — click the arrow beside it and choose Keep. Windows then shows “Windows protected your PC”: More info → Run anyway.

macOS

Open the .dmg and drag Vise to Applications.
Right-click the app → Open, then confirm. Double-clicking will not work the first time.
After the first launch it opens normally.

Apple Silicon (M1–M4) only. The CLI is a separate .tar.gz: tar -xzf vise-cli-osx-arm64.tar.gz && sudo mv vise-scan /usr/local/bin/

Linux

Debian / Ubuntu — use the .deb:

sudo apt install ./vise-linux-amd64.deb

Any other distro — the AppImage needs no install, just the execute bit:

chmod +x vise-linux-x86_64.AppImage
./vise-linux-x86_64.AppImage

If the AppImage will not start, install FUSE (sudo apt install libfuse2 on Ubuntu 22.04+).

CLI (any platform)

Unpack the archive for your platform.
Put vise-scan somewhere on your PATH.
Check it: vise-scan --version

Scan a project: vise-scan ./src. Local scanning is free at Basic depth; automated runs in a CI/CD pipeline require Enterprise.

Opening findings in your editor. The Desktop app can jump straight to a finding in VS Code, Rider, Visual Studio, Android Studio or Xcode. For that to work the editor's command-line launcher must be on your PATH — in VS Code run Shell Command: Install 'code' command in PATH from the Command Palette. Otherwise Vise falls back to your system's default text editor.

Verify what you downloaded against SHA256SUMS.