# Install ShowTake

> Download or brew-install ShowTake and check the first launch. Everything iOS needs is built in.

Source: https://showtake.app/docs/install

ShowTake is a Mac app with its MCP server inside the bundle. Install it once per Mac.

## Requirements

- **macOS 26 Tahoe or later.**
- **For iOS apps:** Xcode with an iOS Simulator runtime (ShowTake builds your scheme with `xcodebuild` and runs it in its own simulator). Nothing else: ShowTake ships with the open-source [AXe](https://github.com/cameroncooke/AXe) tool built in, which it uses to read the simulator's accessibility tree, type and send touches.
- **For Mac apps:** the Accessibility and Screen Recording permissions for ShowTake ([macOS permissions](https://showtake.app/docs/permissions)).

## Install the app

Download the disk image from [the download page](https://showtake.app/download), open it and drag **ShowTake** to **Applications**. The app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without warnings, and it updates itself in the background.

Or with Homebrew:

```sh
brew install --cask orchestero/tap/showtake
```

You do not need to install AXe separately: ShowTake uses its own copy inside the app, and a Homebrew `axe` on your Mac is never used unless you point ShowTake at it on purpose (`defaults write app.showtake.ShowTake AXePath /opt/homebrew/bin/axe`; `defaults delete app.showtake.ShowTake AXePath` goes back to the built-in copy).

## First launch

Open ShowTake once. It creates its library in `~/Movies/ShowTake/`, where every project keeps its takes, flows and exports:

```text
~/Movies/ShowTake/<project>/
  project.json
  takes/<take-id>/raw.mov, events.json, flow.yaml
  flows/<name>.yaml
  exports/
```

You do not need to keep the app open: the MCP server starts it in the background when your agent calls a tool.

## Next

[Connect your agent](https://showtake.app/docs/mcp-setup), then ask for a demo.