Interim app
Your keypad on Windows
Vibecoder for Windows isn’t ready yet. Until it is, Hanlinyue— the company that manufactures your keypad — ship an app for exactly this hardware, and it does one thing our macOS app can’t: update the firmware from your PC.
Version 1.3.3 · 137.9 MB
Windows 10 and later
Published by Hanlinyue, not by us, and not code-signed. What that means
Two things to know first
We’d rather you hear both from us now than meet them halfway through an install.
It isn’t our app
The download button sends you to Hanlinyue’s own servers. The app carries their name and their branding rather than ours, and we link to it instead of hosting a copy so you always land on their newest build. Our macOS app is the one we write and support ourselves.
Windows will call it an unknown publisher
The installer has no code signature, so SmartScreen shows a blue full-screen warning before it will run. Two clicks get you past it, and we walk through both below. If that trade-off isn’t one you want to make, wait for our signed build instead — the keypad still types as a plain keyboard in the meantime.
Three steps to a working keypad
Ten minutes, and the cable only matters for the first one.
- 1
Download the installer
It comes straight from Hanlinyue's servers, so you always get their newest build rather than a stale copy of ours.
- 2Expected
Click through the blue warning
The installer carries no code signature, so SmartScreen stops it. Two clicks get you through — here is the screen you’ll see.
- 3
Plug the keypad in over USB
Keys and macros can only be written over the cable, never over Bluetooth. Once written, they stay in the keypad wherever you take it.
Getting past the SmartScreen warning
Windows blocks the installer the first time you open it, and the dialog looks like a dead end — the only button on show says don’t run. It isn’t a dead end. Here is the screen, and the two clicks that get you through it.
Windows protected your PC
Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk.
More info1
- App
- hanlinyue-win-1.3.3.exe
- Publisher
- Unknown publisher
- 1
Choose “More info”
Nothing else on the dialog will budge until you do. The link sits just under the warning text, above the button.
- 2
Choose “Run anyway”
It only appears once the dialog expands, next to the app name and the words “Unknown publisher”. That publisher line is expected — it is what an unsigned installer looks like, and Hanlinyue don't sign theirs.
- 3
Follow the installer
From here it behaves like any other Windows install. Accept the defaults unless you have a reason not to, then plug the keypad in over USB.
Worth saying out loud: clicking past this warning is a real decision, and it is only reasonable because you know where this file came from. Treat any other unsigned installer with the suspicion Windows is showing here. Hanlinyue’s own guide walks through the same screen.
What the app does
Remap keys and chords
Bind every key — and multi-key chords — to shortcuts, text snippets, or app launches.
Update firmware from your PC
This one our macOS app cannot do. On Windows the keypad takes its firmware updates over the cable, with no phone involved.
The same keypad, either way
Mappings written on Windows travel in the keypad itself. Move to a Mac later and they come with you.
While you wait for ours
A signed Vibecoder for Windows is on the way. When it lands, this page becomes the download for it and the link above retires. Nothing you set up now is wasted: your mappings live in the keypad’s own firmware, not in the app.
You need a Vibecoder keypad for any of this. On a Mac as well? Get our macOS app.
Release details
- Version
- 1.3.3
- Published
- 2026-06-27
- Size
- 137.9 MB
- Requires
- Windows 10 or later
- Publisher
- Hanlinyue
- Code signature
- None
Verify this download
In Command Prompt, run certutil -hashfile hanlinyue-win-1.3.3.exe SHA256 — it should print:
cf01a6c70c6095738fa6dd8d9792c5ef03b83e03971279f29f8ea7fcd3b15c35
We checked this against the 2026-06-27 build. A mismatch means Hanlinyuehave published a newer one since — not that anything is wrong.