Zed editor (Unofficial Windows builds)

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⚠️ Update: Nov 2025

Zed is now officially available for Windows, both as stable and nightly builds.

This repository will remain available as archived. No more builds will be produced.

Thank you to all those who followed this repo, I hope it has been useful. Original README follows.

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This repository contains unofficial builds of the Zed editor for Windows x64.

Not affiliated with Zed Industries.

What is Zed?

https://zed.dev

Why?

The official Zed editor is only available for macOS and Linux. This repository fills the gap until official builds for Windows are available.

How it works?

This repository automatically builds for Windows x64 from Zed sources using a GitHub Workflow. The workflow is externally triggered as soon as an official Zed release is made. An additional scheduled check exists.

Releases published here matches those by Zed in version and type (if is pre-release or not) for clarity.

Install

Choose one of the following options.

Scoop (Stable)

scoop bucket add zed-unofficial https://github.com/pirafrank/zed_unofficial_win_builds.git
scoop install zed-unofficial/zed

Note

Use command above to install versions 0.159.6 and newer. For earlier versions use scoop install zed-[VERSION]. A list of old versions is available in the bucket/versions dir.

Scoop (Preview)

*-pre versions of Zed.

scoop bucket add zed-unofficial https://github.com/pirafrank/zed_unofficial_win_builds.git
scoop install zed-unofficial/zed-preview

Installation script (Stable)

Stable-only versions of Zed.

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://github.com/pirafrank/zed_unofficial_win_builds/raw/refs/heads/main/install_or_update.ps1 -OutFile .\install_or_update.ps1
.\install_or_update.ps1

Manually

Download the latest release and put it in a directory of your choice. A good place could be:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\Zed

Tip

Create a shortcut to zed.exe and to place it here to add Zed to the Start Menu.

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Zed

I have also made a PR to add this to scoop for easier install.

Configuration

Zed writes config here:

%APPDATA%\Zed

Related tools

Zed CLI for Windows Unofficial

It is an unofficial CLI for Windows built from source and providing some basic, yet useful, functionalities.

• Repository
• Website.

Thanks @SameerJS6 for providing such project.

Discord

Official Discord by Zed Industries here, as per this discussion on the official repository.

License

This is just packing of Zed from source. No changes to Zed code or license whatsoever.

The workflow file of the repo is do-whatever-you-like license.