Questions

Yes. No trial, no pro tier, no ads, no "free for personal use" asterisk. Download it and use it.

There's no plan for one. We built Depot for ourselves, and it's small enough for the two of us to keep running. If that ever changes, it won't reach into a build you already have.

The app doesn't. As it ships today, Depot has no network code at all: your samples, your categories, and your comments never leave your machine. That's the way we intend to keep it — anything we can compute on your machine, we will, including the analysis features on the roadmap. If some future feature ever genuinely can't work without a server, it will be optional and off by default, and this page will say exactly what it sends. This website counts page views and downloads (which platform, which version) so we know whether anyone's using it. No accounts, no third-party analytics, no ad trackers.

Signing costs money every year on both platforms, and Depot doesn't make any.

Here's the full answer, plus how to get past the warning.

Not right now. We're still changing how the app works from the inside out, and we want to build our own idea of it at our own pace — an open repository means issues, pull requests, and people waiting on an answer, and that's a job on top of the one we're already doing. We may look at it once things settle down. We're not promising it.

Because it's Alexander's own domain — his initials, in the country he lives in — and Depot doesn't earn anything, so we never bought a second one to look more like a company. It's the same reason the builds aren't signed. depot.amgold.ru is the only place we publish it — if you found Depot anywhere else, we didn't put it there.

WAV only — 8, 16, 24, and 32-bit.

Not supported, and not in the plans right now. Sample libraries almost always come as WAV, so that's what Depot was built around. We're not ruling other formats out forever — if it turns out a lot of people work in something else every day, we'll look at it again.

100,000+ files, tested on a real library that size. The first scan of a collection that size takes a while; after that, Depot doesn't rescan everything each time you open it. We haven't tried anything bigger — if yours is, tell us how it goes.

No, and none is planned right now. Two platforms is as much as we can maintain properly.

Never. Depot reads your folders and builds an index on top of them. Your files stay exactly where they are, and the app never writes a single byte into an audio file.

In one ordinary SQLite file in your home folder — ~/Depot/library.db on macOS, C:\Users\<You>\Depot\library.db on Windows. Not a proprietary format and not in the cloud: open it with any SQLite client and read your own data. (In the app, Settings → Reveal database takes you straight to it.)

Copy one file: ~/Depot/library.db on macOS, C:\Users\<You>\Depot\library.db on Windows. Every category, favourite, and comment is in there. Your audio files aren't — they're your own, wherever you keep them, and Depot never writes to them. Copy the database somewhere safe before an update and you can always go back to exactly where you were.

Copy that same library.db to the same place on the new machine, and put your sample folders at the same paths they had on the old one. Open Depot and everything is there — categories, favourites, comments, and all.

It stays in the list, marked with a warning icon and greyed out, so you know the file is gone rather than wondering where it went. A rescan removes the entries for files that are no longer there.

Honestly: it can. Depot is young, and we're still changing how things work — a control can move, a feature can be reworked or dropped, and an update can migrate the database where your categories and comments live. Your audio files are never at risk: Depot doesn't write to them. Everything else lives in library.db, so copy it before you update and nothing is lost.

Updating is up to you. Depot has no network code, no auto-updater, and no licence check — the version you have will keep working exactly as it does today, for as long as your OS runs it. Update when the release notes contain something you want.

Any DAW that accepts a file dragged in from Finder or Explorer. Depot hands over the file path; your DAW does the rest.

That's your DAW's decision, not Depot's. Most DAWs copy the file into the project folder if you've set them to "collect" samples, and reference it in place otherwise. Either way, the original stays put.

Yes. Select them (Shift+click for a range, Cmd/Ctrl+click to pick), then drag the selection.