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Install it now. Be on your own project in a few minutes.

Pick your machine below and the app is on it in one download. It runs on your own computer, with its own database, so a site office with no network keeps working.

Version — · released —. The download is free — you switch it on with the licence key we send you.

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The card for the machine you are reading this on is marked Your device. Where a card says “ask us for the build”, that platform is issued on request — tell us on a demo call and we will send it to you the same working day.

This release

What is in version this build

Each release brings new modules, report corrections and speed work. The exact list of changes for this version is shown to you inside the app before you accept the update.

Released recently. Releases are frequent — most of what goes into them comes from what users ask for while an engineer is sitting with them.

See everything in the app
The installer may be one version behind The setup file we host is a full, stable build. When you open the app the first time it checks in, shows you what has changed since, and brings itself up to the current version. You do not download twice.
Everything is in the one file The CPWD 2023 rate book with 4,060 items, 69 steel bar shapes, 84 QC checklists, the material formulas and every report template are inside the installer. Nothing is downloaded later.
Nothing is sent anywhere on install The app creates its database on your machine, encrypted, and that is where your projects live. It talks to our server only to check your licence and to look for updates.
Before you install

What your machine needs.

An ordinary office computer runs it. There is no server to buy, no database to set up and nothing for your IT person to configure.

System requirements for Civil Limitless on Windows, macOS and Android
ItemWhat you needNotes
Windows Windows 10 or Windows 11, 64-bit Installs for your user account, so you do not need an administrator password.
macOS macOS 12 or later Runs on Apple Silicon (M1 and later) and on Intel Macs. The build is signed and notarised by Apple.
The site app Android 8 or later For the field team’s own phones. Works offline; photos carry location and time.
Memory 4 GB RAM minimum, 8 GB recommended Take the 8 GB if you keep drawings, the Gantt chart and a bill open together.
Free disk space About 2 GB Covers the app, the rate books, your project database and the backups it keeps beside it.
Screen 1366 × 768 or larger Wider helps on the Measurement Book sheet and the programme.
Internet Only to activate, to update and to back up The work itself needs no connection at all.
To be plain about the internet: you need a connection once, to activate the licence, and after that only when you want an update or a backup. Estimating, billing, planning and reporting all run with the network off — which is the point, because that is what a site office is like.
Installing

Five minutes, and no IT department.

Download, run, done. If anything looks different from the steps below, call us and we will walk you through it on the phone.

On Windows

  1. 01
    Download the installer
    It is a single .exe file, about 146 MB. Save it anywhere — Downloads is fine.
  2. 02
    Double-click the file
    Windows may show a blue “Windows protected your PC” notice because the file is new to your machine. Click More info, then Run anyway.
  3. 03
    Let it finish
    It installs for your user account, so no administrator password is asked for. There is nothing to choose.
  4. 04
    The app opens on its own
    A shortcut is left on your desktop and in the Start menu, under Civil Limitless.

On a Mac

  1. 01
    Open the downloaded disk image
    Double-click it and a window opens with the Civil Limitless icon in it.
  2. 02
    Drag it into Applications
    Drop the icon onto the Applications folder shown beside it, then eject the disk image.
  3. 03
    Open it from Applications
    The build is signed and notarised by Apple, so it opens straight away — no “unidentified developer” warning to work around.
  4. 04
    Keep it in the Dock
    Right-click the icon in the Dock, choose Options, then Keep in Dock.
The first run

The app opens on Login. The first time, you activate.

Your admin — or our engineer, if we are setting you up — sends you a licence key. It reads CIVL-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX. You enter it once, and after that you simply log in with your email and password.

Waiting for a key? On the same screen there is I’m waiting for my key. Click it and the app tells you whether your machine has been approved yet, so you are not left guessing.
  1. 01
    Click Activate License
    The app starts on the Login screen. The very first time, use the Activate License link on it instead of logging in.
  2. 02
    Type the key into License Key
    Copy it exactly as it was sent — CIVL-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX.
  3. 03
    Say what you are
    In I am signing up as, pick Individual User for your own projects, Organisation if you are setting up the company, or Employee if you have been given your company’s Org Code.
  4. 04
    Fill in your details and verify the email
    Full Name, Email and Mobile. Click Verify beside the email and type the six-digit code you receive into Confirm.
  5. 05
    Set your password and activate
    At least six characters, repeated in Confirm Password, then Activate License & Create Account.
  6. 06
    From tomorrow, just log in
    Open the app and sign in on the Login screen with the same email and password. The activation screen is behind you for good.

You land on Home with your name in the sidebar and an empty projects area. Press F1 on any screen after that and the built-in guide opens for exactly that screen, with every button on it explained.

Updates

You never install it a second time.

New modules and fixes arrive inside the app. You are shown what changed, you accept it, and it applies itself. Your projects are untouched.

Check whenever you like

The circular arrow in the top bar checks for a newer version. If there is one, you see what is in it and an Update Now button. If there is not, it says you are on the latest and stops there.

A few MB, not the whole app

An update carries only what changed — typically a handful of megabytes, so it goes through on a site connection. The full 146 MB installer is only for a fresh machine.

Signed and checked first

Every update is signed by us, and each file in it is verified against that signature before a single byte is written. Anything that does not match is refused.

Your data never moves during an update. The projects, the rate books and the bills stay exactly where they are — an update replaces the program, not your work.
New computer, same project

A project is one file. Copy it and it opens anywhere.

Civil Limitless can keep a project as a single portable file on your disk — a .clproj — at a folder you choose. It behaves like a drawing file: once you have saved it, it keeps updating itself as you work.

Put that one file on a pen drive or in a shared folder, open it on the other machine, and the whole project comes across — sub-projects, measurements, rates, steel schedule and bills. Nothing is retyped.

Samta Colony.clproj Copy it like any file Opens complete
  1. 01
    Save Project As
    Choose where the file should live — for example D:\Projects. From then on the app keeps that file in step with your work on its own.
  2. 02
    Copy the file across
    Pen drive, shared folder, email to your colleague — it is one ordinary file.
  3. 03
    Open Project File on the other machine
    If that project is already there it simply opens. If it is not, the app brings the whole thing in first and then opens it.
  4. 04
    Or let Google Drive do it
    Connect your own Drive account and the app keeps a rolling backup there — your account, your folder. Restore it on the new machine and everything is back.
About the licence

One key, one machine.

This is worth knowing before you install, so nobody is surprised on the second computer.

The key is tied to that computer

When you activate, the key binds itself to that machine. It is what stops one licence being passed around an office of twenty people.

A second machine needs its own key

Installing on your laptop as well as your desk? Ask your admin — or ask us — for a second key. The install itself is the same download.

Changed your computer?

Install on the new machine and ask for it to be approved. Your projects come across in the portable file or from your Drive backup.

See what a licence covers Ask support for a key
For the people on site

Your site team does not install this one.

The desktop app is for the office — estimating, planning, billing. The site engineer, the supervisor and the store keeper get the Android app instead, on their own phones.

It records daily progress, QC checklists, labour attendance, material at the gate and measurements — with no signal at all — and sends everything up the moment a network appears. Each person sees only the projects and the modules you allow.

Works offline Photos carry GPS and time QC on the phone
See the site app How it reaches the office
01
Daily progress
Pick the item, enter what was done today, add photos. It lands against the same item the estimate uses.
02
QC checklists
The full checklist on the phone, tick by tick, with hold points flagged before the pour.
03
Attendance and material inward
Labour muster in one screen, and the challan recorded at the gate with photos.
04
Access you control
Each person sees only the projects and modules you grant, read or write.

Downloaded it? Let us set it up on your work.

An engineer comes to your office, loads your rate book and your live projects, and trains each person on the part they use. You start with your app, not an empty one.

Book a free demo How setup works