We don’t want to push anyone to use the Store if they don’t want to use it – but based on what we’ve seen so far, it works better than a standalone executable for most people. Let me know if that’s the case for you or you can’t get it work so that we can figure out and fix the problem. The only potential issue can be is that if you have App Installer manually uninstalled (it gets installed for all but the most stripped-down/restricted versions of Windows), it’s tricky to install it again without the Store. We tested it in a number of ways (including things like forcibly blocking Store access on the network) to make sure that is the case. It’s independent from the Microsoft Store – you don’t need a Store account for it to work, nor install the Store itself. App Installer is a standard Microsoft technology to distribute apps that offers many features, most importantly seamless upgrades, which is paramount for a rapidly developing app with bi-weekly releases like Shapr3D. If you click on the “ Download the installer” link as shown above, you can download an '.appinstaller’ file.

Shapr3d app