--- title: "Bambu Lab App for Windows: Printer Monitor in the Tray · Bambu Bar" description: "Bambu Bar for Windows 10 and 11: print progress, the live camera, AMS filament, alerts and desktop widgets from the tray, straight from your Bambu Lab printer." url: https://bambubar.app/windows language: en --- # Your Bambu Lab printer, one click away in the tray > Progress, time left, temperatures, AMS filament and the live camera, by the clock on your taskbar. Desktop widgets and print alerts too, straight from the printer on your network. - [Buy for $9.99](https://buy.polar.sh/polar_cl_vhx7SBcybHor1sLFyf4INLiI3ixoCza9zob3w42Z28x) · Free to use. Optional one-time $9.99 supporter license for your Mac and your PC - Windows 10 and 11 · x64 and ARM64 · Same local network - [Using a Mac? Get Bambu Bar for Mac](https://bambubar.app/download) ## The Bambu Bar you know. Built for Windows A native Windows app, not a port of a web page: the same printers, the same 18 languages and almost every feature of the Mac app. - **In the tray:** Click the icon by the clock for the panel; right-click it for a menu. While you print, it can show the percentage. - **The live camera:** In the panel, on the Printer page and in its own window with a Keep on top pin. It streams only while you watch. - **Desktop widgets:** Small, medium and large. Drag them anywhere; right-click one to change its printer or size, or keep it on top. - **Filament in grams:** Every AMS spool by colour name, with the grams left on Bambu Lab spools, plus each unit's humidity. - **All your printers:** All Printers puts the ones that need you first. Add All sets up every printer Bambu Studio or OrcaSlicer knows. - **Pause, stop, speed:** Pause, resume or stop a print, change its speed and switch the chamber light, from the panel or the window. - **Windows notifications:** Finished, failed, paused for filament and new printer errors, as Windows notifications. Send a test one from the Notifications page. - **A live 3D printer:** The Printer page shows your printer family in 3D, its chamber light and the part growing on the plate. - **18 languages:** It follows the language of Windows, or the one you pick. Printer errors use Bambu Lab's own translations. ## Same app. A few Windows ways Where the Mac app uses the menu bar and macOS widgets, Bambu Bar for Windows uses what Windows has. | | On a Mac | On Windows | | --- | --- | --- | | Where it lives | The menu bar, with progress and time left as text | The tray, by the clock: the percentage in the icon, the full line in its tooltip | | Widgets | macOS desktop widgets | Desktop widgets you drag anywhere and can keep on top | | Notifications | macOS notifications | Windows notifications | | Access codes | In the macOS keychain | In Windows Credential Manager | | Starts with your computer | Open at Login | Open at sign-in | | Getting it | From our website; Mac App Store edition coming | An installer for x64 or ARM64 PCs; no administrator needed | ## From installer to tray. In a minute 1. **Install.** Run the installer for your PC (**x64** or **ARM64**). It installs for your account, so you don't need an administrator, and adds Bambu Bar to the Start menu. 2. **Add your printers.** Bambu Bar finds the printers on your network. If Bambu Studio or OrcaSlicer saved their access codes, **Add All** sets them all up at once. 3. **Allow the network.** If Windows Firewall asks, click **Allow**, so the printers' announcements reach Bambu Bar. Then look for its icon in the tray, by the clock. ## One license. Your Mac and your PC Bambu Bar is free to use on Windows too. The optional one-time $9.99 supporter license turns on automatic updates and the Hero Supporter badge, and one key activates one Mac and one PC. - Already a supporter? Open **About** in Bambu Bar for Windows, paste the key from your [purchase account](https://polar.sh/nina-labs-ai-llc/portal) and choose **Activate**. - The key is kept in Windows Credential Manager and checked online. Supporter benefits stay on for up to seven days offline; printer monitoring always works. - Updates install themselves: Bambu Bar checks the signed update feed, installs the new version quietly and opens again. ## What you need - **Windows 10** version 1903 or later, or **Windows 11**. - An **x64** or **ARM64** PC. Both are native, and nothing else to install. On Windows 10 on ARM, desktop widgets aren't available. - A Bambu Lab printer on the **same local network**: [all 15 models](https://bambubar.app/printers) work. No Bambu Lab account or cloud needed. ## Your printer, your network, nobody else Bambu Bar for Windows talks straight to your printer over your own network, encrypted, as Bambu Studio does in LAN mode. Access codes stay in Credential Manager and are only ever sent to their printer. No app analytics, no ads. ## Windows questions, answered ### Is it the same app as on the Mac? Yes: the same features, the same 15 printers and the same 18 languages, built as a native Windows app. It lives in the tray instead of the menu bar, its widgets sit on the Windows desktop, and its alerts are Windows notifications. ### Does my supporter license work on Windows? Yes. The same $9.99 supporter license key activates one Mac and one PC. In Bambu Bar for Windows, open About, paste your key and choose Activate. You can deactivate an installation there or in your purchase account. ### Which versions of Windows does it run on? Windows 10 version 1903 or later and Windows 11, on x64 and ARM64 PCs. Both are native builds and nothing else needs installing. On Windows 10 on ARM, desktop widgets aren't available; everything else is. ### Do I need administrator rights to install it? No. Bambu Bar installs for your account and adds itself to the Start menu. Turn on Open at sign-in in Settings and it starts in the tray each time you sign in to Windows. ### Why can't it find my printer on Windows? Check that the PC and the printer are on the same network, and that Windows Firewall lets Bambu Bar in: if Windows asked, click Allow, or use Open Firewall Settings in Bambu Bar. You can always enter the printer's IP address by hand. ### Can it use the access codes Bambu Studio saved? Yes. Bambu Bar reads the access codes Bambu Studio or OrcaSlicer saved on this PC, and Add All sets up every printer at once. Slicer on another PC? Drop its BambuStudio.conf onto the setup page. Codes are kept in Credential Manager. ### Is it on the Microsoft Store? Not for now. Bambu Bar for Windows comes as an installer for x64 and ARM64 PCs, and supporters get updates automatically inside the app. --- Bambu Bar is an independent app, not affiliated with or endorsed by Bambu Lab. Bambu Lab is a trademark of its owner.