Gola Stitch: Every App Installed and Updated from One Window
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A fresh Windows is a clean slate. Gola Stitch fills it. One window, one list: the browser, the media player, the runtimes that games need, the tools you never want to be without. Tick what you want, press Go!, and each app is installed in turn while the window tells you exactly where things stand. Later, the same window finds what needs updating.
Why choose Stitch
Plenty of tools install apps. Here is what makes Stitch worth having on your PC, and why we built it.
The apps arrive alone
Stitch installs through winget, the package manager of Windows itself. Its repository has a strict policy against potentially unwanted applications and requires every installer to run without prompts. So the toolbars, trial antivirus offers and other extras that download-site installers like to add do not come along: you get the program, and nothing else. (A legitimate app may still have promotions of its own: Stitch cannot remove what an app does by itself.)
You can see where an app comes from
Rest the mouse on an app for half a second and Stitch asks winget who publishes it and which server its installer is downloaded from, then shows both under your cursor, the server name first and always whole, because that is the part worth checking. It only reads; it installs nothing to tell you.
One place to install, one place to update, Store apps included
The list marks every app that is already on the PC, and every app with a newer version. One click on Check for updates lists everything on the PC that has an update, not only the apps from Stitch's own list: tick what you want and update. Microsoft Store apps go first, because winget itself is updated through the Store. It is the app store of a Linux distribution, on Windows.
It always tells you what happened
A banner across the list says "Installing 3 of 8" with an overall bar, and every app shows its own state in words: waiting, installing, trying again, installed, already up to date, restart needed, failed, with the reason. A failed app is tried once more on its own. At the end you get the counts, a Restart now button that asks before it does anything, Retry failed, and one log file per run, which is the thing to send us if something went wrong.
Small, native, and in your language
Stitch is one file of under two megabytes: no installer, no runtime, no web page pretending to be a program, and no graphics card or framework needed. It is a real Windows window that works with the keyboard from end to end, names its marks to screen readers, follows the light or dark setting and the text size of Windows, and speaks English, French or formal Arabic, with the whole window mirrored for Arabic.
Your PC arrives with it already done
On a PC we install, the apps we agreed on are installed for you at the first start, by Stitch itself. Open Gola Stitch later, and that same selection is waiting, ticked. Technicians get a silent mode and profile files for the same job on any PC they set up.
Where the name comes from
A stitch joins separate pieces into one garment. That is what this program does with your apps: pieces that would otherwise arrive one at a time, from one site after another, become one install. Its icon is a stitched line.
Our tools are named after textile crafts, weaving and sewing, which are living crafts in Tunisia. NTLoom is the loom, Shuttle is the part of the loom that carries the thread across, Stitch joins the pieces into one garment, Bootlace laces up a computer's start-up over the network, and Kit is the technician's toolkit.
How you get it
Stitch is not sold on its own and there is no download page. Every Windows installation made by Gola Services comes with a free lifetime licence for your PC, for Stitch and for Gola Shuttle alike: the licence is tied to that PC, never expires, and is installed during the installation itself. Gola uses it internally, and it is made by the same people who set up your PC. Contact us to have your PC set up the Gola way.
Good to know
• It needs winget (App Installer), which comes with Windows 11 and recent Windows 10. If it is missing, Stitch says so and waits.
• It asks for administrator rights when it starts, because installing for every user needs them.
• It does not hide anything: winget's own messages are in the log, and it never uninstalls anything.
• It is version 4.3. Apps from the Microsoft Store carry a small bag mark in the list and in search results, so you can tell them from the others.