Available where, exactly?
“Is it available in my country” turns out to be four questions wearing one coat. The download is not region-locked, so installing it proves nothing what decides your experience is your account's region, your language, and which features have reached it.
Independent guide not affiliated with Meta. Rollouts move; treat anything written down, here included, as a snapshot rather than a guarantee.
Four things people mean by “available”
Most confusion about availability comes from collapsing these into one. They are decided separately, they change on different schedules, and knowing which one is blocking you is most of the work.
| Layer | What it controls | How to test it | What it looks like when it is off |
|---|---|---|---|
| The download | Nothing, in practice. The installer is not region-locked. | You already did it downloaded. | Never blocks Which is why it misleads people. |
| Country rollout | Whether Meta AI as a service is live where you are. | Sign in at meta.ai in a browser and ask it something. | Hard stop The assistant is absent or refuses to engage. |
| Account region | Which rollout rules apply to you, wherever you happen to be sitting. | Check the region on your Meta account settings. | Confusing Works for a colleague, not for you, in the same office. |
| Language | How well it understands you, and whether dictation works at all. | Ask a question in your language, then try dictating one. | Partial Chat fine, dictation silent. More. |
| Per-feature rollout | Image and video generation, integrations, Muse. | Try the specific feature rather than assuming. | Patchy Option missing, or present and unavailable. |
Meta does not publish a single canonical country-and-feature list that stays current, and rollouts move week to week. That is why this page teaches the test rather than printing a list that would be wrong by the time you read it.
How to find out where you actually stand
Faster and more reliable than any list, because it tests your account rather than your country.
Open meta.ai in a browser
Sign in with the same account you would use in the app. No install needed, and it isolates the question from anything Mac-specific.
Ask it something ordinary
If you get a real answer, Meta AI is live for your account and layers one and two are clear. If not, the Mac app will not rescue you.
Ask again in your own language
Conversation quality in your language tells you more than any support page, and it takes one message to find out.
Try an image request
Image generation is the usual first feature to be missing or limited. If it works, most of the rest will. What meters.
Now install the Mac app
Only worth doing once the above works. The download guide, and the requirements if you have not checked the Mac itself.
Test dictation separately
It is its own capability with its own language list, so it can fail while everything else works. If it does.
Signing in loops back to the browser without ever landing? That is not an availability problem see login problems, which covers the handback failure that produces exactly that symptom.
Languages: understood, translated, transcribed
People ask “does it support my language?” as though there were one answer. There are three, and they get narrower as you go.
Understanding is the widest. The model behind the app, Muse Spark 1.3, handles a broad range of languages in conversation, and in practice you can write to it in a language the interface has never heard of and get a sensible reply.
Interface translation is narrower. Menus, settings and system messages are localised into a smaller set, so a perfectly fluent conversation can happen inside an English-labelled window. Mildly irritating, rarely a blocker.
Speech recognition is narrower again, and it is the one that actually stops people. Dictation is a separate capability from language understanding, so it can fail completely in a language the assistant chats in fluently.
That last gap explains a support question we see constantly: the assistant answers beautifully in someone's language, then dictation produces either nothing or a garbled English approximation. Nothing is broken it is a different system with a different list. The dictation troubleshooting page covers how to tell that apart from a permissions problem, which looks similar from the outside.
Not everything arrives at once, or everywhere
Even with the assistant fully live for your account, individual features land on their own schedules. Here is the shape of it as of September 2026.
Muse is the big gap
The agent reached the Mac on 17 September 2026 in the United States only. Having Meta AI says nothing about whether you can use Muse.
Muse availabilityMeta One went global
The subscription rolled out worldwide on 16 September 2026, though the tiers and prices offered differ by region and account type.
Plan availabilityIntegrations follow the apps
Instagram, Facebook and Google Workspace connections depend on which of those services your account can reach, so they vary with it.
IntegrationsTwo things no rollout will fix
Separate from geography, two limits are about the machine rather than the map, and no amount of waiting changes either.
There is no Windows version of the desktop app, and Meta has committed to nothing publicly. The dedicated app launched on the Mac first and has stayed there. On Windows the browser version is the answer, and it is a perfectly good one for chat desktop versus web sets out what is actually lost.
There is also no Intel Mac version. The app is a native Apple silicon build and Rosetta translates the other way, so this is an architecture wall rather than a rollout. The Intel Mac page goes through it, including the browser workarounds that get closest.
Both of these get asked as availability questions. Neither is one, which is why no list will ever answer them.
On VPNs
The obvious question, since we have described several geographic gates, is whether a VPN opens them. It is not a reliable workaround, for three reasons worth knowing before you spend an evening on it. Availability tends to follow the account rather than the connection, so moving your traffic changes less than you would expect. A VPN routinely breaks the browser handback the Mac app relies on for sign-in, producing the loop described on the login page. And misrepresenting your location is a decision about your Meta account's standing, which is a real cost for a feature you may not keep. If the feature you want is genuinely not live where you are, waiting is usually the better plan.
Availability questions
Is the Meta AI Mac app available in my country?
The download is not region-locked, so being able to install it proves nothing. What matters is whether Meta AI is live for your account, and you can find that out in about thirty seconds by signing in at meta.ai in a browser and asking it something. The test.
Why does the app install but refuse to do anything useful?
Availability is enforced at the account and service level rather than at download. If Meta AI has not launched for your region or your account's region differs from where you are sitting the app installs and signs in but the assistant does very little. The four layers.
Which languages does Meta AI understand?
Many more than the interface is translated into. The assistant handles a wide range in conversation, the interface is localised into a smaller set, and dictation supports a narrower set again three lists people routinely assume are one. The three lists.
Why does dictation work in English but not my language?
Speech recognition is a separate capability from language understanding and its coverage is narrower, so you can hold a full conversation in a language dictation cannot transcribe. Nothing is broken. Telling that apart from a permissions fault.
Is Muse available everywhere Meta AI is?
No. Muse landed on the Mac on 17 September 2026 in the United States only and is expanding from there. It is a separate app with its own rollout, so having Meta AI tells you nothing about whether you can use Muse.
Does a VPN unlock features that are not available here?
Not reliably. Availability follows the account more than the connection, a VPN routinely breaks the browser sign-in the Mac app depends on, and misrepresenting your location puts the account itself at risk. The longer answer.
Is there a Windows version?
No, and nothing has been said publicly about one. The desktop app launched on the Mac first and has stayed there, so on Windows the browser version is the option what that costs you.
My colleague has a feature I do not, in the same office.
Almost always account region rather than location. Rollouts are applied per account, and an account created elsewhere, or with a different region set, carries its own rules across borders with it.
Do you have a full country list?
No, and we would rather not publish one. Meta does not maintain a single canonical list, rollouts change week to week, and a stale list is worse than none it sends people looking for faults that are really just a region they are not in yet.
If a feature is missing, will it arrive eventually?
Usually, but on no published timetable. Meta's pattern with this app has been the United States first, then a broader rollout over weeks or months Muse reaching the iPhone nine days before the Mac is a fair illustration of how staggered it gets.
Test it, don't look it up.
Thirty seconds in a browser tells you more about your own situation than any country list can.
Independent guide not affiliated with Meta, and not a source of rollout announcements. Availability moves; if something here no longer matches what you see, trust what you see. Download guide.