Install

Install Acorn (macOS)

Apple Silicon and Intel supported. The install script is the fastest path.

1. Install script

Downloads the latest release DMG, copies it to /Applications/Acorn.app, and strips the quarantine attribute.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/im-ian/acorn/main/scripts/install-macos.sh | bash

Grab the aarch64 (Apple Silicon) or x64 (Intel) DMG from Releases, copy it to Applications, then remove the quarantine attribute.

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Acorn.app

Requires pnpm 9.x · Rust stable · Xcode CLT. Build the sidecar first.

pnpm install
pnpm run build:sidecar
pnpm run tauri build

Acorn ships as an ad-hoc build. Removing quarantine only clears the Gatekeeper flag and does not affect app integrity.