Orion for macOS

The alpha for Macs with Apple silicon. Free to download, with no account to make.

Download for macOS Release notes

Runs on
macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon
Orion's window: a night photograph of cars outside a showroom, with the Light panel's sliders beside it.
The alpha, developing a Sony ARW.

Opening it the first time

macOS stops the first launch because this alpha is signed ad hoc and isn't notarized. The app is the same either way; the warning is about who vouched for it.

  1. Drag Orion to Applications

    Open the downloaded disk image and drag Orion onto the Applications folder beside it.

  2. Open it from the right-click menu

    Right-click Orion in Applications, choose Open, then Open again. You do this once.

  3. No Open button? Use Terminal

    This clears the download flag macOS put on the app. It also lets Claude and other agents start Orion's MCP server.

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

Every platform

Orion is Mac only today.

  • macOS

    Apple silicon (M1 or later), macOS 14 Sonoma or later

    Alpha, available now

    Download
  • Windows

    Windows 10 or later, x64, a Direct3D 12 GPU

    In testing, not released yet

  • Linux

    x86-64 AppImage, a Vulkan driver, glibc 2.39 or later (Ubuntu 24.04)

    In testing, not released yet

  • Intel Macs

    x86-64

    Not built

  • iPhone, iPad, Android

    Phones and tablets

    No app: Orion is a desktop editor

Older versions

Every build, its notes and its files are on GitHub Releases.

Editing with Claude

The MCP server ships inside the app. How agents use it.

Something broke

Write to [email protected] with the photo's camera and what you did.