Universal binary for macOS

Date: 2025-07-22

After a huge amount of work over many weeks, there now is a universal binary for macOS, built with Qt6 that works natively on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.

The universal binary is available in the releases on GitHub (opens new window) as QOwnNotes.dmg and is replacing the previous Intel Qt5 build.

You need at least macOS 13 (Ventura) to run the new universal binary, the Qt5 legacy version will still be available as QOwnNotesQt5.dmg.

A known issue with Qt6 on Intel Macs is that the application might crash on exit when the logging panel was turned on.

Please visit the macOS installation page for more information.