Install on macOS™

Download the latest macOS disk image from QOwnNotes Releases on GitHub (opens new window), open it and drag the QOwnNotes app to your application folder.

The first time you have to right-click the application and click Open to open QOwnNotes.

The GitHub release QOwnNotes.dmg is a universal binary, built with Qt6. You need at least macOS 13 (Ventura) to run the universal binary.

The Qt5 legacy version is available as QOwnNotesQt5.dmg. You can't use the internal updater with this version, so you have to download new versions manually.

WARNING

If you get an error message QOwnNotes.app cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified you need to visit your macOS Security settings and click on Open anyway.

To take the application out of the quarantine you can also run the following command in the terminal:

xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/QOwnNotes.app

TIP

The application uses its internal updater to update itself. You can see the latest version on the bottom right of the application.

Homebrew

There is a community maintained cask of QOwnNotes at Homebrew (opens new window).

You can install it with:

brew install qownnotes

Nix

You can also install QOwnNotes with the Nix package manager (opens new window) under macOS natively on x86 and Apple Silicon, see Install via Nix.

TIP

Best use the NixOS Unstable channel to get the latest version of QOwnNotes!