Version 1.5.0. The core and the bundled plugins are free, with no account and no registration. Windows gets an installer; macOS gets a disk image in two builds — Apple silicon and Intel.
desktop application
The runs on Windows and macOS — there is no mobile build, so the downloads are hidden here. Open this page on a desktop computer to get the installer or the disk image. The system requirements are below.
The file name carries the version — the link points at this build and no other.
The build is not signed yet: how to get past the Windows warnings.
Apple menu → About This Mac shows the chip.
On macOS 13–14.3? The last build that runs there is The 1.4.3.
Apple menu → About This Mac shows the chip.
On macOS 13–14.3? The last build that runs there is The 1.4.3.
what you get
GUI-independent: persistent Piece Table, mmap, snapshot model, atomic saving.
Formats from plain text to images, tree-sitter, git, clangd, Markdown and HTML preview — switched on with a toggle.
Dark and light, Slate and Graphite directions, the Paper · Gradients theme from a plugin, accent colours, window transparency.
No account, no cloud, no mandatory telemetry. Files stay on disk.
before installing
The licence and the notices are available without registration and without a cookie gate — a requirement of the LGPLv3 and GPLv3 licences the bundled components are distributed under.
after launching
download questions
Yes: the core and the bundled plugins are free, with no account. Paid options — a Pro model, a plugin store — belong to the plans for after the public release, and there are no prices for them yet.
On Windows, run The-1.5.0-setup.exe. On macOS, open the .dmg and drag The into Applications. Separate app-store packages will arrive with the release.
The installer carries no code-signing certificate yet, so a browser has no download reputation to go on and says exactly that. The warning is about the missing signature, not about the contents of the file. Check it yourself: Get-FileHash The-1.5.0-setup.exe in PowerShell prints the SHA-256 above, character for character.
Apple menu → About This Mac. A Chip line starting with Apple M means the -arm.dmg; a Processor line with Intel means the -x86_64.dmg.
Not yet. Windows and macOS are supported; the core does not depend on platform GUI, but no public Linux build exists.
From Settings: the check button becomes Update when a release is found, and the app relaunches once the installer finishes. Downloading the new version from this page works as before. The change list is public — every version is dated on the changelog page.