Orchid v2.1.1

Orchid 2.1.1.

Download & install

Requires macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4).

1. Download Orchid-2.1.1-arm64.dmg below.

2. Install — open the .dmg, then drag the Orchid icon onto the Applications folder.

3. Open it the first time (one-time, ~15 seconds):

Orchid is free and open-source, and isn't paid-signed by Apple, so macOS double-checks with you on the very first launch. This is normal and safe:

1. In Applications, double-click Orchid.
2. A box says "Apple could not verify 'Orchid' is free of malware…" → click Done. (Do not click "Move to Bin".)
3. Open the Apple menu → System Settings → Privacy & Security.
4. Scroll to Security — "Orchid was blocked to protect your Mac." → click Open Anyway.
5. Confirm with Open Anyway (Touch ID / password if asked).

From then on, Orchid opens with a normal double-click. ✨

Rare — if it says "damaged" or won't open, the quarantine flag got stuck. Open Terminal and run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Orchid.app

What's new in 2.1.1

Changed

• Jump to File (⌘P) opens in its own tab — a deliberate jump no longer replaces the file you were browsing.
• The open file is revealed in the sidebar — whichever way you open it (⌘P, search, a tab), its folders expand and its highlighted row scrolls into view.

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Orchid v2.1.0

Orchid 2.1.0.

Download & install

Requires macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4).

1. Download Orchid-2.1.0-arm64.dmg below.

2. Install — open the .dmg, then drag the Orchid icon onto the Applications folder.

3. Open it the first time (one-time, ~15 seconds):

Orchid is free and open-source, and isn't paid-signed by Apple, so macOS double-checks with you on the very first launch. This is normal and safe:

1. In Applications, double-click Orchid.
2. A box says "Apple could not verify 'Orchid' is free of malware…" → click Done. (Do not click "Move to Bin".)
3. Open the Apple menu → System Settings → Privacy & Security.
4. Scroll to Security — "Orchid was blocked to protect your Mac." → click Open Anyway.
5. Confirm with Open Anyway (Touch ID / password if asked).

From then on, Orchid opens with a normal double-click. ✨

Rare — if it says "damaged" or won't open, the quarantine flag got stuck. Open Terminal and run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Orchid.app

What's new in 2.1.0

Navigation & sidebar polish.

Added

• Right-click a tab for the standard close menu: Close, Close Others, Close to the Right, Close to the Left, Close All (a single prompt covers any unsaved tabs in the batch).

Changed

• ⌘W now always just closes the tab — exactly like the tab's ×. It never exits to the launch screen; with no tabs open it closes the window.
• Sidebar footer — the sort picker moved to the bottom of the sidebar, and + Add folder became + Add folder or file: pick either in one dialog, and it always joins what's already open.
• Clearer folder tree — proper disclosure chevrons in an aligned gutter (rotating › / ⌄, visible contrast) plus subtle indent guides, so nesting reads at a glance.
• Crisper toolbar — the sidebar tools (new file, multi-select, collapse/expand all, refresh) are now real icons instead of text glyphs.
• ⌘P understands paths — match on the file name or anywhere in the path: notes/prd, no prd, or any scattered abbreviation. Name hits rank first; files already open in a tab float up.
• Hover a file to see where it lives — file and folder rows show the absolute path on hover, and the right-click Copy Path / Copy Relative Path items show exactly what they'll put on the clipboard.
• The Editing badge only appears while editing — no more permanent READING pill.
• Preview tabs are no longer italicised — browsing still reuses one tab; it just looks like every other tab.

Removed

• Duplicate (right-click) — it gave no feedback and little value; copy the file in Finder if you need one.
• The ? titlebar button — Keyboard Shortcuts stay under ⌘/ and the Help menu.

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Orchid v2.0.1

Orchid 2.0.1.

Download & install

Requires macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4).

1. Download Orchid-2.0.1-arm64.dmg below.

2. Install — open the .dmg, then drag the Orchid icon onto the Applications folder.

3. Open it the first time (one-time, ~15 seconds):

Orchid is free and open-source, and isn't paid-signed by Apple, so macOS double-checks with you on the very first launch. This is normal and safe:

1. In Applications, double-click Orchid.
2. A box says "Apple could not verify 'Orchid' is free of malware…" → click Done. (Do not click "Move to Bin".)
3. Open the Apple menu → System Settings → Privacy & Security.
4. Scroll to Security — "Orchid was blocked to protect your Mac." → click Open Anyway.
5. Confirm with Open Anyway (Touch ID / password if asked).

From then on, Orchid opens with a normal double-click. ✨

Rare — if it says "damaged" or won't open, the quarantine flag got stuck. Open Terminal and run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Orchid.app

What's new in 2.0.1

Fixed

• The launch-screen logo is sharp again. The glow effect on the slowly-spinning flower made the renderer freeze the vector art into a bitmap — on some themes it showed up blurry, with a faint rounded patch behind it. The glow is gone and the flower now renders as pure, always-crisp vector art (and the spin respects Reduce Motion).
• Quit now actually quits. Quitting (⌘Q, or right-click the Dock icon → Quit) with unsaved edits used to be silently swallowed: the save prompt cancelled the quit, and answering it only closed the window — Orchid stayed in the Dock. The quit now resumes after you choose Save or Don't Save (Cancel still keeps everything open), and the save prompt brings its window to the front so it can't hide on another Space.

Under the hood

• The app is less than half the size: 419 MB → 225 MB installed, and the download shrinks 156 MB → 99 MB. The installer had been shipping the entire JavaScript dependency tree (~9,700 files) alongside the already-bundled app code — everything except the file-watcher was dead weight, packed twice. Nothing visible changes: Markdown, Mermaid, KaTeX, PDF reading, and live file watching all verified on the packaged build.

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Orchid v2.0.0

Orchid 2.0.0.

Download & install

Requires macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4).

1. Download Orchid-2.0.0-arm64.dmg below.

2. Install — open the .dmg, then drag the Orchid icon onto the Applications folder.

3. Open it the first time (one-time, ~15 seconds):

Orchid is free and open-source, and isn't paid-signed by Apple, so macOS double-checks with you on the very first launch. This is normal and safe:

1. In Applications, double-click Orchid.
2. A box says "Apple could not verify 'Orchid' is free of malware…" → click Done. (Do not click "Move to Bin".)
3. Open the Apple menu → System Settings → Privacy & Security.
4. Scroll to Security — "Orchid was blocked to protect your Mac." → click Open Anyway.
5. Confirm with Open Anyway (Touch ID / password if asked).

From then on, Orchid opens with a normal double-click. ✨

Rare — if it says "damaged" or won't open, the quarantine flag got stuck. Open Terminal and run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Orchid.app

What's new in 2.0.0

Orchid grows up: tabs and multiple windows.

Added

• Tabs. Every open file lives in a tab above the reading pane. Single-clicking in the sidebar browses — files share one reusable preview tab (shown in italics) so skimming a folder never piles up tabs. Double-click a file (or ⌥-click, or right-click → Open in New Tab) to give it a tab that sticks, and a preview tab pins itself the moment you edit — unsaved work always keeps its own tab. Close with ⌘W, the ×, or middle-click; drag tabs to reorder; double-click a preview tab to pin it.
• Tab keyboard control — ⌃Tab / ⌃⇧Tab cycle tabs (Window menu: Show Next / Previous Tab), ⌘1–⌘8 jump to a tab, ⌘9 jumps to the last one.
• Multiple windows. File → New Window (⌥⌘N, remappable in Settings) opens an independent window with its own folders, tabs, and file watching — keep two projects side by side. New windows cascade from the current one.
• No more "discard changes?" interruptions when switching files. Edits now simply stay alive in their background tab; the prompt only appears if you close that tab without saving.
• Unsaved edits in any tab are guarded on close — closing a window offers to save every dirty tab, not just the visible one.
• Background tabs stay fresh — a file changed on disk quietly reloads in its background tab (or raises the conflict banner there if it has unsaved edits, shown when you return to it).

Changed

• ⌘W is now Close Tab (closes the window once no tabs are left).
• Opening a single file no longer closes your folders — it joins the workspace as its own sidebar entry (and its tab), instead of replacing everything.
• Rename moved fully to right-click → Rename… — double-clicking a file now opens it in its own tab. (Renaming from the menu is unchanged.)
• New files created with ⌘N open in their own tab, ready to type.

Under the hood

• The main process now tracks state per window (workspace, file watcher, unsaved-changes guard, crash auto-reload) — groundwork for anything multi-window that comes next.
• A freshly loaded window pulls its workspace from the main process, so a crash-recovery reload lands you back where you were.
• 213 unit tests, still at 100% coverage of the logic layer.

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Orchid v1.3.2

Orchid 1.3.2.

Download & install

Requires macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4).

1. Download Orchid-1.3.2-arm64.dmg below.

2. Install — open the .dmg, then drag the Orchid icon onto the Applications folder.

3. Open it the first time (one-time, ~15 seconds):

Orchid is free and open-source, and isn't paid-signed by Apple, so macOS double-checks with you on the very first launch. This is normal and safe:

1. In Applications, double-click Orchid.
2. A box says "Apple could not verify 'Orchid' is free of malware…" → click Done. (Do not click "Move to Bin".)
3. Open the Apple menu → System Settings → Privacy & Security.
4. Scroll to Security — "Orchid was blocked to protect your Mac." → click Open Anyway.
5. Confirm with Open Anyway (Touch ID / password if asked).

From then on, Orchid opens with a normal double-click. ✨

Rare — if it says "damaged" or won't open, the quarantine flag got stuck. Open Terminal and run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Orchid.app

What's new in 1.3.2

Reliability

• Native crashes are now actually captured. Previously a hard crash in the main process (the "Orchid quit unexpectedly" kind) could slip past crash reporting. On the next launch Orchid now reads macOS's own crash logs and reports a summary (exception, faulting thread, top frames, version, OS) — the ground-truth signal for every crash the OS records.

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Orchid v1.3.1

Orchid 1.3.1.

Download & install

Requires macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4).

1. Download Orchid-1.3.1-arm64.dmg below.

2. Install — open the .dmg, then drag the Orchid icon onto the Applications folder.

3. Open it the first time (one-time, ~15 seconds):

Orchid is free and open-source, and isn't paid-signed by Apple, so macOS double-checks with you on the very first launch. This is normal and safe:

1. In Applications, double-click Orchid.
2. A box says "Apple could not verify 'Orchid' is free of malware…" → click Done. (Do not click "Move to Bin".)
3. Open the Apple menu → System Settings → Privacy & Security.
4. Scroll to Security — "Orchid was blocked to protect your Mac." → click Open Anyway.
5. Confirm with Open Anyway (Touch ID / password if asked).

From then on, Orchid opens with a normal double-click. ✨

Rare — if it says "damaged" or won't open, the quarantine flag got stuck. Open Terminal and run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Orchid.app

What's new in 1.3.1

Fixed

• Sort menu dropdown rendered too narrow after the collapse-all button was added — its labels wrapped and overlapped the file list. It's now sized to its contents and layers cleanly above the tree.

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Orchid v1.3.0

Orchid 1.3.0.

Download & install

Requires macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4).

1. Download Orchid-1.3.0-arm64.dmg below.

2. Install — open the .dmg, then drag the Orchid icon onto the Applications folder.

3. Open it the first time (one-time, ~15 seconds):

Orchid is free and open-source, and isn't paid-signed by Apple, so macOS double-checks with you on the very first launch. This is normal and safe:

1. In Applications, double-click Orchid.
2. A box says "Apple could not verify 'Orchid' is free of malware…" → click Done. (Do not click "Move to Bin".)
3. Open the Apple menu → System Settings → Privacy & Security.
4. Scroll to Security — "Orchid was blocked to protect your Mac." → click Open Anyway.
5. Confirm with Open Anyway (Touch ID / password if asked).

From then on, Orchid opens with a normal double-click. ✨

Rare — if it says "damaged" or won't open, the quarantine flag got stuck. Open Terminal and run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Orchid.app

What's new in 1.3.0

Added

• PDF reading. Open a .pdf and read it right inside Orchid — rendered in the app's own calm viewer (not the grey system one), with fit-to-width, zoom, selectable text, and find (⌘F) across the whole document.
• Customisable keyboard shortcuts. A new Settings panel (⌘, or the gear in the titlebar) lists every command — click a shortcut and press the keys you want. Especially handy on a Windows-style keyboard, where you can bind Ctrl-based shortcuts (macOS treats ⌘ and Ctrl as different keys). Reset any one shortcut, or all of them, to the defaults.
• A proper Edit menu — Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Paste and Match Style, and Select All, so the standard editing keyboard shortcuts work everywhere.
• Right-click in the editor — a context menu with Cut / Copy / Paste / Select All (and Copy on selected preview text).
• Collapse / Expand all folders — a one-click toggle in the sidebar toolbar.
• Version everywhere — shown in Orchid → About Orchid, on the launch screen, and in Settings.

Fixed

• The editor now supports cut, copy, and paste — both the keyboard shortcuts (⌘X / ⌘C / ⌘V) and the right-click menu. Undo/redo (⌘Z / ⌘⇧Z) drive the editor's own history.
• New empty folders show up immediately — creating a folder inside a folder no longer waits for files before appearing.

Reliability

• Fewer unexpected quits. A stray main-process error is now caught instead of taking the app down, a crashed renderer auto-reloads itself, and crashes are recorded so they can be diagnosed (version + macOS version), rather than failing silently.

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Orchid v1.2.0

Orchid 1.2.0.

Download & install

Requires macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4).

1. Download Orchid-1.2.0-arm64.dmg below.

2. Install — open the .dmg, then drag the Orchid icon onto the Applications folder.

3. Open it the first time (one-time, ~15 seconds):

Orchid is free and open-source, and isn't paid-signed by Apple, so macOS double-checks with you on the very first launch. This is normal and safe:

1. In Applications, double-click Orchid.
2. A box says "Apple could not verify 'Orchid' is free of malware…" → click Done. (Do not click "Move to Bin".)
3. Open the Apple menu → System Settings → Privacy & Security.
4. Scroll to Security — "Orchid was blocked to protect your Mac." → click Open Anyway.
5. Confirm with Open Anyway (Touch ID / password if asked).

From then on, Orchid opens with a normal double-click. ✨

Rare — if it says "damaged" or won't open, the quarantine flag got stuck. Open Terminal and run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Orchid.app

What's new in 1.2.0

Changed

• Redesigned accent picker. Choosing your own colour is now two clear controls: a solid Custom swatch (tap to use your colour, like any preset) and a rainbow Pick… swatch that opens the colour picker. The selection ring matches the preset swatches.
• Trimmed to 13 curated accent presets (dropped Periwinkle, Jade, and Slate) for a tidier, shorter picker.

Fixed

• The Theme button's colour dot now reflects a custom accent instead of staying on the default.

Under the hood

• Security & platform update — upgraded to Electron 39 (closes 17 runtime security advisories), electron-builder 26 (pulls a patched tar), and Vite 6. npm audit is clean. No change to how the app looks or behaves — it still ships as the same ad-hoc-signed Apple Silicon build.
• Test suite — added a Vitest unit suite with 100% coverage of the logic layer (store, file scan, export, themes, version compare), enforced in CI on every change.

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Orchid v1.1.2

A small but important fix for a background crash.

Update

Already on 1.1.x? Orchid will show an in-app update card (or use Orchid → Check for Updates…). Otherwise download below.

Download & install

Requires macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4).

1. Download Orchid-1.1.2-arm64.dmg below.

2. Install — open the .dmg, then drag the Orchid icon onto the Applications folder.

3. Open it the first time (one-time, ~15 seconds):

Orchid is free and open-source, and isn't paid-signed by Apple, so macOS double-checks with you on the very first launch. This is normal and safe — just:

1. In Applications, double-click Orchid.
2. A box says "Apple could not verify 'Orchid' is free of malware…" → click Done. (Do not click "Move to Bin".)
3. Open the Apple menu → System Settings → Privacy & Security.
4. Scroll to Security — you'll see "Orchid was blocked to protect your Mac." → click Open Anyway.
5. Confirm with Open Anyway (Touch ID / password if asked).

From then on, Orchid opens with a normal double-click. ✨

Rare — if it says "damaged" or won't open, the quarantine flag got stuck. Open Terminal and run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Orchid.app

What's fixed in 1.1.2

• No more crash on system theme changes. If you closed Orchid's window but left the app running, a macOS auto Light↔Dark switch (e.g. at sunset) could pop a "JavaScript error in the main process" dialog. Fixed — the window reference is cleared on close, and all background messages are guarded against a torn-down window.

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Orchid v1.1.1

A quick patch fixing file creation — newly created files now show up right away, and you can create a file even with nothing open.

Update

Already on 1.1.0? Orchid will show an in-app update card (or use Orchid → Check for Updates…). Otherwise download below.

Download & install

Requires macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4).

1. Download Orchid-1.1.1-arm64.dmg below.

2. Install — open the .dmg, then drag the Orchid icon onto the Applications folder.

3. Open it the first time (one-time, ~15 seconds):

Orchid is free and open-source, and isn't paid-signed by Apple, so macOS double-checks with you on the very first launch. This is normal and safe:

1. In Applications, double-click Orchid.
2. A box says "Apple could not verify 'Orchid' is free of malware…" → click Done. (Do not click "Move to Bin".)
3. Open the Apple menu → System Settings → Privacy & Security.
4. Scroll to Security — "Orchid was blocked to protect your Mac." → click Open Anyway.
5. Confirm with Open Anyway (Touch ID / password if asked).

From then on, Orchid opens with a normal double-click. ✨

Rare — if it says "damaged" or won't open, the quarantine flag got stuck. Open Terminal and run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Orchid.app

What's fixed in 1.1.1

Fixed

• New files appear in the sidebar immediately — creating a file/folder refreshes the folder right away (no waiting on the watcher); opening a single file then creating one promotes the sidebar to its folder view so everything shows.
• Create with nothing open — New File / New Folder (⌘N / ⌘⇧N, or the launch screen) now offer a Save As dialog to choose a location.

Added

• Close File (⌘W) — closes the open file (prompts on unsaved edits).
• The create dialog shows where the file will land; ⌘N targets the folder of the file you're viewing.

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