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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.

Full history: CHANGELOG.md

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