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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.

Full history: CHANGELOG.md

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