iQualize v0.52.0

Install

Download the .dmg, open it, and drag iQualize to Applications. Universal build: Apple Silicon and Intel, macOS 14.2+.

iQualize is signed with an ad-hoc signature, not a Developer ID certificate, and it is not notarized. macOS puts a quarantine flag on anything downloaded from the web, and for an app it cannot verify that shows up as a malware warning on first launch. Nothing is wrong with the download. Gatekeeper is reporting that the app has not been through Apple's notarization service, which requires a paid developer account.

The fastest fix is one command, which clears the flag so none of the warnings below appear:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/iQualize.app

Then open it normally. If the .dmg itself will not mount, clear the flag on the download first: xattr -c ~/Downloads/iQualize-*.dmg.

Without Terminal

The GUI route works too, but it takes four screens and the first one looks like a dead end. Worth knowing what is coming.

1. Open iQualize. You get this. There is no "open anyway" here; that is expected. Click Done, not Move to Trash.

2. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, and scroll to Security. The blocked app now appears with an Open Anyway button. This row only shows up after step 1, which is why the order matters.

3. Confirm. macOS asks a second time, more sternly, and may ask for your password. Click Open Anyway.

4. Allow audio capture. This one is iQualize asking, not Gatekeeper. The EQ cannot work without it. It is the permission that lets the app see system audio at all.

Older macOS versions expose the same Open Anyway option under System Preferences → Security & Privacy → General. Screenshots are from macOS Tahoe. Apple rewords these dialogs between releases.

If you ever see "iQualize is damaged and can't be opened" instead, that is a different problem: a genuinely broken signature rather than a missing one. That was #115, fixed in 0.45.0. Report it if a current release does this.

For the iqualize command line tool: Settings (⌘,) → General → Install Command Line Tool.

Thanks

• @json20 for reporting #142 — v0.51.0 installs Info.plist with mode 0600
• @nordicdata for reporting #144 — Alternative installation suggestion

What's Changed

• CI: clear Node 20 deprecation warnings in the release workflow by @dariuscorvus in #139
• Refresh the tap in place instead of restarting it on new processes by @dariuscorvus in #143
• Fix Info.plist permissions and EQ theme switching by @dariuscorvus in #145
• Compensate capture ring clock drift by @dariuscorvus in #141
• Add CLI parity for the rest of #122: toggles, bands, presets, import/export, OPRA by @dariuscorvus in #146

Full Changelog: v0.51.0...v0.52.0