What you'll do
- Confirm your Mac meets the requirements (Apple Silicon, macOS 14+).
- Download the signed .dmg from evoglyph.com.
- Drag evoglyph.app into your Applications folder.
- Launch it once and let macOS verify the developer signature.
- Move on to granting permissions.
Requirements
evoglyph is built for modern Apple Silicon Macs. Before you download, confirm:
- Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4, or later). evoglyph uses the Apple Neural Engine for transcription and Metal/Apple GPU for the cleanup model. Intel Macs are not supported.
- macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.
- About 5 GB of free disk space for the app plus the models that download on first run. The app itself is small; the models account for most of the footprint.
- A working internet connection for the initial download (the app, then the models). evoglyph runs fully offline after that.
Download the .dmg
Grab the latest release from the download page. The file is named
evoglyph-x.y.z.dmg (the version number changes with each release). It's
signed with our Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, which means macOS will
recognize it as a trusted app the first time you launch it.
Drag to Applications
Double-click the downloaded evoglyph-x.y.z.dmg to mount it. A Finder window
opens showing the evoglyph app icon next to a shortcut to the Applications folder.
Drag evoglyph.app onto the Applications shortcut. Wait for the copy to finish, then eject the disk image (right-click the mounted volume on the desktop and choose Eject).
That's the install. The app is now in /Applications/evoglyph.app.
First launch and Gatekeeper
Open your Applications folder and double-click evoglyph. The first launch is the only one where macOS does extra verification.
You'll see a Gatekeeper dialog that says something like:
"evoglyph" is an app downloaded from the internet. Are you sure you want to open it?
The dialog will identify the developer (Eluketronic LLC) because the app is notarized. Click Open. evoglyph launches as a menu bar app, so you won't see a Dock icon — look in the top-right of your screen for the evoglyph menu bar item.
After this first launch, macOS remembers your choice and won't prompt again. evoglyph next walks you through granting Accessibility, Microphone, and Input Monitoring permissions and then downloading the local models.
Auto-updates
evoglyph ships with Sparkle, the standard auto-update framework for Mac apps. New versions land automatically: when an update is available, evoglyph downloads it in the background and prompts you to relaunch. You don't need to come back to evoglyph.com or redownload the .dmg manually.
You can pause updates or check for them on demand from the menu bar item.
If something goes wrong
"App is damaged and can't be opened"
This usually means the .dmg didn't finish downloading, or your browser truncated the file. Move the existing copy to the Trash, redownload from evoglyph.com, and try again. Don't drag a partial copy of evoglyph into Applications — replace it.
"Cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified"
This shouldn't happen with a notarized build, but if it does — for example, you downloaded a build from a non-standard source — you can override Gatekeeper once: right-click (or Control-click) evoglyph.app in Applications and choose Open. macOS will show the same dialog with an explicit Open button. After that, normal launches work as expected.
The menu bar icon doesn't appear after launch
evoglyph is a menu bar-only app (no Dock icon). If you don't see the icon after a few seconds, your menu bar might be full and macOS hid it behind the overflow chevron. Hold Cmd, click and drag the icons to rearrange them, or use a tool like iStat Menus or Bartender to manage menu bar overflow.
evoglyph was working but now won't launch
Force-quit any running evoglyph process (Activity Monitor, search "evoglyph", quit). Then
launch the app fresh. If that doesn't help, delete
/Applications/evoglyph.app, redownload the latest .dmg, and reinstall — your
settings, vocabulary, and history live in
~/Library/Application Support/evoglyph/ and survive a reinstall.