What does Innesta need to run?

macOS 14, Apple Silicon, and Git.

  • macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
  • Apple Silicon. There is no Intel build.
  • Git, the system binary — the Xcode command line tools. Innesta drives it rather than reimplementing it, which is why a repository behaves identically here and in a terminal.

Innesta checks for Git during onboarding and says what to do if it is missing.

Updates

Innesta updates itself in place. Releases are signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple, so macOS opens them without the warning it shows for unidentified developers.

It is not Electron

Innesta is SwiftUI and AppKit. There is no browser engine in the bundle and no web view rendering the interface. That is why it starts quickly, and why the accessibility, the find bar and the Share Sheet are the system’s own rather than approximations of them.