Which macOS build do I need — Apple Silicon or Intel?

Apple Silicon (M1 and later) uses the arm64 .dmg; older Intel Macs use the x64 .dmg. The download page detects your Mac and offers the right one, and both are always listed.

How do I get past Gatekeeper on macOS?

Drag GitStudio into Applications, then run xattr -cr /Applications/GitStudio.app once to clear the quarantine flag.

AppImage or .deb on Linux?

The .AppImage is universal — chmod +x and run it. On Debian or Ubuntu, install the .deb with sudo apt install ./GitStudio-*.deb.

Download · v1.0.0

Get GitStudio Desktop.

The free, open-source Git & GitHub client for macOS, Windows, and Linux — with auto-update built in. Signed installers, checksums, and the whole source on GitHub.

Recommended for your Mac

Download for macOSApple Silicon · .dmg · 1.0.0

Intel Mac? Get the Intel build

On a different machine? See every build below ↓

All builds

macOS

Apple Silicon & Intel · macOS 11+

brew install --cask gitstudio

Apple Silicon.dmgIntel.dmg

Unsigned builds may trip Gatekeeper — after dragging the app in, clear the quarantine flag once:

xattr -cr /Applications/GitStudio.app

Windows

64-bit · Windows 10 & 11

winget install GitStudioHQ.GitStudio

x64.exeARM64.exe

If SmartScreen appears, choose More info → Run anyway. The NSIS installer lets you pick the install directory.

Linux

x86-64 · arm64 coming

curl -fsSL https://gitstudio.dev/install.sh | sh

Debian / Ubuntu.debFedora / RHEL.rpmUniversal.AppImagePortable.tar.gz

The .AppImage is universal — chmod +x and run. On Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install ./GitStudio-*.deb; on Fedora/RHEL: sudo dnf install ./GitStudio-*.rpm.

v1.0.0 · Apache-2.0 · auto-updates · checksums & older versions on the GitHub Releases page.

Build from source instead (Node 22+)

git clone https://github.com/GitStudioHQ/gitstudio.git

cd gitstudio && npm install && npm run dist --workspace apps/desktop

The installer for your OS lands in apps/desktop/release/. The whole thing is open source, so you can audit it or build it yourself.

Prefer to stay in your editor?

Get the extension instead.

The same engine, on the VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX — for VS Code, Cursor, VSCodium, Windsurf, and code-server.

GitStudio for VS Code & Cursor

The whole Git workflow · v1.0.0 · Apache-2.0

code --install-extension gitstudio.gitstudio

Prefer the raw VSIX? (2.5 MB)

Download gitstudio-1.0.0.vsix

shasum -a 256 gitstudio-1.0.0.vsix

Expected: 37d43b76929ca24d75d00ccafcb1bd86b6493b106424b82c9e9fed60ce3f00d3

Merge Studio

The focused merge editor · v0.3.4 · MIT

code --install-extension gitstudio.merge-studio

Compare the two extensions →

Bonus

A built-in MCP server.

The desktop app and the repo both ship gitstudio-mcp — a stdio MCP server that exposes your repository's Git to Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, and Windsurf. Read-only by default; writes are opt-in. Setup lives in the AI & agents docs on GitHub.