GIMP can also run on Solaris and is available for the BSD family of systems such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The download links above will attempt to download GIMP Please refer to the documentation for your Unix-like system on the installation of software. If the mirrors do not work or you would rather download directly from our server, you can get the direct download here. Provide any downloads using Apple's App Store at the moment.Īny downloads on the store are created by third party and is !IMPORTANT! ⚠️ App Store: GIMP team does not. Not in anyway connected to the GIMP team. Since version 2.8.2, GIMP runs on macOS/OSX natively.

The official GIMP 2.10 DMG installer (linked above) is a stock GIMP build without any add-ons. Just open the downloaded DMG and drag and drop GIMP into your 'Applications' folder. Third party packages are not officially supported by the GIMP Previous installers for macOS/OSX can be found here. We only list some of these package systems here because they are Therefore you should report issues to the packagersįirst, before reporting to the GIMP team. Widely used FLOSS projects, though we won't list projectsĪn easy way to compile and install GIMP and other great Free software on your Mac is by using Macports. There is loads of great free software that is *so close* to being usable but lacks a few things to be perfect.The installer allows you to choose from a large directory of packages. comment, but I just wish these programs would leave their perennial beta status. It is 99% complete but the missing 1% makes the software far more difficult to use.Īnother example of this is the (‘stable’) Mac version of Audacity, which works well until you try to save, and then discover that whilst typing the filename, the keys are being interpreted by the window underneath and the file is being edited/played/resampled.

To me this is a great example of a problem that so often befalls open source software. Sounds trivial, but when trying to actually use the thing on a daily basis it gets annoying very quickly. For example, when the dock is on the side of the screen, the window keeps get repositioned underneath it making it impossible to get at. Unfortunately, there are a few OSX specific problems with VirtualBox. It is great to have a Free alternative to VMware and Parallels.

Gimp mac os x