Download Bòcan

Notarised by Apple. Signed with a Developer ID. Stapled. Built for Apple Silicon (arm64). No installer, no setup wizard, no telemetry. Drag, drop, double-click, listen.

Latest release

Download Bocan.dmg

Always points at the newest stable release. Hosted on GitHub Releases.

Platform: macOS 26 Tahoe or later Architecture: Apple Silicon (arm64) Format: Signed disk image (.dmg)

Older releases & release notes

Every release, with checksums, signatures, and release notes, is on GitHub Releases.

Verify the download

Each release has a SHA-256 checksum file attached. To verify after downloading: 

shasum -a 256 -c Bocan.dmg.sha256

macOS Gatekeeper does this automatically the first time you open it, courtesy of the stapled notarisation ticket. The checksum is for people who like belt and braces.

Install

  1. Open the disk image.
  2. Drag Bòcan.app onto the Applications folder.
  3. Eject the disk image. Burn it ceremonially if you're feeling old-school.
  4. Open Bòcan from Launchpad or Spotlight.
  5. Point it at your music folders. It'll do the rest.

Homebrew

Coming soon: brew install --cask bocan. We'll publish a tap once 1.0 ships and we trust ourselves not to push three updates a day.

Auto-update

Bòcan ships with Sparkle 2. It checks for updates daily by default — silently, in the background, with EdDSA-signed verification. Turn it off in Preferences if you don't want that. Choose the Beta channel if you want fresh paint and occasional broken windows.