Version 0.4.3. The core and eight plugins are free, with no account and no registration. Windows gets an installer; macOS gets a disk image in two builds — Apple silicon and Intel.
Installer. Window transparency — Mica and Acrylic on Windows 11.
The file name carries no version — it always points at the current build.
Disk image: mount it and drag The into Applications. Window transparency — native vibrancy. Two builds — take the one that matches the chip.
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File names are fixed: The-setup.exe, The-0.5.0-arm.dmg, The-0.5.0-x86_64.dmg. Build sizes, SHA-256 checksums and the minimum macOS version are not fixed in the project materials — they must be filled in from the release before this page goes live. Inventing these values is not an option.
what you get
GUI-independent: persistent Piece Table, mmap, snapshot model, atomic saving.
plaintext, markdown, csv, json, cpp, clangd, ripgrep, git — switched on with a toggle.
Dark and light, Slate and Graphite directions, accent colours, window transparency.
No account, no cloud, no mandatory telemetry. Files stay on disk.
before installing
The licence and the notices are available without registration and without a cookie gate — a requirement of the LGPLv3 and GPLv3 licences the bundled components are distributed under.
after launching
download questions
Yes: the core and the eight bundled plugins are free, with no account. Paid options — a Pro model, a plugin store — belong to the plans for after the public release, and there are no prices for them yet.
On Windows, run The-setup.exe; it is signed with a developer certificate, so Windows asks for confirmation before it installs. On macOS, open the .dmg and drag The into Applications — both builds are signed and notarised by Apple, so Gatekeeper opens them without a warning.
Apple menu → About This Mac. A Chip line starting with Apple M means the -arm.dmg; a Processor line with Intel means the -x86_64.dmg.
Not yet. Windows and macOS are supported; the core does not depend on platform GUI, but no public Linux build exists in 0.4.x.
Download the new version from this page. The change list is public — every version is dated on the changelog page.