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Download babel for Mac

Run book-scale translations on your own Mac. No ChatGPT, no DeepL, no quotas. Your GPU, your files.

Download babel · macOS (Apple Silicon)

~50 MB · requires macOS 11+ · Apple Silicon · open-source, unsigned

Or install with one command

curl -fsSL https://babeltower.lat/install.sh | bash

Downloads babel.app into /Applications (or ~/Applications if you don't have write access), clears the Gatekeeper quarantine, and opens the app. No clicks, no right-click workaround needed. Read the script first if you want to know exactly what it does.

1

Install

Pick the one-liner above, or download the zip and drag babel.app into /Applications.

2

Open

With the one-liner: nothing to do, the installer opens it for you. With the zip: right-click babel.app → Open (one-time Gatekeeper bypass).

3

Paste your access token

babel asks for your worker token (admin gives you this). Pasted, saved, babel's tower icon appears in the menu bar, and it starts polling for jobs.

Why not signed / notarized?

Apple Developer Program enrollment is $99/year, and signing/notarizing binds the binary to a specific identity that's trivially fakeable anyway. We're open-source: the entire build process lives in packaging/mac/build.sh on our GitHub, and the hash of the zip we publish is reproducible from the commit that built it. Don't trust us — verify.

The one-time right-click → Open step is Gatekeeper doing its job: making sure you want to run a binary you downloaded. Once you say yes once, macOS remembers. Subsequent launches are normal.

Linux / Windows?

Not yet packaged, but the same worker runs on both. See the repo for the script-based install (scripts/install-worker.sh). Native installers are on the roadmap.