Download DC Studio

Apple Silicon Mac, macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Free, GPLv3, Stockfish 19 inside.

Download the DMGAll releases on GitHub

Open it and drag DC Studio into Applications. The file comes from GitHub Releases, and its checksum is published beside it.

Or with Homebrew

brew tap dancechess/tap
brew trust --cask dancechess/tap/dc-studio
brew install --cask dc-studio

The middle line is Homebrew asking before it loads a cask from a tap that is not its own; brew upgrade --cask dc-studio takes it from there.

First launch

Double-click it. The app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so macOS lets it through the way it does anything else you download — no terminal command, no trip through Privacy & Security.

Every release also carries a .sha256, and the source it was built from is on GitHub at the matching tag.

Building it yourself

The Command Line Tools are enough — no Xcode: cargo test for the Rust core, swift run StudioApp for the app. See the README.

What's new

See the changelog.