Common Room for Mac
Version 0.1.0 · 4 September 2026 · for a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer) · 350 MB to download, and the brain fetches itself on first run (2.5 GB).
This first release is not yet signed by Apple. Your Mac will say it cannot check the app. That is Apple being careful, not the app being broken. Open it this way, once:
- Open the .dmg and drag Common Room into Applications.
- Double-click Common Room. Your Mac says it was blocked. Press Done.
- Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down to "Common Room was blocked", and press Open Anyway.
- Double-click Common Room again and press Open.
What happens on first run
- The app asks your name, and what you call a piece of work.
- It fetches its brain, 2.5 GB, from Hugging Face. Settings shows a bar. A dropped line resumes where it stopped.
- It signs up once with our cloud: your name, email, country, company, the app's version, an install key and the time. Nothing you say in any room ever goes with it.
- You are in your own room. Say something.
Needs
- A Mac with Apple silicon. Tested on macOS 26. The brain wants about 8 GB of memory free.
- About 4 GB of disk for the app and the brain.
- Internet for the first run. After that, only for guests from far away and for our shelf.
Coming
Windows, and the phone app, come after the Mac version has met its first strangers. The phone app is next.