Install Krill Desktop App for macOS
Download and install the Krill Desktop control app on an Apple-silicon Mac
Install the Krill Desktop App on macOS
Krill Desktop is a Compose Multiplatform GUI application for monitoring and controlling Krill servers on your network. On macOS it ships as a downloadable .dmg — there is no App Store listing. If you are installing the server instead, see Install Krill Server on Raspberry Pi, or the Linux desktop install.
Requirements: an Apple-silicon Mac (M1 or newer). The download bundles its own Java runtime, so — unlike the Linux package — you do not need to install Java separately.
Download
Grab the latest disk image:
Open the .dmg and drag Krill Desktop into your Applications folder.
First launch (unsigned build)
The current build is not yet notarized by Apple, so Gatekeeper will warn the first time you open it. This is expected. To open it anyway, either:
- Right-click (or Control-click) Krill Desktop in Applications and choose Open, then confirm Open in the dialog — macOS remembers the choice for next time; or
if macOS still refuses, clear the quarantine flag from a terminal:
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xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Krill Desktop.app"
After the first successful open you can launch it normally from Launchpad or the Applications folder.
Last verified: 2026-06-16