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Download Lucium

Free and open source, for Mac with Apple silicon. Signed and notarized by Apple: it opens like any other app.

Lucium 0.2.0 is in alpha. Its disk image will be published here at the end of November 2026, if all goes well: a last validation, linked to the macOS keychain, is under way. See the roadmap.

Download for Mac (0.2.0)

Disk image (DMG) · Mac with Apple silicon · macOS 13 or later

The download goes through the project’s releases page on GitHub.

Install

  1. Open the downloaded disk image.
  2. Drag Lucium to the Applications folder.
  3. Open Lucium. It offers to import the tabs and bookmarks of your current browser.

With Homebrew [to be confirmed]

brew install --cask lucium

To update: brew upgrade --cask lucium

Check the file

Every release publishes its SHA-256 sum next to the disk image.

shasum -a 256 -c Lucium-0.2.0-*.sha256
The first launch sheet, which offers to bring over the bookmarks and history of your current browser, or to start empty
At first launch

Release notes

0.2.0Planned for the end of November 2026, if all goes wellFirst public version, in alpha

  • A sidebar with Spaces, favorites, pinned tabs, nested folders and today’s tabs that archive themselves.
  • The ⌘T command bar, Split View with up to four pages, Glance, mini windows and Tweaks.
  • Manifest V3 extensions, loaded from a folder or installed from the online extension store.
  • An ad and tracker blocker, on from the first launch.
  • Tab sleep and freeze, with a cap on awake tabs and a resource gauge in the sidebar.
  • Import of the bookmarks and history of your current browser and, depending on what it stores, of its Spaces and tabs.
  • A setting for every feature, and “Set up in a few questions” in each category.

Known limits: Mac with Apple silicon only; no automatic update; extension APIs are partial, as Electron only provides some of them.

Requirements

Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) · macOS 13 Ventura or later. No Windows, Linux or Intel version yet: Windows is planned for December 2026, if the trials go well, Linux right after, and Intel Macs are under study (roadmap).

Source code

Lucium is free software (GPL-3.0-or-later). The code of every release is published with it, and you can build the app yourself.

See the code ›

Updates

No automatic update yet: install the new version from this page. Lucium can look for a new version in a feed, but no feed is connected yet.