Intel Macs and Glyph: what changes, and what does not

Starting with Glyph 1.2.1, we no longer ship a build for Intel Macs. Glyph on macOS is now a single Apple Silicon build. This is the kind of announcement that reads as bad news if you are on the wrong side of it, so the most important part goes first. If you are on an Intel Mac, Glyph still works Nothing has been switched off. The copy of Glyph on your Mac keeps running exactly as it did yesterday, with the same models, the same projects, the same chats and the same local files. Local models run on your own machine and always did, so there is no service behind them for us to withdraw. Your Fortaify account, Pro features and cloud models keep working on 1.1.14 as well — this is a change to which installers we build, not to what your account can do. Glyph 1.1.14 is the last version with an Intel Mac build, and it is not going anywhere. It stays published and downloadable at the Glyph 1.1.14 release page — take Glyph Setup 1.1.14 x64.dmg . If you ever need to reinstall, move to a new Intel Mac, or recover from a wiped drive, that installer is there. 1.1.14 is a good version to be stopped on. It was the release that came out of a full quality pass over every screen in the app — 155 reports, reviewed one by one — so it is the most thoroughly gone over build we have shipped. What you will not get is anything newer. Your Mac will not offer 1.2.1 or any later version, and it should not: an Apple Silicon build cannot run there. Auto update will simply stay quiet. Why we stopped Two reasons, and we would rather state them plainly than dress them up. The first is that the Intel build was the most expensive and slowest part of every release, by a wide margin. Building and notarizing macOS installers costs roughly ten times what the same work costs on Linux, and we were paying it twice per release for two different Mac architectures. That cost is what had been blocking Linux support. The second is that the audience has moved. Apple has not sold an Intel Mac since 2020, so the pool of machines that build could reach has been shrinking for five years and will not grow again. Keeping it meant every release was slower and dearer for everyone, in service of a build serving fewer people each month. Retiring it paid for two things at once: Linux on x86 64 and ARM64 , both new in 1.2.1, and a faster release cycle for the platforms most of you are actually on. What you can move to If and when you want the newer releases, Glyph 1.2.1 and later run on: Apple Silicon Macs — any M series Mac, which is every Mac Apple has sold since late 2020. Windows on x64, including NVIDIA GPU acceleration for local models. Linux on x86 64 and ARM64, as an AppImage that runs without installation. That last one may be the most interesting option if you have an Intel Mac you are not ready to replace. A capable Intel Mac makes a perfectly good Linux machine, and the Linux AppImage is a first class build — same features, same auto updates, same everything. Your data is yours either way Glyph keeps your models, chats, projects and memories on your own computer. Staying on 1.1.14 does not put any of that at risk, and moving to another machine does not leave it stranded — if you have a Fortaify account, your settings, chats and memories sync across Glyph clients, and everything on disk is on disk in ordinary files you can copy. If you are on an Intel Mac and this leaves you stuck in a way we have not thought of, tell us. We would rather hear it than assume. The rest of what shipped alongside this is in the Glyph 1.2.1 release notes.