Try Omarchy: Run the upstream Omarchy desktop as a native, hardware-accelerated app on an Apple Silicon Mac (2.6k stars)
What it does
All text below is quoted directly from the project README.
>Run the upstream Omarchy desktop as a native, hardware-accelerated app on an Apple Silicon Mac.
>Try Omarchy packages a project-built ARM64 Arch Linux image configured with Omarchy Quattro, a QEMU runtime using Apple Hypervisor Framework, and a small Swift/AppKit launcher into one macOS app. The image is built from pinned Arch Linux ARM packages and a pinned revision of the upstream Omarchy source.
Highlights:
- Hardware-accelerated ARM64 virtualization and VirGL graphics
- Nested KVM virtualization on M3 and newer Apple Silicon running macOS 26+
- Resizable native window with automatic guest resolution and HiDPI scale updates
- Mac audio input/output selection inside Omarchy, with live routing and system-default fallback
- FaceTime HD and other Mac cameras exposed to Omarchy as an on-demand 720p webcam
- The Mac's battery charge and charging state mirrored into the Omarchy bar
- Two-way clipboard sharing for text and PNG images between macOS and Omarchy
- One optional shared Mac folder, available inside Omarchy under the same name (~/Work stays ~/Work)
- Loopback-only TCP and UDP port forwarding from the Mac into Omarchy
>Current limitation: Video decoding is CPU-only, so playback can be slow, especially at high resolutions. An improved video path is in development.
Requirements:
- Apple Silicon Mac (arm64)
- macOS 15 or newer
- At least 8 GB free initially
>Open Releases and download the latest signed and notarized .dmg. Open the DMG and drag Try Omarchy to Applications. Launch Try Omarchy from Applications.
>Try Omarchy is pre-1.0 and under active development.
Repository
omacom/try-omarchy
Repository stats
|Metric|Value|
|:-|:-|
|Stars|2,584|
|Forks|146|
|Last release|v0.5.1 (2026-10-07)|
|Languages|Swift 37.4%, Python 34.2%, Shell 24.6%|
|Contributors|29|
|AI contributor accounts (Claude / Codex / Cursor / Copilot)|claude (2 commits)|
|AI co-authored commits|Claude: 2|
Main contributor
|Field|Value|
|:-|:-|
|Name|Eduardo|
|GitHub|@themartiano|
|Commits to this repo|299 (top contributor)|
|X / Twitter|@martiano|
|Followers|150|
|Public repos|22|
|On GitHub since|2017-09-27|
Mentions
Try Omarchy: Run the upstream Omarchy desktop as a native, hardware-accelerated app on an Apple Silicon Mac (2.6k stars) What it does All text below is quoted directly from the project README. >Run the upstream Omarchy desktop as a native, hardware-accelerated app on an Apple Silicon Mac. >Try Omarchy packages a project-built ARM64 Arch Linux image configured with Omarchy Quattro, a QEMU runtime using Apple Hypervisor Framework, and a small Swift/AppKit launcher into one macOS app. The image is built from pinned Arch Linux ARM packages and a pinned revision of the upstream Omarchy source. Highlights: - Hardware-accelerated ARM64 virtualization and VirGL graphics - Nested KVM virtualization on M3 and newer Apple Silicon running macOS 26+ - Resizable native window with automatic guest resolution and HiDPI scale updates - Mac audio input/output selection inside Omarchy, with live routing and system-default fallback - FaceTime HD and other Mac cameras exposed to Omarchy as an on-demand 720p webcam - The Mac's battery charge and charging state mirrored into the Omarchy bar - Two-way clipboard sharing for text and PNG images between macOS and Omarchy - One optional shared Mac folder, available inside Omarchy under the same name (~/Work stays ~/Work) - Loopback-only TCP and UDP port forwarding from the Mac into Omarchy >Current limitation: Video decoding is CPU-only, so playback can be slow, especially at high resolutions. An improved video path is in development. Requirements: - Apple Silicon Mac (arm64) - macOS 15 or newer - At least 8 GB free initially >Open Releases and download the latest signed and notarized .dmg. Open the DMG and drag Try Omarchy to Applications. Launch Try Omarchy from Applications. >Try Omarchy is pre-1.0 and under active development. Repository omacom/try-omarchy Repository stats |Metric|Value| |:-|:-| |Stars|2,584| |Forks|146| |Last release|v0.5.1 (2026-10-07)| |Languages|Swift 37.4%, Python 34.2%, Shell 24.6%| |Contributors|29| |AI contributor accounts (Claude / Codex / Cursor / Copilot)|claude (2 commits)| |AI co-authored commits|Claude: 2| Main contributor |Field|Value| |:-|:-| |Name|Eduardo| |GitHub|@themartiano| |Commits to this repo|299 (top contributor)| |X / Twitter|@martiano| |Followers|150| |Public repos|22| |On GitHub since|2017-09-27|