Build from source

Gleanary is open source under the MIT license. You can build it yourself.

What you need

• macOS 26 or later
• Xcode 26 or later, with Swift 6.2 and the macOS 26 SDK
• mise, which installs the other tools and runs the build tasks

Open Xcode once to finish its setup before you build.

Build and open the app

Run these from the folder where you cloned Gleanary’s repository:

1. Let mise run the repository’s tasks:

   mise trust

2. Install the tools the repository lists:

   mise install

3. Build and open Gleanary:

   mise run dev

The app is built to .build/Gleanary.app. Quit Gleanary before you run mise run dev again, so the new build opens.

Other builds

Command	Does
mise run app:build	Builds the app without opening it.
mise run dev:release	Builds an optimized app and opens it.

Builds are signed on your Mac, so you don’t need an Apple Developer account.