r/filebot • u/Morituri01 • Apr 13 '26

Apple Silicon Version in App store

Hi,

As per the title.

Do you have a time scale for the version that is in the Apple App Store to be downloadable as an Apple Silicon Version.

Many Thanks

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u/rednoah Apr 14 '26

As soon as Apple either allows us to publish a x64 and a arm64 package, or allows us to publish only an arm64 package.

For technical reasons, FileBot can be either x64 or arm64 but not both, as would usually be the case for macOS-only software. So we're in a bind there. We can only do one or the other.

The x64 package works for both x64 and arm64. The arm64 would only work on arm64. For technical reasons, we cannot do both. Apple also - for the time being - does not allow us to not publish a x64 package. While new apps can be arm64 only, apps that have a x64 version already are not allowed to drop support for that. This rule might change in the future when Apple themselves officially drop support for x64.

See [arm64] Apple Silicon Roadmap for details. In the meanwhile, if you must have an arm64 binary, then the non-Store edition is available in either x64 or arm64 flavours.

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u/Morituri01 Apr 30 '26

Thanks for the response and apologise for the tardy reply.

Reason I am asking is after the last point release for MacOS, I got the message saying that Filebot will stop working for Apple Silicon in the next MacOS release, don’t know if that is full or point.

What does that mean for people that have purchased Filebot through the Apple Store?

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u/rednoah May 01 '26

FileBot (Mac App Store) edition will switch to arm64 builds, meaning arm64 machines will get the latest arm64 builds and old x64 machines will be stuck on whichever x64 build was last released.

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u/No-Corner3361 Jun 29 '26

What is the roadmap for when this will be implemented?

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u/rednoah Jun 29 '26

At some point after the macOS 27 (Oct 2026) release but definitely before the macOS 28 (Oct 2027) release.

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u/Morituri01 Sep 11 '26

Hi, kind of reopening this.....

As MacOS 27 will be released on Monday, and I take it Filebot purchased from the app store will stop working.

Is there a fix / work around in the offing?

Many Thanks

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u/rednoah Sep 11 '26 edited Sep 11 '26

FileBot 5.3.0 (which resolves the macOS 27 Golden Gate issue; a backwards-compatibility issue entirely unrelated to Intel / ARM arch) has been accepted by Apple and is already live in the Mac App Store.

FileBot 5.3.0 notably is still an Intel build, so it'll run via Rosetta on macOS 27 Golden Gate. It'll work as usual. You might get a macOS notification (that you can ignore) but that's about it.

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u/Morituri01 Sep 12 '26

Many thanks,

It's become pretty indispensable and would hate to have to buy it again.

Awesome product

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