2.11 Installing Rattle on macOS Homebrew

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As of 02 July 2025 the Rattle version is 6.5.2.

To review the latest release of Rattle visit the CHANGELOG.

This is experimental on macOS.

You can install rattle on macOS either using Homebrew. Currently experimenting with Cask versus Formula.

brew tap gjwgit/rattle
brew install --cask rattle
open /Applications/rattle.app

If you get a dialog about an untrusted app, then click on Done, open System Settings, tap Privacy & Security, then scroll to the bottom to tap on Open Anyway for rattle. Or else run this command:

xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/rattle.app

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