Installation

1. Download

Grab the latest PearSilicon.zip from the releases page.

2. Add it to Applications

Unzip it, then drag PearSilicon into your Applications folder.

The download isn’t notarized, so macOS may warn you the first time. It’s expected — see First launch for how to allow it.

3. Install an app

Drag an .ipa onto the PearSilicon window. It handles the rest — unpacking, rewriting Info.plist for macOS, reducing universal binaries to the arm64 slice, loading the runtime and signing the bundle. When it’s done, the app appears in your library.

4. Launch and play

Open the app from the library. To play with a keyboard, open the keymapper and arrange your controls over the game — see Keymapper.

Requirements

An Apple Silicon (arm64) Mac on macOS 26 or later, with full Xcode installed — the Catalyst SDK ships with Xcode, not the Command Line Tools.

Install Xcode from the Mac App Store, open it once, and select it as the active developer directory:

sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app

PearSilicon checks the toolchain at launch and reports the exact selector command if it’s missing or not selected. pearsilicon doctor does the same from a terminal.