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Legacy Qt Builds

The original cross-platform Calíope, archived for continuity.

Before the current SwiftUI rewrite, Calíope was a cross-platform desktop app written in Qt for Windows, Linux and macOS. Those builds are kept available here for people who still depend on them, but they are no longer maintained: no bug fixes, no security updates and no user support. The source code is below, under its GPL licence. New development happens exclusively on the native app for Mac, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, Apple TV and Vision Pro you can find on the App Store.

Source code (GPL-3.0-or-later)

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macOS 20260220 Caliope-qt-source-20260220-macos.tar.gzSHA-256 589d329773beeb63f39d722ce6066dce267a144ab7f81bf02cff0a666f7e06a8
Linux 20260120 Caliope-qt-source-20260120-linux.tar.gzSHA-256 902122a09cbbfda0ed83254c2e4c88c54a13a71c25ccf776d03dd5a405b55a65
macOS 20251201 Caliope-qt-source-20251201-macos.tar.gzSHA-256 42dfb4e00ef1f0a00909ce8658be370e0d9d8707f88ea2314c0334d1a937f696
Linux 20251201
Windows 20251201
Caliope-qt-source-20251201-linux-windows.tar.gzSHA-256 f7a3e5954f8d4cb58be021d38183b8c53fbbe25865bc61996d259d467213504a
Linux 20241114
Windows 20241114
Caliope-qt-source-20241114.tar.gzSHA-256 f5fd13ad90f2c13f48b7de711744cbde07774cd4d4846acc9c817787bc38449c
Linux 20240130 Caliope-qt-source-20240130-linux.tar.gzSHA-256 8eeb5d9d1e1bee06d815fbd7422ef0f704e049c28258554860873f75d3ff0013
Windows 20240130 Caliope-qt-source-20240130-windows.tar.gzSHA-256 b70a19263bae625d41af964ba74f7aa6df3969b678d28f8ed8e430f68b25a3bf

The Qt Calíope is free software under the GNU GPL, version 3 or later, and the builds on this page are distributed under that licence. Each package above is the source of the builds next to it, taken from the Qt program's repository at the commit each one was built from. I matched every executable on this page to its commit without rebuilding anything: by the build time recorded in its installer, by the version string compiled into it, and by the text it contains. Two builds carry a date that is not the day they were built: the Linux and Windows 20251201 builds were made on 12 December 2025, and the macOS 20260220 build on 13 March 2026. One package is the closest source there is rather than a proven exact match: the one for the Linux 20260120 build, which reports a version number that was never committed; its README says what is known and what is not. Each package contains the full licence text in LICENSE, the third-party notices, and a README with the commit it comes from and how it was identified. The precompiled libraries that the original tree carried are not included. They are published as a historical archive: they are not maintained, they receive no fixes, and nobody answers questions about them.

macOS (Qt)

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20260220 6.10.2 Instalador_Caliope_20260220.dmg
20251201 6.10.0 Instalador_Caliope_20251201.dmg

Linux (Qt)

Windows (Qt)

Why the rewrite? The Qt version was a solid cross-platform baseline, but it could not integrate with the pieces that make the Apple ecosystem special: SwiftUI, widgets on the desktop and Home Screen, AppIntents for Siri, Keychain, iCloud sync, native SwiftNIO SSH. The app for every Apple screen you see on the front page is a full rewrite built specifically for those platforms — and it is where every future feature will land.