Download BORIS for MacOS

Please acknowledge and cite the use of this software and its authors when results are used in publications or published elsewhere:

Friard, O. and Gamba, M.,
BORIS: a free, versatile open-source event-logging software for video/audio coding and live observations.
(2016) Methods Ecol Evol, 7: 1325–1330.

DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12584

General information

BORIS v.8.25.4 is not yet available for MacOS

If you want to run v.8.25.4 on your MacOS you have various possibilities:

Switch to another OS
Use UTM a virtual machine host based on QEMU to run Linux or Windows as guest OS on your Mac.
Use Virtualbox to run Linux or Windows as guest OS on your Mac (free and open-source software). A Linux virtual machine with BORIS installed is available. See Linux virtual machine
Use Parallels® Desktop for Mac (proprietary software) (Take care to extract the BORIS archive in the Windows file system (c:\Users\Bob for example)
Boot Camp Assistant
Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac
A docker image is available at https://hub.docker.com/r/olivierfriard/boris (see the start_macOS.command script)

See the change log for details of changes.