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

doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12584

General information

BORIS v.8.20.3 is not yet available for MacOS

If you want to run v.8.20.3 on your MacOS you have various possibilities:

Use Virtualbox to run Linux or Windows as guest OS on your Mac.
Parallels® Desktop for Mac (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
Switch to another OS
A docker image is available at https://hub.docker.com/r/olivierfriard/boris

BORIS for MacOS v.7.13.9

A release of an old version of BORIS (v. 7.13.9) that is no more supported is available at https://github.com/olivierfriard/BORIS/releases/tag/v7.13.9.

Download the DMG file.

The user guide of v. 7.13.9 is available at https://boris.readthedocs.io/en/v7/

This version includes the VLC libraries and the FFmpeg software and is available only in 64-bit version

64-bit BORIS for MacOS

If you have problems for lauching BORIS see Open a Mac app from an unidentified developer

This release was tested successfully on MacOS 10.14 (Mojave) and 11.0 (Big Sur).

Please note that some users reported some problems using BORIS in full-screen mode

You can lock the dockwidgets (except the players) on the main form. See Tools > Lock dockwidgets

See the revision history for details: https://github.com/olivierfriard/BORIS/wiki/BORIS-revision-history

Please DO NOT send bug report if you are using the version 7.13.9 as it is no more maintained.