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get outl.
one binary. your notes.
Native builds for every desktop. No Electron, no account, no cloud. Pulled straight from the latest GitHub beta.
desktop app
The native app — the full outl experience with the editor, daily journal and tree view.
macOS desktop app beta
cli & tui
The terminal binary — vim-style TUI plus the outl
command. Extract the archive and drop it on your PATH.
homebrew
recommended
$
brew tap avelino/outl https://github.com/avelino/outl $
brew install outl@beta
prefer the cask?
brew install --cask outl-desktop@beta
— auto-updates with every beta.
iOS app — TestFlight beta beta
same notes, same tree, on your iPhone — join the TestFlight ring
● it's a beta
outl is pre-1.0 and ships fast. The format is plain markdown on
disk, so your notes are never locked in — but expect rough edges.
Stable brew install outl lands with 1.0.
● verify your download
Every archive ships a .sha256.
Compare it with shasum -a 256 <file>
before extracting. Builds are also attested on the
release page.
got it running?
point your LLM at it.
outl ships an MCP server — Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT can read and write your notes as a second brain.