Download Coco.
One file, one drag, one hotkey. Everything works for seven days before you decide anything — no account, no card, nothing to cancel.
This build
- Version
- 1.17.2
- Released
- August 19, 2026
- Download size
- 13.2 MB
- Requires
- macOS 14.0 or later · Apple Silicon
- Build
- 1787067770
- Signature
- Notarized by Apple; updates signed with EdDSA
Installing it
Open the download and drag Coco to Applications
The .dmg opens a window with Coco on the left and an Applications shortcut on the right. Drag one onto the other. Running Coco from the Downloads folder works, but the updater cannot replace an app it does not own the folder of, so put it in Applications and it will keep itself current.
Open it from Applications the first time
macOS checks the notarization on first launch, which takes a second or two and happens once. Coco is notarized by Apple, so there is no right-click-Open trick to perform and no Gatekeeper warning to dismiss. If you see one, you have a copy that did not come from this page.
Grant Accessibility when Coco asks
The panel opens on a global hotkey, and a global hotkey is exactly the thing macOS gates behind Accessibility. Coco opens the right pane of System Settings for you; flip the switch next to Coco. Nothing else is requested up front — screen recording is asked for the first time you take a screenshot, and never before.
Press the hotkey and start typing
Option-Space by default, changeable in Settings. Type part of an app name in English or pinyin, an arithmetic expression, an amount with a currency, or a unit conversion — the panel works out which one you meant. Escape closes it.
Updates
Coco updates itself through Sparkle, the same framework most independent Mac apps use. It checks a signed feed, downloads the new build, verifies an EdDSA signature over the archive, and only then swaps it in. A build whose signature does not verify is refused rather than installed.
You can also just come back to this page — it reads the same feed the app does, so the version above is always the version the updater would give you.
What it costs after the trial
Seven days, everything unlocked, no card. After that Coco is a one-time purchase for one Mac — not a subscription, and not a thing that stops working when a card expires.
See pricingQuestions about downloading
- Does Coco run on an Intel Mac?
- No. Coco is built for Apple Silicon only, and the download above will not run on an Intel Mac. That is a deliberate limit rather than an oversight: the search index, the pinyin matcher and the panel's rendering are all written against Apple Silicon's memory and GPU behaviour, and shipping a universal binary would mean shipping a slower app to everyone to serve machines Apple stopped selling in 2023. If you are on an Intel Mac, nothing here will help you today, and there is no timeline for changing that.
- Do I need an account to try it?
- No. There is no sign-up, no email field and no card on the trial. Download the file, drag it to Applications, and every feature is available for seven days from first launch. The trial is tracked on the Mac itself, so nothing about you leaves the machine in order to start it. When the seven days are up Coco tells you, and you decide then; it does not quietly degrade or start nagging on day three.
- Is the .dmg different from the .zip?
- No — they contain the same signed, notarized build, and the version and build number above apply to both. The .dmg mounts a window with a drag-to-Applications target, which is what most people want. The .zip is there for the cases where a .dmg is awkward: unpacking on a machine you are setting up over SSH, putting the app somewhere non-standard, or keeping a specific build around. Whichever you take, the updater behaves identically afterwards.
- How do I know the download is the real one?
- Both files are notarized by Apple, which is what makes them open without a Gatekeeper warning — if you get one, the copy did not come from here. Updates go a step further: the appcast that the app polls carries an EdDSA signature over the archive, and Coco verifies it before installing anything, so a tampered update is refused rather than run. The download links on this page point at the same immutable, version-pinned archive the updater fetches.