QPrompt Not opening on MacOS

QPrompt
#1

Hello,
I tried to install qprompt on my m1 mac studio running macOS 26.3. When I double click the icon in the Applications folder, a message pops up and says “QPrompt Not Opened. Apple could not verify QPrompt is free of malware that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy.” Then it gives me an option to move the application to trash or click Done. Do you know when QPrompt will be available to work with macOS 26.3? I use this tool all the time on my Windows PC and was really excited to see that it works with macOS, however, for some reason it is not working with the latest version. Please let me know if you need any additional information.
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Steven

#2

Hi @steventer,

QPrompt already runs every of macOS with support for Apple Silicon. This is a limitation of modern versions of macOS. You have to manually allow little known apps coming from outside of the AppStore, in order for them to run.

  1. Go to “System Settings > Privacy and Security” and make sure “Allow applications from” is set to “App Store & Known Developers”.
  2. Then launch QPrompt, get that message, and do not send to the trash.
  3. Go again into “System Settings > Privacy and Security” and towards the bottom you’ll see ““QPrompt” was blocked to protect your Mac.”. Click on “Open Anyway” to allow it to run.

Apple does this to incentivize developers distributing apps through their AppStore. But if I did that, I could only provide updates for the most recent versions of macOS. Right now, QPrompt’s updates support versions going from Catalina on Intel and Big Sur on Apple Silicon, all the way up to Tahoe on both architectures.

#3

Okay. That worked. Ty! One comment I have, I noticed on windows I am able to shrink the size of the reading window a bit more on windows than on a mac. Is that something on the roadmap to have them be able to support the same size width. The windows version let’s me set the width narrow enough that my eyes don’t look like they are reading something off the screen. Mac is still a decent width but the option to go a little more narrow would be appreciated. Thank you again for all your help!

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#4

Oh, you may have actually found a bug. MacOS uses the same minimum size as Linux, it might need a dedicated value. Windows has a dedicated value which could also be outdated. I’ll look into it.

One way you can go beyond that minimum size today is by dragging the handlebar towards the sides of the prompter viewport. The left handlebar adjusts the width and the right handlebar displaces the contents left or right. This allows you to narrow the width both in full screen and in windowed mode.

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