Acorn for macOS.
A menu-bar app that pays your Mac to run AI jobs while you are away from it. Three-minute install. No terminal. Quit any time.
sha256: 92cec990569f72785c6c81e951b876c188f195a580a432f120707c154ca02a25Before you install
- Apple Silicon — M1, M2, M3, M4 (any variant)
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later
- Plugged in — Acorn pauses on battery
- Disk space — ~6 GB for the Whisper-large weights, downloaded on first run
What gets installed
One menu-bar app at /Applications/Acorn.app. Model weights cached at ~/Library/Caches/com.acorncompute.app/. No background daemon, no kernel extension.
Three-minute setup
- 1. Download the
.dmg, then moveAcorn.appinto Applications. - 2. First launch: open
Acorn.appnormally from Applications. - 3. Sign in with the email you will use for payouts. The app downloads model weights and goes idle until your Mac is.
Quitting and uninstall
Quit any time from the menu-bar. To uninstall: drag Acorn.app to the Trash and delete ~/Library/Caches/com.acorncompute.app/. Detailed steps: /uninstall.
Earnings are limited while the fleet is small.
During alpha, demand is thin and per-job rates will be below the calculator estimate on the host landing. As the fleet grows, the dispatcher routes higher-margin jobs to enrolled hosts first.
If the download button fails or the installer is temporarily unavailable (HTTP 503), do not troubleshoot from Terminal — Ask Acorn support for the current beta installer at hello@acorncompute.com.