Vernacular support
Will your apps keep working?. Answers in plain English.
Getting started
4 articles- Get started with VernacularPress Read this Mac. In about ten seconds, one sentence says how many of your apps will keep working after macOS 27.
- The answer at the topOne sentence on the Overview says how many of your apps will keep working after macOS 27, and how many things need you.
- The roll and the crossingThe roll is a mark for every app and add-on; the crossing shows which carry on past the macOS 28 line and which stop at it.
- What each verdict meansRuns natively, opens but parts won’t, won’t open, won’t run, a game, already can’t open, or can’t tell.
Purchases
3 articles- What does it cost?Checking is free. One €4.99 purchase adds what you need to see it through.
- Restore your purchaseBought it on another Mac, or after reinstalling.
- Ask for a refundRefunds go through Apple.
Apple and Rosetta
3 articles- Apple’s own words on RosettaWhat Apple has said about Rosetta after macOS 27, quoted word for word, with both sources.
- GamesApple will keep part of Rosetta for certain older games, but hasn’t said which. Vernacular never guesses.
- On a Mac with an Intel processorAn Intel Mac runs Intel apps natively, so nothing needs you, and Vernacular says so.
Reference
5 articles- Every answer Vernacular can giveThe 7 verdicts Vernacular can give, what each one means and what to do, with every note, part and add-on it explains.
- What Vernacular needsmacOS 26 or later.
- What Vernacular reads, and what it never doesIt reads the apps and add-ons on your Mac, nothing it reads leaves your Mac, and it never connects to the internet.
- Keyboard shortcutsRead again, move around Vernacular and bring back its window from the keyboard.
- SettingsWatching, Apple’s own apps, adding a folder, and the unlock. Everything that runs in the background is off until you turn it on.
Seeing it through
6 articles- The checklistSettle each thing that needs you your way, and Vernacular keeps track across reads until nothing is left to do.
- Move an app to the TrashOne app at a time, after you confirm. Put Back works. Vernacular never deletes anything.
- What changed since the last readAfter each read, Vernacular says what runs natively now, what’s new and needs you, and what’s gone.
- The reportA page with the answer, a lane for each thing that needs you and what to do, to copy as text or save as a PDF.
- Note new Intel-only apps, and the menu barWith the unlock, Vernacular can read again when something arrives, and keep what’s left to do in the menu bar. All off until you turn them on.
- Shortcuts actionsAsk which apps won’t open after macOS 27, or whether one app is native.
What Vernacular reads
7 articles- Parts inside appsAn app can run natively while its login helper or Share extension is made only for Intel processors. Vernacular says which parts stop.
- Printers and scannersA printer or scanner driver made only for Intel processors stops after macOS 27, even when every app runs natively.
- Audio plug-ins and audio driversAn audio plug-in made only for Intel processors won’t load in your music apps after macOS 27; an audio driver’s device won’t appear.
- Helpers and background servicesHelpers, settings panes, screen savers, input methods, kernel extensions and background services, and what stops when one is made only for Intel processors.
- Copies of the same appVernacular finds more than one copy of an app, and builds from your own projects. With the unlock, see them side by side.
- Add a folder or diskVernacular reads your Mac’s Applications folder by itself. Add your own Applications folder, or a disk with apps on it, once.
- When Vernacular can’t tellCAN’T TELL means Vernacular couldn’t read that one. It never guesses.