Try the alpha

0.1.0-alpha.1 is the first public test build. Things will break, and settings or file formats may change before 1.0. Please report problems as you find them.

What’s in it

	Download	Notes
macOS app	Dogubako_0.1.0-alpha.1_aarch64.dmg	Apple silicon, macOS 15 (Sequoia) or newer
Homelab / server	ghcr.io/mischa-dev/dogubako:0.1.0-alpha.1	Docker, linux/amd64, every engine included. Private for now: build it yourself
CLI	dogubako-<target> for Linux x86-64, macOS Apple silicon and Windows x86-64	Uses the engines installed on the system
Checksums	SHA256SUMS.txt
Engine sources	engine-sources-0.1.0-alpha.1.tar	Corresponding source for the GPL, LGPL, AGPL and MPL engines

Everything is on the GitHub release. Not in this alpha: installers for Windows, the Linux desktop and Intel Macs. You can build those from source.

Open the unsigned app

Until the app is signed with an Apple Developer ID, macOS blocks it the first time you open it:

1. Open the DMG and drag Dogubako into Applications, then eject the disk image.
2. Open Dogubako from Applications. macOS says it “can’t be opened” or “can’t verify the developer”. Click Done, not Move to Trash.
3. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to the message about Dogubako and click Open Anyway. Confirm with your password or Touch ID.

You only need to do this once. The same thing from Terminal:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Dogubako.app

To check the engines, open Settings → Dependencies. The built-in ones show as Built in; the others show a Download button with their size. See Engines and models.

Test builds from CI

Builds between releases come from the Alpha test builds workflow. Open the latest run under Actions → Alpha test builds and download the artifacts at the bottom of the page. Nothing there is signed or published.

• Dogubako-alpha-macos-arm64-dmg is a DMG with every engine inside, so no tool needs a download. GitHub wraps it in a zip; open the zip, then the DMG, and continue with the steps above.

• dogubako-alpha-homelab-image-amd64 is the homelab image as a tarball. From a checkout of the repository:

  gunzip -c dogubako-alpha-amd64.tar.gz | docker load
  docker tag dogubako:alpha dogubako:latest
  cp .env.example .env              # optional
  docker compose up -d --no-build
  docker compose logs dogubako      # shows the one-time setup token

  Then open http://127.0.0.1:8420 and finish setup with the token. See Docker for the rest.

Known issues

• Apple silicon only. The managed engines come from Homebrew’s prebuilt bottles, which are no longer published for Intel Macs.
• Some engines aren’t managed yet: LibreOffice (Office conversions), Piper (text to speech) and rembg (background removal). Install them yourself; Settings → Dependencies shows what’s missing and how. Piper’s upstream macOS build is currently broken.
• ExifTool uses the Perl that ships with macOS.
• The CLI binaries don’t include engines. They use what’s installed on the system, and dogubako deps lists what’s missing.

Privacy in the alpha

Where your files go depends on how you run Dogubako. With the desktop app, they’re processed on your Mac. With a hosted Dogubako, they go to that server and are processed there, so use a server you trust. Network tools contact the targets you give them. Model downloads, engine downloads and plain words need a connection, and only happen when you ask. There is no telemetry.