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Rosetta App Checker: Find the Intel-Only Apps on Your Mac

See which of your apps still depend on Rosetta 2 before Apple winds it down. Run one command, paste the result, and get the list.

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1. Copy your app list

Open Terminal and run this command. It puts a list of your installed apps on the clipboard and prints nothing. It can take up to a minute.

system_profiler SPApplicationsDataType -json | pbcopy
2. Paste it here

What is happening to Rosetta 2

Apple says Rosetta will be available through macOS 27 as a general-purpose tool for Intel apps. After that, it plans to keep only a subset of Rosetta aimed at older, unmaintained games that rely on Intel-based frameworks. An app listed here as Intel-only runs through Rosetta today and may stop working on the macOS version that follows macOS 27.

Apple: About the Rosetta translation environment

What to do about Intel-only apps

  1. Check for an update first. Many apps have shipped a Universal or Apple silicon version since you installed them.
  2. If there is no update, ask the developer whether one is planned.
  3. For apps that are no longer maintained, find an alternative before you move past macOS 27.
  4. If you depend on an Intel-only app that has no replacement, stay on macOS 27 until you have one.

Check a single app

Select the app in Finder and choose File > Get Info. The Kind line reads Application (Intel), Application (Universal) or Application (Apple silicon).

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