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Get Shrike for macOS
Free, native, and built for Apple Silicon. No account, no sign-up — just your Gmail.
Shrike for macOS
Signed & notarized. Shrike is signed with a Developer ID
certificate and notarized by Apple, so it opens straight from the
.dmg — no Gatekeeper warning, no right-click to Open.
See the install guide for details.
Requirements
- macOS
- 11 Big Sur or later
- Chip
- Apple Silicon (M1 or newer)
- A Google / Gmail account
- Disk
- ~2 GB if you enable the on-device AI model
Once it's installed
- 01
Download & open
Grab the .dmg, drag Shrike into Applications, and launch it. On first run it opens on a sample inbox so you can try the keyboard flow immediately.
- 02
Connect your Gmail
Sign in through Google in your browser. Shrike talks to Gmail directly over IMAP + SMTP — no Shrike server in between.
- 03
Press ? and fly
The shortcut overlay teaches you the keymap. Within a minute you will be archiving, replying, and snoozing without touching the trackpad.
Stuck? The documentation covers everything, and ? inside the app is never more than a keystroke away.