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What DoesItARM is

DoesItARM answers one question, authoritatively and currently: does this Mac app or game run on Apple Silicon — and how? Not a vague “it should work,” but a specific verdict — runs natively, runs through Rosetta 2, runs through a translation layer (Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit, CrossOver, Whisky, or a VM), or doesn’t run — with the macOS version, the chip, the date, and the evidence behind it.

The problem

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The Mac is in the middle of a forced architecture transition, and the ground keeps moving:

  • Apple is removing Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (fall 2027), which breaks 18,800+ Intel-only apps. macOS 27 (fall 2026) is already Apple-Silicon-only. Every Mac user, gamer, and IT team needs to know what survives.
  • A compatibility answer decays. An app ships a native build; a game updates its anti-cheat; a new macOS or Game Porting Toolkit release changes what runs. A blog post from last year is often wrong now.
  • AI assistants increasingly answer “can I run X on my M-series Mac?” — and they need fresh ground truth. Today they fetch DoesItARM’s pages thousands of times a day on users’ behalf, because their training data goes stale.

Existing answers are scattered (forum threads, year-old reviews), free-but-static (community wikis), or locked to one surface (a website a human has to read). None is a current, queryable, multi-surface source of truth.

What DoesItARM is

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A single fresh dataset of Apple Silicon compatibility verdicts, surfaced three ways:

  1. A free public website — doesitarm.com, live today. Humans and AI crawlers read it.
  2. An agent API / MCP server — Preview — AI assistants and developer tools query it directly for a current verdict instead of scraping a page. See the API.
  3. An enterprise readiness product — Preview — IT teams scan their software estate against the Rosetta 2 deadline and get a remediation plan. See Apply — Enterprise.

The data is produced by a hybrid engine: crowdsourced reports plus an automated test harness that runs real titles on a cloud Apple Silicon fleet. Freshness is the point — and the moat. See How verdicts work.

What it is not

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DoesItARM does not host, sell, stream, or redistribute games or apps. It publishes facts about them — compatibility verdicts — which is a different (and far more tractable) business than licensing software, and which is why the verdict data is free to cite under CC BY 4.0.