Does Trello work on Apple silicon?

[Tom Wolsky]

A quick question: Does Trello work with Apple silicon? Does it run in Rosetta 2? Or both?

Thanks very much.

[Lachlan Macnish · Accepted solution]

Actually the answer is - yes it will run on Apple Silicon either way.

If the web-app: then that's dependent on the web browser (so if you run it in Safari then it's running on Apple Silicon).

If the native-app (App Store) then no, it will be Rosetta 2 because the change log doesn't show any updates for 5 months.

And I guess for the native app it could just be running in WebKit rather than being a full-native app, in which case I assume that's now Apple Silicon also. Although maybe that requires the developer to first cut-over the base-app in which WebKit is embedded first (probably - I know that's the case for a lot of integrated software - it's one way or the other but not a mix of both).

But either way, I doubt you'll even notice a difference whichever the answer.

[Tom Wolsky]

Thank you very much. Great to know the standalone application will run. 

[Lachlan Macnish]

The answer would be a definite yes for does it run on Apple Silicon because of Rosetta 2/web-based.

Do you mean the native client?

And does it even matter? I can't imagine it running anything less than perfect on Rosetta 2 anyway.

[Adrian von Gegerfelt]

Yes of course it matters! Emulating software costs more CPU and RAM than running natively.