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'''Warning:''' this page describes the [http://gtk-osx.sourceforge.net/ GTK-OSX ] port of Gramps to Mac, which is still under test. This page too is still under construction. The program described may not work as expected. Or even work. Use it on precious data at your own risk!
The GTK-OSX port of Gramps for Mac is expected to supersede the Macports and Fink versions. It is closer to a native Mac application and should rely less on other programs, so should be easier to use and maintain.
At the moment (July 27 2009) Mac Gramps is only available built for Intel Macs. It should build happily on PPC Macs, but has not been tried. The distribution page carries both a binary application that should work as soon as it is downloaded, and also a build environment which should allow a Mac with the Apple Xcode tools to build the whole thing from scratch. The binary application was built for OS X 10.5.7 but should (in theory) work on OS X 10.4. To discover what OS and processor is in a Mac, choose About This Mac from the Apple menu in the top left of the Desktop screen.
== How to Download and run the binary gramps application for Mac ==
To run the binary application, visit the [http://www.gramps-project.org/apple/ download page] and click on the latest download. The download name specifies the version of Gramps from which the build was made, and a final "macnn" version which changes whenever a minor bug fix is made to the Apple binary. The gramps-x.y.z-macnn-builder.zip files are the build environments to build each version from scratch, which can be ignored if only the binary application is needed. It's possible to download and run the binary application to a Mac without any Mac admin privileges, and with a Mac using only the programs supplied straight out of the box. Gramps doesn't use the X11 Mac package. It's useful to install [http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice] and <that graph-drawing thing> [http://www.graphviz.org/ Graphviz] to produce reports, but they are both straightforward.
Any browser on the Mac will download the binary application, and depending on how it's configured, uncompress it and store it, usually in the Downloads stack. If it doesn't uncompress (it's still called .zip instead of gramps with a pretty family tree icon) then double-clicking it should turn it into gramps. It can be dragged to the Desktop for comvenience, or stored in the Applications folder.