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Perplexity

by Perplexity AI, Inc.

PopularmacOSswiftv26.32.0
Available onMac App StoreHomebrew
Runtime
swift
Size
910 MB
Architecture
Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel)
Dependencies
453
29 categories
Last Updated
Aug 3, 2026
Security
Excellent
Signed, notarized, hardened

Company

Employees

52

Headquarters

San Francisco

Founded

2022

Industry

artificial intelligence

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Perplexity is a swift app (v26.32.0) that uses 453 detected dependencies across 29 categories including Networking, Cryptography, Utility. It is code-signed and notarized. 910 MB on macOS (Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel)). Last updated August 3, 2026. Last verified August 2026.

What is Perplexity built with?

453 detected dependencies across 29 categories.

Networking

11
h2url (Rust)stunureqhyperreqwestfluent-uriiri-stringtungstenitehttp-body-utilreqwest-middleware

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Cryptography

17
aesrsadtlsrandRingsec1ahashblake3cipherrustlsseahashsignaturetwox-hashsimple_asn1primal-checkcurve25519-daleksecurity-framework

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Utility

14
crcopenspinuuidanyhowarcstrsemverstrsimonce_celltransposerustc-hashfixedbitsetlazy_staticstrength_reduce

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Parser

20
csvdernompemregex (Rust)memchrwinnowasn1-rscsv-coremarkdownhumantimequick-xmluntrustedder-parserfancy-regexhtml-escapex509-parseraho-corasickform_urlencodedeventsource-stream

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Encoding

13
hexidnaitoamimeutf-8base64base64ctconst-oidencoding_rspem-rfc7468data-encodingencoding_rs_iopercent-encoding

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Logging

2
log (Rust)tracing

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I/O

9
miowantbytesipnetsocket2anstreamhttparsematchersbyteorder

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Machine Learning

3
MLXSwift TransformersGoogle Gemini

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Platform Binding

10
nixlibc (Rust)objc2sysctlsysinfodispatch2coreaudio-rscore-foundationsignal-hook-registryobjc2-core-foundation

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Compression

10
tar (Rust)xz2zipbzip2flate2zopflilzma-rszlib-rslz4_flexzstd-safe

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Media

3
cpalrubatoImageMagick

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File System

7
globwhichignoreglobsetmemmap2walkdirsame-file

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Date & Time

3
jifftime (Rust)chrono

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Data Structure

16
slabbit-setbit-vecbumpalodashmaprustfftindexmappetgraphsmallvecsmol_strdyn-stackhashbrownitertoolsgemmsharded-slabgeneric-array

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CLI

7
ctrlcanstylecoloredclapindicatifshellexpandclap_complete

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Async Runtime

11
RayonTokioparkingarc-swapparking_lotatomic-wakerfutures-rsthread_localevent-listenercrossbeamconcurrent-queue

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Serialization

3
serdebincodedotenvy

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Web Server

1
Tower

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Error Tracking

1
Sentry

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Realtime

1
WebRTC

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Auth

1
AppAuth

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Auto Update

1
Sparkle

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Cloud

1
aws-lc-rs

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Validation

1
jsonschema

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Internationalization

1
i18n

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Build Tool

1
target-lexicon

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Security

1
BoringSSL

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Observability

1
OpenTelemetry

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Other

227
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Analyzed binary

SHA-256 of the exact binary Perplexity was analyzed from.

SHA-256
a20218dab84bf75a759334729efe7ad96af6eb914ef9ec903870ca65737b3ec1

Security and privacy

Code signing, notarization, and entitlement analysis for Perplexity.

Code Signing

Excellent
Signed
Notarized
Hardened Runtime

Developer ID Application: Perplexity AI Inc. (7S8W4W365S)

Entitlements13

com.apple.developer.aps-environment
com.apple.developer.associated-domains
com.apple.developer.usernotifications.time-sensitive
com.apple.security.application-groups
com.apple.security.automation.apple-events
com.apple.security.device.audio-input
com.apple.security.device.camera
com.apple.security.personal-information.addressbook
com.apple.security.personal-information.calendars
com.apple.security.personal-information.location
com.apple.security.personal-information.photos-library
com.apple.security.temporary-exception.mach-lookup.global-name
keychain-access-groups

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How popular is Perplexity?

Popularity ranking based on install counts, store ratings, and community signals.

Popularity Tier
Ranked across all macOS apps
Popular

Popularity Score

68
68
Adoption
68
Mindshare
0
Store Rank

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When was Perplexity last updated?

20 tracked releases since May 2025.

Latest: v26.32.0
August 17, 2026
v26.32.0
Aug 17, 2026
v26.31.1
Aug 3, 2026
v26.31.0
Jul 31, 2026
v26.28.1
Jul 21, 2026
v2.260428.0
Apr 28, 2026
v2.260423.0
Apr 25, 2026
v2.260206.0
Feb 13, 2026
v2.251216.0
Dec 22, 2025
v2.251118.0
Nov 25, 2025
v2.251107.0
Nov 13, 2025
v2.250825.2
Oct 16, 2025
v2.250825.1
Oct 3, 2025
v2.250825.0
Sep 18, 2025
v2.250818.0
Sep 2, 2025
v2.250724.0
Jul 30, 2025
v2.250710.0
Jul 22, 2025
v2.250626.0
Jul 9, 2025
v2.250609.0
Jun 17, 2025
v2.250522.0
Jun 4, 2025
v2.44.0
May 7, 2025

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Last verified August 17, 2026

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