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Perplexity

by Perplexity AI, Inc.

PopularmacOSswiftv26.40.0
Available onMac App StoreHomebrew
Runtime
swift
Size
847 MB
Architecture
Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel)
Dependencies
418
29 categories
Released
last week
Scanned
today
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 (v26.40.0) that uses 418 detected dependencies across 29 categories including Networking, Cryptography, Utility. It is code-signed and notarized. 847 MB on macOS (Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel)). Released last week. Scanned today.

What is Perplexity built with?

418 detected dependencies across 29 categories.

Networking

10
h2url (Rust)stunureqhyperreqwestfluent-uriiri-stringtungstenitehttp-body-util

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Cryptography

16
aesrsadtlsrandRingsec1ahashcipherrustlsseahashsignaturesimple_asn1primal-checkcurve25519-daleksecurity-frameworkOpenSSL

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Utility

14
crcopenspinuuidanyhowarcstrsemverstrsimonce_celltransposerustc-hashfixedbitsetlazy_staticstrength_reduce

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Parser

19
csvdernompemregex (Rust)memchrwinnowasn1-rscsv-coremarkdownquick-xmluntrustedder-parserfancy-regexhtml-escapex509-parseraho-corasickform_urlencodedeventsource-stream

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Encoding

12
hexidnaitoautf-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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Platform Binding

8
nixlibc (Rust)objc2sysctldispatch2core-foundationsignal-hook-registryobjc2-core-foundation

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Compression

9
tar (Rust)xz2zipbzip2flate2zopflilzma-rszlib-rszstd-safe

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Media

4
cpalhoundrubatoImageMagick

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File System

7
globwhichignoreglobsetmemmap2walkdirsame-file

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Database

2
GRDBSQLite

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Date & Time

3
jifftime (Rust)chrono

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Data Structure

17
slabbit-setbit-vecbumpalodashmaprustfftindexmappetgraphsmallvecsmol_strdyn-stackhashbrownitertoolsgemmsharded-slabgeneric-arraySwift Collections

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Serialization

4
Yamsserdebincodedotenvy

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CLI

5
ctrlcanstyleclapindicatifclap_complete

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Async Runtime

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

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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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Machine Learning

1
Google Gemini

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Observability

1
OpenTelemetry

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Other

202
ccmrtpsdprkyvrtcpturnoslogsmawkbackonboxcardiskusfs-errlibaicnukeuiractorrancorstorezaic-sdkbillingcharsetfactoryjsonrpcloginuimcpcoreroutingzerovecassetsuiaxoassetgemm-f32globwalkimageocrmacutilsmicromapplacesuipromisesrust-inithreaduiusercorezerotrieastral-tlbisectionfinanceuilogincoremailparseutf8-zeroambient-idassetscoreaxoprocessaxoupdatercargo-utilgtmappauthmacuiutilsmarkdownuinum-bigintowo-colorsplacescoreskillscoretestconfigthreadcoreupsellcoreaimodelcoreappauthcoredynamicjsonfinancecoreinterceptorlibrarycorepluginscorerand_chachasafariwebuiuniffi_corewatchlistuiwebrtc-datawebrtc-mdnswebrtc-sctpwebrtc-srtpwebrtc-utilagerangecoreappcheckcoreasync-compataudio-blockscomputercoreconfigparserconnectorsuidesigntokensdiscovercoreeppoflagginggooglesigninmarkdowncorememorywidgetnum-rationalperplexityuiprojectscorequeryinputuireqsign-coreworkflowcoreasync-channelautomationsuieventstrackermediaitemcoreobservabilityperplexitywebprojectsiconssharedstringsthreadinputuiwatchlistcoreweatherwidgetastral-pubgrubauthenticationconnectorscorecurrencywidgetnum-bigint-digperplexitycorequeryinputcorereqsign-aws-v4reqsign-googlewebresultscoreattachmentscoreautomationscorecanonicalpageuidefaultsettingsdevicepairinguiexperimentationguluserdefaultslocationservicemapsettingscoreperplexityloginperplexityutilspersistencecorepreferencescorerequestaccessuisourceoptionsuithreadinterfaceaccessibilityidsastral-tokio-tarastral_async_zipoaiinferencecoretexttospeechcorevoicecatalogcorevoicesessioncoreasync-compressiondevicepairingcoregooglesigninswiftgtmsessionfetcherjsonschemabuilderkeyboardshortcutslocalsubagentcoremultimodalcoreffiopentelemetry_sdkprojectsselectionrequestaccesscoreswift-json-schematwofactorauthcoreunicode-linebreakagerangecomponentsaimodelselectionuiconversiontrackinghybridaionboardinglocalinferencecoreopentelemetry-httpopentelemetry-otlpperplexityservicesprojectscomponentssidekick_uniffiffiworkflowcomponentsfreecomputertrialuimultimodalvoicecorestatusbarcomponentsaic-model-downloaderaimodelselectioncoreastral-reqwest-retryaudioadapter-bufferscodehighlightingcoreflashcardscomponentsperplexitymiddlewareperplexitynetworkingastral-version-rangesdaemonconnectionscoregtmsessionfetchercorecanonicalpageinterfaceexperimentationdebuguireqsign-file-read-tokiosidekickintegrationcoretwofactorauthcomponentswebrtc-audio-processingunicode-general-categoryaimodelselectioninterfaceastral-reqwest-middlewaremanagedcomputerpolicycorereqsign-http-send-reqwestprojectsselectioninterfacethird-party-isappencryptedgoogleutilities-environmentmultiplechoicequizcardwidgetspeechrecognitionsessioncorereqsign-command-execute-tokioastral_async_http_range_readerfactorykit_-63aad52c175527f6_packageproductgtmappauth_-410662e72bc8335b_packageproductfblpromises_-613b793c1e784bcf_packageproductsidekickkit_-65a0a2c8126985a6_packageproductdesigntokens_-321ada4d1e1e5c26_packageproductmultimodalcore_-57c70654cbcbbd51_packageproduct

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Analyzed binary

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

SHA-256
6f903f993abe9527ccc5493f27a5078492067354b7772ede95f25ffb756d8ea5

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

77
77
Adoption
77
Mindshare
0
Store Rank

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When was Perplexity last updated?

20 tracked releases since October 2025.

Latest: v26.40.0
October 14, 2026
v26.40.0
Oct 14, 2026
v26.39.0
Oct 6, 2026
v26.38.0
Sep 28, 2026
v26.37.1
Sep 18, 2026
v26.37.0
Sep 18, 2026
v26.36.0
Sep 14, 2026
v26.35.0
Sep 4, 2026
v26.34.0
Aug 28, 2026
v26.33.0
Aug 24, 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

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