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Positron

by RStudio Inc.

Top AppmacOSelectronv1.124.0
Available onHomebrew
Runtime
electron
Electron v42.2.0
Size
2684 MB
Architecture
Apple Silicon
Dependencies
1423
37 categories
Last Updated
Aug 10, 2026
Security
Good
Partially secured

Positron is an Electron app (v42.2.0) that uses 1423 detected dependencies across 37 categories including Runtime, Machine Learning, Charts. It is code-signed. 2684 MB on macOS (Apple Silicon). Last updated August 10, 2026. Last verified August 2026.

What is Positron built with?

1423 detected dependencies across 37 categories.

Runtime

1
Electron

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Machine Learning

10
aiOllamaAI SDK (Vercel)TensorFlowAnthropic SDKLangChainMistral SDKTransformers.jsGoogle GeminiOpenRouter

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Charts

3
D3.jsMermaidCytoscape.js

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Networking

43
h2WebSocket (ws)url (Rust)sendssh2ureqAxiosfreshhypersocksundiciuri-jsZeroMQreqwestdata-urlstatusesbasic-ftpform-datatiny_httpfluent-urihttp-proxyiri-stringnegotiatornode-fetchproxy-addreventsourcehttp-errorsproxy-agenttungstenitetRPCcontent-typegRPCisomorphic-wshttp-body-utilchunked_transferfollow-redirectshttp-proxy-agentformdata-polyfillhttps-proxy-agentsocks-proxy-agentreqwest-middlewarecontent-dispositionhttp-proxy-middleware

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Encoding

18
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Date & Time

7
mstime (Rust)Day.jschronoMoment.jsfiletimemoment-timezone

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Database

4
pgKeyvSQLiteDuckDB

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Parser

57
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Validation

4
AjvZodTypeBoxzod-to-json-schema

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Media

15
gifpng (Rust)usvgcolorimage (Rust)resvgfontdbskrifaimagesizerustybuzztiny-skiazune-imageSharpread-fontstiny-skia-path

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Logging

6
log (Rust)debugWinstontracingwinston-transportcodespan-reporting

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I/O

20
miopumpwantbytesipnetbuffereventssplit2unpipesocket2anstreambytemuckhttparsematchersraw-bodybufferutilend-of-streameventemitter3readable-streamweb-streams-polyfill

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Build Tool

11
nandiffTypeScriptterseraddr2linesource-mapBabelprebuild-installesbuildsource-map-supportRollup

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Platform Binding

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nixnapisysinfobindingsnode-abinode-ptynative-keymapnode-addon-apinode-gyp-build@emnapi/runtimecore-foundationrun-applescriptgolang.org/x/sysnative-is-elevatedsignal-hook-registrywindows-foreground-love

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Data Structure

21
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Compression

17
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Security

2
CORSDOMPurify

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File System

19
globpathewhichignoremkdirpnotifytar-fsglobsetmemmap2walkdirchokidarfs-extrafseventsfast-globminimatchsame-filegraceful-fsproper-lockfilefile-uri-to-path

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Web Server

5
honoTowerExpressActix WebNestJS

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Auth

7
joseoauth2kerberosjsonwebtokenopenid-clientMSALGoogle Sign-In

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Utility

34
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Cryptography

9
randRingahashblake3rustlsTweetNaCltwox-hashbcrypt-pbkdfsecurity-framework

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State Management

1
RxJS

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Async Runtime

15
asyncRayonTokioparkingstackertree-killparking_lotatomic-wakerfutures-rsthread_localevent-listenercrossbeamconcurrent-queuegolang.org/x/syncasynchronous-codec

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CLI

14
chalkyargscolors.jsanstyleargparseclapminimistCommander.jstermcolorstrip-ansicolorchoiceclap_complete@github/copilotterm

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Rich Text Editor

4
KaTeXmarkedmarkdown-itTree-sitter

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UI Framework

12
Reacttabbableprop-typesXterm.jsAngulardnd-kitSvelteIconifyPopperReact RouterFluent UIFont Awesome

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Serialization

8
serdejs-yamlCBORProtocol Buffersciborium-llFlatBuffersjson-bigintSmithy (AWS)

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CSS Framework

1
stylis

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Desktop Framework

2
VS Code Extension APIReact Native

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Observability

3
shimmerOpenTelemetryapplicationinsights

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Cloud

4
Azure SDKAWS SDKGoogle CloudSupabase

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Feature Flags

2
tas-clienttas-client-umd

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Internationalization

3
i18ngolang.org/x/textunicode-segmentation

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Testing

1
Playwright

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Communication

1
Model Context Protocol

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Other

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Analyzed binary

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

SHA-256
44aea010ccbe5e1911f82bfdb825457efaf0b0f1a02bd28342ccdeb252177a80

Security and privacy

Code signing, notarization, and entitlement analysis for Positron.

Code Signing

Good
Signed
Notarized
Hardened Runtime

Developer ID Application: RStudio Inc. (FYF2F5GFX4)

Entitlements8

com.apple.security.automation.apple-events
com.apple.security.cs.allow-dyld-environment-variables
com.apple.security.cs.allow-jit
com.apple.security.cs.disable-executable-page-protection
com.apple.security.cs.disable-library-validation
com.apple.security.device.audio-input
com.apple.security.device.camera
com.apple.security.get-task-allow

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How popular is Positron?

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

Popularity Tier
Ranked across all macOS apps
Top App

Popularity Score

84
84
Adoption
84
Mindshare
0
Store Rank

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When was Positron last updated?

20 tracked releases since January 2026.

Latest: v1.124.0
August 21, 2026
v1.124.0
Aug 21, 2026
v2026.08.1-2
Aug 10, 2026
v2026.08.0-331
Aug 7, 2026
v1.118.0
Jul 17, 2026
v2026.07.1-5
Jul 9, 2026
v2026.07.0-365
Jul 6, 2026
v2026.06.1-6
Jun 23, 2026
v1.111.0
Jun 4, 2026
v2026.06.0-211
Jun 1, 2026
v1.109.2
May 15, 2026
v2026.05.2-3
May 14, 2026
v2026.05.1-2
May 6, 2026
v2026.05.0-179
May 4, 2026
v2026.04.1-10
Apr 15, 2026
v1.108.0
Apr 13, 2026
v2026.04.0-269
Apr 7, 2026
v2026.03.0-212
Mar 2, 2026
v2026.02.1-5
Feb 18, 2026
v2026.02.0-139
Feb 2, 2026
v2026.01.0-147
Jan 8, 2026

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Last verified August 21, 2026

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