A cross-platform desktop application for working with map tiles: open them, inspect them, build processing pipelines, design styles, and produce new tile sets - without a terminal and without a full GIS.
Built on Tauri and versatiles-rs.
Downloads are on the latest release.
brew tap versatiles-org/versatiles
brew install --cask versatiles-studioOr download the .dmg - aarch64 for Apple Silicon, x64 for Intel.
macOS will refuse to open it the first time. This is not a broken download. Release 1 is deliberately not notarised: an Apple Developer identity costs $99 a year and, more to the point, has an approval lead time we chose to keep off the critical path (Q10). Every build is ad-hoc signed, which is the minimum a binary needs to run on Apple Silicon at all - what is missing is Apple's counter-signature saying they have seen it.
Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, find the line naming VersaTiles Studio and press Open Anyway; or clear the flag yourself:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/VersaTiles Studio.app"Once per installed version. Homebrew applies the same flag, so a cask install meets the same dialog.
A .deb for Debian and Ubuntu, an AppImage for everything else; both for amd64 and arm64.
sudo dpkg -i versatiles-studio_*_amd64.deb
# or
chmod +x versatiles-studio_*.AppImage && ./versatiles-studio_*.AppImageBoth formats exist because a .deb is compiled against one WebKitGTK version and may not install
across distributions (Q10).
Download the x64 -setup.exe. There is no separate ARM build - Windows on ARM runs this one
under emulation (S5.9).
Windows will warn you on first run. SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC" for anything it has not seen signed before; click More info, then Run anyway. Studio is not code-signed yet: a certificate is an annual cost with a procurement lead time, and after June 2023 it has to live on a hardware token or an HSM, which complicates CI (Q10). The build itself is no longer deferred - only the signature.
npm install
npm run tauri devNeeds Rust 1.98+, Node 24+, and on Linux libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev librsvg2-dev patchelf. The first
build compiles GDAL from source and takes a while.
CONTRIBUTING.md covers the rest: the script conventions, coverage, the sample containers some tests want, and how a release is cut.
Studio has no telemetry, no analytics dependency and no account.
MIT - Copyright (c) 2024-2026 Michael Kreil