Joplin offer to install raw 3.3.9 version on MacOS

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Operating system

macOS

Joplin version

3.3.9

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Joplin for Desktop

Copyright © 2016-2025 Laurent Cozic
Joplin 3.3.9 (prod, darwin)

Device: darwin, x64
Client ID: 5a4c170c49a34b7db5d5964d814205f4
Sync Version: 3
Profile Version: 47
Keychain Supported: Yes
Alternative instance ID: -

Revision: 5d0fa75

Backup: 1.4.3
Freehand Drawing: 3.0.1
Outline: 1.5.14
PlantUML2: 1.11.0

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Dropbox

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What issue do you have?

Guys, it looks like 3.3.9 version is tooooooo sloooow. It works very badly on my macOs with 24 Gb of RAM.. It's strange that I just install it because of automatic notification about a new version. My previos version worked a lot better 3.2.13
If the new version 3.3.9 is really raw and not ready for use, why Joplin offered to use it automatically?

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Thank you for reporting this!

Is this an ARM MacOS device (e.g. an M1 Mac)? If so, the issue might be with the release downloader and re-downloading Joplin from the website might help — the x86_64 version of Joplin is known to run slowly on MacOS ARM.

For more details, see Joplin became unusably slow on MacOS after upgrade to 3.3.3 · Issue #11989 · laurent22/joplin · GitHub.
Edit: If this is the case, Joplin should show a warning banner. If no such warning banner is visible, this is probably not the issue.

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Another possibility is that this is related to OCR — in v3.3, OCR processing was enabled by default. Does disabling OCR in settings > general, then restarting Joplin help?

See also Optical Character Recognition (OCR) | Joplin.

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Actually I just reinstall 3.3.9 manually - take the version for amd64 from Installation | Joplin - and it helps, now Joplin works very nice as usual.
So the problem, as I understand, was in auto downloading incorrect version for my MacOs M4 model by the app

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3.3.9 should have displayed the warning asking to update. It's annoying that it didn't apparently

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This has also been reported on GitHub: GitHub · Where software is built

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This was not fun. I can understand that a universal app would make a huge download. But I've never seen an app so slow using Rosetta.

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Not to dog pile, but I let Joplin install the update (not a fan of how it updates) on my M3 and also had a super slow, unusable experience with the new version. I quit the app and manually downloaded the ARM version and now Joplin is working as expected.

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For reference, I'm linking to a related commit:

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Is anyone else seeing problems with the toolbar? The buttons do not align with their function. All my plugins are updated, but I will try to disable some to see if there is a conflict with a plugin.

Yep, it's the macOS theme (v1.5.14) plugin that is causing this issue for me.