Installation

Download BabelEdit 5.5.1 for Windows, macOS or Linux and install it.

BabelEdit runs on the following OS versions:

  • Windows 10 and Windows 11
  • macOS 12 and newer, including macOS 26 (Intel and Apple Silicon)
  • Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Arch, Mint, etc.) as Flatpak
  • Ubuntu 22 and newer as .deb package

Windows

Download the installer BabelEdit-5.5.1.msi file and double-click it for installation.

macOS

Download the BabelEdit-5.5.1.dmg file and open it from your Downloads folder. Drag and drop BabelEdit.app into your Applications folder.

Linux

Debian/Ubuntu

This installation works for distros using the apt package manager. Start by downloading BabelEdit-5.5.1.deb.

Open the downloads folder and click the BabelEdit-5.5.1.deb to install it using the software installer.

You can also use the command line:

sudo apt install ./BabelEdit-5.5.1.deb

All distros using Flatpak

We support other distros using the Flatpak package manager.

Download BabelEdit-5.5.1.flatpak and run the following command in a terminal:

flatpak install BabelEdit-5.5.1.flatpak

If it didn't work...

You might see the following error during installation:

The application com.codeandweb.babeledit/x86_64/master requires the
runtime org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/20.08 which was not found

If this is the case, the Flathub repository was not added to your system. It contains the base runtime that BabelEdit needs to run.

Open a command line and run:

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Now try again to install BabelEdit.

To run BabelEdit, you can double-click its icon or use the command line:

flatpak run com.codeandweb.babeledit