Minimum requirements

Operating system	macOS 14 Sonoma or later. macOS 15 Sequoia and 26 are supported. Finito 1.11.0 was the last release to run on macOS 13 Ventura.
Processor	Apple silicon only: M1, M2, M3, M4, or later, including Pro, Max, and Ultra variants. Intel Macs are not supported and Finito will not run on them.
Memory	8 GB minimum. 16 GB recommended for long tracks and for stem sessions: mastering a full-length song holds several floating-point copies of it in memory at once, and a stem session holds one per stem, so twelve four-minute stems is roughly 1.2 GB before anything else. Finito estimates this from the file headers before it decodes anything, and tells you if a session will not fit rather than pushing the machine into swap.
Disk space	About 250 MB for the app, plus room for temporary renders. A working render of a five-minute stereo track is roughly 100 MB, and Finito removes each one as it is superseded.
Display	1280 × 800 or larger. The window will not shrink below 1080 × 740, which is the point where the meters and the analyzer stop being readable.
Audio	Any output device macOS recognises: built-in speakers, headphones, or an audio interface. Finito lets you pick the output device without changing your system default.
Internet	Not required. Finito works fully offline. A connection is used only to check for updates.

Why Apple silicon only

Finito's real-time engine, its Metal analyzer and scopes, and its Python DSP engine are all built and tested as native arm64. Its numerical library uses Apple's Accelerate framework for the heavy filtering and FFT work, and the release build refuses to produce a universal binary rather than ship an Intel half that has never been measured. A Rosetta build is not offered, because the real-time path would not hold its timing.

Supported file formats

Import

WAV, AIFF and AIFC, FLAC, Ogg, MP3, M4A and AAC, CAF, and anything else macOS can decode. WAV, AIFF, FLAC, and Ogg are read directly; other formats are decoded to a temporary WAV first, which takes a moment on first load.

Any sample rate and bit depth your files use. Mono, stereo, and multichannel sources are accepted; more than two channels are folded down to stereo using standard ITU coefficients.

Export

• WAV: 24-bit and 16-bit
• FLAC: lossless
• MP3: 320 kbps, via the bundled LAME encoder
• AAC: 256 kbps M4A, with title, artist, and album tags
• Export All Formats: every one of the above in a single pass

Everything needed for these is inside the app. There is nothing to install with Homebrew, and no ffmpeg dependency.

Performance

On an M1 MacBook Air, a five-minute stereo track analyzes in about one second and masters in about seventeen. Real-time playback with the analyzer and scopes running holds 60 frames per second. Faster chips and more cores scale it down from there.

Permissions

Finito asks for nothing beyond access to the files you open. It does not use the microphone, the camera, your contacts, your calendar, or your location. macOS may ask for permission the first time Finito reads from a protected folder such as Desktop, Documents, or Downloads; that is macOS's standard file-access prompt, not something Finito requests separately.

Installing

Open the downloaded disk image and drag Finito to your Applications folder. The first launch needs one extra step, because Finito is an independent app rather than one distributed through the App Store. The support page walks through it.