evil/Download
Pick your
poison.
One browser, three desktops. Installers are signed, reproducible and checksummed — and nothing in them phones home.
- Latest
- v1.0.0 — unreleased
- Base
- Chromium 152
- Platforms
- Windows · macOS · Linux
- Licence
- BSD-3 (Chromium)
Weekly
A fresh beta every Thursday, cut from whatever passed the automated suite that morning.
Own profile
Beta installs alongside stable with a separate profile directory, so nothing gets clobbered.
Downgrade safe
Profiles are forward-compatible within a major version — you can drop back to stable at any time.
Every night
One build per platform per day, tagged with the date and the short commit hash.
30 days
Old nightlies are pruned after a month; permalinks in the changelog stay valid for tagged builds.
No support
Nightly bugs are expected. Reproduce on beta before reporting anything.
The full build matrix.
| Platform | Package | Architecture | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows | Installer (.exe) | x86_64 | ~112 MB | on release |
| Windows | Installer (.exe) | arm64 | ~108 MB | on release |
| Windows | Portable (.zip) | x86_64 | ~136 MB | on release |
| macOS | Disk image (.dmg) | universal | ~190 MB | on release |
| Linux | AppImage | x86_64 | ~120 MB | on release |
| Linux | Debian (.deb) | x86_64 / aarch64 | ~98 MB | on release |
| Linux | Red Hat (.rpm) | x86_64 / aarch64 | ~99 MB | on release |
| Linux | Tarball (.tar.xz) | x86_64 | ~104 MB | on release |
Sizes are current internal-build figures and will shift before v1.0.0. Every published artefact ships with a detached signature and a SHA-256 line in SHA256SUMS.
Trust, then check.
A privacy browser you downloaded from a mirror you don't control is not a privacy browser. Two commands, ten seconds.
macOS / Linux
shasum -a 256 evil-1.0.0-x86_64.AppImage grep evil-1.0.0-x86_64.AppImage SHA256SUMS
Windows (PowerShell)
Get-FileHash .\evil-1.0.0-x64.exe -Algorithm SHA256 Select-String -Path .\SHA256SUMS -Pattern "evil-1.0.0-x64.exe"
If the two strings don't match character for character, delete the file. Don't run it, don't "try it anyway".
System requirements.
| Platform | Minimum OS | CPU | RAM | Disk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows | Windows 10 20H2 | SSE3 x64 or arm64 | 4 GB | 600 MB |
| macOS | macOS 12 Monterey | Apple Silicon or Intel | 4 GB | 700 MB |
| Linux | glibc 2.31+ (Ubuntu 20.04) | x86_64 or aarch64 | 4 GB | 550 MB |
Build it yourself.
evil is open source. The patch set against Chromium, the GN configuration and the packaging scripts are all public, so you don't have to wait for a binary — and you don't have to take the privacy claims on faith either.
git clone https://github.com/evil-browser/evil.git cd evil make bootstrap # depot_tools and prerequisite checks make sync # fetch Chromium at the pinned tag (slow, 40+ GB) make patch # apply the evil patch set make build # gn gen + autoninja make package # installers into dist/
A first build takes 2–6 hours and needs about 100 GB of disk. Per-platform prerequisites are in docs/BUILDING.md.
Nothing to download
just yet.
The build matrix above fills in the day v1.0.0 is cut. Until then, the development log is the honest version of a release page.