Install Lilo
Download Lilo or install it with Homebrew, check which macOS version it needs, and see how updates arrive on their own once it is installed.
By the end of this page Lilo is in your Applications folder, open on its welcome screen, and set to update itself. It takes about two minutes.
Check your Mac
Lilo 0.21.0 needs macOS 26 or later. It runs natively on Apple silicon and on Intel Macs. There is nothing else to install: Lilo uses the WebKit engine that comes with macOS.
Install
Pick one of the two ways. Both give you the same signed and notarized app.
Download the disk image
Download Lilo.dmg from the latest release on GitHub.
Copy Lilo to Applications
Open Lilo.dmg, then drag the Lilo icon onto the Applications folder beside it.
Open Lilo
Open Lilo from your Applications folder or with Spotlight. You can then eject the disk image.
Install the cask
In Terminal, run:
brew install --cask alexays/tap/liloHomebrew puts Lilo in your Applications folder.
Open Lilo
Open Lilo from your Applications folder or with Spotlight.
Start the setup
The first time Lilo opens, it shows Welcome home. with a Get started button.
Get started
Click Get started, or press Return.
Answer how you will use Lilo
Lilo asks How will you use Lilo? Pick one, then click Continue:
- For browsing: your bookmarks, your look, the essentials.
- With my agents: also lets AI agents such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor use Lilo.
- For developing: everything above, plus terminal tabs.
Skip is the same as For browsing. You can change everything later in Settings.
Bring your browser over
The next screen, Bring your favorites, imports from the browser you used until now. Follow Import from another browser.
Press Esc on the welcome screen, or close the setup with its close button, to leave it for later: a Resume setup button stays in the corner of the window until you come back to it.
How updates arrive
You do not need to do anything to stay up to date.
- Lilo checks for a new version every hour and downloads it in the background.
- When an update is ready, a card in the sidebar says Ready to install. Click Restart to install it now, or keep working: it installs the next time Lilo restarts.
- Every update is signed, and Lilo checks the signature before it installs anything.
To check right away, choose Lilo > Check for Updates… in the menu bar, or open Settings (⌘,) > General and click Check Now. Turning off Install updates automatically in the same place stops both the hourly check and the download: Lilo then looks for a new version only when you choose Check for Updates… or click Check Now.
Where Lilo keeps your data
Everything stays on your Mac:
| What | Where |
|---|---|
| Spaces, tabs, history, bookmarks and extensions | ~/Library/Application Support/Lilo |
| Preferences | ~/Library/Preferences/fr.arouillard.lilo.plist |
| Website data (cookies, site storage, caches) | ~/Library/WebKit/fr.arouillard.lilo |
Privacy lists every request Lilo makes on its own.