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title: "DoesItARM.com | Sam Carlton"
source: "https://samcarlton.com/portfolio/doesitarm/"
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# DoesItARM.com

June 2026

> I just needed to know that list, so I made that list and I put it up there. And it turns out it helped a lot of people — there were even some knockoff sites copying my list. It was just really cool: this is something people need, something that helps people.

DoesItARM.com is a website I built for fun that turned into a go-to compatibility directory for Apple Silicon Macs. People come to it to find out whether an app — or a video game — runs natively, through Rosetta translation, isn’t ready yet, or still needs testing.

## Links

-   **Site:** [doesitarm.com](https://doesitarm.com/)
-   **GitHub:** [ThatGuySam/doesitarm](https://github.com/ThatGuySam/doesitarm)

## Highlights

-   **Built to answer one question** — does this app run on Apple Silicon? Type a name and the whole index filters instantly.
-   **Four clear states** — native, Rosetta, in progress, or unreported.
-   **Apps and games** — a lot of the traffic is people checking which games run on Apple Silicon.
-   **Evidence-backed and self-updating** — community reports and official links, plus build scripts that parse a source README and scan new apps into the index.

## How It’s Built

-   **Frontend** — Astro with server output and the Netlify adapter, Vue components, Tailwind CSS, and Partytown.
-   **Search** — Pagefind and Stork index generation with custom build scripts and browser tests for the native filtering.
-   **Data pipeline** — README-driven content, clone-and-parse scripts, generated app lists, and scan-new-app automation.
-   **Binary analysis** — Mach-O parsing, plist support, endian readers, and workerpool for automated compatibility evidence.
-   **Deploy & tooling** — Netlify server output, a Cloudflare-oriented API build, pnpm, Node, TypeScript, Vitest, and Playwright-core.

## Screenshots

![DoesItARM.com desktop search showing Apple Silicon compatibility results](/project-screenshots/doesitarm/doesitarm-desktop.png)

Searching the directory returns native, Rosetta, and not-yet compatibility states.

![DoesItARM.com mobile search page](/project-screenshots/doesitarm/doesitarm-mobile.png)

Mobile view of the searchable app compatibility list.