Small app. Open notebook.
Paper is a free, open-source texture overlay for Apple Silicon Macs. These guides cover the code, recipes, testing and releases. If you just want to use the app, start with the user guide.
- Build Paper — requirements and contribution checks.
- Understand the architecture — policy, state and native adapters.
- Make a recipe — Deckle-compatible imports and library backups.
- Test a change — automated evidence and real-device limits.
- Package a release — signing, updates and validation.
- Meet the upstream projects — starting with Deckle.
Source and release
The downloadable app is Paper 1.0.3. These docs follow source commit 8713988, including documentation changes after that release. A source change is not automatically a shipped app feature. See the source map and changelog.