i1Studio
i1Studio is a color profiling and management application from X-Rite that provides advanced controls for display calibration, spot color measurement, and digital color accuracy verification. It is used by photographers, videographers, graphic designers, and print professionals to ensure colour-critical work is displayed and reproduced correctly. The app connects to X-Rite hardware colour measurement devices and stores colour profiles that can be applied system-wide or within individual creative applications.
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1 suggestioni1Studio version 1.6.0 (the most recent release we have information about) is compiled for Intel architecture only and has not been updated to a native Apple Silicon build. X-Rite has not announced any public roadmap for Apple Silicon support. You are currently running this app under Rosetta 2 on your Apple Silicon Mac, which works today but will stop working entirely when Apple removes Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (September 2028) — less than 28 months away. We recommend contacting X-Rite directly (through their support page at xrite.com) to ask about native Apple Silicon builds or planned timelines before making any long-term commitments to this workflow. If you need an alternative with confirmed native Apple Silicon support, consider ColorLogic ZPS or Datacolor SpyderX, which both offer display profiling and colour management on modern Macs, though neither may be a perfect feature-for-feature match with i1Studio's specific measurement capabilities.
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