Marble
Marble is a virtual globe and atlas application developed by KDE, the free and open-source desktop environment project. It displays interactive 3D maps of Earth with multiple map layers, terrain visualization, cities, and geographic features that users can explore, zoom, and rotate. The app is used by students, educators, geographers and casual learners for exploring world geography, understanding spatial relationships, and as an educational tool in classrooms. Marble supports different map projections, route planning, and Wikipedia integration to provide context about locations.
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1 suggestionWe could not confirm whether Marble has been updated to run natively on Apple Silicon. The search results returned are not relevant to the KDE Marble application — they relate instead to a different product (Marble Blast, a game) and an old Logitech mouse peripheral. Since Marble is maintained by the KDE project as free open-source software, the best approach is to check the official KDE downloads page or contact the KDE developers directly to ask whether a native Apple Silicon build is available or planned. In the meantime, the current Intel version will run under Rosetta 2 on M-series Macs, though with reduced performance. If you need a native alternative, consider Google Earth Pro or the web-based Google Maps, both of which run natively on Apple Silicon.
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