Apple M1: Silicon Info provides information on the architecture used

Numerous manufacturers have also created a native version of their apps for Apple Silicon, while others emulate their programs on macOS 11 Big Sur using Rosetta 2 in x86 and x64 on Apple’s ARM64 platform. The Silicon Info system tool now provides information on the architecture used.

The little helper shows the architecture of the programs

The app checks the running programs and shows if the applications have already been adapted for the M1 processor or if they are running through the macOS emulator framework.

The tool published on the GitHub developer platform is open source and must run in the background to provide information about running programs.

A small overlay applet shows the architecture of the application, as the developers demonstrate using the terminal example (ARM64 / Apple Silicon) from macOS and the Spotify streaming app (x86_64).

The approximately 350 KB “large” Silicon Info v1.0.1 (.ZIP) must be installed as follows after downloading:

• Download Silicon Info v1.0.1
• Move the .app file to the application folder
• Silicon Info starts

If the tool does not want to start, you need to enable the “Open anyway” option in “Security and privacy”.

The developers summarized more information on the project page of the GitHub developer platform.