Skip to content
Freeleapp

Requirements

Operating system

Section titled “Operating system”

Freeleapp is built for macOS 13 Ventura or later on Apple Silicon (M-series chips). Windows and Linux builds are not published. On macOS 12, stay on Freeleapp 1.0.1.

AWS Systems Manager (optional)

Section titled “AWS Systems Manager (optional)”

To connect to EC2 instances through AWS Systems Manager or run SSM tunnels, the AWS CLI and the Session Manager plugin must work on your Mac. With a session active, this command must succeed on its own:

Terminal window
aws ssm start-session --region <region> --target <instance-id>

If it fails, install the AWS CLI and the Session Manager plugin, and make sure the SSM Agent runs on the instance.

With Homebrew:

Terminal window
brew install awscli
brew install --cask session-manager-plugin

Freeleapp checks both tools when you open View SSM Sessions and looks for them in /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin and /opt/homebrew/bin. If you installed them somewhere else, link them into /usr/local/bin. The rest of Freeleapp works without them.