Earth Plot is an application for tracking objects in Earth orbit.
It is coded in C++ and uses the following libraries:
It can load objects from files in the following formats:
| Architecture | Release | Download | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mac OS | Universal (x86_64 and arm64) | 2026-08-10 | 374K Zip |
| Windows | x86_64 | 2026-08-09 | 1,641K Zip |
| x86 | 2026-08-09 | 1,742K Zip |
Earth Plot is known to run on Mac OS:
and Windows 7, 10, and 11.
Earth Plot is not a signed app. You can only run Earth Plot if your Mac allows running apps that are not from the Mac App Store. When you run Earth Plot, your Mac may report:
"Earth Plot is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the trash."
This is not true and is a lie Apple tells you with the intention of convincing you to only trust software from the Apple app store. You can remove Earth Plot from Apple Purgatory with the following command executed from a Terminal window:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Earth Plot.app"
Note: the above command assumes Earth Plot is in your Applications folder. If it is not then you need to replace Applications with the path to 'Earth Plot.app'.
Earth Plot requires the SDL2.framework, version 2.24.1 or later, to be in one of the following Frameworks folders:
SDL2.framework is not included in the Mac download. If you do not already have it in a Frameworks folder then you can download version 2.32.8 from GitHub.