Install STS IDE on Mac OS

1. Download Spring Tool Suite Installer for macOS

Step 1: Head over to the official download page of STS at https://spring.io/tools, you will see the following download options:

You see, the latest version of Spring Tool Suite IDE in July 2022 is 4.15.1. If your Mac computer running on Apple CPU (Apple Silicon), click the button MACOS ARM_64, else click MACOS X86_64 if your Mac running on Intel CPU.The result is a DMG archive file spring-tool-suite-xxx.dmg got downloaded on to your macOS computer.

2. Install Spring Tool Suite IDE on macOS

Step 2: Installation of Spring Tool Suite on macOS is simple and easy. Click the downloaded .dmg file, wait for few seconds while it is extracting the archive file. Then you will see the following screen:

Step 3: Now, just drag and drop the SpringToolSuite4 icon into the Applications folder. It takes just few seconds to copy STS IDE package to the Applications folder:

And you’re done. Very simple, right?

Step 4: Now, open the Launch pad you should see the icon of Spring Tool Suite appears:

Step 5: Click the icon to launch Spring Tool Suite IDE. The first time you see this warning message:

Step 6: Just click Open to launch the IDE. You will be asked to choose a directory as workspace:

Step 7: If you’re already familiar with Eclipse, you will find STS easy to use as it is actually based on Eclipse

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