Zonomania (app) on macOS: From “Can’t Be Opened” to Actually Working

Field Report: Zonomania (app) vs. macOS Privacy Walls Machine: MacBook Air M2 System: macOS Sonoma 14.3 Objective: install and actually use Zonomania (app) as a lightweight office/notes utility I stumbled across under the OrchardKit brand. I just wanted a simple workspace tool. Something minimal. The download looked harmless enough — small .dmg, no weird installer wizard, just drag-and-drop into Applications. Classic macOS flow. Except it didn’t launch. First click: “Zonomania is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.” That message again. The polite macOS way of saying “Gatekeeper doesn’t like this.” I’ve seen this before. It usually means the binary isn’t notarized properly, or the quarantine flag didn’t clear during download. Apple’s Gatekeeper docs explain the behavior pretty clearly here: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/gatekeeper-and-runtime-protection-sec5599b66df/web Still, I wanted to confirm it wasn’t something simpler. Attempt 1 — The Right-Cli