Downloads

From this page, you can download the latest version of Social Network Visualizer. There are installation packages and binaries for the three major operating systems (Windows, macOS, and Linux), as well as links for the source code and the development version.

Click one of the buttons below to download the latest version of SocNetV for your operating system. If there is no installer or package for your OS, please download and compile the source code (see further below).

Latest release

Windows

Download Installer

Scanned with VirusTotal. Installation: Double click, accept license and follow simple prompts.

macOS

Download SocNetV 3.2 (Apple silicon, macOS 14+)

For Mac computers with Apple silicon and macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
SocNetV can be also installed via MacPorts (thanks to Szabolcs Horvát!). After installing MacPorts, run in Terminal:
sudo port install socnetv

Download SocNetV 3.0 (Intel, macOS 10.15–12)

For Intel Macs running macOS Catalina (10.15), Big Sur (11), or Monterey (12). Installation: This version is not code-signed. To open it the first time, hold the Command key and right-click the app icon, choose Open, and confirm.

Linux

Download Executable

Installation: Not needed. Just make it executable and click to run in Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE etc! You need to have libfuse2 installed.

Download and have fun with social network analysis!

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Notes

For Windows users

Note

Windows Defender might alert you about a threat in the SocNetV Windows installer. This is a false positive as the installer is automatically created by Github Actions Workflow and checked with VirusTotal. Our installer is 100% safe. For your peace of mind, scan the installed files with Defender to verify them for yourself. Also, the OS/browser might tell you that it cannot verify the software developer/publisher and suggest you move the installer to Trash! That’s because we do not sign our released packages with MS developer signing certificates…

For macOS users

Note

• If you have a modern Apple silicon Mac with macOS 14 or later, use the latest version.
• If you have an older Intel Mac (up to macOS 12 Monterey), use the legacy DMG (v3.0) and bypass Gatekeeper with the “right-click → Open” method.
• Alternatively, SocNetV can be installed via MacPorts. After installing MacPorts, run in Terminal:

  sudo port selfupdate
  sudo port install socnetv

For Linux users

Note

SocNetV is also available in the repositories of most Linux distributions. However, this is not always the most recent version. We urge you to use the AppImage of the latest version available from this page. Users of openSUSE, Fedora, and Ubuntu/Debian may also add our own repositories to their systems and automatically update to the latest SocNetV version through the package manager (i.e., apt-get install socnetv). If you do not know how to add our repositories, please read the Instructions in the Manual.

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Source Code

Download Zipped Archive

To compile the source code, please see the Instructions.

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Development Version

Caution

Warning: The development code branch is not always stable. Use at your own risk!

If you are looking for the cutting edge, there are also binaries of the development version in GH releases (‘continuous’ tag).

Get the development binaries

Alternatively, you can clone the development branch (called “develop”) of the SocNetV code on your computer with this git command:

git clone -b develop --single-branch https://github.com/socnetv/app.git socnetv

A new directory called socnetv will be created. To build the development version, install the Qt5 libraries, and then change directory into socnetv:

cd socnetv

Enter the following commands to compile it:

qmake
make

If you have Qt6 installed, a binary file named socnetv (or socnetv.exe) will be created. You can run it by:

Linux/macOS:

./socnetv

Windows:

socnetv.exe