So how do you get the most recent Java release for macOS? Well, you can either signup for an account at (the looooong, hard way) or just grab a ready-made binary for macOS, provided by AdoptOpenJDK (the easy way).
And apparently it relates to recent changes in Java's licensing by Oracle. If you currently go to, the available release for macOS is pretty outdated. Ironically the best guide is on, so follow it to the letter: Uninstall that outdated Java version on your Mac. So here are the steps to get Snowflake to work on your Mac: jar file which we can run anywhere, including macOS. However, since the app is based on Java, the developer also provides Snowflake as a. At the time, Snowflake's developer has only released binaries for Windows and Debian/Ubuntu with a macOS version planned for the future.