Get the Software

You can either download binaries or source code archives for the latest stable or previous release or access the current development (aka nightly) distribution through Git.

Current Release Notes

Latest Release (3.12.0)

Platform Files
Windows, 32 bit ParaView-3.12.0-Win32-x86.exe
Windows, 64 bit ParaView-3.12.0-Win64-x86.exe
Linux x86, 32 bit ParaView-3.12.0-Linux-i686.tar.gz
Linux x86, 64 bit ParaView-3.12.0-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
Mac OS X x86_64 Application Bundle (10.5+) ParaView-3.12.0-Darwin-x86_64.dmg
Source ParaView-3.12.0.zip
  ParaView-3.12.0.tar.gz
Data ParaViewData-3.12.0.zip

Community Contributed Plugins

This software may not be exported in violation of any U.S. export laws or regulations.  For more information regarding Export Control matters please go to http://kitware.com/export_control/index.html.


Platform Files
Windows, 32 bit ParaView-3.10.1-Win32-x86.exe
Windows, 64 bit ParaView-3.10.1-Win64-x86.exe
Linux x86, 32 bit ParaView-3.10.1-Linux-i686.tar.gz
Linux x86, 64 bit ParaView-3.10.1-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
Mac OS X x86_64 Application Bundle (10.5+) ParaView-3.10.1-Darwin-x86_64.dmg
Mac OS X x86_64 Application Bundle (10.7) ParaView-3.10.1-OSX-10.7-x86_64.dmg
Source ParaView-3.10.1.zip
  ParaView-3.10.1.tar.gz
Data ParaViewData-3.10.1.zip

Previous Release (3.10.0)

Platform Files
Windows, 32 bit ParaView-3.10.0-Win32-x86.exe
Windows, 64 bit ParaView-3.10.0-Win64-x86.exe
Linux x86, 32 bit ParaView-3.10.0-Linux-i686.tar.gz
Linux x86, 64 bit ParaView-3.10.0-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
Mac OS X x86_64 Application Bundle (10.5+) ParaView-3.10.0-Darwin-x86_64.dmg
Source ParaView-3.10.0.zip
  ParaView-3.10.0.tar.gz
Data ParaViewData-3.10.0.zip

Note: There are is one Mac download contains the Paraview application. Within the application bundle there is a bin directory which contains the Unix-style command line executables, such as pvbatch and pvserver. This application is 64 bit only and requires Mac OSX Leopard (10.5) or greater.

Detailed information about how the above binaries were built can be found here. When building plugins for these binaries, make sure to use the same versions of the compiler and libraries listed in the linked page.

Previous Release (3.8.1)

Platform Files
Windows, 32 bit ParaView-3.8.1-Win32-x86.exe
Windows, 64 bit ParaView-3.8.1-Win64-x86.exe
Windows, 32 bit MS-MPI Enabled ParaView-3.8.1-Win32-x86.exe
Windows, 64 bit MS-MPI Enabled ParaView-3.8.1-Win64-x86.exe
Linux x86, 32 bit ParaView-3.8.1-Linux-i686.tar.gz
Linux x86, 64 bit ParaView-3.8.1-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
Mac OS X Universal Application Bundle (10.4+) ParaView-3.8.1-Darwin-Universal.dmg
Mac OS X Universal Command Line Tools (10.4+) ParaViewServers-3.8.1-Darwin-Universal.tar.gz
Mac OS X x86_64 Application Bundle (10.5+) ParaView-3.8.1-Darwin-x86_64.dmg
Mac OS X x86_64 Command Line Tools (10.5+) ParaViewServers-3.8.1-Darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
Source ParaView-3.8.1.zip
  ParaView-3.8.1.tar.gz
Data ParaViewData-3.8.1.zip

Note: There are four Mac downloads. The executables which end with .dmg contain the Paraview application, whereas the files ending in tar.gz contain the Unix-style command line executables, such as pvbatch and pvserver. Most users will only need to download .dmg files. The binaries named "Universal" are built as universal binaries for both PPC and Intel (i386). They were built using Python 2.3 and do not support MPI.

Detailed information about how the above binaries were built can be found here. When building plugins for these binaries, make sure to use the same versions of the compiler and libraries listed in the linked page.

Community Contributed Plugins

This software may not be exported in violation of any U.S. export laws or regulations.  For more information regarding Export Control matters please go to http://kitware.com/export_control/index.html.

ParaView Development Installation

Platform Files
Windows, 32 bit ParaView-Development-3.8.1-Win32-x86.exe
Windows, 64 bit ParaView-Development-3.8.1-Win64-x86.exe
Linux x86, 32 bit ParaView-Development-3.8.1-Linux-i686.tar.gz
Linux x86, 64 bit ParaView-Development-3.8.1-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
Macintosh OS X Universal Application Bundle (10.4+) ParaView-Development-3.8.1-Darwin-Universal.tar.gz
Macintosh OS X x64_86 Application Bundle (10.5+) ParaView-Development-3.8.1-Darwin-x86_64.tar.gz

 

Previous Release (3.6.2)

Platform Files
Windows, 32 bit paraview-3.6.2-win32-x86.exe
Windows, 64 bit paraview-3.6.2-win64-x86.exe
Linux x86, 32 bit paraview-3.6.2-Linux32-x86.tar.gz
Linux x86, 64 bit paraview-3.6.2-Linux64-x86.tar.gz
Macintosh OS X Universal Application Bundle paraview.app-3.6.2-universal.dmg
Macintosh OS X Universal Command Line Tools paraview.cl-3.6.2-universal.tar.gz
Source paraview-3.6.2.tar.gz
  paraview-3.6.2.zip
Data ParaViewData3.6.zip

Note: There are two Mac downloads. The one named paraview.app.XXX is the download for the Paraview application whereas the other download contains the Unix-style command line executables, such as pvbatch and pvserver. Most users will only need to download paraview.app.XXX. The binaries are built as universal binaries for both PPC and Intel (i386). They were built using Python 2.3 and do not support MPI.

Detailed information about how the above binaries were built can be found here. When building plugins for these binaries, make sure to use the same versions of the compiler and libraries listed in the linked page.

Git tag: v3.6.2

Community Contributed Plugins

Previous Release (3.4.0)

Platform Files
Windows, 32 bit paraview-3.4.0-win32-x86.exe
Windows, 64 bit paraview-3.4.0-win64-x86.exe
Linux x86, 32 bit paraview-3.4.0-Linux32-x86.tar.gz
Linux x86, 64 bit paraview-3.4.0-Linux64-x86.tar.gz
Macintosh OS X, Tiger and Leopard (Intel) paraview.app-3.4.0-Tiger-x86.dmg
Macintosh OS X Tiger and Leopard (PPC) paraview.app-3.4.0-Tiger-ppc.dmg
Macintosh OS X, Tiger and Leopard (Intel) paraview.cl-3.4.0-Tiger-x86.tar.gz
Macintosh OS X Tiger and Leopard (PPC) paraview.cl-3.4.0-Tiger-ppc.tar.gz
Macintosh OS X, Leopard (Intel) paraview.app-3.4.0-Leopard-x86.dmg
Macintosh OS X, Leopard (Intel) paraview.cl-3.4.0-Leopard-x86.tar.gz
Source paraview-3.4.0.tar.gz
  paraview-3.4.0.zip
Data ParaViewData3.4.zip

Note: There are two Mac downloads for each cpu architecture. The ones that are called paraview.app.XXX are the downloads for the paraview applications whereas the other downloads contains the Unix-style executables such as pvbatch and pvserver. Most users will only need to download paraview.app.XXX. The Tiger binaries work on both Leopard and Tiger. They were built using Python 2.3 and do not support MPI. The Leopard binaries were built using Python 2.5 and OpenMPI available only on Leopard.

Detailed information about how the above binaries were built can be found here. When building plug ins for these binaries, make sure to use the same versions of the compiler and libraries listed in the linked page.

Git tag: v3.4.0

Current development distribution

Download ParaView source via Git access:

http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Git

One may also browse the Git Repository Online

http://paraview.org/gitweb

Nightly documentation archive

The documentation for the nightly build of ParaView is also available as a gzipped tarball: ParaView3-html.tar.gz. This is useful if you would like your own local copy of the ParaView documentation without spending the extra time and effort to build it yourself.