A native companion for the CANFAR Science Portal
Manage your interactive science sessions — Jupyter notebooks, CARTA, VNC desktops, Firefly — directly from your device. No browser needed.
Launch, monitor, extend, and delete CANFAR science sessions — Notebook, Desktop, CARTA, Firefly, and Contributed.
Pick from the CANFAR image catalogue or supply a custom container registry image with authentication credentials.
Real-time cluster CPU, GPU, and RAM utilisation at a glance so you can plan your workloads.
View your VOSpace home directory usage at a glance. Know exactly how much space you have left.
Tokens stored securely in your platform's native keychain — macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager, GNOME Keyring, or Android EncryptedSharedPreferences.
Quick re-launch from your session history. Auto-refresh keeps active sessions up to date while any session is pending.
View detailed session events and container logs directly in the app for troubleshooting and monitoring.
No data collection, no analytics, no third-party services. All communication goes directly to CANFAR services over HTTPS.
Each app is crafted with the platform's native toolkit — SwiftUI on macOS, WinUI 3 on Windows, GTK 4 & libadwaita on Linux, Jetpack Compose on Android.
Free and open source. Choose your platform.
C# · WinUI 3
Native Windows app with Fluent Design. Sessions and batch compute, CADC archive search with cutouts, FITS and 3D cube viewers with marks and figure export, a native notebook, research workflows, Remote Compute, and an optional AI assistant. Credentials in the Windows Credential Manager. On the Microsoft Store for x64, x86 and ARM64.
SwiftUI · macOS 14+
Native SwiftUI app. Sessions and batch compute, CADC archive search with cutouts, FITS and 3D cube viewers with marks, spectra and figure export, research workflows, Remote Compute, and an optional AI assistant you allow session by session. Credentials in the macOS Keychain. On the Mac App Store for Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
Swift · SwiftUI · iPhone & iPad
Native SwiftUI app for iPhone and iPad. Manage your CANFAR sessions on the go, with credentials secured in the iOS Keychain.
Kotlin · Jetpack Compose · Material 3
Native Android app with biometric unlock support. Material You design language.
Rust · GTK 4 · libadwaita
Native GNOME app built with Rust. Sessions and batch compute, CADC archive search, FITS and 3D cube viewers, a native notebook, research workflows, and an optional AI assistant. Credentials via Secret Service (GNOME Keyring / KDE Wallet). Installs from a .deb on Ubuntu 24.04 and newer.
pacman · signed repository
The same GTK 4 app, packaged for Arch and for Omarchy — DHH's Arch and Hyprland distribution. Verbinal has its own signed pacman repository, so it updates with pacman -Syu alongside the rest of the system, and appears in omarchy-pkg-install.
The Mac app now has a manual of its own, at docs.verbinal.com: everything you can do in Verbinal for macOS 1.4, screen by screen and written as tasks — from your first archive search to the FITS and Cube viewers, sessions and batch jobs, Storage, Remote Compute and working with an AI assistant. It is in English and French, and you can search it.
Verbinal is free and open source software. Every platform client is built in the open — contributions, issues, and feedback are welcome.
The apps connect to the CANFAR Science Portal, an open-source web platform by the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre that provides interactive sessions for astronomical research — powered by the Skaha container orchestration service.
Verbinal is a growing family of native apps. Alongside the CANFAR Science Portal client, meet Verbinal Thought — a workbench for thinking through what you build.
Manage your interactive CANFAR science sessions — Jupyter notebooks, CARTA, VNC desktops, and Firefly — from a native app on iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux, and Android.
A native Mac workbench for thinking through the systems you're about to build. Talk a design through with an AI partner, and keep every idea worth saving as a tagged, searchable Thought.
