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VESTA LICENSE
Version 3
Copyright (C) 2006-2024, Koichi Momma and Fujio Izumi

This software is distributed free of charge for academic, scientific, educational, and noncommercial users. Users belonging to commercial enterprises may also use this software at no cost until a license for business users is established. Permission to use this software is hereby granted under the following conditions:

1) Drawings produced by VESTA may be used in any publications provided that its use is explicitly acknowledged. A suitable reference for VESTA is:
K. Momma and F. Izumi, "VESTA 3 for three-dimensional visualization of crystal, volumetric and morphology data," J. Appl. Crystallogr., 44, 1272-1276 (2011).

2) You should not redistribute any copy of the distributed files unless you have a written permission from us.

Part of these terms may be changed without any prior announcement.
This software is provided "as is" without any express or implied warranty.


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Latest development versions

The latest development version is capable of visualizing quasicrystal data. Since there are vast changes in their code base it might still contains bugs. It will be released as version 4.0 in future.
Windows
  • VESTA-win64.zip (ver. 3.90.0a, built on Mar 4 2024, 22.9MB)
    For 64-bit version of Windows.

macOS
  • VESTA.dmg (ver. 3.90.0a, built on Mar 4 2024, 25.0MB)
    This is a universal binary version that runs on both Intel CPUs and Apple Silicon.
    It requires macOS 10.10 or newer on Intel CPUs and macOS 11 or newer on Apple Silicon.

Linux
  • VESTA-gtk3.tar.bz2 (ver. 3.90.0a, built on Mar 4 2024, 10.5MB) Requires GTK 3.22 or newer.
    Distributions where VESTA is known to work:
    • Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 or later
    • Ubuntu 18.04 or later
  • VESTA-gtk3.tar.bz2 (ver. 3.90.0a, built on Mar 4 2024, 9.8MB) Requires GTK 3.22 or newer.
    Distributions where VESTA is known to work:
    • Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 or later

Latest stable versions

Windows
  • VESTA.zip (ver. 3.5.8, built on Aug 11 2022, 14.3MB)
    For 32-bit version of Windows.

  • VESTA-win64.zip (ver. 3.5.8, built on Aug 11 2022, 17.2MB)
    For 64-bit version of Windows.

macOS
  • VESTA.dmg (ver. 3.5.8, built on Aug 11 2022, 25.3MB)
    Requires OS X 10.9 or newer, Intel CPUs that are capable of 64 bit instruction sets.

Linux x86_64

Older versions

OS X
  • VESTA.dmg (ver. 3.4.4, built on Mar. 28 2018, 26.1MB)
    The last version that runs on OS X 10.6-10.8.
Linux
  • VESTA-i686.tar.bz2 (ver. 3.4.5, built on Nov. 22 2018, 13.1MB)
  • vesta-3.4.5-1.i686.rpm (built on Nov. 22 2018, 35.9MB)
    This is the last version runs on 32 bit Linux.
    Distributions where VESTA is known to work:
    • Fedora 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
    • openSUSE 11.2, 11.3
    • Redhat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7
    • Ubuntu 9.10, 10.10
Archives of older versions

Tutorial data

  • Example imput files: VESTA-Examples.zip (uploaded on Jan 12 2017, 34.1MB)
  • Tutorials.7z (uploaded on Dec 14 2011, 34.8MB)

    Only data files for tutorials are included but no explanations are supplied yet.
    If you don't have any software to extract the 7z archive, install the following software.