diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index abe05b3..88f70ed 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -278,6 +278,18 @@ opt-level = 0
 lto = "thin"
 codegen-units = 1
 
+# A release build that can say where it panicked: line tables, so a crash
+# record's backtrace (`dr_plat::crash`) reads `file.rs:123` rather than bare
+# addresses. The macOS build uses it (docs/dev/macos.md) — no one here can
+# reproduce a Mac bug, so its reports carry what a debugger would have — at
+# the price of a larger binary and no slower code. On macOS the tables land
+# in a `.dSYM` beside the executable (rustc's default `packed`), and the
+# bundle must carry that directory next to the binary for the backtrace to
+# find it.
+[profile.diagnostic]
+inherits = "release"
+debug = "line-tables-only"
+
 # Three upstream crates carry a local patch: wgpu-hal and Slint's Skia
 # renderer so that the Android build can draw with wgpu on a rotated display
 # (technical-debt.md TD-1), and rawler so that a linear DNG wider than 16 700
diff --git a/apps/darkroom-desktop/src/main.rs b/apps/darkroom-desktop/src/main.rs
index 589b34c..d7a5f75 100644
--- a/apps/darkroom-desktop/src/main.rs
+++ b/apps/darkroom-desktop/src/main.rs
@@ -15,6 +15,22 @@ use std::path::PathBuf;
 
 use dr_plat::diagnostics::Installed;
 
+/// What the log keeps when `RUST_LOG` does not say.
+#[cfg(not(target_os = "macos"))]
+const DEFAULT_LOG: &str =
+    "info,wgpu_core=warn,wgpu_hal=warn,zbus=warn,tracing=warn,calloop=warn,rawler=warn";
+
+/// The same, and `debug` from this application's own crates and from ONNX
+/// Runtime, whose `debug` is how many nodes each provider took
+/// (docs/dev/macos.md). Nobody here runs a Mac: every macOS build is in
+/// the hands of someone who can send us a log and cannot attach a debugger,
+/// so the log is written as if for a debug build. `dr_` is a prefix, and
+/// `env_logger` matches directives by prefix, so it names every `dr-*`
+/// crate — present and future — without naming a dependency.
+#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+const DEFAULT_LOG: &str = "info,dr_=debug,darkroom_desktop=debug,onnxruntime=debug,\
+     wgpu_core=warn,wgpu_hal=warn,zbus=warn,tracing=warn,calloop=warn,rawler=warn";
+
 fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     // TRACES: FR-PLAT-WIN-3
     // Before the logger, the crash hook and everything else: this exists so a
@@ -33,10 +49,9 @@ fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     // (NFR-OPS-1). `filter()` is asked afterwards because the environment may
     // have overridden the default below, and the file must not be quieter than
     // the terminal.
-    let console = env_logger::Builder::from_env(env_logger::Env::default().default_filter_or(
-        "info,wgpu_core=warn,wgpu_hal=warn,zbus=warn,tracing=warn,calloop=warn,rawler=warn",
-    ))
-    .build();
+    let console =
+        env_logger::Builder::from_env(env_logger::Env::default().default_filter_or(DEFAULT_LOG))
+            .build();
     let level = console.filter();
     let logging = dr_plat::diagnostics::install(Box::new(console), level);
 
diff --git a/platform/dr-plat/src/crash.rs b/platform/dr-plat/src/crash.rs
index 988d1da..612a211 100644
--- a/platform/dr-plat/src/crash.rs
+++ b/platform/dr-plat/src/crash.rs
@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ pub fn set_state_dir(dir: PathBuf) {
 
 /// Where this application keeps state that is neither configuration nor cache.
 ///
-/// `$XDG_STATE_HOME/darkroom`, falling back to `~/.local/state/darkroom`.
+/// `$XDG_STATE_HOME/darkroom`, falling back to `~/.local/state/darkroom` —
+/// `~/Library/Logs/darkroom` on macOS (`dirs`).
 /// State rather than cache because a crash record must survive the sweep that
 /// a cache directory exists to permit, and rather than config because it is
 /// not something the user edits.
diff --git a/platform/dr-plat/src/diagnostics.rs b/platform/dr-plat/src/diagnostics.rs
index cef31a3..5ec5444 100644
--- a/platform/dr-plat/src/diagnostics.rs
+++ b/platform/dr-plat/src/diagnostics.rs
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@
 //!
 //! * Linux: `$XDG_STATE_HOME/darkroom/darkroom.log`, else
 //!   `~/.local/state/darkroom/darkroom.log`.
+//! * macOS: `$XDG_STATE_HOME/darkroom/darkroom.log`, else
+//!   `~/Library/Logs/darkroom/darkroom.log`, where Console.app lists it.
 //! * Android: `/sdcard/Android/data/paris.tourolle.darkroom/files/darkroom.log`,
 //!   which `adb pull` reads from an ordinary release build. See
 //!   [`crate::state`] for why not the internal directory, and
diff --git a/platform/dr-plat/src/dirs.rs b/platform/dr-plat/src/dirs.rs
index d39639e..5ebe17e 100644
--- a/platform/dr-plat/src/dirs.rs
+++ b/platform/dr-plat/src/dirs.rs
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
 //! | Unix default | `~/.config` | `~/.local/share` | `~/.local/state` |
 //! | Windows | `%APPDATA%` | `%LOCALAPPDATA%` | `%LOCALAPPDATA%`, then `state` |
 //! | Windows default | `%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming` | `…\AppData\Local` | `…\AppData\Local` |
+//! | macOS default | `~/.config` | `~/.local/share` | `~/Library/Logs` |
+//!
+//! macOS follows the Unix rules except for the one directory a user is asked
+//! to find by hand: the log. Finder hides `~/.local`, and `~/Library/Logs`
+//! is where Console.app and a Mac user already look (docs/dev/macos.md).
 //!
 //! then `darkroom` under each. Config roams on Windows and the rest does not,
 //! which is the same split XDG makes between config and everything else, and
@@ -100,11 +105,18 @@ fn resolve(kind: Base, env: impl Fn(&str) -> Option<OsString>) -> PathBuf {
     }
 }
 
+/// Where state goes under `$HOME` when `XDG_STATE_HOME` does not say.
+const STATE_UNDER_HOME: &str = if cfg!(target_os = "macos") {
+    "Library/Logs"
+} else {
+    ".local/state"
+};
+
 fn xdg_base(kind: Base, env: &impl Fn(&str) -> Option<OsString>) -> Option<PathBuf> {
     let (var, under_home) = match kind {
         Base::Config => ("XDG_CONFIG_HOME", ".config"),
         Base::Data => ("XDG_DATA_HOME", ".local/share"),
-        Base::State => ("XDG_STATE_HOME", ".local/state"),
+        Base::State => ("XDG_STATE_HOME", STATE_UNDER_HOME),
     };
     absolute(env(var)).or_else(|| absolute(env("HOME")).map(|h| h.join(under_home)))
 }
@@ -150,7 +162,7 @@ mod tests {
         );
         assert_eq!(
             xdg_base(Base::State, &e),
-            Some(PathBuf::from("/home/someone/.local/state"))
+            Some(PathBuf::from("/home/someone").join(STATE_UNDER_HOME))
         );
     }
 
@@ -162,7 +174,7 @@ mod tests {
         let e = env(&[("XDG_STATE_HOME", "state"), ("HOME", "/home/someone")]);
         assert_eq!(
             xdg_base(Base::State, &e),
-            Some(PathBuf::from("/home/someone/.local/state"))
+            Some(PathBuf::from("/home/someone").join(STATE_UNDER_HOME))
         );
         assert_eq!(xdg_base(Base::State, &env(&[("HOME", "")])), None);
     }