Came back from a week away, and Cryptomator wouldn’t open on my 16-inch M3 MacBook Pro running Sonoma (14.7.4). The error message that popped up prompted me to look at a discussion thread here that suggested using FUSE-T to fix the issue. After discovering that there was also a newer version to install (whose page also recommended FUSE-T), I installed that, and successfully installed FUSE-T as well. I will say that Cryptomator seemed a little zippier to respond when I signed into the new version.
Anyway, this message on the download page sparked my curiousity:
“We recommend installing FUSE-T. FUSE is optional but offers better integration into macOS.”
I’m a moderately knowledgeable Mac user, and would love to know more about how FUSE “offers better integration into macOS”.
Many thanks in advance,
John
We admittedly have bad and outdated documentation regarding the volume type. 
Neither option is ideal, but macFUSE is the most mature one. So if you consider yourself a “moderately knowledgeable Mac user” and feel comfortable with booting into recovery mode (just once) to enable loading of kernel extensions, I would recommend using this option. Here is an installation guide.
For those folks who dislike the idea of having 3rd party kernel extensions, we recommend using fuse-t. It isn’t that mature and we have received reports of malfunctions.
Lastly, we have WebDAV for those wo don’t want to install any additional software, regardless of whether it is running in kernel or user space. It is sufficient for most file-based operations, however it feels a little clunky with warnings being displayed regarding the connection (to localhost) not being secure (because no CA will ever issue a TLS certificate for localhost).
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Thanks @overheadhunter. My only hesitation with macFUSE is that I don’t trust Apple to eventually disallow kernel extensions altogether. I’m curious about using WebDAV; is there a configuration guide for that?
Thanks again!
Hi.
There is not much to configure apart from selecting the volume type
https://docs.cryptomator.org/desktop/volume-type/