Barrel App

Your macOS development environment, perfectly preserved. Never lose your setup again.

Smart discovery. Robust environment scanning.

Intelligently scans your system to discover applications, Homebrew packages, and dotfiles. Review and approve all matches before export, with full control to reject, ignore, or customize any items in your barrel.

Create your barrel. Complete environment package.

Package your entire development environment into a single, portable .barrel file. Everything you need to recreate your perfect setup on any Mac, beautifully organized and ready to restore.

• Homebrew packages with all dependencies
• Your application choices, matched to Brew casks or MAS CLI
• Dotfiles from home directory and custom paths
• Manual applications with custom download links
• SetApp subscription apps for manual reinstallation

Live restore. Guided restoration experience.

Extract your barrel and use the guided Live Restore interface to restore your complete development environment on any Mac with real-time progress tracking and automatic error handling.

• Live Restore with guided UI and progress tracking (default)
• Manual instructions with copy-paste commands option
• Automatic app reinstallation via Brew and MAS
• Dotfiles restored to their original locations
• Your custom download links for manual apps

Create recipes. A recipe for your barrel.

Turn your scans into reusable Recipes. Like a mixing recipe, they remember exactly what was scanned before, including all your match decisions, ignore choices, and custom configurations, so future barrel creation is lightning-fast.

Perfect for teams.

Create standardized team environments that new developers can set up in minutes, not hours. Share your team's complete development stack as a single file.