Native macOS GUI for Homebrew. Browse, search, install, and manage packages, casks, services, and taps with a beautiful interface.
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Cakebrew Alternatives
Cakebrew is described as 'The most convenient way to use Homebrew for your daily tasks! It does for Homebrew what Synaptics does to Linux package managers. From the Cakebrew UI, you can:' and is a Package Manager in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Cakebrew for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Linux, Homebrew, Flatpak and Go (Programming Language) apps. The best Cakebrew alternative is Homebrew, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cakebrew are Updatest, WailBrew, Warehouse and Brewer X.
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Cork is not just an interface for Homebrew. It has many features that are either very hard to accomplish using Homebrew alone, or straight-up not possible.
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Cork vs Cakebrew Comments
FlaiberCork is much faster and more polished. Feels much better than Cakebrew, and I think it has even more features. It's also not abandoned.
Janosz VeberIt's a nice and fast app for a reasonable price. Even free if you compile it yourself
- Cork is Freemium and Open Source
- Cork is Lightweight and Privacy focused
A fast package manager for macOS and Linux. Written in Zig. Uses Homebrew's bottles and formulas under the hood, plus native .deb support for Docker containers.
The MacPorts Project is an opensource package management system that simplifies compiling, installing, upgrading, and removal of other open-source software on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and later, running on Intel or Apple Silicon.
A macOS menu bar app for Homebrew updates with automatic background checking. Shows at a glance when updates are available, with configurable check intervals and one-click upgrades.
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What is Fink?
Fink is a project that wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. As a result, we have two main goals. First, to modify existing Open Source software so that it will compile and run on Mac OS X. (This process is called portin.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
Download Cakebrewjs for free. Homebrew GUI App written in electron. brew GUI, Possible to install using:
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
10 McBrew alternativesA fast GUI for Homebrew written in SwiftUI. This is my personal spin on the awesome version from buresdv. Adding in features and redesigning the look to fit more of my needs. Also using this as a learning opportunity for Swift as I'm new to it.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Go (Programming Language)
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You need to pay to install the app. Otherwise you have to build from source yourself. But it probably is the best alternative to cakebrew since it supports cask.