Homebrew Alternatives

Homebrew is described as 'The easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn’t include with macOS. Also available for Linux' and is a very popular Package Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Homebrew for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Web-based and Flatpak apps. The best Homebrew alternative is Chocolatey, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Homebrew are Ninite, MacUpdater, Scoop and Flatpak.

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  1. Cakebrew icon
     18 likes

    Cakebrew is 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:

    21 Cakebrew alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. macapps.link icon
     42 likes

    The best alternative to Ninite for Mac. Get multiple apps silently. Just choose what apps to install and get apps installed automatically, fast and easy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Online
     
  3. Fink icon
     8 likes

    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
     
  4. Rudix icon
     3 likes

    Rudix is a package-based, user-friendly way to extend the Unix portion of Mac OS X with additional network utilities, computer languages, development libraries, text tools and everything else you missed from command line.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. pkgsrc icon
     3 likes

    pkgsrc is a framework for building over 17,000 open source software packages. It is the native package manager on SmartOS, NetBSD, and Minix, and is portable across 23 different operating systems. Use one package manager across all of your systems!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
  6. This project aims to bring the convenience of a declarative system approach to macOS. nix-darwin is built up around Nixpkgs, quite similar to NixOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. Autonomix icon
     1 like

    Linux package manager for GitHub releases - like Obtainium for Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8.  2 likes

    Eget is the best way to easily get pre-built binaries for your favorite tools. It downloads and extracts pre-built binaries from releases on GitHub

    53 eget alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • GitHub
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
     
  9. AM icon
     3 likes

    AUR-inspired database, and package manager to install, update (for real) and manage ALL AppImages and other portable formats for GNU/Linux, system-wide or locally, with the ease of APT and the power of PacMan.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. Chef Habitat icon
     1 like

    Open-source software that creates platform-independent build artifacts and provides built-in deployment and management capabilities.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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