Tappie is a free GUI for the Homebrew package manager. It lets you browse, search, install, uninstall, and update Homebrew packages without the command line.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
Moldova
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Homebrew Alternatives
Apps similar to Homebrew include Chocolatey, which is open source with a free version. Other options are Ninite, Scoop, Flathub and MacUpdater. There's no shortage of Package Managers like Homebrew, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, the web and iPad.
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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
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
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
proto is a pluggable next-generation version manager for multiple programming languages. A unified toolchain.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
Platforms
- Linux
- Global
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:
Platforms
- Mac
Brazil
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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
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Online
It will help you install Flatpak apps in a user-friendly way. We have recipes for some of them to install them even better.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (LGPL-2.1)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
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Open-source software that creates platform-independent build artifacts and provides built-in deployment and management capabilities.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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