# Install maclaunch with Homebrew

Manage your macOS startup items. Version 2.5 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:maclaunch
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install maclaunch
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:maclaunch
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/maclaunch>
- **Version:** 2.5
- **Source summary:** Manage your macOS startup items
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/hazcod/maclaunch>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/hazcod/maclaunch>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/hazcod/maclaunch/archive/refs/tags/2.5.tar.gz>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- maclaunch (cli)
- maclaunch (alias)

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on all

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-04
- Package-manager version: 2.5
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/hazcod/maclaunch
- Upstream latest detected: 2.5 (current)
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Project history and usage

maclaunch is a shell-based macOS CLI for listing, enabling, and disabling startup items. The README positions it as a way to inspect persistent launch mechanisms and control them with native macOS tools.

### Project history

The official repository was created in January 2017. Its scope is intentionally narrow: enumerate startup mechanisms such as LaunchAgents, LaunchDaemons, kernel extensions, system extensions, hooks, emond scripts, and cron scripts, then toggle them without rewriting their files.

### Adoption history

The README documents Homebrew installation and manual copying of the shell script. Repository metadata captured during this run showed a few hundred GitHub stars, consistent with a niche but useful macOS administration utility.

### How it is used

Typical commands are `maclaunch list`, `maclaunch list enabled`, `maclaunch list system`, `maclaunch enable <filter>`, and `maclaunch disable <filter>`. The README also documents `ML_SYSTEM` for showing or hiding likely-uninteresting system startup items.

### Why package nerds care

maclaunch matters to package and system tinkerers because launchd agents and daemons are a common side effect of installing Mac software. A small CLI that filters and toggles them gives Homebrew-era Mac users a scriptable way to audit what starts automatically.

### Timeline

- 2017: Official GitHub repository created.
- 2023: Repository activity continued through commits pushed to the default branch.

### Related projects

- The tool is related to `launchctl`, `kextutil`, `systemextensionsctl`, and other macOS startup-management surfaces that it wraps or inspects.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/hazcod/maclaunch>
- <https://github.com/hazcod/maclaunch>
- <https://github.com/hazcod/maclaunch#readme>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** maclaunch
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Requirements:** macos
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable


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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/maclaunch.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/maclaunch.yml)


## Sources

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