# Install caskhub with Homebrew Cask

Native GUI for Homebrew casks. Version 0.9.3 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install cask:caskhub
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew Cask (100%):

```sh
brew install --cask caskhub
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew cask metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** cask:caskhub
- **Package manager:** Homebrew Cask
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/caskhub>
- **Version:** 0.9.3
- **Source summary:** Native GUI for Homebrew casks
- **Homepage:** <https://caskhub.app/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/alielsokary/CaskHub>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://caskhub.app/>
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/alielsokary/CaskHub/releases/download/0.9.3/CaskHub-0.9.3.zip>
- **Generated:** 2026-11-04T12:20:42+00:00

## Install behavior

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

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-11-04
- Package-manager version: 0.9.3
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/alielsokary/CaskHub
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## Project history and usage

CaskHub is a native macOS graphical frontend and discovery interface for Homebrew casks. It uses Homebrew's public API for browsing and analytics, reads local Caskroom receipts, and invokes the user's real brew executable for package operations.

### Project history

CaskHub was created as a free, open-source SwiftUI application that presents Homebrew casks as a native macOS app store. Its feature set grew to include popularity charts, category browsing, installed-app detection, update handling, adoption of applications installed outside Homebrew, and native authorization prompts.

### Adoption history

CaskHub is available as a downloadable macOS application and as a Homebrew cask. Its interoperability with the brew command line lets users move between graphical and terminal-driven package management without creating a separate application inventory.

### How it is used

Users can browse the cask catalog without Homebrew installed. Installing, updating, adopting, or uninstalling applications requires Homebrew; resulting installations remain manageable through either CaskHub or the brew command line.

### Why package nerds care

CaskHub is explicitly built around Homebrew Cask culture. It exposes catalog metadata, installation analytics, Caskroom receipts, custom Homebrew prefixes, formula operations, and externally installed app adoption through a native interface. This makes Homebrew's packaging model approachable without hiding the underlying brew-managed state.

### Timeline

- Initial development: CaskHub was introduced as a native SwiftUI interface for Homebrew casks.
- Later development: The application added charts, categorization, app adoption, update detection, privacy controls, and CaskFlow-produced metadata.
- 2026: The supplied Homebrew Cask record distributes CaskHub 0.6.9.

### Related projects

- Homebrew provides the package manager and public cask catalog consumed by CaskHub.
- CaskFlow is the companion pipeline that produces CaskHub category data, first-seen dates, and application icons.
- Sparkle supplies CaskHub's built-in application-update mechanism.

### Sources

- <https://caskhub.app/>
- <https://github.com/alielsokary/CaskHub>
- source_facts.package-manager.brew-cask


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for caskhub. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew cask API
- **Tap:** homebrew/cask
- **Full Token:** caskhub
- **Names:** CaskHub
- **Depends On:** Macos: >=: 15
- **Artifacts:** App: 1, Target: 1, Uninstall: 1, Zap: 1
- **Auto Updates:** yes
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no


## Related links

- [Homebrew Cask packages](https://pkg.so/homebrew-cask-packages/) - Generated from Homebrew Cask package-manager metadata.
- [Homebrew Cask applications](https://pkg.so/homebrew-cask-applications/) - Cask artifact metadata includes an app bundle.
- [Desktop app packages](https://pkg.so/desktop-app-packages/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [taphouse](https://pkg.so/cask/taphouse/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: gui, homebrew, native.
- [applite](https://pkg.so/cask/applite/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: gui, homebrew.
- [brewy](https://pkg.so/cask/brewy/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: gui, homebrew.

## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph