# Install rowel with Homebrew Cask

Offline-first password manager. Version 1.1.0 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install cask:rowel
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew Cask (100%):

```sh
brew install --cask rowel
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew cask metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** cask:rowel
- **Package manager:** Homebrew Cask
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/rowel>
- **Version:** 1.1.0
- **Source summary:** Offline-first password manager
- **Homepage:** <https://rowel.app/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/fwdai/rowel>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://rowel.app/>
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/fwdai/rowel/releases/download/v1.1.0/Rowel_1.1.0_universal.dmg>
- **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: 1.1.0
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/fwdai/rowel
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## Project history and usage

Rowel is a free, offline-first password manager whose encrypted SQLite vault remains on the user's device unless optional synchronization is enabled.

### Project history

Rowel began under the name Swifty in the swiftyapp/swifty repository and subsequently moved to fwdai/rowel after its early alpha releases.

The project developed into an offline-first credential manager supporting logins, payment-card records, secure notes, password generation, time-based one-time passwords, optional Google Drive synchronization, and browser integration.

### Adoption history

Rowel is distributed as a cross-platform desktop application for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Optional KeePassXC-Browser protocol support lets users integrate the vault with established browser autofill extensions.

### How it is used

Users store logins, payment-card details, secure notes, TOTP secrets, and passkeys in a locally encrypted vault.

Vaults can be backed up for migration or optionally synchronized through Google Drive. Browser autofill is available through Rowel's extension or the KeePassXC-Browser protocol.

### Why package nerds care

Rowel is notable as a free, open-source password manager built with Tauri, Rust, and web technologies. Its local SQLCipher vault, additional application-level encryption, reproducible toolchain, release attestations, and signed updater make it particularly relevant to users who scrutinize packaging and software-supply-chain behavior.

### Timeline

- Early alpha period: The project was developed as Swifty in the swiftyapp/swifty repository.
- After v1.0.0-alpha.6: Development and release provenance moved to fwdai/rowel.

### Related projects

- KeePassXC
- KeePassXC-Browser
- SQLCipher
- Tauri

### Sources

- <https://github.com/fwdai/rowel#readme>
- <https://github.com/fwdai/rowel/blob/main/docs/threat-model.md>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for rowel. 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:** rowel
- **Names:** Rowel
- **Old Tokens:** swifty
- **Artifacts:** App: 1, Target: 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.
- [Security and crypto packages](https://pkg.so/security-crypto-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [restfox](https://pkg.so/cask/restfox/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: first, offline, offline-first.
- [git-bug](https://pkg.so/brew/git-bug/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: first, offline, offline-first.
- [1password](https://pkg.so/cask/1password/) - Security-sensitive metadata or terminology overlaps. Shared terms: manager, password.

## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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