brewy mit Homebrew Cask installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

In der lokalen Paketdatenbank wurden keine Executable-Aliase gefunden.

Projektgeschichte

Patrick Linnane created Brewy as a native Swift and SwiftUI macOS interface for repetitive Homebrew administration. The project is AGPL-licensed and was publicly developed during 2026.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Brewy entered Homebrew Cask and also remained available through the developer’s own tap and GitHub Releases. Its early adoption is modest but visible in the official repository’s package-focused community activity.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users browse installed and discoverable formulae and casks, inspect dependency relationships, install or remove packages, apply upgrades, manage services and taps, run maintenance operations with previews, and review command history.

Brewy expects Homebrew on Apple Silicon macOS and defaults to /opt/homebrew/bin/brew, while allowing the executable path to be changed in Settings.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Brewy is explicitly built for Homebrew enthusiasts: it exposes formulae, casks, taps, services, dependencies, leaves, outdated packages, Brewfiles, and maintenance commands through a native Mac interface. Its use of Homebrew itself as the preferred installation method gives it a self-referential appeal in package-manager culture.

Zeitleiste

• 2026: Brewy was publicly developed as an AGPL-licensed Homebrew GUI.
• 2026: Brewy became installable from Homebrew Cask as well as the Starhaven tap.

Related projects

• Homebrew is the underlying package manager Brewy controls.
• Homebrew Cask supplies macOS application packages displayed and managed by Brewy.
• mas is an optional command-line dependency used for Mac App Store applications.

Quellen

• https://github.com/starhaven-io/Brewy
• https://github.com/starhaven-io/Brewy/releases