# Install cherrytree with Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, apt, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop, winget
Hierarchical note taking application featuring rich text and syntax highlighting. Version 1.7.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-19. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install cherrytree.
## Install
```sh
sudo av install brew:cherrytree
```
Additional install commands:
### macOS
- Homebrew (100%):
```sh
brew install cherrytree
```
Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata
- MacPorts (94%):
```sh
sudo port install cherrytree
```
Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: editors/cherrytree/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
### Linux
- apk (92%):
```sh
sudo apk add cherrytree
```
Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cherrytree from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
- Debian apt (92%):
```sh
sudo apt install cherrytree
```
Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: cherrytree from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
- Nix (92%):
```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#cherrytree
```
Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ch/cherrytree/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman (92%):
```sh
sudo pacman -S cherrytree
```
Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: cherrytree from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
- zypper (92%):
```sh
sudo zypper install cherrytree
```
Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cherrytree from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst
### Windows
- Chocolatey (92%):
```sh
choco install cherrytree
```
Evidence: Chocolatey community package catalog: cherrytree from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','capnproto'
- Scoop (92%):
```sh
scoop install extras/cherrytree
```
Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/cherrytree.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget (92%):
```sh
winget install --id Giuspen.Cherrytree -e
```
Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: Giuspen.Cherrytree from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
## Package facts
- **Package key:** brew:cherrytree
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.7.1
- **Source summary:** Hierarchical note taking application featuring rich text and syntax highlighting
- **Homepage:**
- **Repository:**
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-19T01:08:44Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00
## Executables
- cherrytree (alias)
## Install behavior
- Bottle: not available
## Freshness
- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.7.1
## Project history and usage
CherryTree is a GTK desktop note-taking application built around hierarchical notebooks, rich text, syntax highlighting, and portable single-file or directory-backed storage.
### Project history
The official README describes CherryTree as a hierarchical note-taking application written by Giuseppe Penone and Evgenii Gurianov. Its feature set grew around programmer-friendly notes: rich text, code boxes, syntax highlighting, embedded files, import/export, PDF/HTML/plain-text output, and storage as XML or SQLite.
The project is distributed from giuspen.net and developed in the official GitHub repository. Current releases continue to ship cross-platform binaries and source archives, with Homebrew tracking version 1.7.0 in 2026.
### Adoption history
CherryTree became a familiar package-manager entry because it filled the local, offline, tree-structured notes niche on Unix desktops. The input package metadata lists packages for Homebrew, Debian/Ubuntu, Arch, Alpine, MacPorts, Nix, openSUSE, Chocolatey, Scoop, and winget.
Homebrew's formula metadata reported 3,461 installs in the trailing 365-day window at research time, a modest but real signal for a GUI app in a mostly CLI package manager.
### How it is used
Users launch the `cherrytree` desktop executable to maintain hierarchical note trees, often mixing formatted prose, code snippets, images, links, and exported documents in one notebook file.
The official README notes import support from several older note tools, which matters for users moving long-lived personal knowledge bases between desktop note applications.
### Why package nerds care
CherryTree is package-nerd-interesting because it is a desktop productivity app that still behaves like a good Unix package: source tarballs, distro packaging, predictable local files, and no hosted service dependency.
Its Homebrew formula is also a reminder that Brew is not just compilers and daemons; it carries end-user GTK applications when they have stable upstream releases.
### Timeline
- 2025: CherryTree 1.x releases continued on GitHub, including 1.6.x maintenance releases.
- 2026: CherryTree 1.7.0 was published upstream and tracked by Homebrew.
### Related projects
- The official README names SourCherry as a third-party Android project and cherrytree-notes-web-interface as an enhanced web interface for HTML exports.
- CherryTree sits near other local note-tree tools in the package ecosystem, especially older import targets such as KeepNote, NoteCase, Zim, Tomboy, and RedNotebook.
### Sources
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## Security Notes
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
## Other Package-Manager Records
- Debian apt - cherrytree - 1.2.0+dfsg-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: cherrytree from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | hierarchical note taking application | https://www.giuspen.net/cherrytree/
- Nix - cherrytree: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ch/cherrytree/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - cherrytree - 1.1.2+dfsg-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: cherrytree from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | hierarchical note taking application | https://www.giuspen.net/cherrytree/
- apk - cherrytree - 1.7.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cherrytree from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | hierarchical note taking application featuring rich text and syntax highlighting | https://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree
- apk - cherrytree-doc - 1.7.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cherrytree-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | hierarchical note taking application featuring rich text and syntax highlighting (documentation) | https://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree
- apk - cherrytree-lang - 1.7.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cherrytree-lang from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Languages for package cherrytree | https://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree
- pacman - cherrytree - 1.6.3-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: cherrytree from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Hierarchical note-taking application | https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/
- zypper - cherrytree - 1.6.3-2.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cherrytree from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | A hierarchical note taking application | https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/
- zypper - cherrytree-lang - 1.6.3-2.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cherrytree-lang from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Translations for package cherrytree | https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/
- MacPorts - cherrytree: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: editors/cherrytree/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Chocolatey - cherrytree: normalized package name match | Chocolatey community package catalog: cherrytree from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','capnproto'
- Scoop - extras/cherrytree: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/cherrytree.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - Giuspen.Cherrytree: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: Giuspen.Cherrytree from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
## Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/cherrytree.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/cherrytree.yml)
## Sources
- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph