# Install redpen with Homebrew, scoop

Proofreading tool to help writers of technical documentation. Version 1.10.4 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with scoop: scoop install main/redpen.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:redpen
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install redpen
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/redpen
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/redpen.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:redpen
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.10.4
- **Source summary:** Proofreading tool to help writers of technical documentation
- **Homepage:** <https://redpen.cc/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/redpen-cc/redpen>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- redpen (alias)
- redpen-server (alias)
- redpen-server.war (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.10.4

## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Scoop - main/redpen: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/redpen.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph