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Install buckets with Homebrew Cask

Budgeting tool. Version 0.80.0 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data.

Install commandSecurity notes

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Additional install commands

macOS

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brew install --cask buckets

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overview

Package summary

Budgeting tool

Commands and aliases

No executable aliases were found in the local package database.

history

Project history and usage

Buckets is a private personal-finance application that applies the bucket-budgeting method and stores each budget locally.

Project history

Buckets was created as a personal and family budgeting application centered on a bucket-style allocation method. The project maintains a dedicated desktop application, an online guide, a changelog, and a public issue-tracking repository.

Adoption history

Buckets has developed as a private, desktop-oriented alternative within the envelope-budgeting ecosystem. Its official GitHub repository is used for application releases, issue tracking, and discussions, while the product itself remains focused on local financial data.

How it is used

Users create accounts and buckets, assign available money to those buckets, record or import transactions, and track debt. Budget files should be closed in Buckets before they are manipulated externally.

Why package nerds care

Buckets is notable to package users because its budgets are ordinary local files backed by SQLite rather than data that exists only inside a hosted service. The documented file format also enables careful third-party inspection and tooling.

Timeline

  • Desktop era: Buckets established a cross-platform desktop application and local budget-file workflow.
  • 2024: Beta release 0.73.0 introduced major sharing-related features.
  • Current era: The project publishes desktop releases and documents its SQLite-based budget format.

Related projects

  • YNAB
  • SQLite
  • Buckets mobile companion

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

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

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

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freshness

Version and freshness

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page generated2026-11-04
manager version0.80.0
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/buckets/application

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keycask:buckets
Version0.80.0
Package managerHomebrew Cask
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/cask/buckets
Homepagehttps://www.budgetwithbuckets.com/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/buckets/application
Upstream docshttps://www.budgetwithbuckets.com/
Source archivehttps://github.com/buckets/application/releases/download/v0.80.0/Buckets-arm64-0.80.0.dmg
SHA-2562d7ec7a7d5cf1845c9f2c7adfb37426c7886ae10abec4cca7545cc022277b9c9
Bottlenot recorded
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew cask API
Taphomebrew/cask
Full Tokenbuckets
Names
  • Buckets
Artifacts
App
1
Target
1
Zap
1
Auto Updatesyes
Deprecatedno
Disabledno

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Same workflow

  • actualLocal package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: budgeting, finance, personal, personal-finance, productivity.
  • banktivityLocal package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: finance, personal, personal-finance, productivity.
  • homebankLocal package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: finance, personal, personal-finance, productivity.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment
  • pkgdb category and tag curation