homebrew-catz

The litter's Homebrew tap. One line and a cat comes home.

Homebrew asks you to trust a tap that is not its own before it loads anything from it — so the first time it is tap, trust, install:

brew tap catzoidhub/catz && brew trust catzoidhub/catz
brew install --cask devcatz dbcatz dialcatz

After that, any cat by its short name:

brew install --cask devcatz
brew install --cask dbcatz
brew install --cask dialcatz
brew install --cask docatz      # coming soon
brew install mcatzp             # coming soon — a formula, so no --cask

Name	What it is
devcatz	Finally, someone herds the cats. A local development environment: every site on its own https://*.localhost, with every runtime, database, mail, search, tunnel and Docker in one app.
dbcatz	Curiosity won't kill this cat. One window for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, Valkey, MongoDB and Elasticsearch.
dialcatz	Dial an endpoint. Hear it purr. An API client for REST, GraphQL and WebSocket, with a self-hosted team server.
docatz	A light container engine for your Mac. Still a kitten — coming soon.
mcatzp (formula)	The MCP with the cats inside. One MCP server for your AI assistant to reach every cat. Coming soon. Install with brew install catzoidhub/catz/mcatzp (no --cask).

Every cat is notarized by Apple, runs on macOS 13 or later (Apple silicon and Intel), and updates itself — Homebrew only puts it in place the first time. All cats, no catch: free and open source, no account.

Uninstall

brew uninstall --cask devcatz          # the app
brew uninstall --zap --cask devcatz    # the app and everything it keeps in ~/Library

DevCatz also changes a few things outside your home folder (the clean-URL services, /etc/resolver entries and its local certificate authority). Remove those first with DevCatz → Settings → Uninstall DevCatz, which lists every item before it touches anything — see catzoid.com/docs/uninstall.

For maintainers

scripts/bump.sh <app> <version> reads the Apple silicon and Intel DMGs of that release on GitHub and writes the version and both SHA-256 sums into Casks/<app>.rb — or, for MCatzP, the npm tarball's URL and SHA-256 into Formula/mcatzp.rb — and prints the diff. docatz and mcatzp wait for their first releases. Commit and push; brew update picks it up.

The casks and formula are MIT-licensed; the apps themselves are GPL-3.0 and MCatzP Apache-2.0 — see each repository on github.com/catzoidhub.