Brewer

A native Homebrew app for the Mac that turns brew commands into simple point-and-click actions. Built in SwiftUI. Everything maps directly to real brew commands, so your setup stays portable, familiar, and fully yours.

🌐 Website: monzdigital.github.io/brewer · ⬇️ Download the latest release

brew install --cask monzdigital/tap/brewer

Early build, not yet notarized - macOS blocks the first launch, and the first launch after each update. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click "Open Anyway", or clear the quarantine flag in Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Brewer.app (Homebrew 7 removed the old --no-quarantine install option.)

Brewer and BrewUI. Homebrew 7 ships BrewUI, an official app for browsing and searching packages on macOS 26 and later. Brewer is built for everything around the packages - App Store and Sparkle app updates, uninstalls with leftovers, scheduled upgrades, health and security checks - and runs on macOS 14 Sonoma and later.

Features

Browse & install

• Search formulae, casks and third-party taps from one search bar (full user/repo/package paths supported - missing taps can be added automatically)
• Inspect dependencies, license, caveats, disk usage and quarantine status before installing
• One-click install with live command output streamed into the console panel
• Curated Discover catalog with live install counts from formulae.brew.sh

Manage what you have

• Everything installed in one list; filter by formulae, casks, outdated, favorites, pinned
• Multi-select to upgrade, uninstall, pin or favorite in bulk
• Reinstall, link/unlink (keg-only and unlinked formulae are flagged), reveal apps in Finder
• Adopt apps already in /Applications (brew install --cask --adopt)
• Per-package notes, tags and collections; compact list mode

Stay up to date

• Scheduled update checks (6h/12h/daily/weekly) with notifications that open the right page
• Optional automatic background upgrades - battery-aware (AC power / Low Power Mode)
• Menu bar icon with outdated count at a glance; optional menu-bar-only mode and launch at login
• Running apps are closed cleanly before their cask is upgraded and reopened afterwards
• Snooze updates per package (for a duration, per version, or indefinitely - the cask equivalent of brew pin); snoozed packages are never touched by "Upgrade All"
• Optional greedy mode lists and upgrades self-updating casks consistently (--greedy-auto-updates)
• App Updates: scans Sparkle feeds of installed apps and compares versions the way Sparkle does (build numbers), skipping betas and releases that need a newer macOS

Services, taps & Brewfiles

• Start / stop / restart brew services with one click
• Add and remove taps; tap details (formula/cask counts, repo link)
• Tap trust the way Homebrew recommends: trust just the packages you installed from a tap, or the whole tap after a confirmation (brew trust)
• Packages from untrusted taps don't silently vanish: Homebrew leaves them out of its package lists, so Brewer reads their install receipts and points you to Taps
• Export, import and check Brewfiles (brew bundle)

Keep Homebrew healthy

• Health dashboard: outdated count, deprecated/disabled packages, orphans, cache size, doctor issues, health score
• brew doctor in a readable interface - on Homebrew 7 as structured findings with affected packages and one-click fixes (brew doctor --json)
• Security advisories: scan installed formulae with brew vulns (OSV.dev), ranked by severity, with links, fix status and upgrade buttons
• Support-tier notices when Homebrew 7 treats your Mac as Tier 3 (Intel, Rosetta installs, macOS 14 Sonoma)
• Cleanup preview (--dry-run) with per-file sizes, one-click cleanup
• Remove quarantine flags from cask apps
• Duplicate detection (multi-version kegs, Homebrew ⟷ App Store overlaps)

All apps, not just Homebrew (MacUpdater / Latest-style)

• Apps inventory: every app on the Mac with install source (Homebrew / App Store / Sparkle / manual), size and architecture
• Direct Sparkle updates: download → verify (EdDSA signature and code-signing identity) → back up the old version → extract (zip/dmg/tar) → install, with release-notes preview, automatic rollback on failure and restore from backups
• Apps inside /Applications subfolders (Setapp, Utilities, vendor folders) are scanned too; Setapp and App Store editions are left to their own stores, so their licenses never break
• Background checks notify you when app updates appear

Complete uninstaller (AppCleaner-style)

• Drag & drop any app (or drop it on the Dock icon) to remove it together with its caches, preferences, support files, logs and containers (everything goes to the Trash - recoverable)
• Homebrew casks are uninstalled through brew, leftovers cleaned after
• SmartDelete: optionally watch your Applications folders and offer leftover cleanup when you delete an app the normal way (no Full Disk Access needed)
• Safety first: Apple/system apps are protected; name-only matches require review

Extras

• Installation history · dependency tree visualization · Apple Silicon scan (finds Intel-only apps and Rosetta-installed brew) · mas CLI integration · notifications when long operations finish · bottom-docked live console with a cancellable queue (Homebrew runs one command at a time) · failed operations keep their output in History

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