A native macOS companion for exploring, maintaining, and understanding your Homebrew installation.
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Brewtender provides a focused SwiftUI interface over common Homebrew workflows. It keeps package information, live command progress, and maintenance tools in one native macOS app while leaving Homebrew as the source of truth.
- Browse installed formulae and casks with versions, metadata, dependencies, and app icons.
- Discover new packages and review available formula, cask, and self-updating app releases.
- Install, upgrade, or uninstall packages with live progress and verbose output.
- Inspect and control Homebrew services and taps.
- Understand disk usage with storage breakdowns and package-level measurements.
- Review operation history, export or restore a Brewfile, and run cleanup, doctor, or autoremove tasks.
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- macOS 26.5 or later
- Homebrew available on the local Mac
- Xcode with the macOS 26.5 SDK for development
Open Brewtender.xcodeproj in Xcode, select the Brewtender scheme, and press Command-R.
For a signing-free command-line build:
xcodebuild \
-project Brewtender.xcodeproj \
-scheme Brewtender \
-configuration Debug \
-destination 'platform=macOS' \
build CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NODownload the latest DMG from GitHub Releases. Open it and drag Brewtender into the Applications shortcut.
Release tags use the date format YYYYMMDD. Pushing a tag such as 20260812 builds a universal Release app, sets the app version to the tag, creates Brewtender 20260812.dmg, and publishes it with a SHA-256 checksum.
Current CI artifacts use ad-hoc signing. macOS may require using Open from Finder's context menu the first time the app is launched. Developer ID signing and notarization will be added before a broadly distributed stable release.
Brewtender is under active development. Package-changing actions execute against the Homebrew installation on the current Mac, so review confirmation dialogs and command output before continuing.
Contributions are welcome. Read CONTRIBUTING.md for the development workflow and AGENTS.md for repository-specific conventions.
Brewtender is available under the MIT License.