brew-browser

What it does

Homebrew has 13,000+ packages and zero great GUIs. brew-browser is a real native macOS app (Tauri 2 + Svelte 5, not Electron) that makes the whole catalog browsable, installable, and beautiful. Pre-baked AI-generated descriptions and categories for every package, magic search that understands "video player" → VLC.Offline-first, MIT-licensed, zero telemetry, zero accounts.

Browse, search, install, and snapshot Homebrew packages from a small, fast native desktop app. Full source. MIT licensed. No telemetry, no accounts.

Browse what you have installed. Search the full catalog. Install, uninstall, upgrade with live output. Snapshot your setup to a Brewfile and restore it on a new Mac. Shipped as a cross-platform Tauri app and a fully native Swift / SwiftUI app. Your Homebrew at a glance: installed count, updates available, brew version, formula/cask split, top-categories donut, and storage usage with one-click Reveal in Finder. Every installed formula and cask in one dense, filterable list, with outdated badges and a slide-over detail panel. Cask icons extracted from the real .app bundle. Search the full Homebrew package index (16,028 packages, bundled at build time) by name or by the 19-category tile grid.…from brew-browser.zerologic.com

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  Homebrew 6.0.0Jun 2026 · brew.sh · ▲1,481

  Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 6.0.0. The most significant changes since 5.1.0 are a new tap trust security mechanism, the new faster, smaller, default internal Homebrew JSON API, sandboxing on Linux, better defaults informed by our user survey, many brew bundle improvements, improved performance and initial support for macOS 27 (Golden Gate). Happy to discuss any questions here!

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  Applite – Clean Homebrew front end app for macOS built with SwiftUI2023 · aerolite.dev · ▲280

  Find, install, update and remove Mac apps in one click. Thousands of apps in one place. Free and open source.

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  Brewer X, a native macOS client for Homebrew2024 · panini.house · ▲40

  Hi HN! Like many of you, for my entire career I have relied on Homebrew to install all kinds of software on my Mac. That's why today I'm really excited to share a new app that my partner and I are building: Brewer X, a refreshing user interface for Homebrew. Brewer X is graphical interface that lives on top of Homebrew. Leveraging the power of native APIs improves the classic experience and unlocks new features. For example: • bulk actions are performed in parallel • syncing the entire library locally provides incredible search performances and the ability to query descriptions and other…

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  TaphouseJan 2026 · taphouse.multimodalsolutions.gr · ▲120

  Taphouse is a native Homebrew GUI for Mac — a visual Homebrew package manager to install, update, and clean up brew packages without the terminal. Free download for macOS.

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  tea2023 · tea.xyz · ▲303

  The Homebrew replacement from the maker of Homebrew

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  Brewlet – The Missing Menulet for Brew.sh2020 · github.com · ▲22

  The missing menulet for brew.sh: keeping your packages up-to-date, and your system secure. - zkokaja/Brewlet

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  /dev/null▲481

  a social network for devs

  Dev tools · 2d ago · dev-null.sh

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  Whiteboard (YC W26) – an open-source IDE for thoughtful software design▲423

  open-source IDE for thoughtful software design. Contribute to devdotfast/whiteboard development by creating an account on GitHub.

  Dev tools · 27d ago · github.com

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  Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things▲411

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  Dev tools · 25d ago · github.com

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  OpenBot▲362

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  Dev tools · 22d ago · openbot.run

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  Talanoa▲341

  Hi HN, I’m a fullstack developer, and honestly, I’ve lost count of how many side projects I’ve worked on over the years. But one idea kept coming back to me: a different kind of email client. It first came to me in 2014: “What if we could handle emails more like conversations?” Every year, I’d revisit this concept in my “Build Notes.” Ten years later, no one had built exactly what I had in mind — so I finally decided to do it myself. That’s how Talanoa was born. I wanted something focused on people, not timelines. I was tired of marking messages as unread just to remember to reply later, or…

  Dev tools · 20d ago · talanoa.email

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  CoreSpeed▲332

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  Dev tools · 27d ago · corespeed.io

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  Brew ▲900

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  AI · May 2026 · brew.new

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  Kilo Code for VS Code▲896

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  Dev tools · May 2026 · kilo.ai

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  StoreClaw▲806

  Grow your store profits with agents that know how to sell

  AI · May 2026 · storeclaw.ai

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  PollyReach▲795

  Give your agent a real number and voice to make calls.

  AI · May 2026 · pollyreach.ai

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  Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model▲776

  Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budget phones, so we conducted investigations that led to an observation: agentic experiences are built upon tool calling, and massive models are overkill for it. Tool calling is fundamentally retrieval-and-assembly (match query to tool name, extract argument values, emit JSON), not reasoning. Cross-attention…

  Life & fun · May 2026 · github.com

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  Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian▲730

  🌱 Private, quiet space for thinking. Simple app for .md files. - zakirullin/files.md

  Dev tools · May 2026 · github.com