Mac Inventory

What it does

Run one Terminal command, paste the output, and get a searchable inventory of Homebrew formulae, casks, Apple packages and Applications with update and uninstall scripts.

Run one Terminal command, paste the output, and browse Homebrew formulae, casks, Apple packages, Applications and background helpers — with updates, dependencies and system warnings.

New in today's update: a fifth category, Background Updaters & Helpers , so items like Microsoft AutoUpdate finally show up. Open the tool, paste your Terminal output and look for the new tab. Run one command, paste the output, and browse brew , casks , pkg , apps and background helpers in one place — with updates, dependencies and system warnings. One day I randomly noticed a local web server running on my Mac. I had not started it, and I could not say what had. That led to a bigger question: what else is running here without me knowing? I looked for tools that build that kind of inventory. They were expensive, installed even more junk on the machine, and gave no real clue about what was…from macpackages.com

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