CocoaPods
The Cocoa Dependency Manager. (by CocoaPods)
Homebrew-cask
🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries (by Homebrew)
| CocoaPods | Homebrew-cask | |
|---|---|---|
| 55 | 56 | |
| 14,716 | 21,429 | |
| 0.0% | 0.3% | |
| 7.7 | 10.0 | |
| 13 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
CocoaPods
Posts with mentions or reviews of CocoaPods.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-08-12.
- Criando um mĂłdulo com Swift Package Manager
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Show HN: Privacy Manifest CLI tool for iOS apps
Very nice! love that it is all in swift, will give a closer look later but looks beautiful.
Recently went through this with a react native app with a ton of old dependencies and it was fairly painful. Wrote a couple not quite as beautiful scripts to help so I wish I had this before.
Tangential rant: I am all for privacy but find it really obnoxious that the most profitable company in the world is giving open source contributors to their ecosystem work on a deadline. Case in point: https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/10325
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How To Handle VoIP Push Notifications using iOS Callkit
Cocoapods to install the Vonage Client SDK for iOS.
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Unable to find a specification for `GoogleUtilities-Environment-Logger-NSData+zlib`
You will have better luck finding / getting help here https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues create a new issue and hopefully, someone there will be able to assist you.
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Hey guys, just landed a gig as a DevOps release engineer! I'm super stoked but also pretty nervous. Any seasoned vets out there have any tips or advice for a newbie like me? Would love to hear your thoughts!
Knowing you way through CocoaPods was also a useful skill couple of years ago - https://cocoapods.org/
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Just got a new M2 Pro after my 2016 became outdated. What are your first steps to setting up a new computer?
- Struggle to install Cocoapods
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Xcode 14.3 is completely unacceptable
I have no love for Xcode, but Cocoapods has a pretty serious issue with Xcode 14.3 causing archives to fail: https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/11861
- flutter 3.7.10, MacOS 13.3.1, IOS 16.4.1
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Xcode Update Error Chaos: Tips for a Newbie
For anyone else using cocoapods, this temporary fix worked for me. https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/11808
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Ad Income Enhancement: AdMost and HMS Unity Kit for Huawei Ad Display
Cocoapods for iOS.
Homebrew-cask
Posts with mentions or reviews of Homebrew-cask.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-11.
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Lazarus Release 4.0
At the same time it was deprecated[1] in Homebrew. Hope the mainstream will address the issue.
[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/199559
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Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer
curl -sSLo /tmp/bartender.rb "https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/ac7bd3c11799ce95a7057796e9d01db81796f381/Casks/b/bartender.rb"
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Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0
Using Homebrew Cask for Calibre actually makes the problem worse because the download is consistently very slow for some people. For me, it took around an hour the last time I had it installed on my Mac.
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/issues/104814
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I want to pin but homebrew doesn't recognize cask
(Note that I don't actually have calibre installed on my machine. I'm only going by the calibre.rb file present on brew's GitHub.)
- Did Brave change the installer for MacOS
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Can someone provide me with an Arc for Big Sur download link?
seems like you might be able to look at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/commits/89f99aad090a5148b0a44eef826f1fc7c0c6aa84/Casks/arc.rb and figure out which version works and plug the version into the download url. would be more ideal if theres a way to do it directly from brew but im not sure how offhand
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How to properly delete Parallels Desktop?
I use Homebrew to install and delete most apps, because they include a zap list in their formula of all files and folders to delete when uninstalling. You can see Parallels formula and zap list here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/tree/master/Casks/parallels.rb
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[Fortinet] Link ufficiale per il programma di installazione offline di Forticlient VPN?
Sto cercando di creare una "botte" per l'app VPN FORTICLIENT gratuita (e ho giĂ fatto per il software Full Forticlient), vedi qui: [https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew-cask coin(https:/ /github.com/homebrew/homebrew-cask)
- ¡Mullvad Browser available in Homebrew!
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GitHub Desktop 3.2: Preview your pull request
Huh, it was just accepted as the mainline fork in Homebrew last week! Been trying it and it seems to have all the features that the rowanj fork had! https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/141659
What are some alternatives?
When comparing CocoaPods and Homebrew-cask you can also consider the following projects:
ruby - The Ruby Programming Language
Linuxbrew
Homebrew
fpm - Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity.