Homebrew-cask VS Homebrew

Compare Homebrew-cask vs Homebrew and see what are their differences.

Homebrew-cask

🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries (by Homebrew)
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Homebrew-cask Homebrew
54 1
20,526 27,633
0.4% -
10.0 0.0
about 15 hours ago about 5 years ago
Ruby Ruby
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License -
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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 2023-11-18.

Homebrew

Posts with mentions or reviews of Homebrew. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Need Help Installing Yarn
    1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 14 Oct 2021
    For Homebrew though, some tips from here might help if you want to try getting that install to work instead. https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/15077

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Homebrew-cask and Homebrew you can also consider the following projects:

SDKMan - The SDKMAN! Command Line Interface

CocoaPods - The Cocoa Dependency Manager.

Linuxbrew

homebrew-zathura - Homebrew formulae to build Zathura on Mac OS X

fpm - Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity.

Berkshelf - A Chef Cookbook manager

zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

Modulation - Modulation - explicit dependency management for Ruby

shards - Dependency manager for the Crystal language