Homebrew VS Homebrew-cask

Compare Homebrew vs Homebrew-cask 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 Homebrew-cask
1 54
27,633 20,486
- 0.6%
0.0 10.0
about 5 years ago about 8 hours ago
Ruby Ruby
- 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.

Homebrew

Posts with mentions or reviews of Homebrew. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Homebrew yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

SDKMan - The SDKMAN! Command Line Interface

CocoaPods - The Cocoa Dependency Manager.

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.

zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

Linuxbrew

homebrew-avr - Homebrew AVR Toolchain

Berkshelf - A Chef Cookbook manager

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)