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• Applite

  2 3,086 8.3 Swift

  User-friendly GUI macOS application for Homebrew Casks

As far as I know, Cakebrew is no longer maintained. There are quite a few alternatives though, you can see the full list on the GitHub page (https://github.com/milanvarady/Applite#alternatives)

• homebrew-bundle

  27 5,113 8.8 Ruby

  📦 Bundler for non-Ruby dependencies from Homebrew, Homebrew Cask and the Mac App Store.

  

Assuming everyone's on a Mac, I'm actually surprised there isn't that much use of something like homebrew-bundle[1]. It's definitely nicer to have your tooling run natively rather than, say, trying to wrap everything in Docker, or trying to get everybody on board with nix or guix.

I think the only real issue here is that you can't really pin to specific versions unless a formula exists, and there is no guarantee that a formula with a pinned version will stick around because homebrew likes to stay lean.

[1]https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle/

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• App

  1 57 3.7 Swift

  Open-source browser and installer for Homebrew casks and macOS/iOS apps (by App-Fair)

  

From a similar project called App Fair (https://github.com/App-Fair/App). They have a separate repo containing supplemental data for casks.

• munki

  44 3,006 8.5 Python

  Managed software installation for macOS —

  

There's a decent open source option: https://github.com/munki/munki

I got to use it at work at Meta (as end user), and it seemed to work quite well. They delivered Android SDKs/IDEs and a bunch of other things that I'd personally install through Brew with Munki.

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