Cakebrew Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   BrewMate

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   BrewMate is a macOS GUI application that makes it easy to search for, install, and uninstall Homebrew casks. You can also see the top downloaded casks for the last month.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Package Manager

   Platforms

   • Mac

   

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   Flattool

    2 likes

   Flattool is a command line script designed to improve user experience with flatpaks. It streamlines flatpak management tasks, making them more efficient and user-friendly.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Package Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Flatpak

   

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   Taphouse

    2 likes

   Native macOS GUI for Homebrew. Browse, search, install, and manage packages, casks, services, and taps with a beautiful interface.

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Package Manager

   Origin

   • Greece
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac

   • Greece
   • EU

   

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   nanobrew

    2 likes

   A fast package manager for macOS and Linux. Written in Zig. Uses Homebrew's bottles and formulas under the hood, plus native .deb support for Docker containers.

   54 nanobrew alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Package Manager
   • Software Installer

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Mac
   • Docker

   • United States

   

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   Cork

    6 likes

   Cork is not just an interface for Homebrew. It has many features that are either very hard to accomplish using Homebrew alone, or straight-up not possible.

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • Package Manager
   • Software Installer

   Platforms

   • Mac

   

   

   

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   Cork vs Cakebrew Comments

   Positive comment by raybb · Sep 10, 2023

   You need to pay to install the app. Otherwise you have to build from source yourself. But it probably is the best alternative to cakebrew since it supports cask.

   Positive comment by Flaiber · Oct 7, 2023

   Cork is much faster and more polished. Feels much better than Cakebrew, and I think it has even more features. It's also not abandoned.

   Positive comment by Janosz Veber · May 11, 2024

   It's a nice and fast app for a reasonable price. Even free if you compile it yourself

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   • Cork is Freemium and Open SourceCakebrew is Free and Open Source
   • Cork is Lightweight and Privacy focusedCakebrew is not according to our users
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   MacPorts

    26 likes

   The MacPorts Project is an opensource package management system that simplifies compiling, installing, upgrading, and removal of other open-source software on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and later, running on Intel or Apple Silicon.

   37 MacPorts alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Package Manager
   • Software Installer

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac

   • United States

   

   

   

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    zerobrew

     1 like

    A 5-20x faster experimental Homebrew alternative.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

    Application type

    • Software Installer

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    • United States

    

    

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    McBrew

     3 likes

    A fast GUI for Homebrew written in SwiftUI. This is my personal spin on the awesome version from buresdv. Adding in features and redesigning the look to fit more of my needs. Also using this as a learning opportunity for Swift as I'm new to it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Origin

    • Romania
    • EU

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac

    • Romania
    • EU

    

    

    

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    Fink

     8 likes

    What is Fink?

    Fink is a project that wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. As a result, we have two main goals. First, to modify existing Open Source software so that it will compile and run on Mac OS X. (This process is called portin.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

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    Cakebrewjs

     1 like

    Download Cakebrewjs for free. Homebrew GUI App written in electron. brew GUI, Possible to install using:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

    

    

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    Kelp

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    A simple replacement for homebrew for installing binary packages on macOS written in Go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application typeApplication types

    • Package Manager
    • Software Installer

    Origin

    • Germany
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Go (Programming Language)

    • Germany
    • EU

    

    

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