Homebrew Cask Alternatives

Homebrew Cask is described as 'Homebrew-cask provides a friendly homebrew-style CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries' and is a Package Manager in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Homebrew Cask for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Web-based, Windows and Homebrew apps. The best Homebrew Cask alternative is Chocolatey, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Homebrew Cask are Flathub, Flatpak, WailBrew and CaskHub.

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  1. BrewMate icon
     4 likes

    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. Fink icon
     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

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  3. Autonomix icon
     1 like

    Linux package manager for GitHub releases - like Obtainium for Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. RubyGems icon
     9 likes

    RubyGems.org is the Ruby community's gem hosting service. Instantly publish your gems and install them. Use the API to interact and find out more information about available gems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  5. Souk icon
     10 likes

    A flatpak-based app store, written with GTK4 and Rust.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. AM icon
     3 likes

    AUR-inspired database, and package manager to install, update (for real) and manage ALL AppImages and other portable formats for GNU/Linux, system-wide or locally, with the ease of APT and the power of PacMan.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7. Easy Flatpak icon
     1 like

    It will help you install Flatpak apps in a user-friendly way. We have recipes for some of them to install them even better.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  8.  2 likes

    Eget is the best way to easily get pre-built binaries for your favorite tools. It downloads and extracts pre-built binaries from releases on GitHub

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • GitHub
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
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  9. Chef Habitat icon
     1 like

    Open-source software that creates platform-independent build artifacts and provides built-in deployment and management capabilities.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Robust package system that manages installation, updates, verification, and removal of software packages on Linux. Includes a library API for development in languages like C and Python. Widely used across Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, and more; released under GPL-2.0-or-later.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  11. MacUpdate Desktop makes managing and updating your applications easy and automatic. It helps you organize your favorite applications and keep track of them when new versions become available. Download and install new updates. Find out whats new. Stay up to date like never before.

    28 MacUpdate Desktop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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