Homebrew/BrewUI
- Total stars
- 2,272
- Today
- +2
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About the project
Homebrew's official macOS GUI: lets users discover, install, update and remove packages through a native SwiftUI interface while keeping the underlying brew commands visible.
Useful for
- Install a package through the GUI without using the terminal
- Update all installed Homebrew packages in one click
- Inspect which brew commands run when installing a package
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 26, 2026, 10:58 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- 2 stars so far today, about 11 expected by the end of the day.
- Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 11% of the previous week and a half.
- Hacker News: “Homebrew now has an official GUI app” — 7 points, 14 days ago.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @ronanrodrigo (212 followers).
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
The full 7-day window is unavailable; no weekly total or comparison is calculated.
Daily measurements · UTC
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Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: September 26, 2026, 10:57 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
Three GitHub discoveries in each edition
What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.
Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 2,272
- Today
- +2 stars on 2026-09-26 (UTC), ≈ 11 by evening
- Forks
- 68
- Issues and pull requests
- 250
- Watchers
- 9
- Language
- Swift
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Latest release
- v0.4.4 · September 22, 2026
- Created
- March 2, 2026
- Last push
- September 26, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Homebrew now has an official GUI app7 points, September 11, 2026
Spotted in
- September 16, 2026GitHub Trending today: #5, +271 stars
- September 15, 2026GitHub Trending today: #5, +356 stars
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