Homebrew/BrewUI

📺 Homebrew's official macOS GUI

Developer toolsSwift

3.5 Peaking Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

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

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

40 stars so far today, about 61 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 10 per day, so that's 6× as much.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
Hacker News: “Homebrew now has an official GUI app” — 7 points, 7 days ago.
About 7 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 2,045
Stars in a day: 61
Forks: 56
Issues and pull requests: 236
Watchers: 9
Language: Swift
License: AGPL-3.0
Latest release: v0.4.3 · September 17, 2026
Created: March 2, 2026
Last push: September 18, 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

README badge

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