# Homebrew/BrewUI

> 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.

- Magnitude: 1.7 out of 10 — Cooling
- Stars: 2,272 total · +2 stars on 2026-09-26 (UTC), ≈ 11 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Swift · License: AGPL-3.0 · Created: 2026-03-02 · Last push: 2026-09-26
- GitHub: https://github.com/Homebrew/BrewUI · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/Homebrew/BrewUI

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 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).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 68
- Issues and pull requests: 250
- Watchers: 9
- Average over the last week: 24 per day
- Usual pace: 136 per day
- Latest release: v0.4.4 (2026-09-22)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 12 days

09-15 7.0, 09-16 7.5, 09-17 5.6, 09-18 3.8, 09-19 2.6, 09-20 2.2, 09-21 1.8, 09-22 1.8, 09-23 1.7, 09-24 1.8, 09-25 1.8, 09-26 1.8

## Hacker News

- Homebrew now has an official GUI app — 7 points, 0 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657121

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-26 10:58 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.