brew-browser — a native macOS GUI for Homebrew

What it does

Library

Every installed formula and cask in one dense, filterable list, with outdated badges and a slide-over detail panel. Cask icons extracted from the real `.app` bundle.

Discover

Search the full Homebrew package index and install straight from the result row. Categories on the way — built offline against the published package data, not scraped.

Snapshots

Save your full Homebrew setup as a Brewfile, restore on a new Mac in one click. Uses Homebrew's own brew bundle mechanism. Multiple snapshots stored locally.

Activity

Every brew invocation streams live into a bottom drawer with full stdout, stderr, and session history. Nothing hidden, nothing surprising.

Native & fast

Tauri 2 native shell, ~6 MB binary, system WebView. Cmd+K command palette, Cmd+1…5 to jump between sections, drag-resizable detail pane.

Open by default

MIT licensed. Use it however you want.
Full source. 22 Rust files + 36 Svelte/TypeScript files. Read every line.
No CLA. Your contributions stay yours.
No EULA. No click-through to use the app.
No telemetry. No analytics, no crash reporting, no third-party pixels.
No accounts. No sign-in, no cloud sync, no required services.
No surprise network. Four documented outbound paths: Homebrew's analytics for Trending, cask homepage probes for icons (SSRF-filtered), brew itself for installs, and your default browser when you click a package's homepage.

Security posture

Independently audited and scanned across the major tools developers actually use to assess open-source projects:

✓ cargo audit

✓ cargo deny

✓ npm audit

✓ osv-scanner

✓ semgrep (security-audit + OWASP-10)

✓ gitleaks

✓ cargo clippy -D warnings

✓ Zero unsafe Rust

Full audit at memory-bank/security.md. Vulnerability reporting policy at SECURITY.md.

Get it

The signed .dmg is on the latest release.

Or build it yourself from source:

git clone https://github.com/msitarzewski/brew-browser
cd brew-browser
npm install
npm run tauri build      # produces a .dmg in src-tauri/target/release/bundle/

Prereqs: Rust, Node 22+, Homebrew, Xcode Command Line Tools.