Supply-chain hygiene for your dev machine
A native Homebrew package manager that watches your Mac for CVEs.
30-day money-back guarantee — no subscription, no account, lifetime updates within the major version.
Requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later — Apple Intelligence features need macOS 26. Latest release: v3.3.0.
Homebrew installs software. It doesn't tell you when that software becomes a liability.
How Homebrew vulnerability scanning works →
Every installed formula and cask matched against a live vulnerability database — severity at a glance, one click out to the official advisory.
A menu-bar agent rechecks on your schedule. A new advisory lands, you find out the same day — not at the next audit.
Start, stop, and restart your databases and web servers — and tail their logs live, in colour, without a second window.
A full health check that repairs itself. Where brew offers a runnable command, the warning gets "Run fix" instead of a paragraph to paste somewhere.
27 curated bundles that install together — 17 languages and runtimes, 10 roles like DevOps, Security and Data & ML. Each brings the whole toolchain, not a bare compiler.
Browse, install, upgrade, uninstall — all covered, all native.
Install, upgrade, and uninstall from a native macOS app — nothing to memorise.
The whole Homebrew catalogue, with results as you type.
≈ 7,600 apps · ≈ 8,500 tools
firefox · firefox@esr · firefox-developer-edition
firefox +2365-day
See how many people installed each package — spot the well-loved tools at a glance.
Describe what you need in plain language and EasyHomebrew finds the best match — all on your Mac, no cloud.
Apple Intelligence reads the app's website and writes a clear, plain-English summary, then picks the screenshots for you — all on your Mac, on macOS 26+.
Runs on macOS 14 and up as a universal binary — Apple Silicon or Intel. The Apple Intelligence extras light up on macOS 26 and stay quietly out of the way below it.
A look inside
Six things you'd do in your first ten minutes with it — screenshots from a real machine, not mockups.
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Personas are 27 curated bundles that install together — 17 languages and runtimes, 10 roles like DevOps, Security and Data & ML. Each one is a working setup rather than a bare compiler: pick Go and the language server, linter and debugger come with it. Every package says in one line why it is in that bundle, the essentials are ticked for you, and anything already on your Mac is left alone.
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Type "I want a web browser" and Discover reads all 489 matching casks, ranks them, picks one, and says why it picked it. Apple Intelligence does the reading on your Mac — no cloud round-trip, no account, and your package list stays where it is.
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Click any package and the whole picture opens in one place — no tab, no browser, no second tool.
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Every outdated formula and cask in one list — and the ones that are only installed because something else needs them are labelled, so you can tell your own choices from the transitive ones. Upgrade a single package, or all of them at once.
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The scan covers everything installed and stamps the result with the time it ran, so "nothing on this machine has a known CVE" becomes a thing you can point at rather than assume. The menu-bar agent re-runs it on your schedule, and Brew Doctor separately confirms the Homebrew install itself is healthy.
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Formulae and casks, Cellar and Caskroom size, the app's own cache, and how many packages the last scan cleared — live in the sidebar, on every screen. Clean Up gave 244.5 MB back on this machine.
Twenty-four features, in the order they matter: what keeps your machine clean and patched, then everything you'd expect from a native Homebrew app.
Every installed package checked against a live vulnerability database. Severity at a glance, one click out to the official advisory — so you find out from your Mac, not from a post-mortem.
A lightweight menu-bar agent rechecks on the schedule you pick and shows how many security issues — and updates — are waiting. New advisory lands, you know the same day.
Start, stop, and restart background services like databases and web servers, tail their logs live with errors and warnings colour-coded, and see exactly how each one is configured.
Run a full Homebrew health check and repair it in place. Where brew offers a runnable command the warning gets a "Run fix" button; where the fix needs your shell it becomes a copyable one. On macOS 26+, Apple Intelligence explains unfamiliar warnings in plain English.
One number for the state of your Mac, built only from checks that have already run. Vulnerable packages weigh heaviest, Doctor warnings next, and being slightly behind barely counts. Hover it to see what is pulling it down.
Every outdated package in one place — the fastest way to close a vulnerability is to be one click from the patched version. Upgrade individually or batch-update everything, watch the queue as it works, and cancel at any point without leaving Homebrew mid-step.
See what changed before you install it. An outdated package's page pulls in the upstream release notes, so updating is a decision you make with the notes in front of you.
Not every update is welcome today. Pin a package to hold its version — here and in your terminal — or snooze an update for a day, a week or a month and let the list go quiet until you are ready.
See exactly how much disk space formulae, casks, and the app's caches take up — and reclaim it with one click.
Save every formula, cask and tap you have installed to a single file, and restore it on another Mac. A restore only adds what is missing — nothing you already have is touched or downgraded — and you see what is in the file before it starts.
Find the apps still going through Rosetta. EasyHomebrew reads each installed app to see whether a native build exists, then offers to reinstall the ones that have one — and re-checks afterwards, so you learn whether the developer actually shipped it.
Set up a new Mac in one step. 27 curated bundles — 17 languages and runtimes, 10 roles like DevOps, Security and Data & ML — that install together, each bringing the whole toolchain rather than a bare compiler. Every package explains why it is in the bundle, the essentials are ticked for you, and anything you already have is left alone.
Browse, install, upgrade, and uninstall any Homebrew package — organised into nine curated categories, from Developer Tools to Games, plus a New section that surfaces what Homebrew has published recently — all from a clean, native interface.
Everything you need to decide on a package, in one page: an AI-written description, screenshots, popularity numbers, related versions, dependencies, and any known security issues.
Add and remove third-party Homebrew taps without the CLI — the ones you audit least are the ones you should see most. Each tap gets its own detail view, and on macOS 26+, Apple Intelligence writes a plain-English explanation of what it provides and who uses it.
Apple Intelligence reads each package's website and writes a short, plain-English summary, then picks the best screenshots for the gallery. Runs on your Mac, no cloud, on macOS 26+.
See how many people have installed any package over the last 30, 90, or 365 days. Helps you tell mature, well-loved tools from abandoned ones at a glance.
Ask for "java" and get the JDK, "postgres" and get PostgreSQL, "npm" and get Node — Homebrew's own alternate names are searched alongside the real ones, so you don't have to know a package is called openjdk before you can find it. Where several packages fit equally well, the one most people install comes first.
Type what you want in plain language ("fast SQL client with autocomplete") and EasyHomebrew finds the package that fits. Ask for something bigger than a package — "java", "devops" — and it offers the whole curated bundle above the results. All on your Mac, no cloud.
Select multiple packages and install or uninstall them in one go. Toggle batch mode in any package list.
Different flavors of the same app (e.g. firefox, firefox@esr, firefox-developer-edition) collapse under one entry. Click +N to see them all.
Toggle every package list between a compact row view and a visual card grid. Your choice is remembered across launches.
Star the formulae and casks you actually reach for and they collect in their own sidebar section, out of a catalogue of sixteen thousand. Stored on your Mac and nowhere else — there is no account to sync them to.
Some packages need one more step before they work — macOS ships its own Java, so an installed JDK sits unused until it is on your PATH. Homebrew prints that in a wall of text you never see. EasyHomebrew shows it when it matters, with one click to add the line to your shell, and stays quiet when it doesn't.
Available in English, French, Greek, German, Italian, and Spanish — every screen, not just the menus.
The free Homebrew GUIs are good at installing packages — and so is EasyHomebrew. The difference is what happens after the install: watching the tools you already have for published CVEs, re-checking from the menu bar, and patching them unattended. That's the €10. If a nicer brew install is all you want, a free app will do — and we'd rather say so here than take your money for a feature you'll never open.
One scan tells you whether anything on your Mac has a known vulnerability — and the menu-bar agent keeps telling you from then on. A one-time €10 purchase: no subscription, no upsells, lifetime updates within the major version — and 30 days to change your mind.
Privacy Policy — what the app collects, what it doesn't, and how to turn it off.