Supply-chain hygiene for your dev machine
A native Homebrew package manager that watches your Mac for CVEs.
Requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later — Apple Intelligence features need macOS 26. Latest release: v2.4.0.
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.
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
Five things you'd do in your first ten minutes with it — screenshots from a real machine, not mockups.
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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Every outdated formula and cask in one list — and the ones that are only installed because something else needs them are labelled, so you can tell your own choices from the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.
Seventeen 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.
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.
See exactly how much disk space formulae, casks, and the app's caches take up — and reclaim it with one click.
Browse, install, upgrade, and uninstall any Homebrew package — organised into nine curated categories, from Developer Tools to Games — 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.
Search the entire Homebrew catalogue with instant results as you type — across both apps and command-line tools.
Type what you want in plain language ("fast SQL client with autocomplete") and EasyHomebrew finds the package that fits. 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.
Available in English, French, Greek, German, Italian, and Spanish — every screen, not just the menus.
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.
Privacy Policy — what the app collects, what it doesn't, and how to turn it off.