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Taphouse

A Native macOS GUI for Homebrew

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It's a SwiftUI app (macOS 14+) that wraps the Homebrew CLI and adds features I've always wanted: - Browse, search, install, and uninstall formulae and casks with a 3-column native interface - Bulk operations – select multiple packages to upgrade or remove at once - CVE/vulnerability scanning – checks installed packages against the OSV database - Dependency tree visualization – see what depends on what before removing things - Orphaned dependency cleanup – find and remove packages nothing depends on anymore - Duplicate app detection – spots apps installed from both Homebrew and /Applications - Third-party app update scanning – detects Sparkle/GitHub updates for non-Homebrew apps too - Curated collections – one-click install bundles for web dev, data science, DevOps, etc. - Services management – start/stop/restart brew services from the GUI - Scheduled maintenance – auto-run cleanup and brew doctor on a schedule - Mac App Store integration (via mas CLI) - Menu bar icon with background update checks and notifications Available via brew install --cask taphouse or direct download. Localized in 6 languages. Currently at v1.4.8 (50 builds in). I'd love feedback on what else would be useful. https://taphouse.multimodalsolutions.gr

HN · launched Feb 10, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views

Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a native SwiftUI frontend that executes local Homebrew CLI commands (`brew search`, `brew install`, `brew info`) via Process and renders standard macOS multi-column views.

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Attention rank: #315 of 341 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 86 days after the earliest competitor.

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