rootbeer
A native macOS app for managing Homebrew packages.
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Browse installed formulae and casks with their icons, upgrade them, and uninstall them along with dependencies nothing else needs. Swift and SwiftUI, built with Swift Package Manager. No Xcode project, no third-party dependencies, no web views. How to install? brew tap prethammuthappa/rootbeer https://github.com/PrethamMuthappa/rootbeer brew trust --formula prethammuthappa/rootbeer/rootbeer brew install rootbeer
PH · launched Oct 21, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: software package managers · 51 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -89% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Mac
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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More like this: all 51 launches in software package managers →
Could you build this?
Yes A native SwiftUI app that lists and manages Homebrew formulae and casks is a UI over a CLI, with dependency-aware uninstall logic that vibe coding handles well.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 152 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #95 of 153 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 273 days after the earliest competitor.
- Taphouse · hn · 2026-02-10 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- macOS Apps on Linux: SwiftUI for Linux (and AppKit, NSFoundation, etc.) · hn · 2026-06-08 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- SwiftDependencyGraphExplorer · github · 2026-09-10 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Glu · hn · 2026-09-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- PortlessBar · ph · 2026-10-03 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Brewse · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Brewbox · ph · 2026-11-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- App Explorer – Homebrew Cask App · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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