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Cellar

A native front end for Homebrew. Every button runs a real brew command, and shows you which one.

macOS 26+Apple SiliconNeeds HomebrewIn development

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Platform: macOS 26 or later
Architecture: Apple Silicon
Requires: Homebrew installed
Index: ~16,000 packages, offline

Inside Cellar

The real interface, running today.

Captured from the current development build—not a concept render.

Cellar showing the ripgrep package, dependencies and exact Homebrew install command — A real package detail for ripgrep, including metadata, dependencies and the exact Homebrew command.

Sixteen thousand packages, instantly, offline

One field over every formula, cask and third-party tap. The index is built from Homebrew's own JSON cache, so results appear as you type and keep working on a plane. Type a full tap path and Cellar offers to add the tap for you.

Interface preview · search results

Detail

What it pulls in, and what breaks if it goes

Dependencies as an expandable tree, licence, disk usage, caveats, keg-only reasons, deprecation notices and conflicts. The tree is built from the in-memory catalogue rather than by spawning a process per node — the difference between instant and several minutes for something like ffmpeg.

Interface preview · dependency tree

Transparency

The command sits at the bottom of every pane

Whatever Cellar is about to do, it shows you the exact brew command first, with buttons to copy it or run it in Terminal instead. Nothing happens that you could not have typed yourself.

Copy commandRun in TerminalInstall

Interface preview · the command bar

Using Cellar

From first open to finished.

A practical walkthrough of the core workflow.

Search for what you wantFormulae, casks and taps in one field, working offline.

Read what it actually installsThe dependency tree and disk cost before you commit.

Install — and see the commandCellar prints the exact brew invocation it runs.

Under the hood

It diagnoses your Mac, not a synthetic one

A GUI app inherits a minimal environment from launchd, and the tempting fix — quietly putting Homebrew's bin first on PATH — makes brew doctor report on an environment you never use. Cellar reads your login shell's PATH at launch and passes it through in your own order, so the warnings you see are the warnings you have.

Questions about Cellar?

Feature requests and bug reports are genuinely welcome — most of what these apps do came from someone pointing out that the alternative was annoying.

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