The Best 6 Cakebrew Alternatives

  • Homebrew

    Homebrew is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn't include with macOS.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • Mac App Store

    The Mac App Store is the best place to find apps for Mac. No more boxes, no more disks, no more time-consuming installation. Just like the App Store for iPhone and iPad, click once to download and install any app on your Mac.

    Free Mac OS X

  • Homebrew Cask

    Homebrew-cask provides a friendly homebrew-style CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries. It's implemented as a homebrew external command called cask.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Homebrew

  • MacPorts

    The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • Fink

    What is Fink? Fink is a project that wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. As a result, we have two main goals. First, to...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X