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milanvarady/Applite
User-friendly GUI macOS application for Homebrew Casks
Applite is a SwiftUI macOS app that puts a friendly face on Homebrew Cask — browse a hand-picked gallery of apps, install or remove them with one click, no terminal required. It's aimed squarely at Mac users who want the app variety of Homebrew without touching the command line.
Works with an existing Homebrew install rather than managing its own copy, so it doesn't fight power users who also use brew directly. Proxy support (HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5) is genuinely useful and rare in tools at this level. The app migration export/import feature is a practical touch for people switching Macs. Active as of yesterday's push with a live roadmap — not abandonware.
The hand-picked gallery is the core UX, but whoever maintains the curation list is a single point of failure; the roadmap explicitly notes limited development time. Cask-only — no formula support, so anything installed via `brew install` (not `brew install --cask`) is invisible to Applite. No automated background updates unless you configure macOS login items yourself; the app has to be open. 175 forks on 6.9k stars is a low contributor ratio, suggesting most users are consumers, not contributors, which compounds the maintainer bottleneck.