Cork

A fast GUI for Homebrew written in SwiftUI

Special Thanks

I'd like to personally thank Seb Jachec for implementing a system for getting real-time outputs of Brew commands.

Without his contribution, many of the processes that depend on real-time outputs, such as installation, uninstallation and updating of packages, would be impossible.

Advantages of Cork

Cork is not just an interface for Homebrew. It has many features that are either very hard to accomplish using Homebrew alone, or straight-up not possible.

Things that are not possible without Cork

Automatically respecting system proxy.
Clearing of cached downloads.
Updating packages from the Menu Bar without having Cork open.
Seeing this much info about a package in one convenient location.
Tagging packages. This is a Cork-only feature that lets you mark any number of packages you'd like to keep track of.

Things that Cork makes easier

Listing of installed packages. Cork has its own way of loading packages, which is around 10 times faster than the Homebrew implementation.
Knowing which packages you installed intentionally, and which packages were installed only as dependencies. While somewhat possible with the brew leaves command, it is often unreliable, often not listing packages that should be included.
Updating of only selected packages. Again, while possible with Homebrew alone, Cork makes it so easy you wouldn't believe it is not this simple in Homebrew itself.
Showing you exactly which packages a package is a dependency of. Super annoying in Homebrew, effortless with Cork.
And many other features! Just try Cork out and try finding them all 😉

Getting Cork

Pre-compiled, always up-to-date versions are available from my Homebrew tap. You can get access to it in a few ways:

Buy Cork for 25€ through the website or GitHub Sponsors. You will get access to all future versions at no additional cost.
Donate at least 5€/month to support the ongoing development of Cork. You can donate through Ko-Fi or GitHub Sponsors. Additionally, you will also get priority support.
Become a contributor. For example, you can:
- Translate Cork into your language, and keep your translation updated. I'd recommend joining the Cork Discord, as I always ping the translators there when new text is ready for translating. If you aren't sure how to go about translating Cork, I'd recommend asking the translation team on Discord. They have the Linguist role. If you'd prefer to learn on your own, this Apple documentation article is a nice introduction to the process: Internalization.
- Implement a feature tagged with Help Wanted in the Issue Tracker. Please espect the coding style. The main deviation from the Swift convention is that brackets are on their own lines.

However, if you don't want to do any of the above, you can always compile Cork yourself. See below for instructions.

Screenshots

Main Window

Package Info

Tap Info

Install Package

Add Taps

Brew Maintenance

Media

Do you run a blog, a magazine, make videos, or just make content about apps for fun? Get in touch at dev@corkmac.app!

I will provide you with the newest release and development version, answer any questions you have, and introduce you to Cork personally (and for free, or course), so you can focus on creating.

Compiling Cork

Compiling Cork is simple, as it does not have many dependencies.

Prerequisites:

macOS Ventura or newer
Xcode 15 or newer
Git

Instructions:

Before you begin

Skip if you already have an Apple Developer account

Enroll your account in the developer program at https://developer.apple.com/. You don't need a paid account, a free one works fine
Install Xcode
Add your Developer account to Xcode. To do so, in the Menu bar, click Xcode → Settings, and in the window that opens, click Accounts. You can add your account there
After you add your account, it will appear in the list of Apple IDs on the left of the screen. Select your account there
At the bottom of the screen, click Manage Certificates...
On the bottom left, click the + icon and select Apple Development
When a new item appears in the list called Apple Development Certificates, you can press Done to close the account manager

Compiling Cork

Clone this repo using git clone https://github.com/buresdv/Cork.git && cd Cork && open Cork.xcodeproj. Xcode will open the project
Wait until all the dependencies are resolved. It should take a couple minutes at most
In the file browser on the left, click Cork at the very top. It's the icon with the App Store logo
In the pane that opens on the right, click Signing & Capabilities at the top
Under Signing, switch the Team dropdown to None
Under Signing → macOS, switch the Signing Certificate to Sign to Run Locally
In the Menu Bar, click Product → Archive and wait for the building to finish
A new window will open. From the list of Cork rows, select the topmost one, and click Distribute App
In the popup that appears, click Custom, then click Next in the bottom right of the popup
Click Copy App
Open the resulting folder. You'll see an app called Cork. Drag Cork to your /Applications/ folder, and you're done!

License

Cork is licensed under Commons Clause.

This means that Cork open-source and you can do whatever you want with Cork's source, like modifying it, contributing to it etc., but you can't sell Cork or modified versions of it.

Moreover, you can’t distribute compiled versions of Cork without consulting me first. Compiling versions for your personal use is fine.

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