Homebrew Documentation

Interesting Taps and Forks

A tap is Homebrew-speak for a Git repository containing additional formulae.

Homebrew has the capability to add (and remove) multiple taps to your local installation with the brew tap and brew untap commands; run man brew in your terminal for usage information.

Your taps are Git repositories located at $(brew --repository)/Library/Taps. As a normal user, you usually won’t see homebrew/core here anymore and that’s OK - normal usage is via the JSON API.

Unsupported interesting taps

• DomT4/autoupdate: An external command to automatically run brew update (and optionally brew upgrade or brew cleanup) in the background with launchd.

• homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg: A tap for FFmpeg with additional options, including nonfree additions.

• denji/nginx: A tap for NGINX modules, intended for its nginx-full formula which includes more module options.

• InstantClientTap/instantclient: A tap for Oracle Instant Client.

• osx-cross/avr: GNU AVR toolchain (Libc, compilers and other tools for Atmel MCUs), useful for Arduino hackers and AVR programmers.

• petere/postgresql: Allows installing multiple PostgreSQL versions in parallel.

• osrf/simulation: Tools for robotics simulation.

• brewsci/bio: Bioinformatics formulae.

• davidchall/hep: High energy physics formulae.

• lifepillar/appleii: Formulae for vintage Apple emulation.

• gromgit/fuse: macOS FUSE formulae that are no longer available in homebrew/core.

• cloudflare/cloudflare: Formulae for the applications by Cloudflare, including curl with HTTP/3 support.

• apple/apple: Formulae from Apple, including the Game Porting Toolkit.

Unsupported interesting forks

• mistydemeo/tigerbrew: Experimental Tiger/Leopard PowerPC version.