brewkeeper - Beta

brewkeeper is a polished terminal UI for Homebrew upgrades, focused on safer decisions and fast review.

It highlights:

• major/minor/patch upgrade type
• dependency impact (brew uses)
• risk signals and caveats
• formula + cask support
• safe-upgrades-only mode
• snapshot/rollback support (Brewfile-based)

Install

Homebrew (recommended)

brew tap Pallepadehat/brewkeeper
brew install brewkeeper

From source

bun install
bun run build
./dist/brewkeeper

Usage

brewkeeper            # launch the TUI
brewkeeper --version  # print version

Key	Action
j / k	Navigate packages
Space	Toggle selection
a	Select / deselect all
f	Search Homebrew repos
i	Install selected search result (inside repo search)
s	Toggle safe-mode
u	Upgrade selected
b	Create named snapshot
v	Open snapshot list
d	Delete selected snapshot (inside snapshot list)
?	Show keyboard help
r	Refresh
q	Quit

Development

• Runtime: Bun ≥ 1.2
• UI framework: OpenTUI + React
• TypeScript strict mode enabled

bun install
bun dev

Build

bun run typecheck
bun run build

This produces a standalone binary at dist/brewkeeper.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Please read:

• CONTRIBUTING.md
• SECURITY.md

Changelog

• CHANGELOG.md

License

MIT — see LICENSE.