Homebrew

Homebrew Joined Mar 2012 View on GitHub

Stars: 132,455; across 29 public repos
Rank: #146; of 94,827 organizations, top 0.2%; Down 4 places this week

Repositories with 50+ stars

Homebrew's repositories with their overall rank
Rank	Repository	Language	Stars
526	brew 🍺 The Package Manager for Everywhere	Ruby	50,384
1,545	legacy-homebrew 💀 The former home of Homebrew/homebrew (deprecated)		26,798
2,044	homebrew-cask 🍻 Default casks (upstream binary packages) for the package manager for everywhere	Ruby	22,288
3,245	homebrew-core 🍻 Default and OSS formulae (built-from-source packages) for the package manager for everywhere	Ruby	15,661
11,693	homebrew-bundle 💀 Homebrew/bundle (merged into Homebrew/brew)		5,449
24,039	BrewUI 📺 Homebrew's official macOS GUI	Swift	2,823
25,012	install 📥 Homebrew (un)installer	Shell	2,715
32,263	formulae.brew.sh 🏎 An online formulae browser for Homebrew	HTML	2,110
33,801	homebrew-services 💀 Homebrew Services (deprecated)		2,015
142,115	discussions 🗣 Public open-ended discussions. Replacement for our Discourse.	TypeScript	434
145,302	homebrew-command-not-found 💀 Ubuntu’s command-not-found equivalent for Homebrew on macOS (deprecated)	Shell	423
220,021	ruby-macho 🔩 A pure-Ruby library for parsing Mach-O files.	Ruby	263
294,384	actions 🚀 Homebrew's GitHub Actions	TypeScript	185
344,670	homebrew-aliases 💀 Aliases for Homebrew (deprecated)		153
348,454	homebrew-portable-ruby 💀 Versions of Ruby that can be installed and run from anywhere on the filesystem.		151
358,176	brew.sh 🔖 The Homebrew homepage	HTML	146
560,660	homebrew-test-bot 💀 Tests the full lifecycle of a Homebrew change (deprecated)		83
640,706	formula-patches 💀 Patches for Homebrew formulae		70
774,412	homebrew-linux-fonts 💀 Homebrew Linux Fonts (deprecated)		55
797,197	.github 👩‍⚕️ Default community health files for the Homebrew organisation on GitHub.		53

Among 94,827 organizations

100k–160k stars: 104 organizations, including Homebrew

top 50%top 10%top 1%top 0.1%

Stars along the bottom, and organizations in each band on a log scale

Where the stars are

brew 50.4k, 38%legacy-homebrew 26.8k, 20%homebrew-cask 22.3k, 17%homebrew-core 15.7k, 12%homebrew-bundle 5.4k, 4%BrewUI 2.8k, 2%install 2.7k, 2%formulae.brew.sh 2.1k, 2%

11 more repos 2k, 2%

homebrew-services 2k, 2%

Smaller repos 196, <1%

Languages

Ruby 88.6k stars, 67% · 4 repos
Shell 3.1k stars, 2% · 2 repos
Swift 2.8k stars, 2% · 1 repo
HTML 2.3k stars, 2% · 2 repos
TypeScript 619 stars, <1% · 2 repos

When they were made

20 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2009 and 2026

101001k10k100k homebrew-casklegacy-homebrewbrew

Quick stats

Next rank: +676 stars to reach #145
Next milestone: +58,314 stars to reach the top 0.1%
Public repos: 29, 20 with 50+ stars
Popular repos: 9 over 1k stars, 4 over 10k stars
Top repo: brew, #526 of all repos, 38% of stars
Smaller repos: 196 stars from repos under 50