Alternatives to Brooklyn
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. Brooklyn itself: install Brooklyn.
oha
HTTP load generator · inspired by rakyll/hey with tui animation
macintosh.js
🖥 A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron. I'm sorry
noTunes
A simple macOS application that will prevent iTunes or Apple Music from launching
Knuff
The debug application for Apple Push Notification Service (APNs)
BLEUnlock
Lock/unlock your Mac with your iPhone, Apple Watch, or any other Bluetooth LE devices
Reminders MenuBar
Simple macOS menu bar application to view and interact with reminders. Developed with SwiftUI and using Apple Reminders as a source
Unshaky
A software attempt to address the "double key press" issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard [not actively maintained]
LosslessSwitcher
Automated Apple Music Lossless Sample Rate Switching for Audio Devices on Macs
asimov
Automatically exclude development dependencies from Apple Time Machine backups
batt
Control and limit battery charging on Apple Silicon MacBooks
Mac Sai
Mac Sai: the open-source Mac cleaner, optimizer, and malware scanner. A free, Apple-notarized alternative to CleanMyMac, built with Swift 6 and SwiftU
Orchard
The native UI for Apple Containers and (o)MLX sandboxes, written in swift as a replacement for docker desktop
procyon-decompiler
Procyon is a suite of Java metaprogramming tools, including a rich reflection API, a LINQ-inspired expression tree API for runtime code generation, an
Stillcolor
Disable temporal dithering on your Mac with this lightweight menu bar app. Designed for Apple silicon Macs
Clock Signal
A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, Cole
Aural Player
(Archived) An audio file player for macOS, inspired by Winamp
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
go
The Go programming language
node
Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨
rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
openai-whisper
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
deno
A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
neovim
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than Brooklyn — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
Brooklyn is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.