Alternatives to WailBrew
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. WailBrew itself: install WailBrew.
React Native Debugger
The standalone app based on official debugger of React Native, and includes React Inspector / Redux DevTools
Reactotron
A desktop app for inspecting your React JS and React Native projects. macOS, Linux, and Windows
poetry
Python packaging and dependency management made easy
PureMac
Free, open-source macOS cleaner. CleanMyMac alternative with zero telemetry. Native SwiftUI, scheduled auto-cleaning, Xcode/Homebrew/system cache clea
pipet
Swiss-army tool for scraping and extracting data from online assets, made for hackers
Razer macOS
Color effects manager for Razer devices for macOS. Supports High Sierra (10.13) to Monterey (12.0). Made by the community, based on openrazer
Look
An open-source, cross OS, community-driven launcher. A lightweight alternative to Spotlight and Raycast. Made with ❤️ from Viet Nam 🇻🇳
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
nvm
Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
uv
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
Syncthing
Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
ffmpeg
Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
git
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://
MarkText
📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows
bat
A cat(1) clone with wings
starship
☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
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 WailBrew — 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.
WailBrew 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.