PackagePicker is a quick way to install your favorite software on a new computer using existing package managers. Just select the apps you want, we'll give you a command to install them all at once!
โฌ๏ธ Select the packages you'd like to install with Homebrew: โฌ๏ธ
Browsers ๐
๐ www.mozilla.org
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current web standards. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: firefox
๐ www.google.com
Chrome is Google's browser based on the open source Chromium. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: google-chrome
๐ www.chromium.org
Chromium is a free and open-source web browser project, primarily developed and maintained by Google. It is a widely-used codebase, providing the vast majority of code for Google Chrome and many other browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Samsung Internet, and Opera. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: chromium
๐ github.com
ungoogled-chromium is a free and open-source variant of Chromium that removes all Google-specific web services. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: eloston-chromium
๐ vivaldi.com
Vivaldi is a free, Chromium-based browser with extensive customization options and targeted towards technical users. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: vivaldi
๐ www.opera.com
Opera is a multi-platform web browser. The current edition of the browser is based on Chromium. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: opera
๐ brave.com
Brave is a free and open-source web browser based on the Chromium web browser. It is focused on privacy, and does some interesting things with adblocking and cryptocurrency. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: brave-browser
Messaging & Communication ๐ง
๐ discord.com
Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform which has voice and video calls. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: discord
๐ www.beeper.com
Beeper is an instant messaging service that enables using a variety of other chat services and protocols from the same unique application. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: beeper
๐ www.skype.com
Skype is a proprietary telecommunications application operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft, best known videoconferencing, voice calls, and instant messaging. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: skype
๐ www.thunderbird.net
Mozilla Thunderbird is free and open-source email client software which also functions as a full personal information manager with a calendar and contactbook, as well as an RSS feed reader, chat client (IRC/XMPP/Matrix), and news client. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: thunderbird
Security ๐
๐ bitwarden.com
Bitwarden is a freemium open-source password management service. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: bitwarden
๐ keepassxc.org
KeePassXC is a free and open-source password manager. It started as a community fork of KeePassX. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: keepassxc
๐ openvpn.net
OpenVPN is a virtual private network (VPN) system. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: openvpn
๐ tailscale.com
Tailscale is a partially open-source mesh virtual private network (VPN) that is easy to configure [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: tailscale
๐ www.wireguard.com
WireGuard is a communication protocol and free and open-source software that implements encrypted virtual private networks (VPNs) with a focus on simplicity and performance. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: wireguard-tools
Media ๐
๐ open.spotify.com
Spotify is an audio streaming app with music and podcasts. It has a premium subscription to remove ads. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: spotify
๐ www.videolan.org
VLC media player is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: vlc
๐ www.foobar2000.org
foobar2000 is a freeware audio player. It has a modular design, which provides user flexibility in configuration and customization. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: foobar2000
๐ handbrake.fr
HandBrake is a free and open-source transcoder for digital video files. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: handbrake
๐ ffmpeg.org
FFmpeg is a free and open-source command line tool for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: ffmpeg
Utility ๐ง
๐ etcher.balena.io
balenaEtcher is a free and open-source utility used for writing image files such as .iso and .img files onto storage media to create live SD cards and USB flash drives. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: balenaetcher
๐ flameshot.org
Flameshot is an open-source and cross platform screenshot tool.
๐ฆ Homebrew: flameshot
File Sharing ๐
๐ www.qbittorrent.org
qBittorrent is a cross-platform free and open-source BitTorrent client. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: qbittorrent
๐ transmissionbt.com
Transmission is a free and open-source BitTorrent client which features a variety of user interfaces on top of a cross-platform back-end [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: transmission
Creative ๐จ
๐ obsproject.com
OBS Studio is a free and open-source, cross-platform screencasting and streaming app. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: obs
๐ www.audacityteam.org
Audacity is a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: audacity
๐ godotengine.org
Godot is a cross-platform, free and open-source game engine released under the permissive MIT license. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: godot
๐ godotengine.org
The version of Godot with Mono which allows for writing code in C#
๐ฆ Homebrew: godot-mono
๐ www.blender.org
Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software tool set used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D-printed models and motion graphics. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: blender
๐ www.gimp.org
GNU Image Manipulation Program, commonly known by its acronym GIMP, is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation and editing. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: gimp
๐ www.figma.com
Figma is a collaborative web and desktop application for interface design. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: figma
๐ inkscape.org
Inkscape is a free and open-source cross-platform vector graphics editor. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: inkscape
Compression ๐๏ธ
๐ www.7-zip.org
7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, used to create and extract .zip, .7z and other archives. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: sevenzip
Cloud โ๏ธ
๐ www.dropbox.com
Dropbox is a file storage and synchronization service. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: dropbox
๐ www.google.com
Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service developed by Google. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: google-drive
๐ www.insynchq.com
Insync is a third-party client for managing file syncing in Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive
๐ฆ Homebrew: insync
๐ nextcloud.com
Nextcloud is a file synchronization service that can be self-hosted. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: nextcloud
๐ syncthing.net
Syncthing is a free and open source cross-platform peer-to-peer file synchronization application. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: syncthing
Documents ๐
๐ www.foxit.com
Foxit PDF Reader is a cross-platform PDF reader. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: foxitreader
๐ get.adobe.com
Adobe Acrobat Reader is a PDF reader by Adobe.
๐ฆ Homebrew: adobe-acrobat-reader
Writing ๐
๐ www.notion.so
Notion is a freemium productivity and note-taking web application. It offers organizational tools including task management, project tracking, to-do lists, and bookmarking. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: notion
๐ obsidian.md
Obsidian is a personal knowledge base and note-taking software application that operates on Markdown files. It allows users to link between notes and create a knowledge graph. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: obsidian
๐ logseq.com
Logseq is an open-source and cross-platform knowledge base and organizational tool.
๐ฆ Homebrew: logseq
๐ www.libreoffice.org
LibreOffice is a free and open-source office productivity software suite. It provides similar functionality to the Microsoft Office Suite. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: libreoffice
Gaming ๐ฎ
๐ store.epicgames.com
The Epic Games Store is a video game digital distribution service and storefront operated by Epic Games. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: epic-games
๐ www.gog.com
GOG Galaxy is a desktop client and digital distribution platform for DRM-free video games. It is operated by GOG. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: gog-galaxy
Heroic is a free, open-source, and cross-platform launcher for Epic, GOG and Amazon Prime Games
๐ฆ Homebrew: heroic
Dev Langs & Runtimes ๐งโ๐ป
๐ www.python.org
Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: [email protected]
๐ nodejs.org
Node.js is a cross-platform, open-source JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: node
๐ www.rust-lang.org
Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language that emphasizes performance, type safety, and concurrency. It enforces memory safetyโmeaning that all references point to valid memoryโwithout a garbage collector. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: rust
๐ rustup.rs
Rust toolchain installer. This will install everything you need to actually develop in Rust.
๐ฆ Homebrew: rustup-init
๐ www.ruby-lang.org
Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. It was designed with an emphasis on programming productivity and simplicity. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: ruby
๐ www.php.net
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: php
๐ www.perl.org
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: perl
Dev Tools ๐ช
๐ learn.microsoft.com
PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management program from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and the associated scripting language. It is open-source and cross-platform. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: powershell
Visual Studio Code, also commonly referred to as VS Code, is a source-code editor developed by Microsoft. It is cross-platform. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: visual-studio-code
๐ vscodium.com
VSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoftโs editor VS Code
๐ฆ Homebrew: vscodium
๐ git-scm.com
Git is a distributed version control system that tracks changes in any set of computer files. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: git
๐ git-lfs.com
Git Large File System allows for tracking larger files and binary blobs in Git.
๐ฆ Homebrew: git-lfs
๐ docs.docker.com
Docker uses OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: docker
๐ www.docker.com
Docker Desktop is a GUI tool for managing Docker images and containers. It is not free for commercial use at larger companies!
๐ฆ Homebrew: docker
๐ docs.docker.com
Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container applications. It allows defining docker containers in YAML files instead of via command-line arguments.
๐ฆ Homebrew: docker-compose
๐ www.openssh.com
The Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network. Its most notable applications are remote login and command-line execution. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: openssh
๐ www.putty.org
PuTTY is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application. It supports several network protocols, including SCP, SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw socket connection. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: putty
๐ www.arduino.cc
Aruino IDE is an editor and other tools required for programming and flashing Arduino microcontrollers.
๐ฆ Homebrew: arduino
๐ www.gnu.org
GNU Wget is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers. It is part of the GNU Project. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: wget
๐ www.virtualbox.org
Oracle VM VirtualBox is a hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization developed by Oracle Corporation. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: virtualbox
๐ www.wireshark.org
Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. [Wikipedia]
๐ฆ Homebrew: wireshark
Then run this command in a terminal
brew install