Overt

Overt

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Explore, install, and manage your favourite software with a free and open app store for macOS. Overt doesn't: • Process payments; • Restrict app features; • Remove apps arbitrarily; Overt does: • Offer 3,000+ apps by default; • Support external catalogs; • 1-click install/update/uninstall
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Ian Gregory
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Marketing speak: OpenStore is an "open app store," meaning that any app can be listed on it, regardless of features or price. Technical speak: OpenStore is a graphical front-end to Homebrew Cask, an awesome community-led project that aggregates thousands of macOS apps and can install, update, and uninstall them all on its own. The idea of OpenStore was very much inspired by existing graphical front-ends to Linux package managers, as well as F-Droid.
Marcel Darvas
So this a less technical homebrew with GUI? BrewStore?
Ian Gregory
Maker
@marceldarvas Yes, that is mostly an accurate characterization. "Less technical" is one major goal; the other is to offer fast and high-quality search/discoverability, so that even technical users don't have to memorize formula names. I believe the current version achieves both of these goals (aside from the stretch goal of adding app icons). The project is very capable of expanding to cover other package managers too, e.g., Chocolatey on Windows. Once the Mac version is out of beta (hopefully by the summer), I definitely want to explore that avenue.
Marcel Darvas
Great response! TBH I didn’t open the landing page before my comment. Now I see that the assumptions were right. I totally agree that brew could have GUI browser by now! I also meet with situations where Mac users end searching the App Store for programs like Google Chrome. It would be cool to have some Terraform like experience where ‘stacks’ could have synced install templates like such https://github.com/donnemartin/d... Maybe lists like AwesomeMac directories could be fed like RSS feeds. Keep it up 👍🏼