macOS utility for developers

Control Homebrew services without leaving the menu bar.

Controla tus servicios de Homebrew sin salir de la barra de menú.

Native SwiftUI

Start, stop, restart and monitor brew services from a native macOS menu bar app built for daily local development.

Inicia, detén, reinicia y monitorea brew services desde una app nativa de macOS pensada para el flujo diario de desarrollo local.

brew services live status

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1 click to start, stop or restart a service

0 terminal tabs for routine service management

macOS 13+ built natively in SwiftUI and AppKit

Why it is useful

Small utility, high leverage.

Vrew lists Homebrew-managed services with live status so you can scan your local stack in seconds.

Start, stop, restart and refresh directly from the menu bar instead of typing repeated commands.

Useful when switching between projects that depend on Postgres, Redis, MySQL, nginx or other local services.

No browser wrapper, no dashboard overhead. It behaves like a proper menu bar utility.

Install

Download the latest release, move the app to /Applications, clear the quarantine flag once, and launch it from macOS.

Open latest release View source

xattr -cr /Applications/vrew.app

Open source

Built in Swift with a focused scope: menu bar shell, service manager and straightforward UI state.

Ideal project size for contributors who want to improve local developer tooling on macOS.

Use it, fork it and adapt it to your own workflow.