🍺 Buum

A lightweight macOS menu bar app that keeps your Homebrew packages and Mac App Store apps up to date — with a single click.

What it does

Buum is the GUI version of this .zshrc alias:

alias buum="brew update; brew upgrade; mas outdated; mas upgrade"

Click the menu bar icon and everything updates automatically.

Features

• 📦 Lives in the macOS menu bar — no Dock icon
• 🔄 Animated icon while updates are running
• 🛠️ Auto-installs brew and mas if not present
• 🔔 Native macOS notification when done
• ✅ Live status messages in the menu

Requirements

• macOS 13 (Ventura) or later
• Apple Silicon or Intel Mac

Installation

Homebrew (recommended)

brew tap emreerinc/buum
brew install --cask buum

Manual

Download Buum.zip from Releases, unzip and move to /Applications.

Security warning on first launch? macOS may block unnotarized apps. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → scroll down → "Open Anyway".

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/emreerinc/buum.git
cd buum

# Generate app icon
swiftc generate_icon.swift -sdk $(xcrun --show-sdk-path) \
  -target arm64-apple-macosx13.0 -framework AppKit -o generate_icon
./generate_icon
iconutil -c icns Buum.iconset -o AppIcon.icns

# Build app
swiftc main.swift -sdk $(xcrun --show-sdk-path) \
  -target arm64-apple-macosx13.0 \
  -framework SwiftUI -framework AppKit -framework UserNotifications \
  -parse-as-library -o Buum

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.