This is a list of the top 100 Homebrew formulae as measured by installations in the past 30 days (as of 2025-03-23).
| Place | Formula | Installations |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | openssl@3 | 416,868 |
| #2 | ca-certificates | 382,898 |
| #3 | glib | 317,509 |
| #4 | harfbuzz | 283,066 |
| #5 | gettext | 259,213 |
| #6 | xz | 259,102 |
| #7 | node | 238,295 |
| #8 | [email protected] | 233,444 |
| #9 | zstd | 229,674 |
| #10 | sqlite | 229,172 |
| #11 | libx11 | 216,224 |
| #12 | libpng | 196,500 |
| #13 | pkgconf | 184,912 |
| #14 | awscli | 170,465 |
| #15 | pcre2 | 164,437 |
| #16 | icu4c@76 | 164,230 |
| #17 | libnghttp2 | 163,008 |
| #18 | little-cms2 | 156,264 |
| #19 | pango | 153,288 |
| #20 | cairo | 147,017 |
| #21 | ffmpeg | 146,346 |
| #22 | fontconfig | 141,089 |
| #23 | readline | 138,130 |
| #24 | gh | 135,228 |
| #25 | git | 130,969 |
| #26 | libunistring | 127,018 |
| #27 | cmake | 122,978 |
| #28 | [email protected] | 118,302 |
| #29 | lz4 | 117,474 |
| #30 | aom | 114,269 |
| #31 | gmp | 111,472 |
| #32 | jpeg-turbo | 110,503 |
| #33 | protobuf | 105,070 |
| #34 | pyenv | 104,733 |
| #35 | expat | 103,716 |
| #36 | imagemagick | 100,118 |
| #37 | abseil | 99,954 |
| #38 | webp | 97,643 |
| #39 | libxau | 96,916 |
| #40 | libidn2 | 95,844 |
| #41 | libtiff | 95,558 |
| #42 | icu4c@77 | 95,549 |
| #43 | tesseract | 93,907 |
| #44 | jpeg-xl | 93,233 |
| #45 | mpdecimal | 93,226 |
| #46 | gcc | 91,967 |
| #47 | ncurses | 90,488 |
| #48 | go | 90,204 |
| #49 | zlib | 87,219 |
| #50 | libxrender | 86,650 |
| #51 | openjdk | 86,641 |
| #52 | libtasn1 | 84,977 |
| #53 | pixman | 80,459 |
| #54 | libuv | 78,197 |
| #55 | python-setuptools | 77,836 |
| #56 | llvm | 77,587 |
| #57 | freetype | 76,563 |
| #58 | wget | 75,608 |
| #59 | nettle | 75,592 |
| #60 | brotli | 74,648 |
| #61 | gnutls | 74,010 |
| #62 | curl | 73,851 |
| #63 | c-ares | 73,733 |
| #64 | libavif | 71,947 |
| #65 | libxcb | 71,603 |
| #66 | libpq | 71,019 |
| #67 | sdl2 | 70,895 |
| #68 | svt-av1 | 70,265 |
| #69 | librsvg | 70,046 |
| #70 | unbound | 69,522 |
| #71 | z3 | 69,512 |
| #72 | libtool | 69,171 |
| #73 | xorgproto | 68,346 |
| #74 | cryptography | 66,243 |
| #75 | gnupg | 66,150 |
| #76 | libheif | 65,230 |
| #77 | ruby | 64,268 |
| #78 | flac | 64,230 |
| #79 | mpfr | 64,220 |
| #80 | libsndfile | 63,500 |
| #81 | libxext | 63,397 |
| #82 | coreutils | 62,632 |
| #83 | giflib | 61,594 |
| #84 | openexr | 61,470 |
| #85 | libdeflate | 61,135 |
| #86 | libomp | 60,856 |
| #87 | openjpeg | 60,639 |
| #88 | postgresql@14 | 59,273 |
| #89 | rbenv | 58,834 |
| #90 | krb5 | 57,766 |
| #91 | libxdmcp | 57,217 |
| #92 | php | 55,572 |
| #93 | oniguruma | 54,395 |
| #94 | dbus | 53,945 |
| #95 | libxml2 | 52,645 |
| #96 | gdk-pixbuf | 52,280 |
| #97 | mysql | 52,238 |
| #98 | [email protected] | 51,926 |
| #99 | fribidi | 51,918 |
| #100 | libevent | 51,842 |