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gum for Mac

Tool for glamorous shell scripts

Quick answer: gum is a terminal emulator for macOS. Install it with brew install gum. It is distributed under the MIT licence. It has 3,432 Homebrew installs in the last 30 days.

What gum is

gum is a terminal emulator for macOS: tool for glamorous shell scripts.

It is distributed as a Homebrew formula, which builds or pours a binary and puts it on your PATH. The project is open source and lives at https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum.

How to install gum

  1. Open Terminal (press ⌘ + Space and type “Terminal”).
  2. If Homebrew is not installed yet, run the installer below once.
  3. Run brew install gum.

Homebrew installer, if you need it:

Prefer a graphical installer? Download it from the official site. MacPicks never hosts or mirrors binaries — the Homebrew command always pulls from the vendor's own release.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install gum on Mac?

Run brew install gum in Terminal. This requires Homebrew; if you do not have it, install it first with the command below.

Is gum open source?

Yes — Homebrew distributes it under the MIT licence.

Does gum run on Apple silicon?

Homebrew publishes this formula for macOS. If upstream does not ship an Apple silicon build, Rosetta 2 handles the Intel binary.

How popular is gum?

It was installed 3,432 times in the last 30 days according to Homebrew analytics, ranking #448 in this catalogue.

What version of gum is current?

The latest packaged version is 2.0.2.