skate for Mac
A personal key-value store. ?
skate — overview
A personal key-value store. ?
⚠️ As of v1.0.0 Skate operates locally and no longer syncs to the Charm Cloud. Read more about why and see the v1.0.0 release notes for a migration guide. The Charm Cloud sunsets on 29 November 2024.
Skate is simple and powerful. Use it to save and retrieve anything you’d like—even binary data.
Installation
Use a package manager:
Or download it: Packages are available in Debian and RPM formats Binaries are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows
Or just install it with go:
Other Features
List Filters
Databases
Sometimes you’ll want to separate your data into different databases:
Store Location
By default, Skate stores its databases in your operating system's user data directory. You can choose a different parent directory with --store:
You can also set SKATE_STORE if you want every command in a shell session to use the same store:
Examples
Here are some of our favorite ways to use skate.
Keep secrets out of your scripts
Keep passwords in their own database
Use scripts to manage data
What do you use skate for? Let us know.
Feedback
We’d love to hear your thoughts on this project. Feel free to drop us a note! Twitter The Fediverse Discord
License
Part of Charm.
Charm热爱开源 • Charm loves open source
Details
个人键值存储
How to install skate
- Open Terminal (press ⌘ + Space and type “Terminal”).
- If Homebrew is not installed yet, run the command below first.
- Run this command:
Latest 10 releases
Last updated 2026-09-28; current version v1.1.0, with the latest 10 releases listed.
| Version | Released | Type | Size | macOS | Windows | Linux |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.1.0 | 2026-09-28 | Stable | 4.9 MB | Download | Download | Download |
| v1.0.1 | 2025-03-06 | Stable | 4.4 MB | Download | Download | Download |
| v1.0.0 | 2024-08-23 | Stable | 4.2 MB | Download | Download | Download |
| v0.2.2 | 2023-02-21 | Stable | 7.2 MB | Download | Download | Download |
| v0.2.1 | 2022-08-09 | Stable | 7.0 MB | Download | Download | Download |
| v0.2.0 | 2022-04-13 | Stable | 6.3 MB | Download | Download | Download |
| v0.1.5 | 2022-03-29 | Stable | 6.3 MB | Download | Download | Download |
| v0.1.4 | 2022-02-18 | Stable | 6.1 MB | Download | Download | Download |
| v0.1.3 | 2021-12-16 | Stable | 6.0 MB | Download | Download | Download |
| v0.1.2 | 2021-12-09 | Stable | 5.9 MB | Download | Download | Download |
Data from GitHub Releases; stable releases first, each group sorted newest first.
Prebuilt bottle platforms
Official Homebrew bottles cover:
- Apple silicon · latest macOS
- Apple silicon · macOS 26 Tahoe
- Apple silicon · macOS 15 Sequoia
- Linux · ARM64
- Linux · x86_64
⚠️ No prebuilt bottle for Intel Macs; Intel users need brew install --build-from-source to build from source.
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| skate | v1.1.0 | MIT | CLI | 16 |
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| garnet | v2.2.11 | MIT | CLI | 73 |
| tinysparql | 3.12.0 | LGPL-2.1-or-later AND GPL-2.0-or-later | CLI | 30 |
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