In February 2015, due to downtime at SourceForge which resulted in binaries being unavailable, Homebrew moved their hosting to Bintray.

On December 13, 2013, the Homebrew repository migrated from Howell's GitHub account to its own project account. In March 2013, Homebrew successfully completed a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for servers to test and build formulae and managed to raise £14,859. Homebrew was written by Max Howell in 2009. Homebrew has spawned several sub-projects such as Linuxbrew, a Linux port now officially merged into Homebrew Homebrew Cask, which builds upon Homebrew and focuses on the installation of GUI applications and 'taps' dedicated to specific areas or programming languages like PHP. In 2013, Homebrew had both the largest number of contributors and issues closed of any project on GitHub. In 2012, Homebrew had the largest number of new contributors on GitHub. In 2010, Homebrew was the third-most- forked repository on GitHub. Homebrew has made extensive use of GitHub to expand the support of several packages through user contributions. Homebrew is a member of the Open Source Collective, and is run entirely by unpaid volunteers. Homebrew has been recommended for its ease of use as well as its integration into the command-line interface. Originally written by Max Howell, the package manager has gained popularity in the Ruby on Rails community and earned praise for its extensibility. The name is intended to suggest the idea of building software on the Mac depending on the user's taste. Homebrew is a free and open-source software package management system that simplifies the installation of software on Apple's operating system, macOS, as well as Linux.

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