homebrew-whisky

Homebrew tap for frankea/Whisky, the actively maintained fork of the archived whisky-app/whisky Wine wrapper for macOS.

Why this tap exists

The original Whisky was archived in April 2025, and its cask in homebrew-cask was deprecated as unmaintained shortly after — so brew install --cask whisky from the default cask repo still installs that frozen build. This tap ships the maintained fork's signed and notarized releases, so brew upgrade keeps tracking active development.

Requirements

• macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later
• Apple Silicon (arm64) — Intel Macs are not supported

Install

brew install --cask frankea/whisky/whisky

Updates flow through brew upgrade --cask after that.

Uninstall

brew uninstall --cask whisky

To also remove user data (bottles, settings, caches):

brew uninstall --cask --zap whisky

What's in the cask

• Whisky.app, signed and notarized
• Auto-updates via Sparkle from https://frankea.github.io/Whisky/appcast.xml
• See the main repo for the changelog, upstream issue audit, and issue tracking

Migrating from the archived original

Whisky 3.1.0 added a built-in importer, so the old manual export/import dance is no longer needed.

1. Install this fork (see Install). If brew reports a conflict with an existing whisky cask, remove the original first: brew uninstall --cask whisky.
2. Launch Whisky and choose File → Migrate from the Original Whisky….
3. Tick the bottles you want to bring over and import. They're referenced in place — your files aren't moved or copied, and the original app keeps working — so the import is non-destructive.

If no bottles from the original are found there's nothing to migrate; the app creates a fresh bottle on first launch.