This guide includes a lot of free apps I use on my Mac. I have a comprehensive list of these in Github and Google Sheets.

i. From your previous Mac/install

1 - Install apps

1.1 - Install Homebrew

Install Homebrew using the following command:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh>)"

1.2 - Install packages

1.2.1 - Brewfile placement

Place the Brewfile (which you downloaded from here, or created yourself) in your /usr/ directory — you can get here in Finder by selecting Go > Go to Folder... (or pressing ⌘ + ⇧ + G) and typing ~/. Terminal should launch here by default.

1.2.2 - Installation

Open Terminal and run the following command:

brew bundle install

(If you have your Brewfile in a different location, you can specify this by running brew bundle install /path/to/Brewfile)

1.2.3 - Auto-updates

I like my packages to update automatically, so I use the Homebrew Autoupdate package which just uses the built-in autoupdate mechanism within Homebrew. It is in my Brewfile, but if you want to install it yourself, you need to use:

brew tap domt4/autoupdate