Download Searoom.

Install with Homebrew

Homebrew installs the same disk image, and doubles as the upgrade path since Searoom never installs updates itself.

brew install emaitchess/searoom/searoom

The fully qualified name does the whole job. Homebrew adds the tap, records trust for this one cask, and installs, in a single command. Writing it as brew install --cask searoom instead needs the tap and trust granted first, because Homebrew refuses casks from untrusted third-party taps.

Afterwards brew upgrade --cask searoom moves to the current release, and brew uninstall --zap --cask searoom removes the app together with its preferences and trend history.

The searoom command

Searoom ships a read-only searoom command in the same signed binary, and sets it up on first launch however you installed the app. It creates ~/.local/bin/searoom as a symlink, never a copy, and adds that folder to your PATH in ~/.zprofile if no login file already does. A Homebrew install links the command its own way, and Searoom leaves that alone.

So there is nothing to run. If you have turned it off and want it back, the Searoom CLI switch in Settings does it, or from a terminal:

/Applications/Searoom.app/Contents/MacOS/Searoom install-cli

searoom uninstall-cli undoes both the link and the profile line. The command line reference documents all thirteen commands and the JSON they emit.

Verify the download

The v0.7.0 release publishes both digests. The values below are tied to the named artifacts and will change on a future release.

Searoom.dmg  65512853648fb38293d46f89a52dcdb96251d8e8a229c909ede2c2e1d9652ead
Searoom.zip  78837a7f1c74d0e7bab8de218684dc9043fb3f2e40ee17075f0b9c5b04e98189

The disk image is 567,722 bytes. The ZIP is 501,671 bytes and remains available for scripted installation.

Build from source

You need macOS 14 or later, an Apple Silicon Mac, Swift 6, and the macOS command-line developer tools.

git clone https://github.com/emaitchess/searoom.git
cd searoom
swift build --disable-sandbox
.build/debug/Searoom

What the release includes

• A tagged GitHub release tied to version 0.7.0.
• A disk image containing the application and an Applications shortcut.
• A ZIP for scripted installation.
• SHA-256 checksums published in the release notes.

Privacy and updates

Searoom never installs updates itself and never checks on its own schedule. Check for Updates in its menu compares the running version against a small manifest and offers to open the releases page. brew upgrade --cask searoom also works.