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Hierarchical note taking application featuring rich text and syntax highlighting. Version 1.7.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-09.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install cherrytree

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install cherrytree

MacPorts ports tree · editors/cherrytree/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add cherrytree

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · cherrytree · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install cherrytree

Debian stable package indexes · cherrytree · source: deb.debian.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#cherrytree

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ch/cherrytree/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S cherrytree

Arch Linux sync databases · cherrytree · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install cherrytree

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · cherrytree · source: download.opensuse.org

Windows

Chocolateyverified · 92%
choco install cherrytree

Chocolatey community package catalog · cherrytree · source: community.chocolatey.org

Scoopverified · 92%
scoop install extras/cherrytree

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/cherrytree.json · source: api.github.com

Windows Package Managerverified · 92%
winget install --id Giuspen.Cherrytree -e

Windows Package Manager source index · Giuspen.Cherrytree · source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

overview

Package summary

Hierarchical note taking application featuring rich text and syntax highlighting

Commands and aliases

  • cherrytree

history

Project history and usage

CherryTree is a GTK desktop note-taking application built around hierarchical notebooks, rich text, syntax highlighting, and portable single-file or directory-backed storage.

Project history

The official README describes CherryTree as a hierarchical note-taking application written by Giuseppe Penone and Evgenii Gurianov. Its feature set grew around programmer-friendly notes: rich text, code boxes, syntax highlighting, embedded files, import/export, PDF/HTML/plain-text output, and storage as XML or SQLite.

The project is distributed from giuspen.net and developed in the official GitHub repository. Current releases continue to ship cross-platform binaries and source archives, with Homebrew tracking version 1.7.0 in 2026.

Adoption history

CherryTree became a familiar package-manager entry because it filled the local, offline, tree-structured notes niche on Unix desktops. The input package metadata lists packages for Homebrew, Debian/Ubuntu, Arch, Alpine, MacPorts, Nix, openSUSE, Chocolatey, Scoop, and winget.

Homebrew's formula metadata reported 3,461 installs in the trailing 365-day window at research time, a modest but real signal for a GUI app in a mostly CLI package manager.

How it is used

Users launch the `cherrytree` desktop executable to maintain hierarchical note trees, often mixing formatted prose, code snippets, images, links, and exported documents in one notebook file.

The official README notes import support from several older note tools, which matters for users moving long-lived personal knowledge bases between desktop note applications.

Why package nerds care

CherryTree is package-nerd-interesting because it is a desktop productivity app that still behaves like a good Unix package: source tarballs, distro packaging, predictable local files, and no hosted service dependency.

Its Homebrew formula is also a reminder that Brew is not just compilers and daemons; it carries end-user GTK applications when they have stable upstream releases.

Timeline

  • 2025: CherryTree 1.x releases continued on GitHub, including 1.6.x maintenance releases.
  • 2026: CherryTree 1.7.0 was published upstream and tracked by Homebrew.

Related projects

  • The official README names SourCherry as a third-party Android project and cherrytree-notes-web-interface as an enhanced web interface for HTML exports.
  • CherryTree sits near other local note-tree tools in the package ecosystem, especially older import targets such as KeepNote, NoteCase, Zim, Tomboy, and RedNotebook.

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Installs with 26 runtime dependencies.
  • Build metadata lists 3 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
cherrytreecliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version1.7.0
manager updated2026-06-09
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:cherrytree
Version1.7.0
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cherrytree
Homepagehttps://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree
Upstream docshttps://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree#readme
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later
Source archivehttps://www.giuspen.com/software/cherrytree_1.7.0.tar.xz
Last updated2026-06-09T19:26:55Z
Pulseupdated
Dependenciesadwaita-icon-theme, at-spi2-core, atkmm@2.28, cairo, cairomm@1.14, enchant, fmt, fribidi, gdk-pixbuf, gettext, glib, glibmm@2.66, gspell, gtk+3, gtkmm3, gtksourceview4, harfbuzz, librsvg, libsigc++@2, libxml++, pango, pangomm@2.46, spdlog, sqlite, uchardet, vte3
Build dependenciescmake, gettext, pkgconf
Uses from macOScurl, libxml2
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namecherrytree
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Debian apt95%

cherrytree 1.2.0+dfsg-1

hierarchical note taking application

https://www.giuspen.net/cherrytree/

sudo apt install cherrytree
  • Section: editors
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 24 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cherrytree
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: cherrytree from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

cherrytree

nix profile install nixpkgs#cherrytree
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cherrytree
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ch/cherrytree/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Ubuntu apt95%

cherrytree 1.1.2+dfsg-1

hierarchical note taking application

https://www.giuspen.net/cherrytree/

sudo apt install cherrytree
  • Section: universe/editors
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 24 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cherrytree
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: cherrytree from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
apk95%

cherrytree 1.4.0-r0

hierarchical note taking application featuring rich text and syntax highlighting

https://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree

sudo apk add cherrytree
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: cherrytree
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cherrytree
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cherrytree from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

cherrytree-doc 1.4.0-r0

hierarchical note taking application featuring rich text and syntax highlighting (documentation)

https://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree

sudo apk add cherrytree-doc
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: cherrytree
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cherrytree
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cherrytree-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

cherrytree-lang 1.4.0-r0

Languages for package cherrytree

https://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree

sudo apk add cherrytree-lang
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: cherrytree
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cherrytree
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cherrytree-lang from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
pacman95%

cherrytree 1.6.3-2

Hierarchical note-taking application

https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/

sudo pacman -S cherrytree
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 24 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cherrytree
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: cherrytree from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
zypper95%

cherrytree 1.6.3-2.3

A hierarchical note taking application

https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/

sudo zypper install cherrytree
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-only
  • Category: Productivity/Office/Other
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: cherrytree
  • 29 dependencies
  • 4 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cherrytree
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cherrytree from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

cherrytree-lang 1.6.3-2.3

Translations for package cherrytree

https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/

sudo zypper install cherrytree-lang
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-only
  • Category: System/Localization
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: cherrytree
  • 1 dependencies
  • 3 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cherrytree
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cherrytree-lang from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
MacPorts95%

cherrytree

sudo port install cherrytree
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cherrytree
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: editors/cherrytree/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Chocolatey95%

cherrytree

choco install cherrytree
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cherrytree
Chocolatey community package catalog · community.chocolatey.org · Chocolatey community package catalog: cherrytree from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','carbon'
Scoop95%

extras/cherrytree

scoop install extras/cherrytree
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cherrytree
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/cherrytree.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1
winget95%

Giuspen.Cherrytree

winget install --id Giuspen.Cherrytree -e
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cherrytree
Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: Giuspen.Cherrytree from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • cairoRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • enchantRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • fribidiRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • cmakeBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • gettextBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • pkgconfBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

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  • eurekaShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, notes, productivity.
  • evernote-backupShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, notes, productivity.
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source trail

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This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment