Install
Download Hun, move it to Applications, activate it with your license key and get the hun command.
You can have Hun running in a couple of minutes. You need a license key, the app, and nothing else.
Requirements
- A Mac with Apple silicon.
- macOS 15 or later.
- Docker Desktop, only if your projects run services with
dockerordocker compose. - Git, only for the branch switcher.
Install Hun
Buy a license
Hun is a one-time purchase of $9. One key works on up to 3 Macs, and updates are included. Buy it on the pricing page. Your license key appears after checkout and in your purchase email.
Download the app
Download the latest hun-macos-arm64.dmg from GitHub releases.
Move it to Applications
Open the disk image and drag hun into Applications. Then open Hun from Applications.
Hun has to run from /Applications to put the hun command on your PATH.
Paste your license key
Hun opens on Activate Hun. Paste the key from your purchase email into License key and click Activate Hun.
The Hun icon appears in your menu bar, and the main window opens.
The hun command
When Hun starts from /Applications, it links the hun command that ships inside the app into the first of these folders it can write to:
/usr/local/bin/opt/homebrew/bin~/.local/bin(created if needed)
Hun keeps that link pointing at the current app after every update. If one of those folders already has a hun that didn't come from the app, Hun leaves it alone.
Open a new terminal and check:
which hun
hun versionhun: command not found?
If Hun linked into ~/.local/bin, that folder may not be on your PATH. You can always run the copy inside the app: /Applications/hun.app/Contents/Resources/hun. See troubleshooting.
Next
Add your first project in the quick start.