Homebrew

Homebrew is a good fit for a local workstation or a small single-host install where containers aren’t part of your normal setup. It installs Scryer as a managed macOS service that starts automatically on login.

Install Scryer and start the service:

brew install scryer-media/scryer/scryer
brew services start scryer

Open http://localhost:8686.

After the service starts, finish the initial setup flow and confirm the UI shows the paths and libraries you intend to manage.

To listen on a different port, edit the Homebrew service config file:

nano "$(brew --prefix)/etc/scryer/config.env"

Add or uncomment this line:

SCRYER_BIND=127.0.0.1:8686

Then restart the service:

brew services restart scryer

Upgrading

brew update
brew upgrade scryer
brew services restart scryer

For all install methods, see Upgrading.

Related Concepts

• Library Scan — run this after confirming media roots are correctly configured
• Upgrading — full upgrade reference for all install methods