The Fink project is an effort to port and package open-source Unix programs to macOS.

[2] In addition to command-line tools for handling packages, the shareware app Phynchronicity provides a GUI.

[4] MacPorts, another macOS package manager, follows a similar approach by storing its data in /opt/local by default.

As of March 2014, the Fink core team were made up of nine active developers, who are responsible for the central management of the project and maintain the "essential" packages.

[7][8] The Fink community regularly adds support for the latest versions of macOS with their release.