How to Install IntelliJ on Mac OS Using Brew

In this post, we look at how to use brew to install IntelliJ Community Edition and Ultimate Edition.

IntelliJ IDEA is an integrated development environment written in Java for developing computer software.

It comes with two licensing modes, CE (Community Edition) and Ultimate.

ItelliJ can be installed on Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

Here, we use Homebrew to install IntelliJ on Mac OS.

Brew Install IntelliJ Community Edition

To install the community edition use:

brew cask install intellij-idea-ce

Brew Install IntelliJ Ultimate Edition

To install the ultimate edition use:

brew cask install intellij-idea

Once the installation is finished, you can find IntelliJ IDEA in the Applications folder.