I just use this version. https://emacsformacosx.com/ I have a one line shell script that then lets me start Emacs from the cmd line. something like

    open -A [path to applications/emacs startup] $@

This supports emacs —daemon

Best is subjective, but my current go-to is:

```

$ brew tap d12frosted/emacs-plus

$ brew install emacs-plus [options]

```

Cf. https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus

I use the “Emacs Mac Port” which is available via Homebrew.

https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport

I keep a clone of the main GNU Emacs git repository and build the emacs-27 branch (27 is the upcoming release) every few days on my MacBook (and the master branch on my Linux workstation).