Chocolatey Alternatives

Chocolatey is described as 'Command-line tool for managing Windows applications with no registration, centralized audits, automatic package creation, offline support, disk space optimization, and synchronization' and is a very popular software installer in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Chocolatey for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Web-based and Flatpak apps. The best Chocolatey alternative is Scoop, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Chocolatey are UniGetUI, Ninite, Homebrew and Flathub.

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Chocolatey alternatives are mainly Software Installers, but if you're looking for Package Managers or Software Updaters you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows + Open Source, Linux, Mac and Windows. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Chocolatey.
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  1. TuxMate icon
     3 likes

    THE MISSING BULK APP INSTALLER FOR LINUX.

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    • Online
    • Linux
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  2. RuckZuck icon
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    RuckZuck is a free Software Package Manager for Windows, designed to keep the Software on your System(s) up to date even if the Software was not installed with RuckZuck.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  3. OneGet icon
     18 likes

    OneGet is a unified interface to package management systems and aims to make Software Discovery, Installation and Inventory (SDII) work via a common set of cmdlets (and eventually a set of APIs). Regardless of the installation technology underneath, users can use these common...

    22 OneGet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  4. WAPT Community icon
     11 likes

    WAPT is a package manager for Windows which provides installation, removal and upgrades of software in managed environment. Software can be deployed through a central management console. WAPT was modeled on GNU/Linux Debian APT, hence its name.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  5. Total Software Deployment makes deploying software on any number of computers a blast. Software inventory management, automatic network scanning, and concurrent deployment of multiple types of installation packages make TSD a clear winner!.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  6. MacPorts icon
     26 likes

    The MacPorts Project is an opensource package management system that simplifies compiling, installing, upgrading, and removal of other open-source software on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and later, running on Intel or Apple Silicon.

    37 MacPorts alternatives

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    • Mac
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  7. Robust package system that manages installation, updates, verification, and removal of software packages on Linux. Includes a library API for development in languages like C and Python. Widely used across Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, and more; released under GPL-2.0-or-later.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  8. Yum is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for rpm systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install packages. It makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm.

    39 YUM Package Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  9. Boxstarter icon
     9 likes

    Repeatable, reboot resilient windows environment installations made easy using Chocolatey packages. Boxstarter can automate both trivial and highly complex installations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Chocolatey
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  10. PDQ Deploy icon
     14 likes

    Silently deploy almost any Windows patch or application (.exe, .msi) to multiple Windows PCs simultaneously. Deployments can install, uninstall, execute scripts, reboot, copy files, sleep, send messages, etc.

    43 PDQ Deploy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. Chocosetup icon
     5 likes

    A simple way to generate an installer script for a list of common Chocolatey packages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
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