Daemon Master Alternatives

Daemon Master is described as 'Software which makes it possible to create and manage a Windows-service from any program. (Alpha)' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are nine alternatives to Daemon Master for Windows. The best Daemon Master alternative is NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Daemon Master are WinSW, Always Up, Shawl and Run as Service.

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  1. nssm is a service helper which doesn't suck. srvany and other service helper programs suck because they don't handle failure of the application running as a service. If you use such a program you may see a service listed as started when in fact the application has died.

    7 NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. WinSW icon
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    winsw - A wrapper executable that can be used to host any executable as an Windows service, in a liberal license

    7 WinSW alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Always Up icon
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    AlwaysUp is the true set-it-and-forget-it way to run your mission-critical Windows application 24/7, unattended, starting it at boot and monitoring it to ensure that it is always running, even if it crashes, hangs, or fails.

    8 Always Up alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Shawl icon
     3 likes

    Shawl is a wrapper for running arbitrary programs as Windows services, written in Rust. It handles the Windows service API for you so that your program only needs to respond to ctrl-C/SIGINT. If you're creating a project that needs to run as a service, simply bundle Shawl...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. This tool requires that .NET Framework 2.0 be already installed on your computer. If you do not have .NET Framework 2.0 this tool will display a message and not run. You probably already have the .NET Framework 2.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. FireDaemon icon
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    FireDaemon runs any application program executable or script as a Windows service when your computer starts up restarting it the application crashes or fails.

    7 FireDaemon alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. TSM is a very small tool to configure your services.

    Features:

    Save/Load state in XML. Enable/Disable/Startup/Manual/Stop/Pause/Resume in multiple selected services at once with one key press. Group by State or by Startup type. Shows parent and child services. Win32/Kernel serv.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. This script lets you set Windows 10's services based on Black Viper's Service Configurations, your own Service Configuration (If in a proper format), a backup of your Service Configurations made by this script, or a Custom Configuration using the script.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Application as Service is an advanced system tool which lets you run any application as Windows Service. You can easily configure Application as Service using its intuitive GUI interface or command line configurator directly from your software.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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