Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Advanced Package Tool

The top open-source alternatives to Advanced Package Tool are Chocolatey, Homebrew, and Yarn. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Chocolatey Landing Page
1

Chocolatey

The sane way to manage software on Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 252 social mentions
Homebrew Landing Page
2

Homebrew

The missing package manager for macOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Windows Tools 877 social mentions
Yarn Landing Page
3

Yarn

Yarn is a package manager for your code.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #JS Build Tools 107 social mentions
NixOS Landing Page
4

NixOS

25 Jun 2014 . All software components in NixOS are installed using the Nix package manager. Packages in Nix are defined using the nix language to create nix expressions.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Linux Tools 246 social mentions
Flatpak Landing Page
5

Flatpak

Flatpak is the new framework for desktop applications on Linux
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Developer Tools 84 social mentions
React-Ionic Landing Page
6

React-Ionic

Create iOS and Android apps with React and Ionic
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #JS Build Tools
Zypper Landing Page
7

Zypper

Zypper is a command line package manager for openSUSE which makes use of libzypp.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Windows Tools
RubyGems Landing Page
8

RubyGems

RubyGems. org is the Ruby community's gem hosting service. Instantly publish your gems and then install them. Use the API find out more about available gems. Become a contributor and improve the site yourself.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Code Collaboration 95 social mentions
Bower Landing Page
9

Bower

Bower is a package manager for the web.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#JS Build Tools #Front End Package Manager #Web Application Bundler 5 social mentions
MacPorts Landing Page
10

MacPorts

The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Windows Tools 5 social mentions
Scoop Landing Page
11

Scoop

A command-line installer for Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 155 social mentions
Ninja Build Landing Page
12

Ninja Build

Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #JavaScript Package Manager #JS Build Tools 22 social mentions