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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Homebrew

Chocolatey iTerm2 Visual Studio Code Rectangle Scoop NixOS MacPorts Flatpak pkgsrc asdf-vm

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AI Containers As A Service Developer Tools Front End Package Manager IDE JS Build Tools Linux Tools Mac Tools MacOS Tools Package Manager Programming Windows Tools

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Homebrew are Chocolatey, iTerm2, and Visual Studio Code. 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.
  1. Chocolatey Landing Page
    Chocolatey Landing Page
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    Chocolatey

    The sane way to manage software on Windows.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 252 social mentions

  2. iTerm2 Landing Page
    iTerm2 Landing Page
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    iTerm2

    A terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Terminal #Developer Tools #SSH 98 social mentions

  3. Visual Studio Code Landing Page
    Visual Studio Code Landing Page
    3

    Visual Studio Code

    Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1009 social mentions

  4. Rectangle Landing Page
    Rectangle Landing Page
    4

    Rectangle

    Window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Mac Tools #Window Manager #Developer Tools 446 social mentions

  5. Scoop Landing Page
    Scoop Landing Page
    5

    Scoop

    A command-line installer for Windows
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 155 social mentions

  6. NixOS Landing Page
    NixOS Landing Page
    6

    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

  7. MacPorts Landing Page
    MacPorts Landing Page
    7

    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

  8. Flatpak Landing Page
    Flatpak Landing Page
    8

    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

  9. pkgsrc Landing Page
    pkgsrc Landing Page
    9

    pkgsrc

    pkgsrc is a framework for building over 17,000 open source software packages.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Developer Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 8 social mentions

  10. asdf-vm Landing Page
    asdf-vm Landing Page
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    asdf-vm

    An extendable version manager
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Programming #Programming Tools #Version Manager 163 social mentions

  11. Yarn Landing Page
    Yarn Landing Page
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    Yarn

    Yarn is a package manager for your code.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #JS Build Tools 106 social mentions

  12. Snapcraft Landing Page
    Snapcraft Landing Page
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    Snapcraft

    Snaps are software packages that are simple to create and install.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Windows Tools 87 social mentions

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  1. regal avatar
    regal
    · about 2 months ago
    · Reply

    Great for installing open-source apps on macOS

  2. Stan Bright avatar
    Stan Bright
    · about 2 months ago
    · Reply

    If you are a software engineer working on a mac - you can't get away from using Homebrew. And it just works.

  3. User avatar
    aishot
    · 6 months ago
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    This is the easiest package manager on Mac, been using it for years and love the simplicity or installing and uninstalling packages directly from the CLI

  4. User avatar
    Dream100-AI
    · 6 months ago
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    Missing packages

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