Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to MacPorts

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.

As MacPorts is an open source project, you can find more open source alternatives and stats on LibHunt.

Product categories

Code Collaboration Containers As A Service Developer Tools Focus Music Front End Package Manager JS Build Tools Kids Linux Tools MacOS Tools OS & Utilities Package Manager Windows Tools

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to MacPorts are Homebrew, pkgsrc, and Chocolatey. 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.

Homebrew Landing Page
1

Homebrew

The missing package manager for macOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Windows Tools #Front End Package Manager 877 social mentions
pkgsrc Landing Page
2

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
Chocolatey Landing Page
3

Chocolatey

The sane way to manage software on Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 252 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
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
Cakebrew Landing Page
6

Cakebrew

Homebrew GUI app for macOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Windows Tools
Flatpak Landing Page
7

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
GNU Guix Landing Page
8

GNU Guix

Like Nix but GNU.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Developer Tools 90 social mentions
AppGet Landing Page
9

AppGet

Free and Opensource package manager for Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Software Marketplace 2 social mentions
RubyGems Landing Page
10

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
Python Poetry Landing Page
11

Python Poetry

Python packaging and dependency manager.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Kids #Front End Package Manager #Package Manager 144 social mentions
FLATHUB Landing Page
12

FLATHUB

Apps for Linux, right here
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Work Music 198 social mentions