Top 11 Open-Source Alternatives to MacUpdater

The top open-source alternatives to MacUpdater are Scoop, Chocolatey, and RuckZuck. 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.

Scoop Landing Page
1

Scoop

A command-line installer for Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 155 social mentions
Chocolatey Landing Page
2

Chocolatey

The sane way to manage software on Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 252 social mentions
RuckZuck Landing Page
3

RuckZuck

free open source package manager for windows with public software repository
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Software Marketplace 6 social mentions
WAPT Community Landing Page
4

WAPT Community

Deploy your software and configurations, perform an inventory of your machines in real time, control Windows Updates and benefit from customized reporting of your IT assets
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- €10.0 / Annually (per PC)
#Software Marketplace #Code Collaboration #Software Recommendations
AppGet Landing Page
5

AppGet

Free and Opensource package manager for Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Software Marketplace 2 social mentions
Homebrew Landing Page
6

Homebrew

The missing package manager for macOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Windows Tools 877 social mentions
Zero Install Landing Page
7

Zero Install

Zero Install is a decentralised cross-distribution software installation system.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#OS & Utilities #Software Marketplace #Code Collaboration 4 social mentions
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
AppAgg Landing Page
9

AppAgg

Application Aggregator
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Software Marketplace #Code Collaboration #Software Recommendations 3 social mentions
ucaresystem core Landing Page
10

ucaresystem core

Noob Linux Admin notepad and various utillities
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Software Marketplace
MacPorts Landing Page
11

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