Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Ninite

The top open-source alternatives to Ninite are Chocolatey, Scoop, and PortableApps.com. 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
Scoop Landing Page
2

Scoop

A command-line installer for Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 155 social mentions
PortableApps.com Landing Page
3

PortableApps.com

PortableApps.com is a website offering many free, commonly used Windows applications that have been...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #LMS #Bookmarks 149 social mentions
Homebrew Landing Page
4

Homebrew

The missing package manager for macOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Windows Tools #Front End Package Manager 877 social mentions
AppGet Landing Page
5

AppGet

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

RuckZuck

free open source package manager for windows with public software repository
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Software Marketplace 6 social mentions
AppImagePool Landing Page
7

AIP

AppImagePool

A simple, modern AppImageHub Client made for linux using flutter.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Marketplace #Front End Package Manager #Code Collaboration
mRemoteNG Landing Page
8

mRemoteNG

mRemoteNG is a fork of mRemote, an open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Remote Desktop #SSH #Remote PC Access 21 social mentions
Ansistrano Landing Page
9

Ansistrano

ansistrano.deploy and ansistrano.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #IT Automation 2 social mentions
NuGet Landing Page
10

NuGet

The NuGet Gallery is the central package repository for NuGet, the package manager for .NET.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Windows Tools #Front End Package Manager 38 social mentions
Paket Landing Page
11

Paket

Paket is a dependency manager for .NET and mono.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager
Boxstarter Landing Page
12

Boxstarter

Repeatable, reboot resilient windows environment installations made easy using Chocolatey packages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 5 social mentions