Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Yay

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Containers As A Service Developer Tools Focus Music Front End Package Manager JS Build Tools Kids Linux Tools MacOS Tools Package Manager Programming Software Recommendations Windows Tools

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Yay are Homebrew, Chocolatey, and Flatpak. 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
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
Flatpak Landing Page
3

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
pkgsrc Landing Page
4

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
NixOS Landing Page
5

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
FLATHUB Landing Page
6

FLATHUB

Apps for Linux, right here
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Work Music 198 social mentions
Snapcraft Landing Page
7

Snapcraft

Snaps are software packages that are simple to create and install.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Windows Tools 88 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
Python Poetry Landing Page
9

Python Poetry

Python packaging and dependency manager.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Kids #Front End Package Manager #Package Manager 144 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
Yarn Landing Page
11

Yarn

Yarn is a package manager for your code.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #JS Build Tools 107 social mentions
Package Control Landing Page
12

PC

Package Control

The Sublime Text package manager that makes it exceedingly simple to find, install and keep...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Kids 9 social mentions