Always Up Alternatives
Always Up is described as 'AlwaysUp is the true set-it-and-forget-it way to run your mission-critical Windows application 24/7, unattended, starting it at boot and monitoring it to ensure that it is always running, even if it crashes, hangs, or fails' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are eight alternatives to Always Up for Windows. The best Always Up alternative is NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Always Up are Shawl, Run as Service, WinSW and FireDaemon.
- Paid • Proprietary
9 NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager alternativesnssm is a service helper which doesn't suck. srvany and other service helper programs suck because they don't handle failure of the application running as a service. If you use such a program you may see a service listed as started when in fact the application has died.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager Features
- Command line interface
- Run as a Service
DiscontinuedLast release is from 2014, and last pre-release is from 2017, but it can still be downloaded from the official website.
NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager VS Always Up
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7 Shawl alternativesShawl is a wrapper for running arbitrary programs as Windows services, written in Rust. It handles the Windows service API for you so that your program only needs to respond to ctrl-C/SIGINT. If you're creating a project that needs to run as a service, simply bundle Shawl...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
Shawl Features
- Command line interface
- Run as a Service
- Rust
Shawl VS Always Up
Is Shawl a good alternative to Always Up?- 8 Run as Service alternatives
This tool requires that .NET Framework 2.0 be already installed on your computer. If you do not have .NET Framework 2.0 this tool will display a message and not run. You probably already have the .NET Framework 2.
Run as Service VS Always Up
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7 WinSW alternativeswinsw - A wrapper executable that can be used to host any executable as an Windows service, in a liberal license
WinSW VS Always Up
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7 FireDaemon alternativesFireDaemon runs any application program executable or script as a Windows service when your computer starts up restarting it the application crashes or fails.
FireDaemon VS Always Up
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9 Daemon Master alternativesDaemon Master is a software which makes it possible to create and manage a Windows-service from any program. (Alpha)
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
Daemon Master Features
- Root required
- Run as a Service
Daemon Master VS Always Up
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7 Turbo Service Manager alternativesTSM is a very small tool to configure your services.
Features:
Save/Load state in XML. Enable/Disable/Startup/Manual/Stop/Pause/Resume in multiple selected services at once with one key press. Group by State or by Startup type. Shows parent and child services. Win32/Kernel serv.
Turbo Service Manager VS Always Up
Is this a good alternative to Always Up?Comments about Turbo Service Manager as an Alternative to Always Up
TSM is only a service manager, it is not capable to configure an application to run as a service which is the main purpose of AlwaysUp
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7 Application as Service alternativesApplication as Service is an advanced system tool which lets you run any application as Windows Service. You can easily configure Application as Service using its intuitive GUI interface or command line configurator directly from your software.
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Comments about NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager as an Alternative to Always Up
NSSM doesn't have a GUI, it's command-line only but very easy to use. The only allows you to install any executable as a Windows service and to start/stop/configure/remove any Windows service (even those not installed by NSSM). Everything else is left up to the Windows Service manager. Simple but sufficient.
Little file; Easy to use; One command in the admin prompt using the command line guide from the website and everything works great. You just need to store this one file on a place because it will be "in use" when the PC starts.