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, FireDaemon, Run as Service and WinSW.
- 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
Country of Origin
United Kingdom
Platforms
- Windows
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 Features
NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager VS Always Up
Comments about NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager as an Alternative to Always Up
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.
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
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Windows
Shawl Features
Shawl VS Always Up
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.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Country of Origin
Australia
Platforms
- Windows
FireDaemon Features
FireDaemon VS Always Up
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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
Run as Service VS Always Up
7 WinSW alternativeswinsw - A wrapper executable that can be used to host any executable as an Windows service, in a liberal license
License model
- Free • Open Source
Country of Origin
Japan
Platforms
- Windows
WinSW Features
WinSW VS Always Up
TSM 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 Features
Turbo Service Manager VS 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
Daemon 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
Daemon Master VS Always Up
Application 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.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Country of Origin
- United States
Platforms
- Windows
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Application as Service Features
Application as Service VS 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.