Application as Service Alternatives

Application as Service is described as '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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are seven alternatives to Application as Service for Windows. The best Application as Service alternative is NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Application as Service are Always Up, Run as Service, Shawl and WinSW.

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Application as Service is an advanced system tool which lets you run any application as Windows Service. You can easily...

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NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager
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Free • Open Source
Windows
9 NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager alternatives
nssm 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.
- - NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager is the most popular Windows alternative to Application as Service.
- - NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Application as Service.
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NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager Features
1. Command line interfaceNSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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Discontinued
Last release is from 2014, and last pre-release is from 2017, but it can still be downloaded from the official website.

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It ran an app as a service that some other programs could not without any extra configuration, has a simple nice GUI, does not need to be installed. Was the thing I was looking for!
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Always Up
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
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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.
- - Always Up is the most popular commercial alternative to Application as Service.
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Run as Service
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Free • Open Source
Windows
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.
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Shawl
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Free • Open Source
Windows
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Shawl 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...
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1. Command line interfaceShawl either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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WinSW
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Free • Open Source
Windows
7 WinSW alternatives
winsw - A wrapper executable that can be used to host any executable as an Windows service, in a liberal license
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FireDaemon
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
7 FireDaemon alternatives
FireDaemon runs any application program executable or script as a Windows service when your computer starts up restarting it the application crashes or fails.
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Daemon Master
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Free • Open Source
Windows
9 Daemon Master alternatives
Daemon Master is a software which makes it possible to create and manage a Windows-service from any program. (Alpha)
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1. Root requiredRequires root to use Daemon Master, mainly relevant for Android apps.
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