Chocolatey Alternatives for Mac

Chocolatey is not available for Mac but there are some alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is Homebrew, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Chocolatey and ten of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Chocolatey are Nix Package Manager, Homebrew Cask, Zero Install and MacPorts.

Chocolatey alternatives are mainly Package Managers but may also be Software Installers or Software Updaters. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Chocolatey.

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Freemium • Open Source
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Chocolatey NuGet is a Machine Package Manager, somewhat like apt-get, but built with Windows in mind. It is built on top of...

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Homebrew
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Free • Open Source
Package Manager
Software Installer
Mac
Linux
44 alternatives to Homebrew
Homebrew is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn’t include with macOS. Also available for Linux.
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1. Command line interfaceHomebrew either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. Ad-freeHomebrew doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
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Nix Package Manager
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Free • Open Source
Package Manager
Mac
Linux
BSD
31 alternatives to Nix Package Manager
Nix is a powerful package manager for macOS, Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup...
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1. Command line interfaceNix Package Manager either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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Homebrew Cask
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Free • Open Source
Package Manager
Mac
Homebrew
18 alternatives to Homebrew Cask
Homebrew-cask provides a friendly homebrew-style CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries.

It's implemented as a homebrew external command called cask.
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1. Command line interfaceHomebrew Cask either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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Zero Install
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Free • Open Source
Software Updater
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Solaris
36 alternatives to Zero Install
Zero Install is a decentralised cross-distribution software installation system. Other features include full support for shared libraries, sharing between users, and integration with native platform package managers.

Zero Install has no features, suggest some!
MacPorts
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Free • Open Source
Package Manager
Software Installer
Software Updater
Mac
27 alternatives to MacPorts
The MacPorts Project is an opensource package management system that simplifies compiling, installing, upgrading, and removal of other open-source software on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and later, running on Intel or Apple Silicon.
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MacPorts Features
1. Command line interfaceMacPorts either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
FileOur
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Free • Proprietary
Software Download Service
Mac
Windows
Linux
83 alternatives to FileOur
Way to download freeware, shareware, trialware and demo software for any Windows operating systems. This site is currently very popular for downloading software. Successful software is organized into a variety of categories.

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Fink
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Free • Open Source
Mac
9 alternatives to Fink
What is Fink?

Fink is a project that wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. As a result, we have two main goals. First, to modify existing Open Source software so that it will compile and run on Mac OS X. (This process is called portin.
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Topgrade
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Linux
9 alternatives to Topgrade
Keeping your system up to date usually involves invoking multiple package managers. This results in big, non-portable shell one-liners saved in your shell. To remedy this, topgrade detects which tools you use and runs the appropriate commands to update them.
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pkgsrc
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Free • Open Source
Package Manager
Software Installer
Mac
Linux
BSD
Haiku
9 alternatives to pkgsrc
pkgsrc is a framework for building over 17,000 open source software packages. It is the native package manager on SmartOS, NetBSD, and Minix, and is portable across 23 different operating systems. Use one package manager across all of your systems!
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pkgsrc Features
1. Command line interfacepkgsrc either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. Portablepkgsrc can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
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GitRel
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
6 alternatives to GitRel
Install and update binaries via GitHub Releases API.
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