Homebrew Alternatives

Apps similar to Homebrew include Chocolatey, which is open source with a free version. Other options are Ninite, Scoop, Flathub and MacUpdater. There's no shortage of Package Managers like Homebrew, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, the web and iPad.

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  1. MacPorts icon
     26 likes

    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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    • Mac
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  2. Applite icon
     11 likes

    User-friendly GUI macOS application for Homebrew Casks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Homebrew
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  3. Setapp icon
     30 likes

    Setapp is a unified marketplace for Mac and iPhone users to discover hand-picked, trusted apps. Users can access apps in two ways:

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Online
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  4. Spack icon
     4 likes

    Spack is a package manager for supercomputers, Linux, and macOS. It makes installing scientific software easy. Spack isn’t tied to a particular language; you can build a software stack in Python or R, link to libraries written in C, C++, or Fortran, and easily swap compilers or...

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
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  5. Just Install icon
     34 likes

    just-install - The stupid package installer for Windows.

    Chocolatey , Ninite , Npackd are way too slow, bloated and difficult to extend. I needed a no-frills solution to inst.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  6. Robust package system that manages installation, updates, verification, and removal of software packages on Linux. Includes a library API for development in languages like C and Python. Widely used across Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, and more; released under GPL-2.0-or-later.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  7. RPM Fusion icon
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    RPM Fusion provides software that the Fedora Project or Red Hat doesn't want to ship. That software is provided as precompiled RPMs for all current Fedora versions and current Red Hat Enterprise Linux or clones versions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  8. Lix Project icon
     2 likes

    A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community.

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    • Linux
    • Mac
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  9. Flattool icon
     2 likes

    Flattool is a command line script designed to improve user experience with flatpaks. It streamlines flatpak management tasks, making them more efficient and user-friendly.

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    • Linux
    • Flatpak
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  10.  Like

    "asdf" is a tool version manager. All tool version definitions are contained within one file (.tool-versions) which you can check in to your project's Git repository to share with your team, ensuring everyone is using the exact same versions of tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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  11. Aura is a package manager for Arch Linux. Its original purpose is as an AUR helper, in that it automates the process of installing packages from the Arch User Repositories. It is, however, capable of much more.

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    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
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