Alternatives to InstallShield for all platforms with any license

Inno Setup

Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs. First introduced in 1997, Inno Setup today rivals and even surpasses many commercial installers in feature set and...

Free Open Source Windows
Customizable Add a feature

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NSIS

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and...

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Portable Scriptable Add a feature

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Advanced Installer

Advanced Installer is a powerful and easy to use setup authoring tool which offers full Windows Installer support and more. You can configure every aspect of your...

Commercial Windows
No features added Add a feature

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IzPack

IzPack is a one-stop solution for packaging, distributing and deploying applications. It is fully cross-platform and generates a single installer. As such, it is an...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Java
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InstallForge

InstallForge is a very easy-to-use and flexible tool for creating fast installation packages for Windows.

Free Windows
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Debreate

Debreate is a utility to aid in building Debian packages (.deb). The goal behind Debreate is to make developing for Debian based Linux distributions more appealing, with...

Free Open Source Linux
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WiX

The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The toolset supports a command line environment that...

Free Open Source Windows
WixEdit WixPie IDE Add a feature

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Wix#

WixSharp enables creating MSI files or WiX source code by using C# source code. Upon execution, the C# code is transformed into a MSI file or WiX source code. Thanks to...

Free Open Source Windows
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CreateInstall

Professional installer software is an essential component for any software developer. The ideology behind the CreateInstall installer is based on two main principles....

Freemium Windows
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InstallBuilder

Modern, easy to use crossplatform installation tool similar to InstallShield multiplatform and InstallAnywhere. It works across Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Free...

Commercial Mac Windows Linux
Customizable Add a feature

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DCP Setup Maker

Powerful simple-to-use application to generate stable and multi-platform installers. Its intuitive user interface and exceptional ease of use makes it very easy to...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Wine
Nuget Portable Add a feature

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install4j

install4j is a powerful multi-platform Java installer builder that generates native installers and application launchers for Java applications.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux
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Setup Factory

Setup Factory Software Installer Builder for Windows. Advanced installer builder makes software installation programs for Windows. Award winning. Easy to Use.

Commercial Windows
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Makeself

makeself.sh is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable tar.gz archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script (many of those have a...

Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD
File Compression Add a feature

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HM NIS EDIT

HM NIS Edit is the best Editor/IDE for NSIS . It's useful for experts and beginners in the creation of Setup programs with the...

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Portable Add a feature

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- Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 2.0.3, released in March 2005, can be still downloaded from the official website.