Kakewalk Alternatives

Kakewalk is described as 'The sole purpose of Kakewalk is to make it as easy as possible to install OS X Lion or Mountain Lion on your PC. Kakewalk tries to remove all of the painful fiddling and tinkering so that you can be up and running within a few hours' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are five alternatives to Kakewalk for Mac, Windows and Linux. The best Kakewalk alternative is xMove, which is free. Other great apps like Kakewalk are UniBeast, myHack, iAtkos and OSX86 Project and rBoot.

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  1. xMove icon
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    xMove allows you to install OS X 10.7 Lion on any supported Intel Core 2 or Core i based PC. It moves the required installation files for Lion to a separate partition on your hard drive so that you can install Lion manually.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
    • xMove is the most popular Mac alternative to Kakewalk.

    • xMove is the most popular free alternative to Kakewalk.

    • xMove is Free and ProprietaryKakewalk is also Free and Proprietary
  2. UniBeast icon
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    UniBeast is a tool for Hackintoshes that creates a bootable USB drive from your copy of the Install Mac OS X Lion app, Install OS X Mountain Lion app, or OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive. This all-in-one bootable USB drive can also be used as a rescue boot drive for system recovery.

    4 UniBeast alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. myHack icon
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    myHack aids in the installation of a retail copy of OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard”, OS X 10.7 “Lion”, and OS X 10.8 “Mountain Lion” on a PC. This is commonly referred to as “Building a Hackintosh” or “Hackintoshing”.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    OSX86 is a collaborative project to run the Apple's Mac OS X computer operating system 10.4 and above on non-Apple personal computers with x86 and x86_64 architecture compatible processors (a.k.a. our PC's :).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • iAtkos and OSX86 Project is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to Kakewalk.

    • iAtkos and OSX86 Project is the most popular commercial alternative to Kakewalk.

    • iAtkos and OSX86 Project is Paid and ProprietaryKakewalk is Free and Proprietary
  5. rBoot icon
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    rBoot is a boot CD that allows Hackintoshes to boot Mac OS X Lion and Snow Leopard! It will even boot installer partitions created by xMove.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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