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

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

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

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

InstallShield

InstallShield is designed to enable development teams to be more agile, collaborative and flexible when building reliable InstallScript and Windows Installer (MSI)...

Commercial Windows

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

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...

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

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com

ClickTeam Install Creator

Spend your time developing your creations not building the installers. Download the fully functional freeware version of Install Creator and create your first...

Freemium Windows

Deb-o-Matic

Deb-o-Matic is an easy to use utility to build Debian source packages, meant to help developers to automate the building of their packages with a tool that requires...

Free Open Source Linux

GUI Debian Package Maker

A Debian package builder based on Debian Package Maker (http://debianpackagemaker.blogspot.com ).

• Discontinued Last release in December 2009

Free Open Source Linux

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

Debian Package Maker

DebianPackageMaker is a simple user interface/tool to make a debian package easier and straightforward to use and deploy your linux application to any debian based...

• Discontinued Last release in June 2008

Free Open Source Linux

Ubucompilator

Ubucompilator is a modern software written in Gambas for Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint and debian derivates to compile and make .debs packages easly, by a graphic way. ...

• Discontinued Last version 1.0, released May 2011, can be downloaded from Launchpad

Free Open Source Linux

pkgcreator

The main objective of this project is to simplify the creation of Debian packages by providing an utility that parses a simple YAML file and generate all the file...

• Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.1svn30, released in March 2011, can be still downloaded from Google Code Hosting

Free Open Source Linux

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