Shawl Alternatives

Shawl is described as 'Wrapper for running arbitrary programs as Windows services, written in Rust. It handles the Windows service API for you so that your program only needs to respond to ctrl-C/SIGINT. If you're creating a project that needs to run as a service, simply bundle Shawl' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are seven alternatives to Shawl for Windows. The best Shawl alternative is NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Shawl are Always Up, Run as Service, WinSW and FireDaemon.

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Shawl is a wrapper for running arbitrary programs as Windows services, written in Rust. It handles the Windows service API...

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Shawl alternatives page was last updated Nov 19, 2023
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  1. NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager icon
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    NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager

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    nssm is a service helper which doesn't suck. srvany and other service helper programs suck because they don't handle failure of the application running as a service. If you use such a program you may see a service listed as started when in fact the application has died.

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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    • Windows

    NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Run as a Service
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    Last release is from 2014, and last pre-release is from 2017, but it can still be downloaded from the official website.

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    • NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager is the most popular Windows alternative to Shawl.

    • NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Shawl.

    • NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager is Free and Open SourceShawl is also Free and Open Source
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    Always Up

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    AlwaysUp is the true set-it-and-forget-it way to run your mission-critical Windows application 24/7, unattended, starting it at boot and monitoring it to ensure that it is always running, even if it crashes, hangs, or fails.

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    AlwaysUp Overview

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    • Windows

    Always Up Features

    1.  Run as a Service
    Adding an Application to Run 24/7
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    • Always Up is the most popular commercial alternative to Shawl.

    • Always Up is Paid and ProprietaryShawl is Free and Open Source

  4. Run as Service

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    This tool requires that .NET Framework 2.0 be already installed on your computer. If you do not have .NET Framework 2.0 this tool will display a message and not run. You probably already have the .NET Framework 2.

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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. WinSW icon
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    WinSW

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    winsw - A wrapper executable that can be used to host any executable as an Windows service, in a liberal license

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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    WinSW Features

    1.  Run as a Service
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    FireDaemon

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    FireDaemon runs any application program executable or script as a Windows service when your computer starts up restarting it the application crashes or fails.

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    • Windows

    FireDaemon Features

    1.  Run as a Service
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    Application as Service

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    Application as Service is an advanced system tool which lets you run any application as Windows Service. You can easily configure Application as Service using its intuitive GUI interface or command line configurator directly from your software.

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    • Windows

    Application as Service Features

    1.  Run as a Service
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    Daemon Master

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    Daemon Master is a software which makes it possible to create and manage a Windows-service from any program. (Alpha)

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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Daemon Master Features

    1.  Root required
    2.  Run as a Service
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