Snap Store
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The Snap Store gives you instant access to thousands of free and open-source applications. And now you can buy apps from some of the leading providers too. All our software is easy to find and install so you can have a customised desktop that suits you in no time.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Online
- Ubuntu
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- Software Installer
- Package Manager
- No registration required
- Absence Management
- Graphical User Interface
- Software Management
Tags
- Software Repository
- ubuntu
- linux-application
- applications-repositories
- application-management
- linux-applications
- linux-software
- application-updater
- cafe-management
- application-update
Snap Store News & Activities
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seriousgoose added Snap Store as alternative to Autonomix
POX added Snap Store as alternative to Klia Store
POX added Snap Store as alternative to Bazaar App Store- parsnip85 added Graphical User Interface as a feature to Snap Store
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What is Snap Store ?
The Snap Store gives you instant access to thousands of free and open-source applications. And now you can buy apps from some of the leading providers too. All our software is easy to find and install so you can have a customised desktop that suits you in no time.
Snap Store information
Developed by
Canonical Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Alternatives
40 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Unfortunately, unlike other Linux alternatives, the back-end is proprietary.
If you at all value free and open-source software, stay away from this until / unless Canonical decides to release the back-end under a free and open-source license.
Canonical has a very bad track record of maintaining security, there have been at least three breaches that i know of:
https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-490k-swindle/
With one of them having a user losing $490K . Part of the problem in my opinion is that the backend is closed source so there is less buy in from the community to improve security (I don't recall anything like this happening to flathub or nix or AUR). Also in nix and flathub and AUR the website links to the manifest so you can check the software is builted from trustworthy sources.
Also confinement does not work for some linux distributions which can cause serious security risks because services run as root , see:
https://github.com/nextcloud-snap/nextcloud-snap/wiki/Why-Ubuntu-is-the-only-supported-distro
Impossible to create an account with Ubuntu Software Centre, it requires a 'captcha' image to be entered that is completely unreadable. 20 to 30 attempts all failed, hence the need for an alternative!