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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.

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License model

  • FreeProprietary

Country of Origin

  • GB flagUnited Kingdom

Platforms

  • Linux
  • Online  Although the Snap Store client is open source, the online Snap Store service is proprietary
  • Ubuntu
2 / 5 Avg rating (4)
102likes
3comments
0news articles

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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  No registration required
  2.  Software Installer
  3.  Package Manager
  4.  Absence Management
  5.  Software Management

 Tags

  • applications-repositories
  • application-management
  • Software Repository
  • linux-applications
  • ubuntu
  • linux-application
  • application-updater
  • cafe-management
  • application-update
  • linux-software

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Snap Store information

  • Developed by

    GB flagCanonical
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 2
  • Alternatives

    38 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Snap Store , and it has gotten 102 likes

Snap Store was added to AlternativeTo by MaKKAPAKKA3 on Mar 4, 2011 and this page was last updated Dec 12, 2023. Snap Store is sometimes referred to as Ubuntu Software Centre.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Negative Comment
randomperson
Jan 11, 2024
4

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.

yeyer11817
Feb 21, 2024
2

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

chrispoynter
Aug 12, 2014
1

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!

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.