Alternatives to InstallAware

  • 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 stability.

    Open Source Free Windows

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  • 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 is therefore very suitable for internet distribution. Being a users first experie…

    Open Source Free PortableApps.com Windows

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  • WiX

    The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The toolset supports a command line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI and MSM setup packages.

    Free Windows

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  • Advanced Installer

    Advanced Installer is a powerful and easy to use setup authoring tool which offers full Windows Installer support and more. You can configure every aspect of your installer through a simple graphical user interface or through its command line. Some …

    Commercial Windows

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  • IzPack

    IzPack is a one-stop solution for packaging, distributing and deploying applications.

    Free Java Linux Mac Windows

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  • InstallForge

    InstallForge is a very easy-to-use and flexible tool for creating fast installation packages for Windows.

    Free Windows

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  • Wix#

    Wix# answers many MSI authoring challenges. It solves the common MSI/WiX authoring limitations in a very elegant and yet unorthodox way. Wix# follows the steps of other transcompilers like Script#, CoffeeScript or GWT by using source code of a more …

    Open Source Free Windows

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  • 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 an easy to use interface for packaging applications, artwork, media, themes, et…

    Open Source Free Linux

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  • CreateInstall

    Professional installer software is an essential component for any software developer. The ideology behind the CreateInstall installer is based on two main principles. Complete control over the installation process and unlimited scalability. If you w…

    Freemium Windows

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  • 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 .run suffix), and can be launched as is. The archive will then uncompress itsel…

    Open Source Free BSD Linux Mac

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  • InstallShield

    InstallShield is designed to enable development teams to be more agile, collaborative and flexible when building reliable InstallScript and Windows Installer (MSI) installations for PCs, servers, Web and virtual applications. InstallShield is the on…

    Commercial Windows

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  • DCP Setup Maker

    Powerful simple-to-use application to generate stable and multi-platform installers.Its intuitive user interface and exceptional ease of use makes it very easy to build complex desktop or web installers with large amounts of files.

    Open Source Free Wine Linux Mac Windows

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  • InstallBuilder

    BitRock InstallBuilder is a multiplatform installer development and automatic update tool that makes it easy to package and deliver updates to crossplatform software.

    Commercial Linux Mac Windows

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  • 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 installation in less than one minute! Everything in one compressed distributable executabl…

    Freemium Windows

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  • InstallSimple

    InstallSimple - installation package maker that lets you create installer for your files. If you have made a program that you want to distribute, you can use this installer maker to create a nice looking installer for your programs. The best part of…

    Freemium Windows

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  • CyberInstaller Suite

    CyberInstaller Suite is a packetization and installation software, oriented to every kind of developer. Thus, it can be applied to any language or development environment (.Net, C++, C#, Delphi, Java, PHP, Visual Basic, etc.) and can be used either …

    Freemium Windows

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  • 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 NSIS. Its Script Wizard will help you to create standard Setup programs with only few clicks, also its InstallOptions desi…

    Open Source Free PortableApps.com Windows

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  • SuperOrca

    SuperOrca is a direct replacement to the Orca MSI Editor from Microsoft. SuperOrca may be used to examine and modify any MSI database.

    Free Windows

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  • 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 limited user interaction and a simple configuration. It provides some useful feature…

    Open Source Free Linux

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  • Packin

    Packin is a graphical Linux package creator wizard which compiles packages in the popular debian package format (.deb files). Packin creates complete debian packages within four easy steps. Advanced options and latest specifications supported.

    Open Source Free Linux

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