Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Scoop – A command-line installer for locked down PCs with Powershell 2
I'm a lead contributor to the Windows command-line installer, Scoop. Previously, Scoop only worked with Powershell 3+, but due to the silly number of PCs running basically stock versions of Windows 7 (or earlier) with Powershell 2 available, I saw the opportunity to bring Scoop to these machines. On a personal note, I'm a student at the University of Newcastle, Australia that has many PCs as described above. You don't have admin access (for obvious reasons) and you can't install anything. Downloading and using portable apps is possible but painful when the list of things to install gets big.…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Scoop – A command-line installer for locked down PCs with Powershell 2 launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2017 · seashells.io · its alternatives →
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Eggshell▲90Simple BASH script manager for your Mac menubar
2018 · yoavanaki.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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In the deep mists of time (circa 2012), I was playing with the Go standard library, and saw how easy it was to stand up a webserver that let you navigate a remote file system, and I thought it was pretty neat. I took a look at my shell history and a frequent pattern of commands was "cd, ls, cd, ls, ...". And I thought "I love my keyboard, but you know, point and click might be nice in this context." And then I thought, "It'd be even cooler if you could run commands there." Skip forward several years, a few earlier implementations, a name change, and now there's Hucksh(ell), a bash-like shell…
2023 · its alternatives →
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What if Dependabot and Ansible had a child? Well for me that could be Updatecli. Updatecli is a project that I started to help maintain the infrastructure of the Jenkins project. I needed something flexible enough to update YAML with whatever information needed. Because let’s say it, everybody loves YAML. YAML is everywhere. Run it from everywhere… Updatecli is a command-line tool written in Golang and available for Windows, Linux, MacOSx, amd64, arm64, thank you Goreleaser All of that to say that it runs from wherever CI or laptop we need. As of today, Updatecli opened over 3000 Pull…
2022 · its alternatives →
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I am excited to share pippy, which allows users to create configurable pipelines using Github Actions. If you have used Azure pipelines, in summary, this would be Azure Pipelines meets Github Actions. Cloud version: https://app.pippy.dev/login (closed beta) I am also open sourcing command line version: https://github.com/nixmade/pippy. Key features: - Automatic Rollback - Datadog Monitoring - Pause/Resume The product is built using open source orchestrator. Orchestrator: https://github.com/nixmade/orchestrator Orchestrator allows…
2024 · pippy.dev · its alternatives →
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Microsoft open sources Powershell
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The simple package installer for Windows. Contribute to just-install/just-install development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi! SparrowHub - https://sparrowhub.org is repository of scripts to solve various tasks. Find specific script here and use it or share your script with others uploading script to SparrowHub. Sparrow - https://github.com/melezhik/sparrow - command line client provides API to distributes/search/install/configure/run scripts in centralized manner, as usual packages of software ( like deb or rpm rpm ), it works on most any Linux platforms. SparrowHub/Sparrow - easy way to develop your scripts and distribute them across your teams! Will be…
2017 · its alternatives →
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Simple light-weight package manager and build system written in C for c/c++ projects - mainak55512/flint
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An SSH Agent for Hardware backed keys on Windows. I wanted something like Secretive for Windows, so attempted to make one...
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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just wanted to share ward, a tool i hacked together to encrypt and manage sensitive files in a vault folder. it's written in bash and meant to be cloned and then stored using git or version control. you don't have to store it that way, it's just why i created it. what ward does: encrypts the files in ./vault/ into a single .gpg file, checks to see if your files have been tampered with, generates totp codes if you need them to recover critical accounts. how to use it: clone the repo, toss your files into the vault directory, and run yarn encrypt. now commit your new [private]…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Install all your programs at once. No Clicking Installers.
2025 · quickinstaller.js.org · its alternatives →
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AquaShell▲12A scripting and automation shell for Windows
2024 · aquashell-scripting.github.io · its alternatives →
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Being inspired by old third-party scripting environments such as AutoIt or AutoHotkey, I've developed my own scripting environment for Windows. I've always been fascinated by creating an own programming language and I made the syntax in a way it feels more like something that contains a personal flavor. The language matured over the years and I both use it for administration and automation tasks, but also for fully scripted applications as well. On the homepage, you'll find various production scripts as well as links to scripted applications. The scripting environment is free and open-source…
2025 · aquashell-scripting.com · its alternatives →
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SimpleCloud▲13ClickOps empowers businesses to deploy secure, scalable
2025 · simplecloud.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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I just released my biggest project yet: Flint, a language-agnostic Git wrapper that lets developers code using their own formatting preferences locally, while automatically enforcing the project's style on push. No more fighting over tabs vs spaces or dealing with noisy diffs. GitHub: https://github.com/capsulescodes/flint Documentation: https://flintable.com/docs/flint/ Article: https://capsules.codes/en/blog/flintable/en-flintable-introd...
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello all, I found myself rewriting the same shell scripts to distribute my binaries over and again, so I decided to put them in a repository and serve them with a prettier URL - to have nicer READMEs for my projects. I'll add some other tasks like installing/uninstalling on Windows, but in general ideas are welcome. Maybe somebody else finds them useful!
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Command line package search. Contribute to ColemanGariety/glom development by creating an account on GitHub.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simple package lookup service for npm, crates, pip and more
2022 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
- 23HP
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
2020 · crates.io · its alternatives →
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Born out of my frustration with powershell’s slow startup and confusing syntax I have long wanted to build a shell and scripting language in .NET. I have been working on it for a long time and thanks to Claude, I was able to finally get it over the line. I daily drive it as my shell on Windows, and really happy with it so far. Please try it and let me know where it can improve!
Feb 2026 · jitzu.dev · its alternatives →
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