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.

Free Open Source Windows

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.

Free Open Source Windows

WiX

The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code.

Free Open Source Windows

Advanced Installer

Advanced Installer is a powerful and easy to use setup authoring tool which offers full Windows Installer support and more.

Freemium Windows

IzPack

IzPack is a one-stop solution for packaging, distributing and deploying applications. It is fully cross-platform and generates a single installer. As such, it is an...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Java

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...

Free Open Source Linux

InstallShield

InstallShield is designed to enable development teams to be more agile, collaborative and flexible when building reliable InstallScript and Windows Installer (MSI)...

Commercial Windows

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...

Free Open Source Windows

InstallBuilder

Modern, easy to use crossplatform installation tool similar to InstallShield multiplatform and InstallAnywhere. It works across Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Free Licenses for open source projects.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

InstallForge

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

Free Windows

Wix#

WixSharp enables creating MSI files or WiX source code by using C# source code. Upon execution, the C# code is transformed into a MSI file or WiX source code. Thanks to...

Free Open Source Windows

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...

Freemium Windows

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...

Freemium Windows

GUI Debian Package Maker

A Debian package builder based on Debian Package Maker (http://debianpackagemaker.blogspot.com ).

Free Open Source Linux

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...

Freemium Windows

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...

Free Open Source Linux

SFX Tool

SFX Tool is a graphical user interface and script generator for the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System. It allows the user to create simple setup files in minutes...

Free Open Source Windows

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.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD

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...

Free Open Source Linux