The Best 35 Makeself Alternatives

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • CreateInstall

    Professional installer software is an essential component for any software developer. The ideology behind the CreateInstall installer is based on two main principles....

    Freemium Windows

  • GUI Debian Package Maker

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

    Free Open Source Linux

  • 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

  • Debian Package Maker

    DebianPackageMaker is a simple user interface/tool to make a debian package easier and straightforward to use and deploy your linux application to any debian based...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Ubucompilator

    Ubucompilator is a modern software written in Gambas for Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint and debian derivates to compile and make .debs packages easly, by a graphic way. ...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • MojoSetup

    Putting together a MojoSetup installer involves five general steps: 1) Compile the software. 2) Set up the installer filesystem structure. 3) Write a config file. 4)...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • pkgcreator

    The main objective of this project is to simplify the creation of Debian packages by providing an utility that parses a simple YAML file and generate all the file...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • 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