Top 15 Advanced Installer Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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 of the major features it offers are:

- A dialog editor with beautiful themes
- Windows Installer patches
- Multilingual installers with full localization support
- Application virtualization
- A Repackager for capturing existing installers and more
- Full Internet Information Services (IIS) support
- A licensing module for adding license registration support to your application
- A built-in Updater application for handling your updates automatically
- Import from Visual Studio,InstallShield LE, WiX, Eclipse, Inno Setup, NSIS and regular MSI/MSM packages
- XML, INI and text files editors ...

1. EMCO MSI Package Builder

EMCO MSI Package Builder This application allows you to create MSI packages manually using a visual editor or automatically using the capturing technology. Both approaches are easy-to-use and don't require any special training, so you can successfully use the application even if you don't have experience in installation creation.An easy visual editor allows you......

2. MakeMSI

MakeMSI MAKEMSI is a freeware tool which enables you to easily and reliably create low overhead "MSI" or "Windows Installer" based installers. Windows Installer is a Microsoft developed and backed installer format or technology for building reliable installation packages.......

3. InstallShield

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 only software installer that can directly convert MSIs to Microsoft App-V virtual packages.......

4. PACE Suite

PACE Suite PACE Suite is an advanced software packaging tool with intuitive user interface and set of features providing (re)packaging in Windows installer and various virtualization formats. PACE is out-of-the-box solution that doesn't need post-install configuration and additional training. Among the key features are:- Repackaging any installation to MSI/MST/App-V/ThinApp- Creating new MSI......

5. WiX

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.......

6. Effing Package Management!

Effing Package Management! The packaging formats used by different distributions of Linux can be a pain point for software developers wishing to release their projects in an easily consumable way. Debian and Ubuntu rely on .deb packages, while Fedora and RedHat both use .rpm style packaging systems. These are incompatible and the tools......

7. NSIS

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 experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component......

8. RPM Package Maker

RPM Package Maker RPM Package Maker is a frontend for creating RPM packages quickly and easily. It requires root access.......

9. 7z SFX Builder

7z SFX Builder This software is designed to create 7z SFX configuration files easily. Also, it's possible to create SFX (EXE) files and you can change icon and version info.......

10. RPM Builder

RPM Builder Easy gui to build rpm package from binary (developed and tested on Fedora 18). Attention: This software can run also on windows but works only for linux!......

11. install4j

install4j install4j is a powerful multi-platform Java installer builder that generates native installers and application launchers for Java applications.......

12. Inno Setup

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.......

13. LinkTexting

LinkTexting We're an SMS form generator. It helps our users get more downloads from their desktop landing page of their mobile app. Once a user generates html, they simply copy and paste the code on to their landing page. This will allow their users to download the app directly from the......

14. Easy RPM Builder

Easy RPM Builder A tool for developers who want to make there application available as RPM packages. rpmbuild has to be installed and you should have a good idea how rpmbuild works. The templates will give you some help how to build your own rpm package for your application.......

15. Silent Install Builder

Silent Install Builder The Silent Install Builder is a great tool if you need to quickly install a set of software on a multiple computers.......