omaha VS Chocolatey

Compare omaha vs Chocolatey and see what are their differences.

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omaha Chocolatey
4 392
2,509 9,787
0.9% 1.3%
6.9 8.4
about 1 month ago 2 days ago
C++ C#
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

omaha

Posts with mentions or reviews of omaha. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-15.
  • Google Chrome emergency update fixes zero-day used in attacks
    4 projects | /r/programming | 15 Apr 2022
    You don’t opt-in to updates to Chrome and you will have one hell of a time opting out. If you’re on Windows, take a look at your task scheduler and notice that the Google Update task runs every hour in which it sends the current version of Chrome (stored in registry) to a Google URL and if that doesn’t match the latest then Google Chrome updates. You just need to restart your browser. Google update is a branded open source project called Omaha which is a very minimal and clever approach to application updates. Here’s the GitHub if you’re interested in learning more.
  • Breeze Browsers.
    4 projects | /r/privacy | 16 Jan 2022
    They use a fork of Omaha Updater for updates on Windows (I use Windows btw, it sucks)
  • Updating Google Chrome
    2 projects | /r/crowdstrike | 14 Apr 2021
    Hi there. Chrome uses GoogleUpdate.exe to... er... update itself. GoogleUpdate is based on a project called Omaha. There is pretty good detail on how it works here. It might be as simple as force-running GoogleUpdate.exe with PowerShell to kickoff the update process.

Chocolatey

Posts with mentions or reviews of Chocolatey. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing omaha and Chocolatey you can also consider the following projects:

winget-cli - WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).

Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.

Squirrel - An installation and update framework for Windows desktop apps

Wix Toolset

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

video2x - A lossless video/GIF/image upscaler achieved with waifu2x, Anime4K, SRMD and RealSR. Started in Hack the Valley II, 2018.

PSAppDeployToolkit - Project Homepage & Forums

WSL - Source code behind the Windows Subsystem for Linux documentation.

notepad-plus-plus - Notepad++ official repository

awesome-piracy - A curated list of awesome warez and piracy links

nvs - Node Version Switcher - A cross-platform tool for switching between versions and forks of Node.js

git - A fork of Git containing Windows-specific patches.