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About CurseForge
CurseForge is a large mod hosting platform with a desktop app that handles downloading, installing and updating mods and complete modpacks. It supports many games rather than a single title, so one app can manage mods across a whole library.
It suits players who want to add mods or play community modpacks without copying files into game folders by hand.
Strengths
- Installs and updates mods and modpacks from one app
- Supports many different games
- Large catalogue of community mods
Limitations
- Closed source
- Tied to the CurseForge catalogue rather than other mod sites
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to use.
- License
- Proprietary
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app, Web application
- Best suited for
- Players who want an easy way to install mods and modpacks
- Categories
- Gaming tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to CurseForge
Compare allSoftware that can replace CurseForge for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Vortex
Official Nexus Mods manager that installs, sorts, and updates mods for hundreds of games.
Vortex is the open-source Nexus Mods manager for hundreds of games, tied to the Nexus library instead of CurseForge, and it runs on Windows only.
Modrinth App
The official launcher for Modrinth, built around installing mods and modpacks in a couple of clicks.
Modrinth App is an open-source GPL-3.0 launcher built on Modrinth's catalogue of mods and modpacks, but it covers Minecraft only and imports CurseForge packs by hand.
Prism Launcher
A Minecraft launcher that keeps every modpack in its own instance so one update cannot break the others.
Prism Launcher is an open-source GPL-3.0 Minecraft launcher with separate instances that installs mods from both Modrinth and CurseForge, but it covers Minecraft only.
Mod Organizer 2
Power-user mod manager using a virtual file system, favored for Bethesda games.
Mod Organizer 2 is an open-source Windows manager using a virtual file system, favored for Bethesda games, with a steeper learning curve than CurseForge.
GDLauncher
A free Minecraft launcher that installs mods and modpacks from CurseForge and Modrinth with one click.
GDLauncher installs Minecraft modpacks from CurseForge and Modrinth with one click and supports Forge, Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt, but it only handles Minecraft.
ATLauncher
A Minecraft launcher that browses, installs and manages modpacks and separate game instances.
ATLauncher is an open-source GPL-3.0 Minecraft launcher that installs modpacks from several sources into separate instances, limited to Minecraft and requiring Java.
r2modman
A mod manager for games whose mods are hosted on Thunderstore, such as Risk of Rain 2.
r2modman is an open-source manager for Windows and Linux that handles several games, but only those whose mods are hosted on Thunderstore.
Limo
A general-purpose Qt mod manager for Linux with Nexus Mods API and LOOT support.
Limo is an open-source GPL-3.0 Qt mod manager built for Linux with Nexus Mods API, LOOT and FOMOD support, and it is a smaller project.
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