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Patch My PC Home Updater vs Chocolatey: catalog facts
Patch My PC Home Updater	Chocolatey
Free Free for home use. The enterprise patch management products are paid.	Freemium The open-source client and community repository are free. Business editions are paid.
Windows	Windows, Command line
Silent updates across hundreds of common applications in one pass Portable and free for home use	Very large community package catalogue for Windows software Integrates with Puppet, Chef, Ansible and configuration management
Home use only; managed deployment is the paid enterprise product Limited to the applications in the vendor's catalogue	Community packages fetch from vendor sites, so a broken upstream breaks the package Package internalisation and several features are Business edition only
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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