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Patch My PC Home Updater vs Scoop: catalog facts
Patch My PC Home Updater	Scoop
Free Free for home use. The enterprise patch management products are paid.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Windows	Windows, Command line
Silent updates across hundreds of common applications in one pass Portable and free for home use	No UAC prompts and no registry clutter; everything lives under your profile Buckets and manifests make private or niche application sets easy to publish
Home use only; managed deployment is the paid enterprise product Limited to the applications in the vendor's catalogue	Applications that genuinely need a system installer are out of scope Manifests are community-maintained and occasionally lag upstream releases
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: MIT
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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