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Scoop vs Chocolatey: catalog facts
Scoop	Chocolatey
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Freemium The open-source client and community repository are free. Business editions are paid.
Windows, Command line	Windows, Command line
No UAC prompts and no registry clutter; everything lives under your profile Buckets and manifests make private or niche application sets easy to publish	Very large community package catalogue for Windows software Integrates with Puppet, Chef, Ansible and configuration management
Applications that genuinely need a system installer are out of scope Manifests are community-maintained and occasionally lag upstream releases	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
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	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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