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