Overview
AlternativeTo is a free, community-driven platform that helps users discover alternatives to software and apps they use or dislike. It aggregates recommendations from millions of users across a database of over 145,000 applications.
Our take
AlternativeTo is a crowdsourced index of software alternatives, and it remains one of the more useful places to start when you know what a tool does but not what else does it. Being community-driven, its strength is coverage and its weakness is currency — entries persist after products change or shut down, and vote counts reflect longevity as much as quality.
Worth it if
Finding candidate replacements for a specific tool you already know, especially open-source options.
Look elsewhere if
Judging which alternative is best — votes measure popularity and age, not fit for your case.
✨ Features
Crowdsourced Alternatives
Find app alternatives ranked by votes from a community of users.
Platform Filtering
Filter alternatives by platform, license, and feature tags.
User Lists
Browse and create curated lists of recommended applications.
App Discovery
Explore new app releases and trending software with reviews.
⚖️ Pros & Cons
Pros
Cons
💰 Pricing
Free
$0
- Crowdsourced software recommendations
- Browse alternatives and reviews
- Submit and vote on apps
- Optional donations via Liberapay/PayPal
Categories
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How current are the listings?
Variable. Community indexes lag the products they cover, so discontinued tools linger and recently changed pricing is often out of date. Treat a listing as a name worth investigating and confirm the current state on the product's own site before spending time evaluating it.
Do the vote counts mean anything?
They measure accumulated popularity, which correlates with how long something has been listed as much as with quality. A well-established tool will out-vote a better newer one consistently. Read the comments for specifics about trade-offs rather than treating the ranking as a recommendation.