Chocolatey is a proven command-line package manager, popular with admins and developers. HubGet doesn’t replace it – it uses Chocolatey as one of its sources. It offers Chocolatey’s apps in a graphical store alongside WinGet and Scoop, so you can install them without typing commands.
Features
HubGet as of the released version 0.1.10, with notes on what the upcoming version 0.1.11 adds, next to the free Chocolatey community edition.
| Feature |  HubGet |
Chocolatey |
|---|---|---|
| Type of tool | A desktop app store with a graphical interface | A command-line package manager. The Chocolatey GUI is a separate program |
| How they relate | Uses Chocolatey as one of its sources – alongside WinGet and Scoop | A separate ecosystem with its own community repository |
| What you need to install | Partly: HubGet – a 4.3 MB installer that doesn’t need admin rights. WinGet comes with Windows | Partly: Chocolatey is installed with a PowerShell script run as administrator |
| Package sources | Yes: WinGet, Chocolatey and Scoop in one catalog – more than 25,000 apps | Partly: The Chocolatey community repository (~11,950 of its apps are in the HubGet catalog) |
| Control | Yes: Click your way through the app, no commands to type | Partly: Terminal commands (choco install, upgrade, uninstall) |
| Installing from Chocolatey | Partly: In the catalog and as a fallback source today. Install, update and uninstall right in the app arrive in version 0.1.11 | Yes: Fully, including updating every package with one command |
| Scripting and automation | Partly: Copy-ready commands for every app and bundle export as a PowerShell script | Yes: Built for scripts and automation |
| App discovery | Yes: A Today home page, collections, charts, a banner and a screenshot gallery | Partly: Search in the terminal and package pages on the Chocolatey website |
| Installed apps overview | Yes: Every app on your PC, including those outside package managers, Microsoft Store apps and Steam games | Partly: Packages installed through Chocolatey |
| For businesses | Partly: An MSI installer for company-wide deployment | Yes: Paid Chocolatey Pro and Chocolatey for Business editions |
| Price and license | Yes: Free, open source (MIT), no ads | Yes: Free community edition, open source (Apache 2.0). Paid commercial editions |
Supported Partly or with a caveat Not supported Information
Which one to choose
HubGet is a good fit if you…
Chocolatey is a good fit if you…
Questions and answers
No. HubGet uses Chocolatey as one of its sources. Apps from its repository are in the HubGet catalog alongside apps from WinGet and Scoop, and since version 0.1.10 Chocolatey also serves as a fallback source when WinGet has a broken download link.
Not for apps from WinGet – WinGet comes preinstalled with Windows 10 and 11. To install from Chocolatey, yes. In version 0.1.11, HubGet installs it for you in one click using the official install script.
Yes. HubGet doesn’t get in the way, and every Chocolatey app comes with a copy-ready choco command you can copy in one click.
HubGet is free for everyone and open source under the MIT license. The Chocolatey community edition is free and open source under the Apache 2.0 license; for businesses there are the paid Chocolatey Pro and Chocolatey for Business editions.
Free, open source and ad-free. The installer is 4.3 MB and doesn’t need admin rights.
Information about Chocolatey is based on its public GitHub repository (as of October 25, 2026). HubGet is not affiliated with Chocolatey Software or the Chocolatey project. Names mentioned may be trademarks of their respective owners.
