Alternatives to nrm
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. nrm itself: install nrm.
corepack
Package manager version manager for Node.js projects
bun
Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one
carthage
A simple, decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa
Stability Matrix
Multi-Platform Package Manager for Stable Diffusion
mcp-publisher
A community driven registry service for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers
mint
A package manager that installs and runs executable Swift packages
cargo-crev
A cryptographically verifiable code review system for the cargo (Rust) package manager
reg
Docker registry v2 command line client and repo listing generator with security checks
peru
a generic package manager, for including other people's code in your projects
cdxgen
Creates CycloneDX Bill of Materials (BOM) for your projects from source and container images. Supports many languages and package managers. Integrate
pacapt
An ArchLinux's pacman-like shell wrapper for many package managers. 56KB and run anywhere
Another Redis Desktop Manager
🚀🚀🚀A faster, better and more stable Redis desktop manager [GUI client], compatible with Linux, Windows, Mac
kubectx
Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl
Xcodes
The easiest way to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode - with a mouse click
brew-php-switcher
Brew PHP switcher is a simple shell script to switch your apache and CLI quickly between major versions of PHP. If you support multiple products/proje
cc-switch
Installed with brew. Open source, with a documented one-command setup.
nvm
Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
uv
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
yazi
💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O
fnm
🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
nnn
n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
gastown
Gas Town - multi-agent workspace manager
pybind11
Seamless operability between C++11 and Python
skopeo
Work with remote images registries - retrieving information, images, signing content
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than nrm — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
nrm is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.