cygwin.com
Cygwin
Who runs Cygwin, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Unix compatibility layer alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Msys2
Measured from Cygwin’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Cygwin01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Cygwin
Cygwin cygwin.com
Wikidata: Unix subsystem for Windows machines
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Cygwin tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Cygwin’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Cygwin
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Cygwin, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Getting Started - MSYS2
Software Distribution and Building Platform for Windows
Very close - 02
Introduction - mingw-w64
A complete runtime environment for GCC & LLVM for 32-bit (x86), 64-bit (x64), and ARM64 Windows
Very close - 03
Git for Windows
We bring the awesome Git VCS to Windows
Very close - 04
Enlightenment Main
window manager for Unix-like operating systems
Very close - 05
Podman
daemonless OCI-compliant container runtime
Very close - 06
GPT4All - Private & Local AI Chatbot | Nomic
Run open-source AI models locally on your device. GPT4All delivers private, high-performance AI with no cloud required—your data stays on your machine.
Very close - 07
RustDesk: Open-Source Remote Desktop with Self-Hosted Server Solutions
RustDesk is open-source remote desktop software for your own self-hosted server, a TeamViewer and AnyDesk alternative for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.
Very close - 08
TurnKey Linux | Free, preconfigured Linux server images for self-hosting
Free, preconfigured Linux server images for self-hosting
Very close - 09
Aider - AI Pair Programming in Your Terminal
Very close - 10
Webmin
Powerful and flexible web-based server management control panel
Very close - 11
The enterprise Linux for open source innovation | Ubuntu
Ubuntu is the modern, enterprise Linux operating system for servers, desktop, cloud, and IoT. Supported for up to 15 years
Very close - 12
MySQL
Open-source relational database management system
Very close - 13
Jan - Open-Source ChatGPT Replacement
Jan is an open-source alternative to ChatGPT. Run open-source AI models locally or connect to cloud models like GPT, Claude and others.
Very close - 14
Oracle VirtualBox
open-source x86 virtualization application
Very close - 15
Thoughtful, capable, and ethical computing ⋅ elementary OS
Thoughtful, capable, and ethical computing
Close - 16
JSR: the JavaScript Registry
JSR is the open-source package registry for modern JavaScript. JSR natively supports TypeScript, and works with all JS runtimes and package managers.
Very close - 17
Deno, the drop-in JavaScript runtime for Node developers
A drop-in JavaScript runtime with built-in TypeScript, npm support, and security by default. Run your existing Node project on Deno with no setup.
Very close - 18
chrony – Introduction
free NTP software
Very close - 19
Penpot: The open-source design platform for teams.
Penpot is the open-source design platform for teams building digital products at scale, enabling deeper collaboration across design, code, and AI workflows.
Very close - 20
Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime
Bundle, install, and run JavaScript & TypeScript — all in Bun. Bun is a fast JavaScript runtime & toolkit with a bundler, test runner, and npm-compatible package manager built in.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Cygwin’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Cygwin uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Cygwin adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 2 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,195
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 24 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Cygwin’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on cygwin.com 11/20
- Google Workspace · not on cygwin.com 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on cygwin.com 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on cygwin.com 7/20
- Fastly · not on cygwin.com 5/20
- GitHub Pages · not on cygwin.com 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on cygwin.com 5/20
- nginx 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on cygwin.com 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on cygwin.com 3/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on cygwin.com 2/20
- HubSpot · not on cygwin.com 2/20
- Next.js · not on cygwin.com 2/20
- React · not on cygwin.com 2/20
- Nuxt · not on cygwin.com 2/20
- Tailwind CSS · not on cygwin.com 2/20