Best Package Managers in 2026 · page 2

Tank

Tank is a free, MIT-licensed package manager for AI agent skills and related packages.

NuGet

NuGet manages .NET packages and dependencies, with lockfile support.

Julia Pkg

Julia manager for registered packages, Git sources, local paths and artifacts on Linux, macOS and Windows.

CocoaPods

Dependency manager for Pod and podspec packages targeting Apple platforms including iOS and macOS.

Paket

Rebar3

Gleam

Poetry

Poetry is a free tool for managing dependencies and packaging Python projects.

Quicklisp

pkgman

Shards

conda

conda manages packages in .conda and .tar.bz2 formats, with dependency and lockfile support.

PDM

PDM is a free Python package and dependency manager that supports current PEP standards.

Dart pub

Dart pub is the package manager for finding and managing shared libraries and tools for Dart.

Spago

RubyGems.org

RubyGems.org is a community-run hosting service for finding, installing, and publishing RubyGems.

Clojure CLI

Apache Ivy

Haxelib

Haxelib is the library manager included with Haxe distributions, connecting developers to a central repository for finding, installing, and submitting libraries.

APT

Bundler

Mix

Elixir build tool for Hex, Git, local path, Rebar3 and Make projects with lockfiles.

Rattler

Pamac

Nala