# AlternativeTo

A crowdsourced directory where you look up an app and get a list of alternatives, filtered by platform, license and features, with user votes and comments.

- Category: Find and compare · by 27 Kilobyte AB
- Website: https://alternativeto.net/
- Live data: no
- Checked on the official pages: 2026-10-23

## API

- No official API. Do not scrape the site; use it by hand or through its downloads.

## Data and license

- License: AlternativeTo Terms of Use (https://alternativeto.net/about/terms/); covers Site content and listings; data use beyond browsing and citation needs permission
- Non-commercial only
- Credit: not stated
- Embedding unclear
- Quote (commercial): "use the site to build a competing database from our content" (https://alternativeto.net/about/terms/)
- Quote (scraping): "scrape, crawl or bulk-download the site outside what our robots.txt allows" (https://alternativeto.net/about/terms/)

## Rules for an agent

- No official API, SDK or MCP server; terms ban bulk scraping beyond robots.txt and building a competing database, so link to alternativeto.net/software/<app>/ pages instead and ask hello@alternativeto.net for data use.
- Do not scrape or bulk-download beyond robots.txt
- Do not build a competing database from its content; contact the maker for data use

Human page: https://agentgid.com/resources/alternativeto/
Source: AgentGid (agentgid.com). Facts are quoted from the site's own pages; check the license page before you ship.