Application Launchers

Zap – package manager for AppImages

Zap is billed as a amazingly simple AppImage package manager for Linux.

Zap supports desktop integration, delta updates and your favorite command line syntax. It also install AppOmages directly from your browser, a click away by downloading AppImages supporting the zap protocol.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Download only what has changed between the versions, not the entire thing! zap makes your daily updates easier for all your appimages with either zap update or zap upgrade to upgrade all of them simultaneously.
  • Provided itself as an AppImage.

Website: zap.srev.in
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Srevin Saju
License: MIT License

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