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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/how-we-ensure-transparency/) [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Master Packager ## What is Master Packager? Master Packager is an application packaging software suite to create and edit Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) files and repackage other installations to install silently using MSI format. We want to make application packaging accessible to every enterprise, which is why we have promised to keep our prices the lowest possible while providing the highest quality package outcome. Additionally, we provide support and application packaging courses so you can bring or keep app packaging in-house. ## What is Master Packager used for? [Packaging](https://www.capterra.com/packaging-software/)[Application Development](https://www.capterra.com/application-development-software/) Top alternative Featured Overall rating Based on 14 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Starting price €999 Per User, Per Year Free trial available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Do you work for Master Packager?[Manage this product listing](https://digitalmarkets.gartner.com/get-listed/claim-bx?url=https://www.masterpackager.com&name=Master Packager) ## Compare with a popular alternative Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status. ### Master Packager 4.9 (14) VS. 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EUC and Application Packaging SME Information Technology and Services ### "Master Packager - Highly Recommended" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 July 18, 2025 Straightforward easy to use, built for packagers and would be an excellent tool to learn on for non packagers. I will recommend any time I'm asked for an opinion on packaging tool options. Pros Lightweight and Packaging engineer focused, it is clearly built by people that know what a packager needs. It doesn't include endless bloat that a packager would rarely, if ever, use. In addition to Packager, the standard suite also includes Re-packager, Wrapper, and Toolbox which all provide genuinely useful added functionality. The free version is excellent and is far more powerful and useful than Orca or Insted it, but the Pro or Service Provider license gives you pretty much everything that a packaging engineer needs to create automated application deployments for a Modern Desktop. If you use PSADT, Master Wrapper which is part of the Master Packager suite of tools, is the best GUI I've seen for it. The license models allow a licensed packager free rein to install the software (current versions available for direct download or from WinGet) on any device they need it on, without limit. Cons No major cons, though doesn't include a COM capture when importing individual files, which is, to be fair, an action packagers rarely need to do anymore. Can get around, if required, by using Re-packager 'capture' or the built in register dll custom actions. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. JB Jean-Luc B. SOE Engineer Information Technology and Services ### "Great product for difficult applications" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 May 3, 2024 Pros Master packager provides an amazing tool for packaging or repackaging applications which we would otherwise be unable to maintain in our environment. Particularly difficult applications which install many sub-applications which don't clean themselves up properly when the main application is uninstalled are easily managed by repackaging as an MSI using Master Packager. They've done a great job at creating a product to assist roles like mine Cons Considering the issue that it resolves, any minor issues are easily looked over. Particularly when repacking an application as an MSI, there's no way to return to previous screens to start over, you have to fully close it and reopen it. Otherwise no real issues. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor November 7, 2024 Hi Jean-Luc, Thank you for your positive review. :) The missing ability to return to previous steps when repackaging with Master Repackager is created like this by design. If you find the need to start repackaging again we suggest setting the Virtual Machine to a clean state and start the repackaging process again. This process will ensure the best quality outcome and minimize the risks of not capturing something. Toms Knostenbergs Co-Founder at Master Packager PE Paul E. Senior Project Manager Telecommunications ### "Creating MSI packages" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 April 30, 2024 I'm very happy with this product, but would like to have more knowledge of it Pros That it was for free and was able to create MSi packages also in the free version with a lot of features. Cons manually update the GUID with new product updates. I think it is better to do this automatically if you change the version number Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. MT Mike T. SCCM Packaging Engineer Utilities ### "Masterful product" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 March 18, 2024 My experience has been extremely positive. It's a pleasure using the product. Pros The best part is the ease of use. It makes editing and even examining MSI files so much easier and faster but without compromising on quality. It does everything far more expensive products do and has some features they don't have. It's very much quality not quantity. Cons Just one thing - it offers regular updates but there's no way to enable auto-update - you are sent to the website to download the new version. Reasons for choosing Master Packager The ease of use immediately sold it to me. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor April 8, 2025 Hi Mike, We just introduced auto-update feature with Master Packager 25.3 version. :) Thank you for your feedback! Toms Knostenbergs Co-founder at Master Packager Joze M. Trainer, Consultant, System Architect Information Technology and Services ### "Happy user of Master Packager" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 March 1, 2024 Pros I've worked with both free and paid versions of different application packagers in my 20+ years in IT. And with Master Packager even free version (not trial) has a lot to offer. Ease of use (interface is simple to navigate around) and one specific feature (custom actions like "Copy to UserProfile") make all the difference when doing typical app customization. Adding Master Wrapper (GUI for PSADT) to the mix and this becomes a killer combo. Cons Nothing. So far I've been a happy user of Master Packager. Reasons for choosing Master Packager Ease of use, simple and intuitive interface. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. HA Harrison A. Senior Desktop System Engineer Government Administration ### "Master packager for the win!" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 August 8, 2023 I am a seasoned packager of 10 years’ experience. I have a fondness for PowerShell, automation and application packaging. I have tried all sorts of packaging tools in my pursuit for the ultimate fit .Master packager checked off all the boxes for me.I never knew of all the automation possibilities that are available within an msi until taking the Master Packager Pro training course. Master Packager is super easy to learn, very intuitive with a great UI and their training has taken me to the next level of packaging software . \[sensitive content hidden\] are seasoned pro’s and their tips and tricks they shared will be making my job as a packager a lot easier. I highly recommend taking their course Pros The user interface is very intuitive and the validation automation is spot on.I like all of the predefined custom actions as they focus in on what a packager would need to know to get the job done for those tricky packages Cons Not many cons to list here that I have seen. This product is rock solid!! Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. DG Dan G. Application Consultant Information Technology and Services ### "The New Industry Standard" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 July 24, 2023 We first started using the free version as it’s simply the best free MSI editor available. We then purchased a license to obtain the repackaging functionality and have been happy with the results. Now our whole team use it and it’s the product we recommend to others when looking for a packaging tool. It’s also handy for those that don’t know PowerShell to be able to knock up a PSADT script. Pros I really appreciate the clean simple interface and how many time saving features there are included. For example the templates feature for being able to apply common standards, properties, or custom actions, and the ability to run powershell scripts. One of the most unique features is the ability to apply files and/or registry values to all users on the system, removing the need to set up self-repair or active setup to achieve this. Cons I still use InstEd a lot for the following reasons:- Faster startup time- Faster table navigation- Ability to open up multiple packages in tabs- Ability to diff 2 MSI packagesI may ditch it altogether if MP were to improve in these areas! Reasons for choosing Master Packager AdminStudio has not added much useful new functionality to their product, keep adding bloatware for unwanted features, and upping their prices.Advanced Installer is nice, but more targeted at developers rather than enterprise MSI tweakers / repackagers.The others had various flaws, less functionality, or higher costs compared to MP. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor November 7, 2024 Hi Dan, Thank you for your amazing review. :) We have also addressed the following items mentioned in the Cons section: - We have improved startup time significantly. - We introduced compare feature to see differences in 2 MSI packages. Toms Knostenbergs Co-Founder at Master Packager GV Greg V. Principal Engineer Computer Games ### "Master Packager Makes MSI Creation Easy" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 July 6, 2023 We have a homebrew app we need to distribute to 400+ employees through some administrative process. IT did not want a plain exe or zip. It was difficult to find any decent, and inexpensive, app to help author an MSI, but the free version of Master Packer was not only exactly what I needed, but was easy to use too. If we use this for more than this one app I'll be sure to get a full version! Pros Easy to add a working folder as a source for cab building. Pretty straight forward configuration for most things I wanted to accomplish. Cons Updating files was complicated. UI didn't offer help for what certain options meant - tooltips or help panel would be great. I couldn't find any documentation on use, and wouldn't have guessed how to use the Custom Action conditions - a drop down would have been super. Alternatives considered [Wix](https://www.capterra.com/p/169007/Wix/) [InstallShield](https://www.capterra.com/p/266816/InstallShield/) [Advanced Installer](https://www.capterra.com/p/227766/Advanced-Installer/) Reasons for choosing Master Packager Cost, up-front ease of use. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AT Aaron T. Senior Microsoft 365 Consultant Information Technology and Services ### "The best" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 June 28, 2023 Pros I've worked with MSI for over 20 years. Make no mistake, this is the only \*other\* Enterprise grade packaging tool at a fraction of the price. As a MSP, we are looking for ways to reduce price to our customers, and improve efficiency. And Master Packager helps us achieve this through useful features including Master Wrapper, built in script editor, and built in custom actions to eliminate the need for Active Setup. I like how Master Packager are active in the community, and take on feedback from other packaging professionals around the world to constantly improve their product. Being able to create response transforms, convert PSADT to .intunewin, import ODBC data, import shortcut icon files without the need for additional tools makes reduces a lot of time and greatly improves efficiency. Cons I would like you to add the ability to conflict manage packages. Reasons for choosing Master Packager Advanced Installer was complete rubbish, and not even up to the standard of AdminStudio. The conflict manager was awful, and produced a text file that was not easy to read. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. MK Martins K. Director Information Technology and Services ### "One of the best packaging products in the market for its value." 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 April 4, 2023 We deliver application packaging services for Intune and use this product daily, so our experience has been great. The Master Packager team has always been responsive and supportive when we have an issue or require assistance. Pros You don't have to be an expert in packaging to use this product daily — very friendly UI with all required features for delivering packaging services. Even if you need to tweak MSI or read information from it, it is clear how to use it. We use Master Packager daily and deliver high-quality packages with Master Packager. Cons We like everything in this product and the direction where the Master Packager team is going forward. 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