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Add to SafariWhen comparing AlternativeTo vs AwesomeSearch, the Slant community recommends AlternativeTo for most people. In the question“What are the best ways to find an alternatives for an application?” AlternativeTo is ranked 1st while AwesomeSearch is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose AlternativeTo is:
Full website with lots of content, info, users, comments, etc. Value for free.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Comprehensive
Full website with lots of content, info, users, comments, etc. Value for free.
Pro Easy to skim through content
AlternativeTo makes it easy to quickly find stuff. The lists are organized by likes which floats the best content to the top, and helpful tags warn you of undesirable attributes (such as the product being discontinued or if it includes bundleware).
Pro Filtering and sorting capabilities
The ability to filter by platform and license means that you can easily filter out software that you can't use. More specific filters and sort orders are also available.
Pro Better usability
Slant is really terrible by design.
Pro Has a lot of information about products easily accessible
Pro Shows all options
If you have a large list(~100) on slant only the first ~15 entries are displayed - even if you click see full list.
Pro Less JavaScript
Which drastically improves the sites performance.
Pro Less manipulation
Less manipulation with guest/fake accounts.
Pro Does not use redirectingat
It does not use redirectingat so links won't break if you use an ad or tracker blocker .
Pro Straightforward
Pages load much faster and there is less annoying bling bling.
Pro Moderation is superior
It has a good moderation team that removes spam or hate posts.
Pro Tag based instead of individual Questions
It is tag based so there are less duplicates.
Pro Simple navigation
On the left of the site are a bunch of categories, and each of those are divided into sub-categories. this makes it very quick and easy to find what you're looking for without wading through other content. Once you've selected the list you want, the bigger lists have a table of contents where you can skip ahead to what you're looking for.
Pro Great place to get hundreds of choices
The information may not be extremely detailed, but there is a lot of content on the site. This is one of the best sites to look through if you want a list of virtually every choice possible.
Cons
Con Limited details available on the site itself
AlternativeTo excels at showing you options, however it doesn't really tell you why one option is better/worse than another. It lists options by the number of likes it has received, but to directly compare the options is relatively hard to do.
Con Difficult to search: no way to search for a tool name among all the Awesome Lists at once
For example you cannot just go to Awesome.re and search the repository for Postman.
Con Alphabetical sorting makes it harder to skim content
Often times when searching through lists, it's quickest and easiest to have a few of the best options represented near the top of the page, as most people aren't going to scroll down and look through each option.
Con Short descriptions give limited scope
The way the site is organized gives you lots of options at a glance, however with only a single line description you'll almost always need to click the link to see what the options actually offer.
