I built my own MSI installer tool after WiX went from free to $6,500/year [v1.4.14]

Hi, I'm Paul — 25 years of enterprise Windows development. Last year I got fed up with the MSI tooling landscape:

- WiX: used to be free and open source. Now $6,500/year for support

- InstallShield: $2,000+/year

- Advanced Installer: $500+/year

- Every option either costs a fortune or requires writing XML by hand

So I built InstallerStudio — a visual MSI designer built on WinUI 3 and .NET 10. No XML. No subscriptions. Point it at your files, configure your Windows services, registry entries, shortcuts, and file associations, and it generates a proper Windows Installer package.

It ships its own installer, built with itself.

$159 this month (March launch special), $199 after. 30-day free trial, no credit card required.

Happy to answer questions about MSI internals or why I built this instead of just wrapping WiX.

https://www.ionline.com