Tip

Discussions and contributions are welcome! This project is in it's early stages and a lot hasn't been ironed out yet. For more information on contributing and guidelines for open-source software submissions, consult their respective pages.

Note

My MacOS configuration.

Windows · MacOS · Linux · SelfHosted

Our Goal - There's plenty of awesome lists on GitHub, many focusing on open source specifically. However I've found them including many long-deprecated apps, cluttered with smaller projects on the verge of extinction, or missing a lot of modern open source projects.

This list aims to serve as a single centralized location for the best of open source, characterized by a solid user base, solid set of contributors, visible long term growth, and overall product quality.

More Information

Definitive-opensource aims to consolidate only the best open source projects. Our guidelines include strict minimum requirements and additional research for vetting. For a project to pass it's likely popular enough to survive far into the future, however we continously monitor projects on the list and remove anything that no longer fits the criteria.

It is a fundamental goal for this list to be as neutral as possible and simply present options, not persuade or redact, regardless of the maintainer's opinion. Projects that fit the criteria, which by passing will inherently be used by thousands to millions, are put on the list. This list is "curated" - not relative to opinion but statistics and facts.

Although the list is called definitive, in this context it doesn't quite mean the implied dictionary definition of finality. This project can only survive and thrive through continuous contributions by the community, as this list is, in itself, open source.

How The List Works

Definitive-opensource was initially a single markdown file that was edited directly. However, as the list scaled, this manual approach proved cumbersome and limited. Additionally, as popularity increased, we recieved many requests for README's of individual platforms - something that would be not be realistic to do manually.

As of v0.6.2-beta, the project was fundamentally re-made. Categories and applications were put in categories.json and applications.json, respectively. Python scripts were made to generate one main list and more platform-specific lists. This was paired with GitHub actions to run the scripts when any changes were made. This opened up a world of possibilies, making refactoring the list format far easier whilst eliminating typos.

This list aims to stand in the middle ground between human input and automation. Mostly automated websites exist for finding open source projects, but statistics alone fails to encompass the complete picture. This list has scripts to automate markdown formatting, updating stats, and finding potentially abandoned projects. However, the actual processes of choosing which projects make it onto the list, which ones should be removed, and what tags to assign are controlled entirely by humans.

Project Status

Active - Active Development

Incremental - Minor Updates

Maintenence - Critical Fixes

Idle - Temporarily Paused

Abandoned - Development Halted

Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Go to top

Agent

Name	Description	Platform
AgentGPT	🤖 Assemble, configure, and deploy autonomous AI Agents in your browser.	`Cross`
AutoGPT	AutoGPT is the vision of accessible AI for everyone, to use and to build on. Our mission is to provide the tools, so that you can focus on what matters.	`SelfHost`
gptme	Your agent in your terminal, equipped with local tools: writes code, uses the terminal, browses the web, vision.	`Cross` `CLI`
Huginn	Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!	`SelfHost`
Open Intepreter	A natural language interface for computers	`Cross`
screenpipe 💥	AI app store powered by 24/7 desktop history. open source - 100% local - dev friendly - 24/7 screen, mic recording	`MacOS` `Windows`
Telegraf	Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.	`Cross` `SelfHost`
TEN Agent	TEN Agent is a conversational voice AI agent powered by TEN, integrating Deepseek, Gemini, OpenAI, RTC, and hardware like ESP32. It enables realtime AI capabilities like seeing, hearing, and speaking, and is fully compatible with platforms like Dify and Coze.	`SelfHost`
WrenAI	🤖 Open-source GenBI AI Agent that empowers data-driven teams to chat with their data to generate Text-to-SQL, charts, spreadsheets, reports, and BI. 📈📊📋🧑‍💻	`SelfHost`

AI Image GUI

Name	Description	Platform
Auto1111	Stable Diffusion web UI	`SelfHost`
ComfyUI	The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface.	`SelfHost`
Fooocus	Focus on prompting and generating	`SelfHost`
InvokeAI	Invoke is a leading creative engine for Stable Diffusion models, empowering professionals, artists, and enthusiasts to generate and create visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies. The solution offers an industry leading WebUI, and serves as the foundation for multiple commercial products.	`Cross`
SD.Next	SD.Next: All-in-one for AI generative image	`SelfHost`
WebUI Forge	Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge is a platform on top of Stable Diffusion WebUI (based on Gradio ) to make development easier, optimize resource management, speed up inference, and study experimental features.	`SelfHost`

AI Utilities

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Netron	Visualizer for neural network, deep learning and machine learning models	`Cross`

All In One

Name	Description	Platform
AIChat	All-in-one LLM CLI tool featuring Shell Assistant, Chat-REPL, RAG, AI Tools & Agents, with access to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, Groq, and more.	`Cross` `CLI`
Khoj AI	Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.	`SelfHost`
Lobe Chat	🤯 Lobe Chat - an open-source, modern-design AI chat framework. Supports Multi AI Providers( OpenAI / Claude 3 / Gemini / Ollama / Azure / DeepSeek), Knowledge Base (file upload / knowledge management / RAG ), Multi-Modals (Vision/TTS) and plugin system. One-click FREE deployment of your private ChatGPT/ Claude application.	`Cross`

Assistant

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Leon	🧠 Leon is your open-source personal assistant.	`SelfHost`

Information Processing

Name	Description	Platform
Code2prompt	A CLI tool to convert your codebase into a single LLM prompt with source tree, prompt templating, and token counting.	`Cross` `CLI`
Docling	Get your documents ready for gen AI	`Cross` `CLI`
Firecrawl	🔥 Turn entire websites into LLM-ready markdown or structured data. Scrape, crawl and extract with a single API.	`SelfHost`
GPT crawler	Crawl a site to generate knowledge files to create your own custom GPT from a URL	`SelfHost`
Repomix	📦 Repomix (formerly Repopack) is a powerful tool that packs your entire repository into a single, AI-friendly file. Perfect for when you need to feed your codebase to Large Language Models (LLMs) or other AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Gemini, Gemma, Llama, Grok, and more.	`Cross` `CLI`
Unstract	No-code LLM Platform to launch APIs and ETL Pipelines to structure unstructured documents	`MacOS` `Linux` `SelfHost`

LLM GUI

Name	Description	Platform
Chatbox	User-friendly Desktop Client App for AI Models/LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Ollama...)	`Cross`
Cherry Studio	🍒 Cherry Studio is a desktop client that supports for multiple LLM providers. Support deepseek-r1	`Cross`
GPT4ALL	GPT4All: Run Local LLMs on Any Device. Open-source and available for commercial use.	`Cross`
h2oGPT	Private chat with local GPT with document, images, video, etc. 100% private, Apache 2.0. Supports oLLaMa, Mixtral, llama.cpp, and more. Demo: https://gpt.h2o.ai/ https://gpt-docs.h2o.ai/	`SelfHost`
Jan	Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer. Multiple engine support (llama.cpp, TensorRT-LLM)	`Cross`
LibreChat	Enhanced ChatGPT Clone: Features Agents, DeepSeek, Anthropic, AWS, OpenAI, Assistants API, Azure, Groq, o1, GPT-4o, Mistral, OpenRouter, Vertex AI, Gemini, Artifacts, AI model switching, message search, Code Interpreter, langchain, DALL-E-3, OpenAPI Actions, Functions, Secure Multi-User Auth, Presets, open-source for self-hosting. Active project.	`SelfHost`
NextChat	✨ Light and Fast AI Assistant. Support: Web - iOS - MacOS - Android - Linux - Windows	`Cross` `CLI+` `Web`
Open WebUI	User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)	`SelfHost`
SillyTavern	LLM Frontend for Power Users.	`SelfHost`
Text generation webUI	A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models.	`SelfHost`

Manager

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Ollama 🌍	Get up and running with Llama 3.3, DeepSeek-R1, Phi-4, Gemma 2, and other large language models.	`Cross` `CLI` `SelfHost`
StabilityMatrix	Multi-Platform Package Manager for Stable Diffusion	`Cross`

Model Tools

Name	Description	Platform
Agno	Build Multimodal AI Agents with memory, knowledge and tools. Simple, fast and model-agnostic.	`Cross` `CLI`
Kiln	The easiest tool for fine-tuning LLM models, synthetic data generation, and collaborating on datasets.	`Cross`
LLaMa-Factory	Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ LLMs & VLMs (ACL 2024)	`Cross` `CLI+`
PyTorch Lightning	Pretrain, finetune ANY AI model of ANY size on multiple GPUs, TPUs with zero code changes.	`Cross` `CLI`

RAG

Name	Description	Platform
AnythingLLM	The all-in-one Desktop & Docker AI application with built-in RAG, AI agents, and more.	`Cross`
AutoFlow	pingcap/autoflow is a Graph RAG based and conversational knowledge base tool built with TiDB Serverless Vector Storage. Demo: https://tidb.ai	`SelfHost`
DocsGPT	DocsGPT is an open-source genAI tool that helps users get reliable answers from knowledge source, while avoiding hallucinations. It enables private and reliable information retrieval, with tooling and agentic system capability built in.	`Cross` `SelfHost`
kotaemon	An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents.	`SelfHost`
PaperQA2	High accuracy RAG for answering questions from scientific documents with citations	`Cross` `CLI`
R2R	The most advanced AI retrieval system. Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with a RESTful API.	`Cross` `CLI`
RAGFlow	RAGFlow is an open-source RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) engine based on deep document understanding.	`SelfHost`
Verba	Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) chatbot powered by Weaviate	`SelfHost`

Research

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
DeepSearcher	Open Source Deep Research Alternative to Reason and Search on Private Data. Written in Python.	`Cross` `CLI`
GPT Researcher	LLM based autonomous agent that conducts deep local and web research on any topic and generates a long report with citations.	`Cross` `CLI+` `SelfHost`

Communication - Go to top

Chat

Name	Description	Platform
Signal	A private messenger.	`Cross`
SimpleX	SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱!	`Cross` `CLI` `CLI+`
Telegram Desktop	Telegram Desktop messaging app	`Cross`

Collaboration

Name	Description	Platform
Mattermost	Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.	`SelfHost`
Rocket.Chat	The communications platform that puts data protection first.	`SelfHost` `Web`
Zulip	Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.	`SelfHost` `Web`

Mail

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Mailspring	💌 A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux.	`Cross`
Thunderbird	Meet Thunderbird, the email and productivity app that maximizes your freedoms.	`Cross`

Video Conference

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Element	Founded by the creators of Matrix, we build digitally sovereign, secure and interoperable real-time communication solutions for large organisations.	`CLI+` `Web`
Jitsi Meet	Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.	`CLI+` `Web`

Data - Go to top

Backup

Name	Description	Platform
Backrest	Backrest is a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup.	`Cross` `SelfHost`
Borg	Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.	`Cross` `CLI`
Duplicacy	A new generation cloud backup tool	`Cross` `CLI`
Duplicati	Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!	`Cross`
Kopia	Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.	`Cross` `CLI`
Rclone	"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files	`Cross` `CLI`
Restic	Fast, secure, efficient backup program	`Cross` `CLI`
Timeshift	System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is running or from Live CD/USB.	`Linux`

Storage

Name	Description	Platform
Ceph	Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform	`SelfHost`
myDrive	Node.js and mongoDB Google Drive Clone	`SelfHost`
Nextcloud	☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data	`Cross` `SelfHost`
ownCloud	☁️ ownCloud web server core (Files, DAV, etc.)	`SelfHost`
Seafile	High performance file syncing and sharing, with also Markdown WYSIWYG editing, Wiki, file label and other knowledge management features.	`Cross` `CLI+` `SelfHost`

Sync

Name	Description	Platform
Rsync	An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases.	`Cross` `CLI`
Syncthing	Open Source Continuous File Synchronization	`Cross` `CLI+`
syncthing-macos	Official frugal and native macOS Syncthing application bundle	`MacOS` `CLI+`

Development - Go to top

Code Assistant

Name	Description	Platform
Aider	aider is AI pair programming in your terminal	`Cross` `CLI`
Cline	Autonomous coding agent right in your IDE, capable of creating/editing files, executing commands, using the browser, and more with your permission every step of the way.	`VSCode`
Cody	Type less, code more: Cody is an AI code assistant that uses advanced search and codebase context to help you write and fix code.	`VSCode` `JetBrains`
Continue	⏩ Continue is the leading open-source AI code assistant. You can connect any models and any context to build custom autocomplete and chat experiences inside VS Code and JetBrains	`VSCode` `JetBrains`
Goose	an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM	`Cross` `CLI+`
GPT Pilot	The first real AI developer	`Cross` `CLI`
MetaGPT	🌟 The Multi-Agent Framework: First AI Software Company, Towards Natural Language Programming	`SelfHost` `Web`
OpenHands	🙌 OpenHands: Code Less, Make More	`Cross` `SelfHost`
Plandex	Open source AI coding agent. Designed for large projects and real world tasks.	`Cross` `CLI`
Roo Code	Roo Code (prev. Roo Cline) gives you a whole dev team of AI agents in your code editor.	`VSCode`
Tabby	Self-hosted AI coding assistant	`SelfHost` `VSCode` `JetBrains`

Code Editor

Name	Description	Platform
code-server	VS Code in the browser	`SelfHost`
CodeEdit	CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.	`MacOS`
Helix	A post-modern modal text editor.	`Cross` `CLI`
Lapce	Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust	`Cross`
LazyVim	Neovim config for the lazy	`Cross` `CLI`
neovim	Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability	`Cross` `CLI`
NvChad	Blazing fast Neovim config providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience.	`Cross` `CLI`
SpaceVim	A modular Vim/Neovim configuration	`Cross` `CLI`
Vim 🌍	The official Vim repository	`Cross` `CLI`
Void	Void is the open-source Cursor alternative.	`Windows` `MacOS`
VS Code	Visual Studio Code	`Cross`
VSCodium	binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing	`Cross`
Zed 🏦	Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.	`MacOS` `Linux`

Dev Tools

Name	Description	Platform
bat	A cat(1) clone with wings.	`Cross` `CLI`
DevToys	A Swiss Army knife for developers.	`Cross`
massCode	A free and open source code snippets manager for developers	`Cross`
Watchexec	Executes commands in response to file modifications	`Cross` `CLI`

Game Engine

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
GDevelop	🎮 Open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D/multiplayer game engine designed for everyone.	`Cross`
Godot	Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine	`Cross`

Git GUI

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
GitHub Desktop	Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git.	`Cross`

IDE

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
IntelliJ IDEA	IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition & IntelliJ Platform	`Cross`

Language Package Manager

Name	Description	Platform
Bun	Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one	`Cross` `CLI`
PNPM	Fast, disk space efficient package manager	`Cross` `CLI`
uv	An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.	`Cross` `CLI`
Yarn	Yarn is a modern package manager split into various packages. Its novel architecture allows to do things currently impossible with existing solutions	`Cross` `CLI`

Entertainment - Go to top

Game Launcher

Name	Description	Platform
Heroic Games Launcher	A games launcher for GOG, Amazon and Epic Games for Linux, Windows and macOS.	`Cross`
Pelican Panel	Pelican Panel is an open-source, web-based application designed for easy management of game servers.	`SelfHost`
Playnite	Video game library manager with support for wide range of 3rd party libraries and game emulation support, providing one unified interface for your games.	`Windows`
RomM	A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.	`SelfHost`

Games

Name	Description	Platform
Cataclysm DDA	Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.	`Cross`
Endless Sky	Space exploration, trading, and combat game.	`Cross`
lichess	♞ lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server ♞	`Web`
OpenRA	Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.	`Cross`
Unciv	Open-source Android/Desktop remake of Civ V	`Cross` `Android`
Veloren	An open world, open source voxel RPG inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Cube World. This repository is a mirror. Please submit all PRs and issues on our GitLab page.	`Cross`
Wesnoth	An open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme.	`Cross`

Extensions - Go to top

Browser Extensions

Name	Description	Platform
Dark Reader	Dark Reader Chrome and Firefox extension	`Chromium` `Firefox`
Page Assist	Use your locally running AI models to assist you in your web browsing	`Chromium` `Firefox`
uBlock Origin	uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.	`Chromium` `Firefox`

EMACS Packages

Name	Description	Platform	Stars

Neovim Extensions

Name	Description	Platform
Coq	Fast as FUCK nvim completion. SQLite, concurrent scheduler, hundreds of hours of optimization.	`N/A`
lazy.nvim	💤 A modern plugin manager for Neovim	`N/A`
Neorg	Modernity meets insane extensibility. The future of organizing your life in Neovim.	`N/A`
Neovide	No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust	`N/A`
nvim-dap	Debug Adapter Protocol client implementation for Neovim	`N/A`
VimWiki	Personal Wiki for Vim	`N/A`

Internet - Go to top

Browser

Name	Description	Platform
Brave	Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.	`Cross`
Floorp	All of source code of version 10 or later of Floorp Browser, the most Advanced and Fastest Firefox derivative 🦊	`Cross`
Min	A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy	`Cross`
Neko	A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.	`SelfHost`
Noi	🚀 Power Your World with AI - Explore, Extend, Empower.	`Cross`
Zen	🌀 Experience tranquillity while browsing the web without people tracking you!	`Cross`

Download Manager

Name	Description	Platform
AB	A Download Manager that speeds up your downloads	`Cross`
File Centipede	Cross-platform internet upload/download manager for HTTP(S), FTP(S), SSH, magnet-link, BitTorrent, m3u8, ed2k, and online videos. WebDAV client, FTP client, SSH client.	`SelfHost`
GoPeed	A modern download manager that supports all platforms. Built with Golang and Flutter.	`Cross`
Persepolis	Persepolis is a download manager written in Python.	`Cross`

Search Engine

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Perplexica	Perplexica is an AI-powered search engine. It is an Open source alternative to Perplexity AI	`SelfHost`
Scira	Scira (Formerly MiniPerplx) is a minimalistic AI-powered search engine that helps you find information on the internet. Powered by Vercel AI SDK! Search with models like Grok 2.0.	`SelfHost` `Web`

Media - Go to top

Audio Editor

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Audacity	Audio Editor	`Cross`
OpenUtau	Open singing synthesis platform / Open source UTAU successor	`Cross`

Audio Player

Name	Description	Platform
Feishin	A modern self-hosted music player.	`Cross` `SelfHost`
Navidrome	🎧☁️ Your Personal Streaming Service	`Cross` `SelfHost`
Spotube	🎧 Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile!	`Cross`
Supersonic	A lightweight cross-platform desktop client for self-hosted music servers.	`Cross`

Graphics

Name	Description	Platform
Blender	Official mirror of Blender	`Cross`
CadQuery	A python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT	`Cross`
darktable	darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer	`Cross`
FreeCAD	This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler.	`Cross`
Gaphor	Gaphor is the simple modeling tool	`Cross`
Graphite	2D vector & raster editor that melds traditional layers & tools with a modern node-based, non-destructive, procedural workflow.	`Web`
Krita	Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch built on the KDE and Qt frameworks.	`Cross`
OpenSCAD	OpenSCAD - The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller	`Cross`
Penpot	Penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration	`Web`
RawTherapee	A powerful cross-platform raw photo processing program	`Cross`

Image Processing

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
chaiNNer	A node-based image processing GUI aimed at making chaining image processing tasks easy and customizable. Born as an AI upscaling application, chaiNNer has grown into an extremely flexible and powerful programmatic image processing application.	`Cross`
Upscayl	🆙 Upscayl - #1 Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows.	`Cross`

Media Downloader

Name	Description	Platform
Cobalt	best way to save what you love	`Web`
YoutubeDownloader	Downloads videos and playlists from YouTube	`Cross`
yt-dlp	A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader	`Cross` `CLI`

Screen Recording

Name	Description	Platform
Cap	Open source Loom alternative. Beautiful, shareable screen recordings.	`Cross`
Flameshot	Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software 🖥️ 📸	`Cross`
OBS Studio	OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording	`Cross`
ShareX	ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.	`Windows`

Video Editing

Name	Description	Platform
Kdenlive	Free and open source video editor, based on MLT Framework and KDE Frameworks	`Cross`
LossletCut	The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing	`Cross`
Natron	Open-source video compositing software. Node-graph based. Similar in functionalities to Adobe After Effects and Nuke by The Foundry.	`Cross`
Olive	Free open-source non-linear video editor	`Cross`
Shotcut	cross-platform (Qt), open-source (GPLv3) video editor	`Cross`

Video Player

Name	Description	Platform
IINA	The modern video player for macOS.	`MacOS`
mpv	🎥 Command line video player	`Cross`
VLC	VLC is a libre and open source media player and multimedia engine, focused on playing everything, and running everywhere.	`Cross`

Video Transcoder

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
HandBrake	HandBrake's main development repository	`Cross`

Operating System - Go to top

Linux

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Extension Manager	A utility for browsing and installing GNOME Shell Extensions.	`Linux`
Flatseal	Manage Flatpak permissions	`Linux`

MacOS

Name	Description	Platform
AltTab	Windows alt-tab on macOS	`MacOS`
AppLite	User-friendly GUI macOS application for Homebrew Casks	`Cross`
Cork	A fast GUI for Homebrew written in SwiftUI	`MacOS`
Ice	Powerful menu bar manager for macOS	`MacOS`
KeepingYouAwake	Prevents your Mac from going to sleep.	`MacOS`
LinearMouse	The mouse and trackpad utility for Mac.	`MacOS`
Lunar	Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors	`MacOS`
MeetingBar	🇺🇦 Your meetings at your fingertips in the macOS menu bar	`MacOS`
OnlySwitch	⚙️ All-in-One menu bar app, hide 💻MacBook Pro's notch, dark mode, AirPods, Shortcuts	`MacOS`
Reminders MenuBar	Simple macOS menu bar application to view and interact with reminders. Developed with SwiftUI and using Apple Reminders as a source.	`MacOS`
SketchyBar	A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement	`MacOS`
SwiftBar	Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool	`MacOS`
TheBoringNotch	TheBoringNotch: Not so boring notch That Rocks 🎸🎶	`MacOS`

Operating System

Name	Description	Platform
openmediavault	openmediavault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins. openmediavault is primarily designed to be used in home environments or small home offices.	`N/A`
Puter	🌐 The Internet OS! Free, Open-Source, and Self-Hostable.	`N/A`
umbrelOS	A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store. Buy a pre-built Umbrel Home with umbrelOS, or install on a Raspberry Pi or any x86 system.	`N/A`
YunoHost	YunoHost is an operating system aiming to simplify as much as possible the administration of a server. This repository corresponds to the core code, written mostly in Python and Bash.	`N/A`

Windows

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
UniGetUI	UniGetUI: The Graphical Interface for your package managers. Could be terribly described as a package manager manager to manage your package managers	`Windows`

Organization - Go to top

Bookmark Manager

Name	Description	Platform
buku	🔖 Personal mini-web in text	`Cross` `CLI+`
hoarder	A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search	`SelfHost`
linkding	Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.	`SelfHost`
Linkwarden	⚡️⚡️⚡️Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize, and preserve webpages, articles, and documents.	`SelfHost`
Shiori	Simple bookmark manager built with Go	`SelfHost`
wallabag	wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages: Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely.	`SelfHost`

Document Manager

Name	Description	Platform	Stars

Productivity - Go to top

Calendar

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Cal	Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.	`SelfHost`

Document Modifier

Name	Description	Platform
Documenso	The Open Source DocuSign Alternative.	`SelfHost` `Web`
DocuSeal	Open source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, and sign digital documents ✍️	`SelfHost`
OCRmyPDF	OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched	`Cross` `CLI`
OpenSign	🔥 The free & Open Source DocuSign alternative	`SelfHost` `Web`
Stirling PDF	#1 Locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files	`MacOS` `Windows` `SelfHost`

Finance

Name	Description	Platform
Actual	A local-first personal finance app	`SelfHost` `Cross`
Firefly III	Firefly III: a personal finances manager	`SelfHost`
Ghostfolio	Open Source Wealth Management Software. Angular + NestJS + Prisma + Nx + TypeScript 🤍	`SelfHost`
Maybe	The OS for your personal finances	`SelfHost`
Wallos	Wallos: Open-Source Personal Subscription Tracker	`SelfHost`

Knowledge Base

Name	Description	Platform
Affine	There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.	`Cross`
Anytype	Official Anytype client for MacOS, Linux, and Windows	`Cross`
AppFlowy 💰	Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is an AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The best open source alternative to Notion.	`Cross`
FastGPT	FastGPT is a knowledge-based platform built on the LLMs, offers a comprehensive suite of out-of-the-box capabilities such as data processing, RAG retrieval, and visual AI workflow orchestration, letting you easily develop and deploy complex question-answering systems without the need for extensive setup or configuration.	`Cross`
Foam	A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode	`VSCode`
Logseq	A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration.	`Cross`
Outline	The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.	`Cross`
Siyuan	A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.	`Cross`

Project Management

Name	Description	Platform
Focalboard	Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.	`Cross` `SelfHost`
Huly	Huly — All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion)	`SelfHost` `Web`
Leantime	Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.	`SelfHost`
OpenProject	OpenProject is the leading open source project management software.	`SelfHost`
Plane	🔥 🔥 🔥 Open Source JIRA, Linear, Monday, and Asana Alternative. Plane helps you track your issues, epics, and product roadmaps in the simplest way possible.	`SelfHost` `Web`

Task Management

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Planka	The realtime kanban board for workgroups built with React and Redux.	`SelfHost` `CLI+`
Super Productivity	Super Productivity is an advanced todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. It also comes with integrations for Jira, Gitlab, GitHub and Open Project.	`Cross`

Time Management

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
ActivityWatch	The best free and open-source automated time tracker. Cross-platform, extensible, privacy-focused.	`Cross` `Android`
solidtime	Modern open-source time-tracking app	`SelfHost` `Web`

Security/Privacy - Go to top

AD Blocker

Name	Description	Platform
AdGuard	Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server	`SelfHost` `CLI+` `Chromium` `Firefox`
Blocky	Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network with many features	`SelfHost`
Pi-hole	A black hole for Internet advertisements	`SelfHost`

Antivirus

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
ClamAV	ClamAV - Documentation is here: https://docs.clamav.net	`Cross` `SelfHost`

Authentication

Name	Description	Platform
2FAuth	A Web app to manage your Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) accounts and generate their security codes	`SelfHost`
Aegis	A free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens.	`Android`
authelia	The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps	`SelfHost`
Tailscale	The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.	`SelfHost`

Firewall

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
BunkerWeb	🛡️ Open-source and next-generation Web Application Firewall (WAF)	`SelfHost`
SafeLine	SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.	`SelfHost`

Password Manager

Name	Description	Platform
Bitwarden	Open source security solutions for individuals, teams, and business organizations. Explore Password Manager, Secrets Manager, and passkey innovations.	`Cross`
KeePass	KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.	`Cross`
LessPass	🔑 stateless open source password manager	`Cross` `CLI` `CLI+` `Chromium` `Firefox`
Passbolt	Passbolt Community Edition (CE) API. The JSON API for the open source password manager for teams!	`Cross` `CLI+` `SelfHost` `CLI+` `Chromium` `Firefox`
Vaultwarden	Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs	`SelfHost`

VPN

Name	Description	Platform
Amnezia	Amnezia VPN Client (Desktop+Mobile)	`Cross` `CLI+`
NetBird	Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.	`Cross`
ProtonVPN	Experience true freedom online. Gain unrestricted access to global content, block annoying ads, and safeguard your privacy with a fast and secure VPN.	`Cross` `CLI+`

Server - Go to top

Arr

Name	Description	Platform
autobrr	Modern, easy to use download automation for torrents and usenet.	`Cross` `SelfHost`
Bazarr	Bazarr is a companion application to Sonarr and Radarr. It manages and downloads subtitles based on your requirements. You define your preferences by TV show or movie and Bazarr takes care of everything for you.	`Cross` `SelfHost`
Jellyseerr	Open-source media request and discovery manager for Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby.	`SelfHost`
Lidarr	Looks and smells like Sonarr but made for music.	`Cross` `SelfHost`
Overseerr	Request management and media discovery tool for the Plex ecosystem	`Windows` `Linux` `SelfHost`
Prowlarr	Prowlarr is an indexer manager/proxy built on the popular *arr .net/reactjs base stack to integrate with your various PVR apps, supporting management of both Torrent Trackers and Usenet Indexers.	`Cross` `SelfHost`
Radarr	Movie organizer/manager for usenet and torrent users.	`Cross` `SelfHost`
Readarr	Book Manager and Automation (Sonarr for Ebooks)	`Cross` `SelfHost`
Sonarr	Smart PVR for newsgroup and bittorrent users.	`Cross` `SelfHost`

Dashboard

Name	Description	Platform
Cockpit	Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers.	`Linux`
dashdot	A simple, modern server dashboard, primarily used by smaller private servers	`SelfHost`
Dashy	🚀 A self-hostable personal dashboard built for you. Includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor and tons more!	`SelfHost`
Glance	A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place	`SelfHost`
Heimdall	An Application dashboard and launcher	`SelfHost`
homepage	A highly customizable homepage (or startpage / application dashboard) with Docker and service API integrations.	`SelfHost`
Homer	A very simple static homepage for your server.	`SelfHost`

Home Automation

Name	Description	Platform
Domoticz	Open source Home Automation System	`SelfHost`
ESPHome	ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.	`SelfHost`
Gladys	A privacy-first, open-source home assistant	`SelfHost`
Home Assistant	🏡 Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.	`Cross` `SelfHost`

Home Server

Name	Description	Platform
CapRover	Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids	`Linux`
CasaOS	CasaOS - A simple, easy-to-use, elegant open-source Personal Cloud system.	`Linux`
Cosmos	☁️ The Most Secure and Easy Selfhosted Home Server. Take control of your data and privacy without sacrificing security and stability (Authentication, anti-DDOS, anti-bot)	`SelfHost`
Runtipi	Runtipi is a homeserver for everyone! One command setup, one click installs for your favorites self-hosted apps. ✨	`SelfHost`
Sandstorm	Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite. It's implemented as a security-hardened web app package manager.	`SelfHost`

Media Management

Name	Description	Platform
audiobookshelf	Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server	`IOS` `Android` `SelfHost`
Calibre-Web	📚 Web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database	`SelfHost`
Ente	FOSS, End-to-End Encrypted Cloud	`Web`
Immich	High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.	`SelfHost`
Jellyfin	The Free Software Media System	`SelfHost`
Kavita	Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with the goal of being a full solution for all your reading needs. Setup your own server and share your reading collection with your friends and family.	`SelfHost`
Kodi	Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.	`Cross` `SelfHost`
LibrePhotos	A self-hosted open source photo management service. This is the repository of the backend.	`SelfHost`
Librum	The Librum client application	`SelfHost`
Lychee	A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.	`SelfHost`
Memories	Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app.	`SelfHost`
PhotoPrism	AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨	`SelfHost`
Piwigi	Manage your photos with Piwigo, a full featured open source photo gallery application for the web. Star us on Github! More than 200 plugins and themes available. Join us and contribute!	`SelfHost`

Surveillance

Name	Description	Platform
Frigate	NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras	`SelfHost`
Scrypted	Scrypted is a high performance video integration and automation platform	`SelfHost`
ZoneMinder	ZoneMinder is a free, open source Closed-circuit television software application developed for Linux which supports IP, USB and Analog cameras.	`SelfHost`

Terminal - Go to top

Shell

Name	Description	Platform
fish	The user-friendly command line shell.	`Cross` `CLI`
Nushell	A new type of shell	`Cross` `CLI`
xonsh	🐚 Python-powered shell. Full-featured and cross-platform.	`Cross` `CLI`

Terminal Emulator

Name	Description	Platform
Alacritty	A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.	`Cross`
kitty	Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal	`Cross`
Rio	A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers.	`Cross`
Tabby	A terminal for a more modern age	`Cross`
Waveterm	An open-source, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows	`Cross`
WezTerm	A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust	`Cross`

Terminal Multiplexer

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
tmux	tmux source code	`Cross` `CLI`
Zellij	A terminal workspace with batteries included	`Cross` `CLI`

Terminal Utilities

Name	Description	Platform
Atuin	✨ Magical shell history	`Cross` `CLI`
McFly	Fly through your shell history. Great Scott!	`Cross` `CLI`
Oh My Zsh	🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.	`Cross` `CLI`
ShellGPT	A command-line productivity tool powered by AI large language models like GPT-4, will help you accomplish your tasks faster and more efficiently.	`Cross` `CLI`
zoxide	A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.	`Cross` `CLI`
zsh-autosuggestions	Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh	`Cross` `CLI`

Text - Go to top

Document Editor

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Etherpad	Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.	`SelfHost` `Web`

Markdown Editor

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
HedgeDoc	HedgeDoc - Ideas grow better together	`SelfHost`
Zettlr	Your One-Stop Publication Workbench	`Cross`

Note Taking

Name	Description	Platform
Better Notes	Everything about note management. All in Zotero.	`Plugin`
Blinko	An open-source, self-hosted personal AI note tool prioritizing privacy, built using TypeScript .	`SelfHost`
Joplin	Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.	`Cross`
jrnl	Collect your thoughts and notes without leaving the command line.	`Cross` `CLI`
Memos	An open-source, lightweight note-taking solution. The pain-less way to create your meaningful notes. Your Notes, Your Way.	`SelfHost`
nb	CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.	`Cross` `CLI`
Notesnook	A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.	`Cross`
Reor	Private & local AI personal knowledge management app for high entropy people.	`Cross`
Rnote	Sketch and take handwritten notes.	`Cross`
SilverBullet	The knowledge tinkerer's notebook	`Cross`
Simplenote	Simplenote for Web, Windows, and Linux	`Cross` `IOS` `Android`
Standard Notes	Think fearlessly with end-to-end encrypted notes and files.	`Cross` `IOS` `Android`
VNote	A pleasant note-taking platform in native C++.	`Cross`

Office Suite

Name	Description	Platform
CryptPad	Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.	`SelfHost`
LibreOffice	No description provided.	`Cross`
OnlyOffice	An office suite that combines text, spreadsheet and presentation editors allowing to create, view and edit local documents	`Cross`

Proofreading

Name	Description	Platform
Harper	The Grammar Checker for Developers	`VSCode`
LanguageTool	Style and Grammar Checker for 25+ Languages	`SelfHost` `Web`
WritingTools	The world's smartest system-wide grammar assistant; a better version of the Apple Intelligence Writing Tools. Works on Windows, Linux, & macOS, with the free Gemini API, local LLMs, & more.	`Cross`

Spreadsheet

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Grist	Grist is the evolution of spreadsheets.	`SelfHost` `Web`

Text Editor

Name	Description	Platform
CotEditor	Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS	`MacOS`
Emacs	An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.	`Cross`
Kakoune	mawww's experiment for a better code editor	`Cross` `CLI`
Lite XL	A lightweight text editor written in Lua	`Cross`
Micro	A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor	`Cross` `CLI`
NotepadNext	A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++	`Cross`
Notepads	A modern, lightweight text editor with a minimalist design.	`Windows`
Quill	Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility	`Web`

Wiki

Name	Description	Platform
BookStack	A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel	`SelfHost`
MediaWiki	🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia.	`SelfHost`
Wiki.js	Wiki.js - A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js	`SelfHost`

Utilities - Go to top

Automation

Name	Description	Platform
Ansible	Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems.	`Cross` `CLI+`
Cronicle	A simple, distributed task scheduler and runner with a web based UI.	`Cross` `CLI+` `SelfHost`
Hammerspoon	Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua	`MacOS`
Script Kit	Script Kit. Automate Anything.	`Cross`
Semaphore	Modern UI and powerful API for Ansible, Terraform, OpenTofu, PowerShell and other DevOps tools.	`Cross`

Cleaner

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
BleachBit	BleachBit system cleaner for Windows and Linux	`Windows` `Linux`
Pearcleaner	A free, source-available and fair-code licensed mac app cleaner	`MacOS`

Clipboard Manager

Name	Description	Platform
Clipboard	😎🏖️🐬 Your new, 𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙠𝙪𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙮 smart clipboard manager	`Cross`
CopyQ	Clipboard manager with advanced features	`Cross`
Maccy	Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS	`MacOS`

Containers

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Colima	Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup	`Cross` `CLI`
Dockge	A fancy, easy-to-use and reactive self-hosted docker compose.yaml stack-oriented manager	`Cross`

Dotfiles Manager

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
chezmoi	Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.	`Cross`
yadm	Yet Another Dotfiles Manager	`Cross` `CLI`

File Manager

Name	Description	Platform
Electerm	📻Terminal/ssh/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/sftp client(linux, mac, win)	`Cross`
File Browser	📂 Web File Browser	`SelfHost`
FileGator	Powerful Multi-User File Manager	`SelfHost`
Files	A modern file manager that helps users organize their files and folders.	`Windows`
Filestash	🦄 A file manager / web client for SFTP, S3, FTP, WebDAV, Git, Minio, LDAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, Mysql, Backblaze, ...	`SelfHost`
If	Terminal file manager	`Cross` `CLI`
nnn	n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager	`Linux` `CLI`
Ranger	A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console	`Cross` `CLI`
Spacedrive	Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.	`Cross`
Superfile	Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager	`Cross`
xplr	A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer	`Cross` `CLI`
Yazi	💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.	`Cross` `CLI`

Name	Description	Platform
LocalSend	An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop	`Cross` `CLI+`
OnionShare	Securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network	`Cross`
PairDrop	PairDrop: Transfer Files Cross-Platform. No Setup, No Signup.	`Web`

Keyboard Manager

Name	Description	Platform
Kanata	Improve keyboard comfort and usability with advanced customization	`Cross`
Karabiner-Elements	Karabiner-Elements is a powerful tool for customizing keyboards on macOS	`MacOS`
Kmonad	An advanced keyboard manager	`Cross`

Launcher

Name	Description	Platform
Albert	A fast and flexible keyboard launcher	`Cross`
Kando	🌸 Do things with utmost efficiency.	`Cross`
Sol	MacOS launcher & command palette	`MacOS`
Ueli	Cross-Platform Keystroke Launcher	`Cross`
Ulauncher	Feature rich application Launcher for Linux	`Linux`
Wox	A cross-platform launcher that simply works	`Cross`

Package Manager

Name	Description	Platform
Choco	Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows	`Windows`
Homebrew	macOS system monitor in your menu bar	`MacOS` `Linux` `CLI`
Nix	Nix, the purely functional package manager	`Cross`
Spack	A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.	`Cross`

Remote Desktop

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
RustDesk	An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.	`Cross`

System

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Background Music	Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.	`MacOS`

System Monitoring

Name	Description	Platform
bottom	Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.	`Cross` `CLI`
Stats	macOS system monitor in your menu bar	`MacOS`
Vitals	A glimpse into your computer's temperature, voltage, fan speed, memory usage and CPU load.	`Linux`

Tools

Name	Description	Platform
balenaEtcher	Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.	`Cross`
Czkawka	Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.	`Windows` `Linux`
fd	A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'	`Cross` `CLI`
inshellisense	IDE style command line auto complete	`Cross` `CLI`
MonitorControl	🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.	`MacOS`
OpenRGB	Open source RGB lighting control that doesn't depend on manufacturer software.	`Cross`
rga	rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.	`Cross` `CLI`

Version Manager

Name	Description	Platform
asdf	Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more	`Cross` `CLI`
mise	dev tools, env vars, task runner	`Cross` `CLI`
nvm	Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions	`Cross` `CLI`
pyenv	Simple Python version management	`Cross` `CLI`
rbenv	Manage your app's Ruby environment	`Cross` `CLI`
vfox	A cross-platform and extendable version manager with support for Java, Node.js, Flutter, .Net & more	`Cross` `CLI`
XcodesApp	The easiest way to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode - with a mouse click.	`MacOS`

Virtual Machine

Name	Description	Platform
Lima	Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers	`MacOS` `Linux`
Quickemu	Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines	`MacOS` `Linux`
UTM	Virtual machines for iOS and macOS	`MacOS`
VirtualBuddy	Virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon, VirtualBuddy is a virtual machine GUI for macOS M1, M2, M3	`MacOS`

Window Management

Name	Description	Platform
AeroSpace	AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS	`MacOS`
Amethyst	Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.	`MacOS`
Loop	Window management made elegant.	`MacOS`
Rectangle	Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas	`MacOS`

Other - Go to top

Other

Name	Description	Platform
Grocy	ERP beyond your fridge - Grocy is a web-based self-hosted groceries & household management solution for your home	`Windows` `SelfHost`
Mealie	Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue for a pleasant user experience for the whole family. Easily add recipes into your database by providing the url and mealie will automatically import the relevant data or add a family recipe with the UI editor	`SelfHost`
openpilot	openpilot is an operating system for robotics. Currently, it upgrades the driver assistance system in 275+ supported cars.	`Linux`

Uncategorized

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Whisky	A modern Wine wrapper for macOS built with SwiftUI	`MacOS`
XPipe	Your entire server infrastructure at your fingertips	`Cross`

Honorable Mentions of Closed-Source Software

Some proprietary software just deserve recognition.

Davinci Resolve - Professional Editing, Color, Effects and Audio Post!
Obsidian - The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.
LM Studio - Discover, download, and run local LLMs
JetBrains - A rich suite of tools that provide an exceptional developer experience
Raycast - A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher.

Removed Projects

Projects that were once on this list but removed - usually due to abandonement or going closed source.

Archive

eqMac - Closed source
Hyper - Abandoned
DiffusionBee - Closed source
Lunarvim - Abandoned
Motrix - Abandoned
StableSwarmUI - Abandoned
Trilium - Abandoned

FAQ

How about a definitive-opensource website?

A website is definitely on the roadmap. It would provide much requested features like tag based filtering and, on the backend, automate much of what we currently have to do manually. However, for the foreseeable future, the list will remain as a markdown file for one reason: to keep things simple. The current system lets me focus solely on the projects within. The complexities of web development seem unnecessary and an added pain for a task that can suffice, for now, as a markdown file.

The current system could also be considered a stepping stone to guage the community's needs prior to building a website, which would inherently be far more complex.

Stars aren't a good metric to guage popularity/quality.

The minimum star count of 1k has been a major point of contention. Admittedly, star counts don't always reflect project popularity and quality. Stars are biased towards developers because they are the ones with a GitHub account, thus leaving out the input of the end users. But no solution is going to be a __one size fits all__ solution. It's critically important that as the list scales it doesn't devolve into a clutter trap, even if the price is some projects getting left out.

Stars tend to be synonomous with community recognition, making it a good starting point for further vetting to check for contributors, future plans, and popularity. Most compotent software will have no trouble reaching the 1k star count. This requirement is also just the first step for further vetting.

Artificial star counts (EX: buying stars) has also been brought up. This isn't that big of a problem, again, stars are just to quality a project for further vetting. A popular project should have lots of community activity, GitHub issues, pr's, etc. Evidence of foul play will disquality a project.

License

This project is released under the MIT license, hereby granting anyone to use, distribute, or modify this project for, but not limited to, commercial purposes. See the license tab for further information.

Go To Top

Open Source Initiative

README.md Unescape Escape

[ definitive-opensource ]