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Alerts
🟡 🟠 🔴 ⭕ - Security incident (Minor, Moderate, Major, Critical)
🚫 - Potentially abandoned
🔒 - Potentially closed source
🛑 - Development paused
⚠️ - Restrictive license
🏦 - Corporate influence
💰 - Commercial
🧪 - Experimental (Pre-Alpha)
🚧 - Critically unstable/buggy
❌ - On watch for removal
Highlights
💥 - Disruptive
🌍 - Influential
🌟 - Pioneering
💡 - Innovative
Awards (At 10k Stars)
🏆 - Crown of open source
🥈 - Second
🥉 - Third
Platforms
Cross - Cross-platform (MacOS, Windows, Linux)
Mobile - Android and IOS
CLI+ - CLI in addition to GUI
Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, IOS, CLI, SelfHost, Web, VSCode, JetBrains, Chromium, Firefox, Plugin, Extension, N/A
Table of Contents
Alphabetical
Categorized
Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Go to top
Agent
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| 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 |
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| Huginn |
Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by! |
SelfHost |
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| Telegraf |
Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data. |
Cross SelfHost |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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AI Image GUI
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Auto1111 |
Stable Diffusion web UI |
SelfHost |
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| ComfyUI |
The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface. |
SelfHost |
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| Fooocus |
Focus on prompting and generating |
SelfHost |
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| SD.Next |
SD.Next: All-in-one for AI generative image |
SelfHost |
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| 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 |
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AI Utilities
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
All In One
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| 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 |
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Assistant
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Leon |
🧠 Leon is your open-source personal assistant. |
SelfHost |
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Information Processing
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Firecrawl |
🔥 Turn entire websites into LLM-ready markdown or structured data. Scrape, crawl and extract with a single API. |
SelfHost |
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| GPT crawler |
Crawl a site to generate knowledge files to create your own custom GPT from a URL |
SelfHost |
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| Unstract |
No-code LLM Platform to launch APIs and ETL Pipelines to structure unstructured documents |
MacOS Linux SelfHost |
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LLM GUI
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Open WebUI |
User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...) |
SelfHost |
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| SillyTavern |
LLM Frontend for Power Users. |
SelfHost |
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| Text generation webUI |
A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models. |
SelfHost |
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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 |
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Model Tools
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
RAG
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| AutoFlow |
pingcap/autoflow is a Graph RAG based and conversational knowledge base tool built with TiDB Serverless Vector Storage. Demo: https://tidb.ai |
SelfHost |
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| 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 |
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| kotaemon |
An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents. |
SelfHost |
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| RAGFlow |
RAGFlow is an open-source RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) engine based on deep document understanding. |
SelfHost |
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| Verba |
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) chatbot powered by Weaviate |
SelfHost |
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Research
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| 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 |
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Chat
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Collaboration
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Mattermost |
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle. |
SelfHost |
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| Rocket.Chat |
The communications platform that puts data protection first. |
SelfHost Web |
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| Zulip |
Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused. |
SelfHost Web |
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Mail
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Video Conference
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Backup
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Backrest |
Backrest is a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup. |
Cross SelfHost |
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Storage
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Ceph |
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform |
SelfHost |
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| myDrive |
Node.js and mongoDB Google Drive Clone |
SelfHost |
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| Nextcloud |
☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data |
Cross SelfHost |
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| ownCloud |
☁️ ownCloud web server core (Files, DAV, etc.) |
SelfHost |
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| Seafile |
High performance file syncing and sharing, with also Markdown WYSIWYG editing, Wiki, file label and other knowledge management features. |
Cross CLI+ SelfHost |
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Sync
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Code Assistant
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| MetaGPT |
🌟 The Multi-Agent Framework: First AI Software Company, Towards Natural Language Programming |
SelfHost Web |
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| OpenHands |
🙌 OpenHands: Code Less, Make More |
Cross SelfHost |
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| Tabby |
Self-hosted AI coding assistant |
SelfHost VSCode JetBrains |
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Code Editor
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| code-server |
VS Code in the browser |
SelfHost |
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Dev Tools
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Game Engine
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Git GUI
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Git Hosting
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Gitea |
Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD |
SelfHost |
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| GitLab |
GitLab CE Mirror - Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com |
SelfHost Web |
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| Gogs |
Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service |
SelfHost |
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IDE
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Language Package Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Game Launcher
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Pelican Panel |
Pelican Panel is an open-source, web-based application designed for easy management of game servers. |
SelfHost |
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| RomM |
A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player. |
SelfHost |
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Games
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Browser Extensions
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
EMACS Packages
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Neovim Extensions
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Browser
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Neko |
A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC. |
SelfHost |
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Download Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| 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 |
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Search Engine
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Perplexica |
Perplexica is an AI-powered search engine. It is an Open source alternative to Perplexity AI |
SelfHost |
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| 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 |
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Audio Editor
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Audio Player
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Feishin |
A modern self-hosted music player. |
Cross SelfHost |
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| Navidrome |
🎧☁️ Your Personal Streaming Service |
Cross SelfHost |
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Graphics
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Image Processing
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Media Downloader
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Screen Recording
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Video Editing
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Video Player
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Video Transcoder
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Operating System - Go to top
Linux
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
MacOS
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Operating System
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Windows
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Bookmark Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| hoarder |
A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search |
SelfHost |
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| linkding |
Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker. |
SelfHost |
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| Linkwarden |
⚡️⚡️⚡️Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize, and preserve webpages, articles, and documents. |
SelfHost |
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| Shiori |
Simple bookmark manager built with Go |
SelfHost |
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| wallabag |
wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages: Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely. |
SelfHost |
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Document Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Calendar
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Cal |
Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone. |
SelfHost |
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Document Modifier
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Documenso |
The Open Source DocuSign Alternative. |
SelfHost Web |
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| DocuSeal |
Open source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, and sign digital documents ✍️ |
SelfHost |
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| OpenSign |
🔥 The free & Open Source DocuSign alternative |
SelfHost Web |
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| Stirling PDF |
#1 Locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files |
MacOS Windows SelfHost |
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Finance
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Actual |
A local-first personal finance app |
SelfHost Cross |
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| Firefly III |
Firefly III: a personal finances manager |
SelfHost |
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| Ghostfolio |
Open Source Wealth Management Software. Angular + NestJS + Prisma + Nx + TypeScript 🤍 |
SelfHost |
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| Maybe |
The OS for your personal finances |
SelfHost |
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| Wallos |
Wallos: Open-Source Personal Subscription Tracker |
SelfHost |
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Knowledge Base
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Project Management
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Focalboard |
Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana. |
Cross SelfHost |
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| Huly |
Huly — All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion) |
SelfHost Web |
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| Leantime |
Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind. |
SelfHost |
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| OpenProject |
OpenProject is the leading open source project management software. |
SelfHost |
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| 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 |
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Task Management
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Planka |
The realtime kanban board for workgroups built with React and Redux. |
SelfHost CLI+ |
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Time Management
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| solidtime |
Modern open-source time-tracking app |
SelfHost Web |
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Security/Privacy - Go to top
AD Blocker
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| AdGuard |
Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server |
SelfHost CLI+ Chromium Firefox |
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| Blocky |
Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network with many features |
SelfHost |
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| Pi-hole |
A black hole for Internet advertisements |
SelfHost |
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Antivirus
Authentication
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| 2FAuth |
A Web app to manage your Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) accounts and generate their security codes |
SelfHost |
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| authelia |
The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps |
SelfHost |
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| Tailscale |
The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA. |
SelfHost |
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Firewall
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| BunkerWeb |
🛡️ Open-source and next-generation Web Application Firewall (WAF) |
SelfHost |
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| SafeLine |
SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits. |
SelfHost |
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Password Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Passbolt |
Passbolt Community Edition (CE) API. The JSON API for the open source password manager for teams! |
Cross CLI+ SelfHost CLI+ Chromium Firefox |
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| Vaultwarden |
Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs |
SelfHost |
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VPN
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Arr
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| autobrr |
Modern, easy to use download automation for torrents and usenet. |
Cross SelfHost |
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| 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 |
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| Jellyseerr |
Open-source media request and discovery manager for Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby. |
SelfHost |
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| Lidarr |
Looks and smells like Sonarr but made for music. |
Cross SelfHost |
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| Overseerr |
Request management and media discovery tool for the Plex ecosystem |
Windows Linux SelfHost |
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| 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 |
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| Radarr |
Movie organizer/manager for usenet and torrent users. |
Cross SelfHost |
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| Readarr |
Book Manager and Automation (Sonarr for Ebooks) |
Cross SelfHost |
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| Sonarr |
Smart PVR for newsgroup and bittorrent users. |
Cross SelfHost |
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Dashboard
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| dashdot |
A simple, modern server dashboard, primarily used by smaller private servers |
SelfHost |
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| Dashy |
🚀 A self-hostable personal dashboard built for you. Includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor and tons more! |
SelfHost |
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| Glance |
A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place |
SelfHost |
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| Heimdall |
An Application dashboard and launcher |
SelfHost |
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| homepage |
A highly customizable homepage (or startpage / application dashboard) with Docker and service API integrations. |
SelfHost |
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| Homer |
A very simple static homepage for your server. |
SelfHost |
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Home Automation
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Domoticz |
Open source Home Automation System |
SelfHost |
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| 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 |
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| Gladys |
A privacy-first, open-source home assistant |
SelfHost |
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| Home Assistant |
🏡 Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. |
Cross SelfHost |
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Home Server
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| 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 |
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| Runtipi |
Runtipi is a homeserver for everyone! One command setup, one click installs for your favorites self-hosted apps. ✨ |
SelfHost |
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| Sandstorm |
Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite. It's implemented as a security-hardened web app package manager. |
SelfHost |
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Media Management
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| audiobookshelf |
Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server |
IOS Android SelfHost |
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| Calibre-Web |
📚 Web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database |
SelfHost |
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| Immich |
High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution. |
SelfHost |
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| Jellyfin |
The Free Software Media System |
SelfHost |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| LibrePhotos |
A self-hosted open source photo management service. This is the repository of the backend. |
SelfHost |
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| Librum |
The Librum client application |
SelfHost |
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| Lychee |
A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos. |
SelfHost |
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| Memories |
Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app. |
SelfHost |
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| PhotoPrism |
AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨ |
SelfHost |
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| 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 |
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Surveillance
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Frigate |
NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras |
SelfHost |
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| Scrypted |
Scrypted is a high performance video integration and automation platform |
SelfHost |
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| ZoneMinder |
ZoneMinder is a free, open source Closed-circuit television software application developed for Linux which supports IP, USB and Analog cameras. |
SelfHost |
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Shell
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Terminal Emulator
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Terminal Multiplexer
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Terminal Utilities
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Document Editor
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Etherpad |
Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor. |
SelfHost Web |
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Markdown Editor
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| HedgeDoc |
HedgeDoc - Ideas grow better together |
SelfHost |
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Note Taking
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Blinko |
An open-source, self-hosted personal AI note tool prioritizing privacy, built using TypeScript . |
SelfHost |
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| Memos |
An open-source, lightweight note-taking solution. The pain-less way to create your meaningful notes. Your Notes, Your Way. |
SelfHost |
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Office Suite
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| CryptPad |
Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source. |
SelfHost |
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Proofreading
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| LanguageTool |
Style and Grammar Checker for 25+ Languages |
SelfHost Web |
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Spreadsheet
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Grist |
Grist is the evolution of spreadsheets. |
SelfHost Web |
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Text Editor
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Wiki
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| BookStack |
A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel |
SelfHost |
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| MediaWiki |
🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. |
SelfHost |
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| Wiki.js |
Wiki.js - A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js |
SelfHost |
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Automation
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Cronicle |
A simple, distributed task scheduler and runner with a web based UI. |
Cross CLI+ SelfHost |
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Cleaner
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Clipboard Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Containers
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Dotfiles Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
File Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| File Browser |
📂 Web File Browser |
SelfHost |
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| FileGator |
Powerful Multi-User File Manager |
SelfHost |
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| Filestash |
🦄 A file manager / web client for SFTP, S3, FTP, WebDAV, Git, Minio, LDAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, Mysql, Backblaze, ... |
SelfHost |
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File Sharing
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Keyboard Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Launcher
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Package Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Remote Desktop
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
System
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
System Monitoring
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Tools
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Version Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Virtual Machine
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Window Management
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Other
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Grocy |
ERP beyond your fridge - Grocy is a web-based self-hosted groceries & household management solution for your home |
Windows SelfHost |
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| 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 |
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Uncategorized
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
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.
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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.
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