definitive-opensource/readmes/selfhost.md

Tags

Alerts

🟡 🟠 🔴 ⭕ - Security incident (Minor, Moderate, Major, Critical)

🚫 - Potentially abandoned

🛑 - Potentially closed source

⁉️ - Suspicious license

🟥 - Corporate influence

🧪 - 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

Contents

Alphabetical

• AD Blocker
• Agent
• AI Image GUI
• AI Utilities
• All In One
• Antivirus
• Arr
• Assistant
• Audio Editor
• Audio Player
• Authentication
• Automation
• Backup
• Bookmark Manager
• Browser
• Browser Extensions
• Calendar
• Chat
• Cleaner
• Clipboard Manager
• Code Assistant
• Code Editor
• Collaboration
• Containers
• Dashboard
• Dev Tools
• Document Editor
• Document Manager
• Document Modifier
• Dotfiles Manager
• Download Manager
• EMACS Packages
• File Manager
• File Sharing
• Finance
• Firewall
• Game Engine
• Game Launcher
• Games
• Git GUI
• Graphics
• Home Automation
• Home Server
• IDE
• Image Processing
• Information Processing
• Keyboard Manager
• Knowledge Base
• Language Package Manager
• Launcher
• Linux
• LLM GUI
• MacOS
• Mail
• Manager
• Markdown Editor
• Media Downloader
• Media Management
• Model Tools
• Neovim Extensions
• Note Taking
• Office Suite
• Operating System
• Other
• Package Manager
• Password Manager
• Project Management
• Proofreading
• RAG
• Remote Desktop
• Removed Projects
• Research
• Screen Recording
• Search Engine
• Shell
• Spreadsheet
• Storage
• Surveillance
• Sync
• System
• System Monitoring
• Task Management
• Terminal Emulator
• Terminal Multiplexer
• Terminal Utilities
• Text Editor
• Time Management
• Tools
• Uncategorized
• Version Manager
• Video Conference
• Video Editing
• Video Player
• Video Transcoder
• Virtual Machine
• VPN
• Wiki
• Window Management
• Windows

Categorized

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Agent
  • AI Image GUI
  • AI Utilities
  • All In One
  • Assistant
  • Information Processing
  • LLM GUI
  • Manager
  • Model Tools
  • RAG
  • Research
• Communication
  • Chat
  • Collaboration
  • Mail
  • Video Conference
• Data
  • Backup
  • Storage
  • Sync
• Development
  • Code Assistant
  • Code Editor
  • Dev Tools
  • Game Engine
  • Git GUI
  • IDE
  • Language Package Manager
• Entertainment
  • Game Launcher
  • Games
• Extensions
  • Browser Extensions
  • EMACS Packages
  • Neovim Extensions
• Internet
  • Browser
  • Download Manager
  • Search Engine
• Media
  • Audio Editor
  • Audio Player
  • Graphics
  • Image Processing
  • Media Downloader
  • Screen Recording
  • Video Editing
  • Video Player
  • Video Transcoder
• Operating System
  • Windows
• Organization
  • Bookmark Manager
  • Document Manager
• Productivity
  • Calendar
  • Document Modifier
  • Finance
  • Knowledge Base
  • Project Management
  • Task Management
  • Time Management
• Security/Privacy
  • AD Blocker
  • Antivirus
  • Authentication
  • Firewall
  • Password Manager
  • VPN
• Server
  • Arr
  • Dashboard
  • Home Automation
  • Home Server
  • Linux
  • MacOS
  • Media Management
  • Operating System
  • Surveillance
• Terminal
  • Shell
  • Terminal Emulator
  • Terminal Multiplexer
  • Terminal Utilities
• Text
  • Document Editor
  • Markdown Editor
  • Note Taking
  • Office Suite
  • Proofreading
  • Spreadsheet
  • Text Editor
  • Wiki
• Utilities
  • Automation
  • Cleaner
  • Clipboard Manager
  • Containers
  • Dotfiles Manager
  • File Manager
  • File Sharing
  • Keyboard Manager
  • Launcher
  • Package Manager
  • Remote Desktop
  • System
  • System Monitoring
  • Tools
  • Version Manager
  • Virtual Machine
  • Window Management

Contents

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
Huginn	Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!	SelfHost
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	Stars
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
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

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

Assistant

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

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
GPT crawler	Crawl a site to generate knowledge files to create your own custom GPT from a URL	SelfHost
Unstract	No-code LLM Platform to launch APIs and ETL Pipelines to structure unstructured documents	MacOS Linux SelfHost

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
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
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

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
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
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
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

Collaboration

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
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

Data - Go to top

Backup

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Backrest	Backrest is a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup.	Cross SelfHost

Storage

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
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 Mobile SelfHost

Development - Go to top

Code Assistant

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
MetaGPT	🌟 The Multi-Agent Framework: First AI Software Company, Towards Natural Language Programming	SelfHost Web
OpenHands	🙌 OpenHands: Code Less, Make More	Cross SelfHost
Tabby	Self-hosted AI coding assistant	SelfHost VSCode JetBrains

Code Editor

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
code-server	VS Code in the browser	SelfHost

Entertainment - Go to top

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
RomM	A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.	SelfHost

Extensions - Go to top

Internet - Go to top

Browser

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Neko	A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.	SelfHost

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

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 Player

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Feishin	A modern self-hosted music player.	Cross SelfHost
Navidrome	🎧☁️ Your Personal Streaming Service	Cross SelfHost

Operating System - Go to top

Organization - Go to top

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
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

Productivity - Go to top

Calendar

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

Document Modifier

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Documenso	The Open Source DocuSign Alternative.	SelfHost Web
DocuSeal	Open source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, and sign digital documents ✍️	SelfHost
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	Stars
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

Project Management

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
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 Mobile

Time Management

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
solidtime	Modern open-source time-tracking app	SelfHost Web

Security/Privacy - Go to top

AD Blocker

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
AdGuard	Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server	SelfHost Mobile 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	Stars
2FAuth	A Web app to manage your Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) accounts and generate their security codes	SelfHost
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	Stars
Passbolt	Passbolt Community Edition (CE) API. The JSON API for the open source password manager for teams!	Cross CLI+ SelfHost Mobile Chromium Firefox
Vaultwarden	Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs	SelfHost

Server - Go to top

Arr

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
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	Stars
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	Stars
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	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
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	Stars
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
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	Stars
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

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

Note Taking

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
Blinko	An open-source, self-hosted personal AI note tool prioritizing privacy, built using TypeScript .	SelfHost
Memos	An open-source, lightweight note-taking solution. The pain-less way to create your meaningful notes. Your Notes, Your Way.	SelfHost

Office Suite

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
CryptPad	Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.	SelfHost

Proofreading

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
LanguageTool	Style and Grammar Checker for 25+ Languages	SelfHost Web

Spreadsheet

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

Wiki

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
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	Stars
Cronicle	A simple, distributed task scheduler and runner with a web based UI.	Cross CLI+ SelfHost

File Manager

Name	Description	Platform	Stars
File Browser	📂 Web File Browser	SelfHost
FileGator	Powerful Multi-User File Manager	SelfHost
Filestash	🦄 A file manager / web client for SFTP, S3, FTP, WebDAV, Git, Minio, LDAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, Mysql, Backblaze, ...	SelfHost

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 JSON file with scripts or a website?

A JSON file with scripts that generate the README(s) would make fundamental changes and reorganization far easier whilst minimizing formatting and grammatical errors. A website would provide much requested features like tag based filtering and even automation.

 

However, for the foreseeable future, the list will to be edited directly as a markdown file for one reason: to keep things simple. The current system lets me focus solely on the projects within, not how to present said projects.

 

The current markdown system could also be considered a stepping stone to guage the community's needs prior to building a more complex system. I will likely migrate to a JSON file as the project scales and when I have time to architect such a system.

 

As for the website, the complexities of web development seem unnecessary and an added pain for a task that can suffice, for now, as a markdown file. Depending on the popularity of the project, however, this idea will remain in the back of my mind.

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.

 

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