Self-Hosted Apps Licensed AGPL-3.0

81 self-hostable apps released under AGPL-3.0 you can run on your own server — compared on specs, deployment difficulty, and the SaaS each one replaces.

2FAuth

A web-based self-hosted alternative to one-time-passcode apps like Google Authenticator, designed for both mobile and desktop: store TOTP and HOTP accounts, add them from a QR code and read the codes in a browser. Generates codes per RFC 4226 and RFC 6238, with optional encryption of sensitive data in the database. AGPL-3.0 PHP (Laravel); SQLite by default.

PHPLaravelSQLite

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Password manager

Bitwarden

The official self-hostable Bitwarden server — full vendor support and enterprise SSO. Heavier than Vaultwarden, but the right pick when you need a supported, on-prem deployment.

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Checkmate

An uptime and incident monitor with HTTP, ping, port, SSL, Docker and game-server checks, PageSpeed reports and status pages, wrapped in an unusually polished dashboard. Hardware metrics come from a separate agent called Capture rather than from the app itself.

TypeScriptNode.jsMongoDB

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Docmost

A collaborative wiki and documentation tool that positions itself as an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion: real-time co-editing, spaces, groups and permissions, comments, page history, search, attachments, and built-in Draw.io, Excalidraw, and Mermaid diagrams. The core is AGPL-3.0 and runs as one Node.js container beside PostgreSQL and Redis; Bases (databases), SSO, AI features, audit logs, and SCIM are licensed Business/Enterprise features.

TypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLRedis

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Documenso

A self-hosted DocuSign alternative: upload a PDF, place signature and form fields, send it to signers by email or a direct link, and get back a PDF sealed with your own signing certificate plus an audit log.

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DocuSeal

A self-hosted document filling and signing platform: turn PDFs into fillable forms with a WYSIWYG field builder, send them to one or more signers, and get back automatically signed PDFs with an audit log.

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Project Management

Donetick

Task and chore manager for individuals, families and small groups, with flexible recurring schedules, assignee rotation, subtasks, labels, points and natural-language task entry. Stores data in SQLite by default, with PostgreSQL as an option.

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Endurain

A self-hosted fitness tracking service: import activities from GPX, TCX and FIT files or sync them from Strava and Garmin Connect, browse them on maps with charts, and follow your own statistics. FastAPI and Vue with PostgreSQL, shipped as one application container.

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Photo backup & gallery

Ente

End-to-end encrypted photo and video backup — Ente Photos, with its self-hostable server, museum. Files and metadata are encrypted on your device before upload, and face recognition and natural-language search run on your phone or desktop rather than the server. Apps for iOS, Android, desktop and web.

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EspoCRM

An open-source CRM covering sales pipelines, marketing campaigns, and support cases, with a visual entity and relationship builder for custom modules. Ships an official Docker image with a MariaDB backend and a companion daemon container that runs background jobs like email sync and workflows.

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Personal finance

Firefly III

A powerful self-hosted personal finance manager built on double-entry accounting — budgets, rules, reports, and bank import. Serious money management, privately.

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Forms & surveys

Formbricks

An open-source survey platform for link, website and in-app surveys, with a response dashboard and integrations. The core is AGPL-3.0; enterprise features such as SSO and role management need a paid license key.

TypeScriptNext.jsPostgreSQL

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Frappe CRM

Frappe CRM is an open-source CRM built on the Frappe framework (the same platform behind ERPNext), with a Kanban deal pipeline, call and email integrations, and a low-code UI builder for custom fields and views. It installs via the frappe_docker bench pattern — a MariaDB and Redis stack alongside a container that provisions the site.

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FreeScout

A lightweight Help Scout-style shared inbox written in PHP on Laravel: mailboxes fetched over IMAP, conversations, assignments, internal notes, collision detection and mobile apps, with unlimited agents and mailboxes. The core is AGPL-3.0; tags, saved replies, workflows, a knowledge base, live chat, WhatsApp and SSO are paid modules (also AGPL-3.0, with lifetime per-instance licences).

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FreshRSS

A free, self-hosted RSS aggregator — fast, themeable, and extensible, with built-in scraping for sites that dropped their feeds. Owns your reading, ad-free.

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Personal finance

Ghostfolio

Open-source wealth management for investors — track stocks, ETFs and cryptocurrencies across brokers and exchanges in one private dashboard, with portfolio performance, allocations, benchmarks and a FIRE calculator. A mobile-first web app you can install to your home screen.

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Glance

A lightweight dashboard that puts RSS feeds, Hacker News and Reddit posts, weather, market prices, video channels and other widgets on one page, configured through a YAML file.

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Social network (Fediverse)

GoToSocial

A lightweight ActivityPub social network server written in Go that federates with Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse. It has no built-in posting client beyond a basic web view; you use a Mastodon-compatible app to post.

GoSQLitePostgreSQL

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Grafana

The standard open-source dashboarding and visualization layer for metrics, logs, and traces, querying Prometheus, Loki, and dozens of other data sources.

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HedgeDoc

A real-time collaborative Markdown editor: several people edit the same note in the browser at once, and notes can be published as read-only pages or presented as slides. Formerly known as CodiMD.

Node.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQL

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Forms & surveys

HeyForm

An open-source conversational form builder for surveys, quizzes and polls, with conditional logic, file uploads and webhooks. It runs as a Node.js app backed by MongoDB and a Redis-compatible store.

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Homebox

A home inventory and organization system for tracking items, locations, labels, warranties and receipts. It is a single Go binary with an embedded web UI and a SQLite database.

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Photo backup & gallery

Immich

Blazing-fast self-hosted photo and video backup with ML search, faces, and a great mobile app. The Google Photos killer.

TypeScriptNode.js

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InvoiceShelf

An open-source web application for creating invoices and estimates, tracking payments and managing expenses, with customers and items, taxes, recurring invoices and reports. A Laravel and Vue application; the project's Compose files run it with SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL.

PHPLaravelVueSQLite

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Karakeep

A self-hosted "bookmark-everything" app (formerly Hoarder) — links, notes, images and PDFs, crawled and full-text searchable, with optional AI tagging via OpenAI or Ollama.

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Keila

An open-source newsletter tool with a visual and Markdown campaign editor, sign-up forms, contact segments and campaign analytics. It sends through SMTP or providers such as Amazon SES, SendGrid, Mailgun and Postmark.

ElixirPhoenixPostgreSQL

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Kimai

Time tracking for freelancers and teams: timesheets against customers, projects and activities, per-user and per-project rates, time and money budgets, reports, exports and invoices, with a JSON API, SAML/LDAP login and TOTP two-factor authentication.

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Project Management

Leantime

Open-source project management platform built for non-traditional project managers and neurodivergent teams, combining task/kanban boards, Gantt-style milestones, sprints, time tracking, and a project wiki. The self-hosted AGPL-3.0 open-source edition ships the full core project-management feature set plus white-labeling, client management, and LDAP/OIDC login for free; recurring tasks, custom fields, whiteboards, AI-assisted status updates, and program/portfolio-level strategy tools are paid plugin-bundle or Pro-tier add-ons and aren't part of the free self-hosted build.

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Social network (Fediverse)

Lemmy

A Reddit-style link aggregator and discussion forum: users subscribe to communities, post links and discussions, vote and comment. Lemmy instances federate over ActivityPub, so communities can be followed from other Lemmy servers and other Fediverse software.

RustTypeScriptPostgreSQL

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LinkStack

A self-hosted link-in-bio page: each user gets a customizable profile page that lists all of their links. It is a PHP/Laravel app shipped as an Alpine-based Docker image with Apache.

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Linkwarden

A collaborative bookmark manager that saves a screenshot, PDF and single-file HTML copy of each page, with a reader view for highlights and notes, collections, tags and full-text search.

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listmonk

A self-hosted newsletter and mailing-list manager distributed as a single Go binary backed by PostgreSQL. It handles subscriber lists, campaigns, templates and transactional mail sent through your own SMTP servers.

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Grafana Loki

Grafana's log aggregation system, described by its README as "like Prometheus, but for logs": it indexes only a set of labels for each log stream, not the text of the logs, and stores compressed chunks, which keeps it simpler and cheaper to run than a full-text engine. Queried with LogQL, usually through Grafana. AGPL-3.0 Go; the image's stock config runs it as one process with filesystem storage.

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Social network (Fediverse)

Mastodon

A decentralized microblogging server built on ActivityPub. Each server runs its own community and federates with other Mastodon and Fediverse servers.

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Mattermost

A polished, Slack-style team chat you fully own — channels, threads, DMs, integrations, and a solid mobile app. The go-to self-hosted Slack replacement for teams that want their messages on their own server. The default Docker image is the Enterprise build: without a licence it runs as the free Entry edition, which keeps only the latest 10,000 channel messages. Set MATTERMOST_IMAGE=mattermost-team-edition in .env for the MIT-licensed Team Edition.

GoReactPostgreSQL

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Mealie

A self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a URL importer that scrapes recipes into clean, ad-free cards. Plan weeks and generate shopping lists.

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Media automation

MeTube

A web UI for yt-dlp: paste a link from YouTube or another supported site and it downloads the video or audio to your server, including whole playlists, channels and subscriptions.

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Monica

Monica is a personal CRM (a PRM, not a business CRM) for tracking relationships with family, friends, and other personal contacts — reminders for birthdays and calls, gift ideas, and a private journal of interactions. It self-hosts via the official Docker image with a MariaDB backend.

PHPLaravelVue.js

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File sync & storage

Nextcloud

Self-hosted file sync, sharing, calendar, and collaboration suite — the most complete Dropbox/Drive replacement.

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ONLYOFFICE Docs

An online document editor for text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and PDFs with real-time co-editing, using the Office Open XML formats (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX) natively. It has no file manager of its own and is used through an integration such as Nextcloud, Seafile or ownCloud.

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Opengist

A self-hosted pastebin powered by Git: every snippet is a Git repository you can clone and push to over HTTP or SSH, with revisions, search and embeds, as an open-source alternative to GitHub Gist.

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OpenObserve

A single Rust binary that ingests, indexes, and queries logs, metrics, traces, and frontend RUM events, with Parquet-based columnar storage for low storage cost.

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OpenPanel

An open-source web and product analytics platform that pitches itself as "the power of Mixpanel with the ease of Plausible": funnels, cohorts, user profiles, session history and replay, A/B tests, revenue tracking, real-time dashboards, and SDKs for web, iOS/Android and server-side events — cookieless. Licensed AGPL-3.0; the documented install clones a dedicated git branch, a setup quiz writes .env, and a start script brings up seven containers (Caddy, PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, API, dashboard, worker). Free to self-host with unlimited events, per its pricing page.

TypeScriptNext.jsFastifyPostgreSQLClickHouseRedis

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Forms & surveys

OpnForm

A no-code form builder with form logic, file uploads and other input types, embeds, email notifications, captcha protection, form analytics and Slack, Discord and webhook integrations. The core is AGPL-3.0 (the api/app/Enterprise directory carries its own licence); it runs as a Laravel API with a queue worker and scheduler, a Nuxt UI, PostgreSQL, Redis and an nginx ingress in front.

PHPLaravelVueNuxtPostgreSQLRedis

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VPN & Mesh Networking

Pangolin

A self-hosted tunneled reverse proxy that exposes services on your private network to the internet over WireGuard, with built-in identity, access control, and automatic SSL — and, in recent releases, client-based private access to resources as well. A self-hostable alternative to Cloudflare Tunnel that keeps the ingress on a server you own.

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Papra

A minimalist document management and archiving platform: upload, tag and full-text search documents, share them within organizations, and import them automatically from email or a watched folder, with text extraction from images and scans. Runs as a single container with an embedded SQLite database.

TypeScriptNode.jsSolidJSSQLite

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Password manager

Passbolt

A team password manager built on OpenPGP — every secret is encrypted to each user's own key and shared through folder-level permissions, so the server only ever holds ciphertext. The community edition is free to self-host; SSO, LDAP provisioning, audit logs, and password policies are pro-only.

PHPCakePHPMariaDB

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PeerTube

A self-hosted video hosting and live-streaming platform that federates with other PeerTube instances over ActivityPub. It handles uploads, transcoding, channels and playlists.

TypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLRedis

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Photo backup & gallery

PhotoPrism

Self-hosted AI-powered photo gallery in Go. Lighter on RAM than Immich, strong tagging and search.

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Project Management

Plane

Open-source project management platform for tracking work items, running sprint cycles, and managing product roadmaps. The self-hosted AGPL-3.0 Community Edition ships work items across five layouts — list, board (kanban), calendar, table, and timeline (a Gantt-equivalent) — plus cycles, modules, saved views, and wiki-style pages; some AI and enterprise capabilities shown on Plane's hosted cloud offering are gated to paid plans and aren't part of the self-hosted Community Edition.

TypeScriptPythonPostgreSQLRedis

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Plausible

Lightweight, privacy-friendly web analytics in a single dashboard — no cookies, no personal data, GDPR-friendly by default. The Google Analytics replacement you can actually read.

ElixirClickHousePostgreSQL

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Rallly

A meeting-poll tool: create a poll with candidate dates and times, share the link, and participants vote on when they are available. Sign-in uses email magic links.

TypeScriptNext.jsPostgreSQLPrisma

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Readeck

A read-it-later and bookmark archiver: paste a link and it stores the readable text and images on your server, with labels, highlights, saved-search collections, full-text search, EPUB export, an OPDS catalog, browser extensions and mobile apps. AGPL-3.0-only, written in Go; it runs as a single container with SQLite in one data volume (PostgreSQL optional).

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RomM

A ROM manager that scans your retro game library, fetches metadata and artwork from providers such as IGDB and ScreenScraper, and lets you browse, download and play supported games in the browser through EmulatorJS.

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VPN & Mesh Networking

RustDesk

An open-source remote-desktop app (a TeamViewer/AnyDesk-style tool) plus the self-hostable ID/rendezvous server (hbbs) and relay (hbbr) behind it. Running your own pair means clients register and relay through your VPS instead of RustDesk's public servers; the free OSS server has no web console, accounts or address book (those are RustDesk Server Pro).

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Rybbit

An open-source, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative that goes further than a pageview dashboard: sessions, unique users, bounce rate, real-time view, goals, retention, user journeys, funnels, session replays, custom events with JSON properties, and country → region → city maps — no cookies. Licensed AGPL-3.0 and installed by one setup script that starts Caddy, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Redis and the two app containers; it needs a domain pointed at the server because its tracking script must be served over HTTPS.

TypeScriptClickHousePostgreSQLRedis

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File sync & storage

Seafile

File sync and share built around libraries: each one syncs separately with delta transfers and resumable uploads, and any library can be encrypted on the desktop client with a password the server never stores. The Community Edition server core is AGPL-3.0 with an Apache-2.0 web UI; the Professional Edition adds full-text search, file locking, audit logs and S3 storage, and is free for up to three users.

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SearXNG

A metasearch engine that sends your query to many search services and merges the results, without tracking or profiling its users. Run a private instance for yourself or a public one for others, and choose which engines it queries.

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SFTPGo

A file transfer server that exposes local disk, S3-compatible, Google Cloud Storage or Azure Blob storage over SFTP, FTP/S, WebDAV and HTTP, with a web admin for users and a web client for uploads and share links. The Community Edition is AGPL-3.0; a commercial Enterprise Edition adds features such as antivirus scanning and in-browser document editing.

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SiYuan

A block-based personal knowledge management system: block-level references and two-way links, Markdown WYSIWYG editing, a database table view, flashcards with spaced repetition and PDF annotation, served from your own server to the browser. The user interface and Go kernel are AGPL-3.0, with notes stored as JSON files in a workspace folder you mount; the Docker build is browser-only and some member features are paid.

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Snipe-IT

An IT asset management system for tracking hardware, software licenses, accessories and consumables, and who each item is checked out to.

PHPLaravelMariaDB

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solidtime

A modern open-source time tracker for freelancers and agencies: track time against projects, tasks and clients, set billable rates per project, project member or organization, work in several organizations with roles and permissions, and import from Toggl and Clockify. A Laravel application with PostgreSQL; the self-hosting examples run an app, scheduler and queue worker plus Gotenberg.

PHPLaravelVuePostgreSQL

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Stalwart

An all-in-one, self-hosted mail server written in Rust — SMTP, IMAP, JMAP, and CalDAV/CardDAV in a single binary with a built-in admin UI. The modern, low-footprint way to run your own email instead of Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.

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SuiteCRM

SuiteCRM is a long-established open-source CRM covering sales, marketing, and customer-service modules, forked from an early SugarCRM Community Edition. It publishes no official Docker image — self-hosters commonly run the release zip on the official PHP and MariaDB Docker Library images instead.

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Swetrix

A cookieless, privacy-first Google Analytics alternative whose Community Edition bundles more than traffic: custom events, sessions and user flows, funnels, real-user performance monitoring and error tracking, with session replays available if you attach S3-compatible storage. The tracker script is under 5 KB. Licensed AGPL-3.0; the self-hosting repo's compose file runs the frontend, API, Redis and ClickHouse behind an nginx proxy. Alerts, email reports and the revenue/experiments/AI features are cloud-only.

TypeScriptNest.jsClickHouseRedis

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Synapse

The reference Matrix homeserver, maintained by Element. It hosts accounts and rooms for the Matrix protocol, which any Matrix client (such as Element) can connect to, and can federate with other Matrix servers.

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No-code database

Teable

A no-code database built on PostgreSQL: a spreadsheet-style grid with kanban, gallery, form and calendar views, real-time collaboration, automations and a REST API.

TypeScriptNestJSNext.js

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Tinyauth

The tiniest self-hosted login screen for your apps — a single small Go container that adds authentication, OAuth login, and access controls in front of Traefik, Nginx, or Caddy, and since v5 doubles as an OpenID Certified OIDC provider.

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Trilium Notes

A hierarchical note-taking app for building a personal knowledge base, with rich-text and code notes, note cloning, per-note encryption and scripting. The server edition serves a web UI and acts as the sync server for the Trilium desktop app.

TypeScriptNode.jsSQLite

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Twenty

An open-source CRM with a modern, Notion-like interface covering contacts, companies, and fully customizable sales pipelines. Positioned as an open alternative to Salesforce, with a GraphQL API and a Postgres-backed data model you can extend without code.

TypeScriptNestJSReact

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Password manager

Vaultwarden

Lightweight Rust reimplementation of the Bitwarden server that runs in 256 MB and works with every official Bitwarden client. The easiest way to self-host your passwords.

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Project Management

Vikunja

Open-source to-do and task manager for organizing work across multiple projects, with list, table, kanban, and Gantt-style views, labels, filters, reminders, and recurring tasks. The free AGPL-3.0 self-hosted build ships the full task-management feature set including SSO/LDAP login; a separate self-hosted Pro add-on layers an admin panel, audit logs, and time tracking on top as a paid upgrade and isn't part of the free build.

GoVue.jsPostgreSQL

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WBO

A free, open-source online collaborative whiteboard: draw, write and add shapes on a board that everyone with the link sees update in real time. No accounts; the server saves each board as an SVG file. Node.js with no database.

Node.jsJavaScript

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VPN & Mesh Networking

wg-easy

The easiest way to run your own WireGuard VPN server, with a clean web UI for adding and managing clients — a self-hosted alternative to Tailscale and commercial VPNs for private access to your network from anywhere.

TypeScriptNode.js

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Wiki.js

A Node.js wiki with a modern admin area, Markdown and visual (WYSIWYG) editors, and a wide set of pluggable modules — local, social, and enterprise auth (LDAP, SAML, OIDC, CAS) with optional 2FA are all part of the free AGPL-3.0 build. It brings its own web server but no database: PostgreSQL is the recommended engine, and the other supported engines are slated to be dropped in the next major version.

Node.jsVuePostgreSQL

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Workflow automation

Windmill

A code-first developer platform that turns scripts in Python, TypeScript, Go, Bash, SQL and more into webhooks, scheduled jobs, flows and internal UIs — the self-hostable alternative to Retool, Pipedream and Temporal rather than a Zapier-style connector catalogue. The core is AGPL-3.0 and the free Community Edition has no execution cap, but it is capped at 50 users and lacks SAML/SCIM, Enterprise-grade audit logs, autoscaling and the forms/prompts layer of approval steps, and the shipped CE image also contains proprietary code.

RustSveltePostgreSQL

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Social network (Fediverse)

WriteFreely

A minimalist, distraction-free blogging platform for one writer or a whole community. Blogs federate over ActivityPub, so readers on Mastodon and other Fediverse software can follow them.

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Zabbix

Enterprise-grade infrastructure monitoring covering agents, SNMP, IPMI, JMX and agentless checks, with templates, network auto-discovery, escalation-aware alerting and long-term trend storage. It is a server, a database, a PHP frontend and agents — not a single container you start and forget.

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Zammad

A full ticketing helpdesk under AGPL-3.0, owned by the Zammad Foundation and developed by Zammad GmbH: email, web form, chat widget, SMS, Telegram, WhatsApp and Facebook channels plus CTI phone integrations, with SLAs, time accounting, a knowledge base, core workflows and LDAP. The whole codebase is AGPL-3.0; Zammad GmbH sells hosting and support packages, not a paid edition.

RubyRailsPostgreSQLElasticsearch

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Zitadel

A cloud-native, open-source identity and access management platform — OIDC, SAML, and passwordless auth with multi-tenancy built in, a self-hostable alternative to Auth0 and Okta.

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Zoraxy

A general-purpose reverse proxy managed entirely from a web UI, built for homelabs: proxy rules with load balancing and basic auth, redirection rules, ACME certificates with auto-renew and DNS challenges, TCP/UDP stream proxying, country and IP allow/deny lists, plus an uptime monitor, web SSH terminal and network utilities in the same AGPL-3.0 Go binary. The admin UI listens on port 8000 and asks you to create the single admin account on first visit.

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