Best Open Source Personal Cloud in 2026

Self-hosted cloud solutions for storing, syncing, and accessing personal files and data from anywhere.

The most popular pick this year is OpenCloud with 5,438 GitHub stars, but all 3 options below are worth considering depending on your needs.

3 open source personal cloud — ranked by GitHub stars. Browse all

OpenCloud

Open source platform for file management, sharing, and collaboration — simple and self-hostable.

Alternative to:

Google Drive

Olares

Olares: An Open-Source Personal Cloud to Reclaim Your Data

Alternative to:

Microsoft Azure

Foldergram

A self-hosted, Instagram-style photo and video gallery that serves your local folders as a beautiful feed.

Alternative to:

Google Photos

How we rank these tools

Tools are ranked by GitHub stars as a proxy for community adoption and trust. Stars reflect how many developers found a project valuable enough to bookmark — a reasonable signal for quality in the open source world. We only list tools that are actively maintained and open source.

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