Open Source Software Alternatives
Browse free, self-hostable alternatives to popular proprietary tools.

Omnara
Open-source managed agent platform for running AI agents on any model and any machine, self-hostable via Docker.
Claude Managed Agents
Apache Answer
Open-source Q&A platform for communities, help centers, and internal team knowledge bases, with voting, reputation, and a plugin system.
Stack OverflowKadō
A privacy-first open source habit tracker for iPhone and iPad with a non-binary habit score, optional iCloud sync, and no account or subscription.
Streaks
Monbooru
Self-hosted, booru-style gallery that tags, searches and deduplicates a local image, video and comic collection.
Google Photos
Tropy
Desktop app for organising, describing and annotating photographs of archival research material.
DEVONthink
Grimmory
Self-hosted library for ebooks, comics, and audiobooks with built-in readers, metadata lookup, and Kobo and OPDS sync.
Ubooquity
Ticker
Terminal-based stock, crypto, and derivatives watcher for live quotes and portfolio positions.
Helix
Self-hosted music player with Pandora-style stations, shared listening lobbies, and playlist imports, built on a Subsonic-compatible library.
Spotify
Frappe CRM
Open source CRM with unlimited users, built by the Frappe team for lead, deal and sales pipeline management.
HubSpot
Flex
Offline-first workout tracker for strength training and cardio with progress graphs, background rest timers and a local database.
Hevy
Concrete CMS
Self-hosted PHP CMS with in-context page editing, drag-and-drop blocks, granular permissions and a marketplace of themes and add-ons. MIT licensed.

SafeBucket
Self-hosted file sharing platform with direct S3 uploads, SSO, and role-based access control.
Dropbox
RomM
A beautiful, self-hosted ROM manager and player for your retro game collection, with rich metadata and in-browser emulation.

Stash
Self-hosted media organizer and server that tags, scrapes metadata for, and streams your video and image collection, including NSFW content.
Plex
Upvote RSS
Self-hosted PHP app that turns Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, Lobsters, PieFed, Mbin and GitHub into filtered RSS feeds of their most popular posts.
RSS.app
Transmission
Lightweight open source BitTorrent client with native desktop apps, a headless daemon and a built-in web UI.
µTorrent
Dayflow
AI-powered Mac app that privately turns your screen activity into an automatic work journal and daily timeline.
RescueTime
BetterShift
Self-hosted shift management for teams: unlimited calendars, one-click shifts, sharing, external calendar sync, and ICS/PDF export.
Sling
Rune
A fast, keyboard-driven, GPU-rendered IDE for macOS and Linux with terminals, LSP intelligence, debugging, and a built-in AI coding agent.
Cursor
Compositor
Compositor is a free, open-source Photoshop-style image editor built in Swift, native to macOS.
Adobe Photoshop
Floppy
Self-hosted all-in-one media tracker and Trakt alternative for movies, TV, anime, books, games, music, and podcasts.

Drift
Free, open-source desktop video editor for Linux, Windows, and macOS built with Qt 6 and FFmpeg.

Norish
Realtime, self-hosted recipe app for households: import recipes from anywhere, plan meals, share groceries and cook together.
Paprika Recipe Manager
celld
Open-source daemon that runs Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects on your own machines, with state stored in an S3-compatible bucket.

Pad
Local-first project management for developers and AI agents, with a CLI, web UI, SQLite backend, and native skills for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and more.
Linear
ODict
An open-source dictionary file format and toolchain with instant offline lookups, full-text search, and APIs for Rust, Python, and JavaScript.
Babylon
Yuzic
A free, open-source cross-platform music player for Navidrome, Jellyfin, Plex and other Subsonic-compatible servers.
Spotify
Cloudreve
Self-hosted file management and sharing platform that unifies local disk and multiple cloud storage providers behind one web interface.
Dropbox
BookStack
Open source wiki and documentation platform with a books/shelves/pages model — a simple, self-hostable alternative to Confluence and Notion.

Tiny Tiny RSS
Long-running self-hosted RSS/Atom feed reader and aggregator, originally created in 2005 and now maintained at github.com/tt-rss/tt-rss.
Feedly
Maxun
Open-source no-code platform for web scraping, crawling, monitoring and AI data extraction.
Firecrawl
VoiceStudio
Fully local voice cloning, dubbing, dictation, and transcription in one desktop app - an open-source ElevenLabs replacement.
ElevenLabsmail-archiver
Self-hosted web app for archiving, searching, and exporting email from multiple IMAP accounts with migration support.
Mimecast
OpenArchiver
Self-hostable open source email archiving platform for compliance, retention, legal hold, and full-text search.
MimecastLiwan
A lightweight, privacy-first web analytics platform written in Rust. No cookies, no database, under 1KB tracking script.
Google Analytics
Atomic CRM
Open source CRM built with React, Supabase, and shadcn/ui for contacts, deals, tasks, notes, and email capture.
Salesforce
Securo
Open-source self-hosted personal finance manager with bank sync, multi-currency budgets, investments, splits, and an optional self-hosted AI assistant.
MintInbucket
Open source disposable email testing server with built-in SMTP, POP3, REST, and web interfaces — no database required.
Mailtrapwebtrees
Self-hostable web-based genealogy application that turns GEDCOM files into collaborative family tree websites.
Ancestry.com
Gramps
Open source desktop genealogy program for building and exploring detailed family trees with full local data control.
Family Tree Maker
PeerBrush
Open-source desktop image editor where you and MCP-connected AI agents edit the same layered PSD project side by side.
Adobe Photoshop
KetchUp3D
Free, open-source SketchUp alternative for 3D woodworking and furniture design, in the browser or on desktop.
SketchUp
RunWisp
Single-binary cron job manager and process supervisor with a web dashboard, terminal UI, run history, and failure alerts.
Cron
Dashloom
Self-hosted product intelligence workspace that unifies traffic, revenue, and infrastructure metrics with BYOK AI agents and reports.
DataboxApp Store Screenshots Generator
An open-source AI agent skill that builds a local Next.js editor for App Store and Google Play screenshots with device frames and store-size exports.
AppScreens
cronstable
Container-friendly, leader-electing, fault-tolerant cron replacement with a built-in web dashboard, DAG orchestration, and durable state.

Obscura VPN
Open-source two-party VPN that cryptographically prevents both Obscura and its exit hop from seeing your traffic.

Pinry
Self-hosted tiling image board for saving, tagging, and sharing images, videos, and webpages.
LicenseTrack
Self-hosted software license procurement and lifecycle tracking: requests, quotes, purchases, renewals, vendors, documents, and audit history.
Flexera One
Isso
A lightweight, self-hosted commenting server written in Python and JavaScript, built as a drop-in replacement for Disqus.
Disqus
Langflow
Visually build and deploy AI agents and workflows in Python, with built-in API and MCP servers. MIT-licensed and backed by DataStax.
Lindy AI