OpenInvento

OpenInvento is a self-hosted inventory manager designed for people and teams who want to track physical items — from household goods and homelab gear to small business stock — without renting their catalog from a SaaS provider.

It organizes items in a geographical hierarchy: inventories contain areas, areas contain shelves, shelves contain chests, and chests contain articles. Each article can carry photos, file attachments such as manuals, warranty documents, and bills, plus QR codes and barcodes for quick identification. The dashboard gives an overview of the items you track, and stock levels can be monitored per article.

Multiple users can share one inventory, a user can belong to several inventories, and administrators manage accounts from a settings screen. Public signup is disabled by default, and email confirmation can be switched on or off per deployment.

Compared to proprietary inventory apps like Sortly or Asset Panda, OpenInvento runs entirely on your own machine as a single Docker container, with all data stored in a local volume you control — no subscription, no location or item limits. It is source-available under the PolyForm Shield license and free for personal, educational, and non-commercial use.