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

Piwigo
Open-source photo gallery and management software for individuals and teams.
Google Photos
Nextcloud
The most popular self-hosted cloud platform for file storage, collaboration, and communication.
Google Drive
Recordly
Recordly is an open-source screen recorder and editor with auto-zoom, webcam overlays, smooth cursor animations, and one-click shareable video hosting for product teams.

LibreOffice
A powerful free and open source office suite with word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and more.
Microsoft 365
Ladybird
A truly independent web browser built from scratch, with no Chromium, WebKit, or Gecko code.
Google Chrome
Linkwarden
Linkwarden is an open-source, self-hostable bookmark manager for collecting, reading, annotating, and preserving web content.
Raindrop
Healthchecks
Open-source cron job and background task monitoring service, written in Python & Django
Pingdom
Headscale
Headscale is an open-source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server. Build your own private WireGuard mesh VPN without a vendor lock-in.
ExpressVPN
Haven
Self-hostable private blogging
WordPress
Lychee
Self-hosted photo and video gallery for uploading, organizing, and sharing your library.
Google PhotosLunalytics
Lunalytics is an open-source, self-hosted monitoring tool built with Node.js and React that supports HTTP(S), TCP, ping, Docker, and more. It offers customizable dashboards, status pages, incident management, multi-user access control, and integrations with popular notification services, making it a modern, developer-friendly solution for monitoring uptime and system health.
UptimeRobot
Jitsi Meet
Jitsi Meet is a free, secure, open-source video conferencing platform you can use in the browser or self-host. No account is required to join, share, or record any meeting at all.
Google Meet
Grist
Open-source spreadsheet-database hybrid with flexible relational data modeling.
Google Sheets
LimeSurvey
Powerful open-source online survey platform used by millions worldwide.
Google Forms
Insomnia
The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.
Listmonk
High performance, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard. Single binary app.
Mailchimp
Kaneo
Open source project management with kanban boards, issue tracking, time tracking, and a self-hosted single-container install.
Jira
Journiv
Self-hosted private journaling app with end-to-end encryption and a clean interface.
Day One
Linkding
Minimal, fast, self-hosted bookmark manager with tagging, full-text search, and a clean web UI designed for easy Docker deployment.
Pinboard
LinkAce
Self-hosted archive and bookmark manager built with Laravel, featuring automatic archiving, monitoring for dead links, and list organization.
Pinboard
Krayin CRM
A free and open-source Laravel CRM for SMEs and enterprises with full customer lifecycle management.
HubSpot
KillerPDF
KillerPDF is a lightweight, fully portable PDF editor for Windows. Edit, merge, annotate, and sign PDFs locally with no subscription, accounts, or hidden telemetry anywhere on your computer.
Adobe Acrobat
Karakeep
Self-hostable bookmark-everything app with AI-based automatic tagging, full-text search, and support for links, notes, and images.
Pocket
Home Assistant
Open-source home automation platform that puts local control and privacy first — integrate thousands of smart home devices.

Journal
Journal is a simple self-hosted journal and blog API written in Go, using SQLite for storage. Build custom clients, capture daily entries, and own your writing on your own server.
Day One
NOMAD
Self-hosted, real-time collaborative travel planner with itineraries, maps, budgets, and packing lists.
Wanderlog
Monica
Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and business relationships.
Clay
Plausible
Privacy-first, open-source web analytics with a cookieless script under 1 KB and EU hosting — a simpler Google Analytics alternative.
Google Analytics
OpenPanel
Openpanel is an open-source web and product analytics platform that combines the power of Mixpanel with the ease of Plausible and one of the best Google Analytics replacements.
Mixpanel
Prisme Analytics
High-perfomance, self-hosted and privacy-focused web analytics service.
Google Analytics
Mattermost
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..
Discord
OpenKnowledge
AI-native, local-first markdown editor and LLM wiki with built-in integrations for Claude, Codex, and other agents.

AltTab
Free, open-source macOS window switcher with Windows-style Alt-Tab and live previews of every window.
Contexts
Kestra
Event-driven workflow orchestration platform with a YAML-based pipeline DSL, 500+ plugins, and a built-in UI editor.
Zapier
Pangolin
Self-hosted identity-aware reverse proxy that securely exposes private services via encrypted tunnels without opening inbound ports.
Cloudflare
Medusa
The world's most flexible commerce platform.

Olares
Olares is an open-source personal cloud OS to help you reclaim your data. Self-host apps, files, and AI services right on your own hardware with ease.
Microsoft Azure
Paperless-ngx
Self-hosted document management system with OCR, full-text search, and automatic tagging for your paper documents.
Google Drive
Open Web Analytics
Self-hosted web analytics platform for tracking website traffic without compromising user privacy.
Google Analytics
Owncast
Self-hosted live video streaming server with built-in chat and Fediverse integration.
YouTube
Twenty
An open-source, code-first CRM you can customize, version, and self-host — an alternative to Salesforce and HubSpot.
Salesforce
OhMyForm
Open-source form builder for creating beautiful, mobile-friendly forms and surveys.
Google Forms
OpenCode
Open-source AI coding agent with a terminal UI, desktop and web apps, bring-your-own models, agents, plugins, and MCP support.

Scrob
Self-hosted media tracker that syncs your Jellyfin, Plex, or Emby libraries, tracks watch history, ratings, and lists — your own private Letterboxd + Trakt.

Mindustry
Open source automation tower defense RTS — build factories, mine resources, and defend your core against waves of enemies.
Factorio
Mautic
Open-source marketing automation platform with email campaigns, lead management, and multi-channel marketing.
HubSpot
Pi-hole
Network-wide DNS-based ad blocking that protects all devices on your network, including Smart TVs and IoT devices.

Penpot
Open-source design and prototyping platform with native design tokens, real CSS layouts and self-hosting — a strong Figma alternative.
Figma
Navidrome
Modern, lightweight self-hosted music server compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic clients — stream your music everywhere.
Spotify
NoteDiscovery
A self-hosted knowledge base for note-taking with markdown support, Zettelkasten methodology, and Docker deployment.

Mumble
Low-latency, open-source voice chat built for gaming — self-host your own server with no subscription required.
Discord