Trending Software for Self-Hosting

The to-do app to organize your life.

Gotenberg is a Docker-based API for converting documents to PDF.

OpenProject is a web-based open source project management platform for teams and organizations.

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server.

copyparty turns almost any device into a file server with resumable uploads and downloads through a web browser and several file-transfer protocols.

RSSHub is a large open source RSS network that aggregates content from many sources into RSS feeds.

Collaborative wiki and documentation software (alternative to Confluence, Notion).

Open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software.

ArchiveBox is a self-hosted web archiving tool that preserves websites and other online content in durable, machine-readable formats.

Logseq is an open-source knowledge management and collaboration platform for notes, tasks, PDF annotation, and organizing information.

Hister is a private search engine that indexes the full contents of web pages and local files for searching via web, terminal, and MCP clients.

Appwrite is an open-source development platform that provides backend infrastructure, authentication, databases, storage, functions, messaging, and web hosting in one place.

ActivityWatch is a privacy-focused time tracking and lifelogging tool that records application, browser, and activity data on the user's local machine.

authentik is an open-source identity provider for modern SSO that supports SAML, OAuth2/OIDC, LDAP, RADIUS, and related identity management use cases.

An automation tower defense RTS written in Java.

An open-source weather API providing free non-commercial access to forecasts, historical weather, marine, air quality, geocoding, elevation, and flood data.

Documenso is an open-source, self-hostable document-signing tool positioned as an alternative to DocuSign.

Linkwarden is a self-hosted, open-source collaborative bookmark manager for collecting, reading, annotating, and preserving webpages.

Chatbox is a desktop AI copilot and chat client for ChatGPT, Claude, and other LLM providers on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Tailcat is a userspace CLI and Go library that provides netcat-like connections, port forwarding, SSH, SOCKS5, and exit-node tunneling over Tailscale’s encrypted data plane without using Tailscale’s control plane.

OctoBot is an open source cryptocurrency trading bot with a visual interface for automating strategies, backtesting, paper trading, and live exchange execution.

A simple OIDC provider that lets users authenticate to services with passkeys.

Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine, scalable data store, and vector database for production-scale workloads.

Apache Airflow is a platform for programmatically authoring, scheduling, and monitoring workflows.

Penguin Mail is a Linux mail and calendar app written in Rust that supports Gmail, Microsoft, IMAP, POP3, contacts, calendars, and message security features.

MediaMTX is a ready-to-use real-time media server and media proxy for publishing, reading, proxying, recording, and playing back video and audio streams.

CyberChef is a client-side web app for performing a wide range of encoding, decoding, encryption, parsing, and data transformation tasks in the browser.

An open source authoritative and recursive DNS server for self-hosting private, secure DNS with a web console.

Seerr is a free and open source application for managing media library requests and integrating with services like Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, Sonarr, and Radarr.

Sentry is a debugging platform that helps developers detect, trace, and fix issues.

Downtify is a self-hosted web app for downloading Spotify music links into tagged audio files.

Thingport is a self-hosted personal 3D model library for collecting, organizing, previewing, and managing 3D printing models.

InvoicePlane is a self-hosted web application for managing invoices, clients, quotes, projects, tasks, and payments.

Markdown-native task manager and Kanban visualizer for any Git repository.

A Docker-based Nginx reverse proxy manager with a web admin interface for forwarding hosts and managing SSL certificates.

PicoClaw is a lightweight personal AI assistant written in Go, designed to run on very low-memory Linux hardware and offer MCP-enabled assistant workflows.

Homarr is a customizable self-hosted dashboard for organizing and accessing self-hosted applications and services.

Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 devices with local control, web UI configuration, OTA updates, and automation.

Continue is an open-source coding agent available as a CLI, VS Code extension, and JetBrains plugin.

Kaneo is a self-hosted project management platform with a clean, fast interface.

A free and open source machine translation API that is entirely self-hosted.

An open-source, self-hosted training tracker with an AI coach for logging workouts, tracking progress, and generating evidence-based debriefs and programs.

Firefly III is a self-hosted personal finance manager for tracking income, expenses, budgets, and reports.

Open Terminal is a self-hosted terminal service for AI agents and automation tools that provides command execution, file management, and code running through a REST API.

Windmill is an open-source developer platform for building APIs, background jobs, workflows, and internal UIs, with autogenerated forms and low-code app building.

Gatus is a developer-oriented health dashboard for monitoring services with health checks and alerting.

NGINX is a high-performance web server, reverse proxy, load balancer, API gateway, and content cache.

Composable open-source payments infrastructure for routing, retries, vaulting, reconciliation, and payment-method support.