Discover Self-Hosted Alternatives to Popular Software

Self-hostable workflow automation platform combining a visual builder with JavaScript/Python code steps, 400+ integrations, and AI-assisted automation.

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Zapier+17

Ollama is a local LLM runtime that lets you pull, run, and customize models, offering a CLI and REST API for chat, generation, and embeddings.

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OpenAI API+15

Feature-rich, self-hosted AI interface that integrates Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs, offers RAG, vector DB support, image tools, RBAC and observability.

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Open WebUI Cloud+19

Excalidraw is an open-source collaborative whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn style diagrams, wireframes, and flowcharts with real-time sharing.

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Excalidraw++15

Supabase is an open source Postgres development platform providing authentication, auto-generated REST/GraphQL APIs, realtime subscriptions, edge functions, file storage,...

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Firebase+10

Immich is an open-source platform for organizing, backing up, and streaming photos and videos with web and mobile clients, searchable metadata, face clustering, and S3-co...

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Google Photos+14

Open-source platform to control smart home devices, build automations and dashboards, with broad third-party integrations and local-first privacy.

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Google Home+15

Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted uptime monitoring tool for HTTP(S), TCP, ping, DNS and more, with notifications, charts, and public status pages.

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UptimeRobot+15

Open-source peer-to-peer file synchronization with TLS encryption, no central server, and a browser-based UI.

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Resilio Sync+6

Hoppscotch Community Edition is an open-source API development and testing tool for REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, SSE, MQTT, and Socket.IO with collections and environments.

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Postman+9

Open-source, agent-based monitoring platform delivering per-second metrics, edge ML anomaly detection, tiered time-series storage and centralized cloud UI.

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Datadog Cloud Monitoring+16

code-server runs Visual Studio Code in your browser, providing a remote development environment you can self-host on a VM or container and access from any device.

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Visual Studio Code+10

LocalSend is a free, open-source app for fast, encrypted file and text sharing between nearby devices over a local network, available on desktop and mobile.

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Apple AirDrop+6

Open-source PDF platform to edit, convert, OCR, sign, redact, and automate PDF workflows via a web UI and REST API.

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Adobe Acrobat+19

Grafana is an open source observability and data visualization platform for querying, graphing, and alerting on metrics, logs, and traces across many data sources.

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Grafana Cloud+19

Open-source headless CMS for building customizable content APIs with an admin UI, supporting REST/GraphQL and multiple databases.

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Strapi Cloud+16

Apache Superset is an open-source BI platform for SQL-based data exploration, interactive dashboards, and rich visualizations with a no-code chart builder and SQL editor.

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Apache Superset (Managed Cloud)+18

reveal.js is an open source HTML presentation framework for building interactive slide decks with HTML, Markdown, and JavaScript, including speaker notes and PDF export.

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Adobe XD

Caddy is a fast, extensible Go web server and reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS (ACME), HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 support, and a JSON config API.

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Caddy Cloud+8

Open-source, privacy-focused collaborative workspace for notes, databases, kanban boards and AI-assisted writing; desktop, mobile and web clients with local-first storage...

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Notion+19

Open source, agentless automation engine for configuration management, app deployment, orchestration, and infrastructure provisioning using YAML playbooks over SSH.

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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform+4

An open source static site generator for building and maintaining documentation and project websites with Markdown/MDX, React, versioning, and i18n.

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Read the Docs+13

All-in-one, privacy-focused workspace that merges docs, whiteboards and databases with real-time collaboration and multimodal AI assistance.

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Notion+16

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and time-series database for collecting metrics, querying with PromQL, and alerting on system and application health.

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Datadog Cloud Monitoring+17

Open-source Airtable alternative that turns Postgres/MySQL/SQLite into a no-code spreadsheet UI with views, permissions, integrations, and REST APIs.

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Airtable+10

Traefik Proxy is a dynamic reverse proxy and load balancer that auto-discovers services from Docker, Kubernetes, and other providers, with HTTPS, routing, and observabili...

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Traefik Cloud+7

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage server for building private cloud storage, data lakes, and scalable storage backends for applications.

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Amazon S3+7

Memos is a lightweight, privacy-first self-hosted note-taking service with Markdown, fast search, and sharing features for personal notes, wikis, and team knowledge.

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Memos Cloud+19

Open-source Go backend providing embedded SQLite, realtime (SSE) subscriptions, auth (JWT/OAuth2), file storage, admin UI and REST-style APIs for web and mobile apps.

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PocketBase Cloud+17

Meilisearch is a lightning-fast search engine API for apps and websites, offering typo-tolerant full-text search plus vector and AI-ready hybrid retrieval.

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Algolia+16