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20 self-hosted Umbrel alternatives

Umbrel Cloud is the hosted/cloud variant of Umbrel, providing managed remote personal server instances and a web dashboard to deploy and run self-hosted apps (Bitcoin/Lightning nodes, file storage, media, productivity tools) without maintaining local hardware.

Alternatives to Umbrel

Open-source personal cloud system with a web dashboard, app store, and file management to run and manage Docker apps on home servers and SBCs.

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37.1k stars2.2k forksApache-2.0last commit Slowing down

Dockge is a self-hosted, stack-oriented manager for Docker Compose files, providing a responsive web UI to edit, deploy, update, and monitor compose.yaml stacks.

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24.2k stars816 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

umbrelOS is a home server operating system that lets you self-host popular apps via a built-in app store, with one-click installs on Raspberry Pi, x86, or Umbrel Home.

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11.8k stars784 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Runtipi is a homeserver orchestrator with a web interface and app store for one-click installation and management of self-hosted services using Docker.

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9.6k stars365 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Runtipi is a personal homeserver platform that lets you install and manage self-hosted apps with one-click installs, powered by Docker and a simple web UI.

9.6k stars365 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Arcane is a modern web interface for Docker management, providing an approachable UI to deploy, manage, and monitor containers and Docker Compose stacks.

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7.2k stars290 forksBSD-3-Clauselast commit Actively maintained

Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite that lets you install, run, and securely share many web apps with unified access control and sandboxing.

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7.1k stars713 forkslast commit Actively maintained

DietPi is an ultra-lightweight Debian-based OS for SBCs and small servers, featuring menu-driven system configuration and an optimized one-command software installer.

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6.2k stars565 forksGPL-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Cosmos Cloud is a security-focused self-hosting platform that provides an app store, reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS, SSO/MFA, container management, backups, and monitoring.

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6.1k stars250 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Ansible-NAS is an Ansible playbook collection that turns an Ubuntu server into a NAS-style home server by deploying and configuring many self-hosted apps via Docker.

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3.8k stars514 forksMITlast commit Slowing down

Open-source Debian-based OS and control panel that simplifies installing, managing and securing web apps, mail and services via a web admin and app catalog.

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3k stars351 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Websoft9 is a web-based Linux panel and lightweight PaaS for deploying, running, and operating hundreds of open-source applications on your own server.

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2.1k stars321 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Open source Linux server OS with a web UI and marketplace for installing, configuring, monitoring, and backing up self-hosted services.

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2k stars194 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Manage Caddy 2 servers from a modern web dashboard with Caddyfile editing, authentication, audit logs, API keys, and SQLite or MongoDB storage.

1.1k stars45 forkslast commit Slowing down

DweebUI is a lightweight Web UI for managing containers with a live-updating metrics dashboard, Docker Compose support, and multi-user permissions.

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1.1k stars57 forksMITlast commit Likely dormant

NixOS distribution of modular 'blocks' that standardize and test server services, offering backups, ZFS datasets, LDAP/SSO, monitoring, reverse proxy, and certificate management.

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494 stars19 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Syncloud is a self-hosted personal cloud platform that installs and manages curated applications via snaps, offering device images and a Vue-based web UI for private on-prem app hosting.

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433 stars47 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

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A collection of Ansible roles and CLI utilities to install, configure and maintain self-hosted network services (Nextcloud, Matrix, Jitsi, PostgreSQL, WireGuard) on Debian-based hosts.

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405 stars33 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Lightweight control panel to start, stop, restart and view logs for apps running in Docker, systemd, VMs or remote hosts via SSH. Configured with YAML and no database required.

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214 stars7 forksMITlast commit Slowing down

Integrated installer and platform for home infrastructure. Provides VPN relay for NAT traversal, preconfigured email, automatic HTTPS, reverse proxy, and a web management utility.

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69 stars7 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

What replacing Umbrel actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 15 of 20 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0, MIT, GPL-3.0, BSD-3-Clause, GPL-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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