Best Self-hosted Automation & Workflow Builders (Low-code) tools in 2026

Self-hosted controller that automates Cloudflare Tunnels, DNS records, and Access policies using Docker labels, with a web UI and optional multi-server agents.

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Cloudflare Tunnel

Recyclarr is a command-line tool that automatically synchronizes TRaSH Guides quality profiles, custom formats, naming formats, and quality definitions to Sonarr and Rada...

Open-source, self-hosted feature flag management platform with progressive rollouts, targeting rules, A/B testing, audit logs, and APIs for automated releases.

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LaunchDarkly+4

OpenRemote is a 100% open-source IoT platform for device management, data dashboards, and automation with rules, APIs, and multi-tenant user management.

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ThingsBoard Cloud+13

Maintainerr is a self-hosted maintenance tool for Plex libraries that uses rules and integrations (Plex, *arr, Seerr, Tautulli) to find and remove unwanted media.

Sync AdGuard Home settings, filters, rewrites, DHCP/DNS config, and clients from an origin instance to one or more replicas on a schedule or on demand.

Open-source low-code platform to build internal tools and customer-facing web apps with a visual UI builder, reusable modules, data-source connectors, and RBAC.

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Retool+13

Hypersomnia is a community-driven multiplayer top-down shooter built in modern C++ without a game engine, featuring deterministic netcode and an in-game map editor.

Self-hosted automation tool for qBittorrent to tag and categorize torrents, enforce share limits, clean up orphaned data, and remove unregistered torrents.

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FileFlows Cloud

µTask is a lightweight automation engine for cloud workflows modeled in YAML, backed by PostgreSQL, with extensible Go-based actions.

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Microsoft Power Automate+11

Open source IoT integration and automation platform with an adapter ecosystem, centralized state database, and tools for visualization and data logging.

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Samsung SmartThings+18

Daemon that monitors download folders and Radarr/Sonarr/Lidarr/Readarr to automatically extract archives, move files for import, and remove extracted artifacts.

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WinRAR+3

Self-hosted web app to monitor Docker images and automate container updates across one or multiple hosts, with scheduling, per-container policies, and notifications.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+8

Kottster is an open-source, self-hosted Node.js admin panel that generates table views, dashboards, and custom pages on top of your existing database.

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Retool+5

Developer-first platform for durable workflow automation and orchestration, with code-based workflows, triggers, integrations, and API-first execution.

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Zapier+15

SuggestArr automatically requests recommended movies, TV shows, and anime in Jellyseerr/Overseerr based on what you recently watched in Jellyfin, Plex, or Emby.

Automates purchase order ingestion, validation, and ERP posting for distributors, manufacturers and wholesalers using AI-driven item matching and configurable workflows.

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Microsoft Power Automate+8

Open-source platform for guided web interviews that collect user input, run logic, and generate documents (PDF, DOCX, RTF) or integrate with external services via APIs.

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Formstack+19

Self-hosted web app to auto-download YouTube channels, organize media with metadata, and schedule downloads for Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and Kodi.

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PlayOn Cloud+2

Open-source onboarding platform to provision accounts, run preboarding, to-dos, resources, courses, and badges via Slack or a dashboard.

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Sapling (Kallidus)+2

Notifiarr is a unified client that delivers configurable notifications, health checks, and automation for homelab apps like Plex and the *Arr stack via Discord.

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Healthchecks.io+8

Open source Typeform-style multi-step forms and surveys built with a JavaScript library, featuring conditional logic, theming, localization, and flexible submission endpo...

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Fillout+2

Self-hostable Wake-on-LAN utility to send magic packets via CLI or a simple web UI, with named device profiles and optional status checks.

GoMFT is a web-based managed file transfer (MFT) app that uses rclone to schedule, run, and monitor transfers across cloud and on-prem storage providers.

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MOVEit Transfer+9

Decypharr provides a qBittorrent-compatible API and web UI for managing torrents via multiple debrid providers, designed to work with Sonarr/Radarr and other *Arr apps.

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Real-Debrid+5

Monitors Plex watchlists in real time and automates requests to Sonarr and Radarr with routing rules, approvals, quotas, and notifications.

FTPGrab is a Go-based CLI and Dockerized scheduler that periodically downloads files from remote FTP/SFTP servers to your NAS, server, or computer with filtering and noti...

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GoodSync+1

Configarr syncs TRaSH Guides and custom YAML configurations to Sonarr/Radarr (and experimental Arr apps) to automate custom formats, profiles, and settings.

REI3 is an open-source low-code platform to build multi-user business applications with forms, workflows, access controls, integrations, and self-hosted deployment option...

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Microsoft Power Apps+19

Industrial low-code platform that extends Node-RED with an LLM-powered copilot, collaborative flow development, remote edge deployment, CI/CD and AI-assisted data transfo...

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Microsoft Power Automate+9