Best Self-hosted Media & Smart Home tools in 2026

Fladder is a cross-platform Jellyfin client that streams, transcodes, and downloads media for offline playback, with profile switching, library management, and adaptive UI.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Infuse Pro+5

Gonic is a lightweight, self-hosted Subsonic API server for streaming your music library with transcoding, playlists, podcasts support, and multi-user access.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+10

Kyoo is a self-hosted video-focused media server for movies, TV series, and anime, with automatic library scanning, transcoding, and modern web/mobile clients.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+5

Self-hosted statistics app for Jellyfin, providing session monitoring, watch history, and user/library analytics with backup and autosync support.

MITActively maintained

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Tautulli+2

Spooty is a self-hosted Spotify downloader that fetches metadata from Spotify links and downloads matching audio from YouTube, with playlist/artist subscriptions.

MITActively maintained

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Spotify+4

Self-hosted Node.js music streaming server with web and mobile clients; supports FLAC/MP3, playlists, gapless playback and visualizer.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+8

Reiverr is a combined interface for TMDB discovery plus integrations with Jellyfin, Radarr, and Sonarr, aiming to replace Overseerr with a plugin-based playback system.

AGPL-3.0Likely dormant

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Overseerr+2

PiGallery2 is a fast, read-only, directory-first web photo gallery with search, maps, sharing links, and optional video playback, optimized for Raspberry Pi-class hardware.

MITActively maintained

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Google Photos+14

SoulSync automates music discovery, playlist curation, downloads, and library organization, syncing results to media servers like Plex, Jellyfin, and Navidrome.

MITActively maintained

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Spotify+8

Self-hosted service to centralize, manage, and play your DRM-free and emulation game library across desktop and web clients, with automatic scanning and metadata.

Swing Music is a fast, self-hosted web music player and streaming server for your local audio files, with playlists, search, stats, and multi-user support.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Spotify+14

uStreamer is a lightweight, fast MJPEG-over-HTTP streamer for V4L2 capture devices, optimized for high-FPS HDMI/VGA capture and PiKVM-style KVM over IP use.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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AXIS Camera Station

Podsync turns YouTube or Vimeo channels and playlists into podcast RSS feeds, with scheduled updates, filtering, and optional audio transcoding for podcast apps.

MITActively maintained

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YouTube

Self-hosted personal photo gallery for uploading, organizing, and browsing photos with albums, EXIF parsing, geolocation map view, and Live/Motion Photo support.

MITActively maintained

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Google Photos+13

Open-source 3D printing platform to remotely monitor and control printers, stream webcams, send alerts, and detect print failures with AI.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Obico Cloud (formerly The Spaghetti Detective)

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

Actively maintained

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ThingsBoard Cloud+13

Explo is a self-hosted music discovery tool that uses ListenBrainz recommendations to fetch personalized playlists, download tracks, and add them to your media server library.

MITActively maintained

Alternative to:

Spotify+4

Fluidd is a lightweight, responsive web UI for Klipper that lets you manage prints, configure firmware, monitor hardware, and control multiple 3D printers via Moonraker.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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OctoPrint+1

Maloja is a self-hosted music scrobble database that tracks listens and generates personal charts and listening statistics via a web UI and API.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Last.fm+3

Self-hosted web app that indexes videos with AI (transcription, vision analysis, embeddings) to enable natural-language search and scene export.

Actively maintained

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Vimeo+5

Self-hosted photo management system for large folder-based libraries with fast full-text search, metadata indexing, and on-device face/object detection.

GPL-3.0Slowing down

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Google Photos+9

Open-source music server that streams local libraries, internet radio, and streaming services to Squeezebox hardware and software players like Squeezelite.

Actively maintained

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Roon+12

Open-source C++ music server with web UI, Subsonic API, audio transcoding, recommendations, multi-library support and playlists/lyrics features.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+11

Open-source lightweight music server offering web-based streaming, tagging, recommendations, Subsonic API compatibility and audio transcoding for personal music collections.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+9

Immich Kiosk is a lightweight, highly configurable slideshow web app that displays assets from an Immich server on kiosk devices and browsers.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Aura Frames+5

Openreads is a privacy-oriented Flutter app for Android and iOS to track books you’ve read, are reading, want to read, or didn’t finish, with tags, stats, and CSV import/export.

GPL-2.0Slowing down

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Goodreads+4

Web app for synchronized group watching: per-channel playlists, real-time chat, moderation, and multi-source media playback.

Slowing down

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Watch2Gether

Open-source self-hosted image sharing app with multi-format uploads, nested tags, deduplication, ShareX support, and Docker deployment.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Imgur+13

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

ISCActively maintained

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PlayOn Cloud+2

WatchState is a self-hosted service that synchronizes watch progress and play state between Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby, with backups, webhooks, and parity checks.

MITActively maintained

Alternative to:

Plex+1