Best Self-hosted Media & Smart Home tools in 2026

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

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Tautulli+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 hardwar...

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Google Photos+14

Self-hosted media tracker to manage movies, TV shows, anime, manga, video games, and books with history, lists, calendar, imports, and multi-user support.

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Trakt+6

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.

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Overseerr+2

Self-hosted IPTV channel builder that turns your Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby libraries into scheduled live TV streams with an HDHomeRun-style tuner, M3U, and web guide.

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Channels DVR+2

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.

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AXIS Camera Station

Self-hosted server for comics, manga, and digital books with a built-in web UI, OPDS catalog support, and a REST API for library browsing and reading.

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Comixology+7

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

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YouTube

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

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Infuse Pro+5

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

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Obico Cloud (formerly The Spaghetti Detective)

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.

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Spotify+14

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

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Google Photos+9

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.

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OctoPrint+1

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.

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

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

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Roon+12

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

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Google Photos+13

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

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Last.fm+3

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

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Watch2Gether

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

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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 collectio...

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Plex+9

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/...

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Goodreads+4

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

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Imgur+13

Mylar3 is an automated comic book (CBR/CBZ) downloader and post-processor for NZB and torrent clients, with watchlists, pull lists, and metadata tagging.

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CLZ Comics (Collectorz)+1

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

Self-hosted music library manager that unifies local and streaming sources and streams to many player ecosystems with Home Assistant integration.

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Sonos+12

Gerbera is an open source UPnP/DLNA media server that streams your music, photos, and videos to compatible devices on your home network, with a web UI and optional transc...

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Serviio+6

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

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Aura Frames+5

Open-source AI camera monitoring that routes camera streams through a relay/node proxy and broadcasts frames to federated AI workers for detections, summaries, and alerts...

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Blue Iris+10

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

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Plex+1