Best Self-hosted Media & Smart Home tools in 2026

moOde Audio is a Raspberry Pi music player and streamer with a responsive WebUI, MPD-based playback, multiroom audio, and support for popular network renderers and output...

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Volumio Premium (MyVolumio)+5

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

Picsur is a self-hosted Imgur-like image sharing service with anonymous and authenticated uploads, roles/permissions, expiring images, and built-in image conversion/editi...

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Imgur+5

Self-hosted web application that discovers and automatically downloads TV shows and movies using Jackett for search and Transmission for torrent downloading, with optiona...

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Ombi (Hosted)

Open source weather station software that collects sensor data, stores it in a database, generates reports/graphs, and publishes updates to websites and services.

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Ambient Weather Network+2

Beatbump is a privacy-respecting alternative frontend for YouTube Music with ad-free audio playback, search, local playlists, and PWA support.

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Spotify+5

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

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Vimeo+5

Lightweight OwnTracks location data recorder that ingests MQTT/HTTP publishes, stores them locally without an external DB, and exposes a REST/WebSocket API and web UI.

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Life360+1

openHAB is a Java-based, modular open-source smart home platform providing a rules engine, extensible add-ons, multi-protocol device integration and mobile/web UIs.

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Samsung SmartThings+15

bewCloud is a modern, lightweight alternative to Nextcloud/ownCloud for managing files, photos, notes and news in a simple web interface.

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Google Drive+19

Self-hosted open-source web gallery for personal photos and videos with tagging, mobile-friendly UI, face detection, and reverse image search for discovery.

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Google Photos+14

Gossa is a lightweight Go web server for browsing, uploading, and streaming files from a directory with a simple, fast UI and optional PWA support.

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FileBrowser+10

Open-source self-hosted music server for collectors with flexible metadata parsing, multiple releases/versions support, music-video handling and Docker deployment.

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Plex+9

Self-host game clips and videos, organize them into a library, and share via unique watch links with optional public feed and uploads.

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Loom+19

Administrative web interface for managing, monitoring, and updating Tasmota-flashed IoT devices, including device discovery, bulk actions, and OTA firmware updates.

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SONOFF Cloud (eWeLink)+13

Sigal is a lightweight Python static gallery generator that builds responsive image galleries with themes, thumbnails, EXIF and video support, plus CLI tools to build and...

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Adobe Portfolio+11

Self-hosted platform to archive Twitch VODs and live streams with real-time chat playback, rendered chat exports, playlists, and channel watching automation.

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PlayOn Cloud+2

Open-source radio broadcast and automation platform with scheduling, library management, live broadcasting and playout integration (Icecast, Liquidsoap).

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Airtime Pro+6

Open-source PHP-based image and video hosting platform for building Imgur/Flickr-style sites with S3/external storage, Docker support, multi-user accounts and admin tools...

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Imgur+8

Self-hosted scrobbling hub that collects plays from many music sources and forwards them to services like Maloja, Last.fm, and ListenBrainz.

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Last.fm+2

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 lib...

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Spotify+4

Kapowarr builds and manages a digital comic library with metadata, automated searching, downloading, renaming, moving, and optional conversion of issues and collections.

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Collectorz CLZ+2

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

RapidBay is a self-hosted torrent video streaming service that searches via Jackett, streams selected files in-browser, downloads subtitles, and supports Chromecast, Appl...

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Webtor.io+4

Castopod is an open-source podcast hosting platform to publish podcasts via RSS, interact with audiences (Fediverse), and track privacy-friendly analytics.

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Buzzsprout+10

WeddingShare is a self-hosted web app for creating shareable wedding photo galleries where guests can view and upload pictures, including QR-code sharing and admin review...

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Tinybeans+12

Audioserve is a minimalist Rust server for streaming audiobooks and other audio files from folders, with a web PWA client, playlists, search, and optional transcoding.

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Plex+8

Self-hosted ROM and game library manager that identifies titles from multiple sources, enriches metadata, and lets you play supported systems in the browser.

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PlayOn Cloud+4

Self-hosted web interface for yt-dlp to download videos, playlists, channels and live streams with queues, presets, scheduling, notifications and a built-in player.

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iTubeGo+3

Free, cross-platform open-source RTS featuring physics-based combat, terrain deformation, a large unit roster, and competitive multiplayer including co-op and campaigns.

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StarCraft II+2