Best Self-hosted Media & Smart Home tools in 2026

Koha is a free and open source integrated library system (ILS) for managing library collections, cataloging, circulation, patrons, and online public access.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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ByWater Solutions (Hosted Koha)+6

Self-hosted alternative to Goodreads for logging books, tracking reading progress, and visualizing your personal library with multi-user support.

MITActively maintained

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Goodreads+5

Teemii is a self-hosted web app for managing, reading, and indexing manga collections with metadata aggregation and scheduled updates.

MITLikely dormant

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Comixology+7

Omeka is a PHP-based open-source web publishing platform for managing, preserving and presenting metadata-rich digital collections and media-rich online exhibits.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Omeka.net+11

Open-source Vue.js single-page app that visualizes OwnTracks Recorder data: live locations, history, heatmaps, filtering and distance calculations.

MITLikely dormant

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Life360+6

Open-source web app to view and play guitar and bass tabs. Sync tabs with audio or YouTube, supports Guitar Pro and MusicXML formats, includes MIDI synth and mobile-friendly UI.

MITActively maintained

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Spotify+14

An open-source, fast-paced arena shooter featuring parkour mechanics, multiplayer modes, and a realtime WYSIWYG map editor for cooperative map creation.

Actively maintained

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Quake Champions+4

pyShelf is a lightweight ebook server that scans folders for ebooks, aggregates covers, provides fuzzy search, and lets you browse and download titles via a web UI.

GPL-3.0Slowing down

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BookFusion+4

MistServer is an open-source streaming media toolkit that supports HLS, DASH, RTMP, RTSP, SRT and WebRTC for low-latency live and VOD workflows.

UnlicenseActively maintained

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Wowza Streaming Cloud+13

Web-based podcast manager and downloader with RSS support and GPodder compatibility. Rust backend with React/TypeScript frontend and Docker images for deployment.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Pocket Casts+7

Modern self-hosted SVOD streaming platform to organize and stream MP4 media from local drives and cloud providers with metadata, playlists, GroupWatch, and AI recommendations.

GPL-3.0Slowing down

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Plex+6

Open-source 2D browser battle royale inspired by surviv.io. Client and server in TypeScript with real-time multiplayer, Pixi-based rendering, and self-hosting support.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Apex Legends+4

Tool to discover, download, convert and organize trailers for Radarr and Sonarr-managed media libraries, with a FastAPI backend and Angular UI.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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iTubeGo+2

Client-side web app to inspect and batch-change audio and subtitle tracks on Plex Media Server. Provides a GUI for series-, season-, or episode-level track and subtitle updates.

Actively maintained

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Plex

Open-source Raspberry Pi irrigation controller with responsive web UI, scheduling, plugins (Node-RED, MQTT), and support for relay interfaces, pumps, and hydroponics.

Actively maintained

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Rachio+4

Interactive scratch-off maps to record visited countries, regions, or states with travel dates and linked photo albums. Lightweight Node.js + Express app with JSON storage and Docker support.

AGPL-3.0Likely dormant

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Polarsteps+1

Web app that uses your Lidarr library and Last.fm to surface similar artists, supports AI-driven prompts, real-time UI, and pushes additions back to Lidarr.

MITActively maintained

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Last.fm+1

Generate podcast RSS feeds from YouTube, Twitch or existing RSS feeds by streaming on-the-fly MP3 transcoding without storing VODs. Provides web UI and Docker images.

MITActively maintained

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YouTube+1

Replicates and keeps Spotify playlists synced to a Jellyfin server, matching local tracks, downloading missing tracks via SpotDL, and offering Lidarr integration.

GPL-3.0Slowing down

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Spotify

Generate a yearly listening report from your Jellyfin music server with client-side processing, privacy-first data handling, and Docker or static hosting options.

Slowing down

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Spotify+3

Automates finding and downloading missing albums for Lidarr by searching online sources via yt-dlp, with scheduling, match thresholds, and optional direct import into Lidarr.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Lidarr

A lightweight, privacy-first alternative frontend for Goodreads that scrapes and proxies Goodreads pages, offers search and PWA support, and requires no signup.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Goodreads

Fetch and synchronize video or audio from YouTube channels on a schedule using yt-dlp. Runs in Docker and can trigger Plex/Jellyfin library scans.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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iTubeGo+2

A lightweight PHP CMS focused on photo, video and audio galleries with integrated blogging (Zenpage), theme support and extensible plugins.

Actively maintained

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SmugMug+18

Self-hosted web and REST interface for downloading videos from YouTube and other sites using yt-dlp or youtube-dl; provides Docker images, configurable profiles, and filesystem output.

MITActively maintained

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iTubeGo+4

Open-source web app that transforms screenshots into styled, exportable mockups with drag-and-drop, 3D transforms, borders and background presets.

MITActively maintained

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Adobe Express+4

Tracks weekly box office charts and automatically adds trending theatrical releases to Radarr with filters, scheduling, and a web dashboard.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Radarr

Automates retrieval of missing books tracked by Readarr by searching Library Genesis and downloading matched files into a configured downloads path.

MPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Scribd

Petio provides a web interface for Plex servers to let users request, track, review and discover media. Integrates with Sonarr, Radarr and notification systems.

MITLikely dormant

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Ombi (Hosted)+2

Supysonic is a Python implementation of the Subsonic API for serving, browsing and streaming personal music libraries with transcoding, playlists and scrobbling.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+7