Best Self-hosted Productivity & Utilities tools in 2026

HabitTrove is a gamified habit tracker that rewards daily progress with coins, enabling habit creation, tracking, and rewards via a built-in wishlist.

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Habitica+6

Self-hosted web interface to download videos and playlists via yt-dlp, process them, and auto-organize into Plex/Jellyfin-ready folders.

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4K Video Downloader+11

NZBGet is a fast, lightweight Usenet NZB downloader with a remote web UI, queue management, post-processing, and automation-friendly integration with media managers.

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Easynews+1

Lightweight audiobook request and wishlist app for Plex, Audiobookshelf, and Jellyfin, with Audible search, user roles, notifications, and optional Prowlarr auto-download...

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

Tiny Tiny RSS (tt-rss) is a self-hosted, web-based RSS/Atom reader and feed aggregator with filtering, tagging, and a plugin system.

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Feedly+8

Self-hosted web-based amateur radio logging app for QSOs, LoTW uploads, award tracking, and integrations with CAT and digital-mode tools.

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DXLab Suite+1

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

Postmarks is a self-hosted, single-user bookmark manager that publishes and federates bookmarks over ActivityPub with Mastodon-compatible platforms.

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Pinboard+10

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

Open-source platform to stream torrent media, generate direct-download links and on-the-fly ZIP archives; distributed as an all-in-one Docker image.

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Webtor.io+8

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

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

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Life360+6

A lightweight, good-looking homepage dashboard for your self-hosted services and links, configured via JSON and shipped as a Docker container.

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Start.me+7

Self-hosted URL shortener built with SvelteKit and PocketBase to shorten, customize, organize, and track links with QR codes and security controls.

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Bitly+14

Self-hosted Google Keep–style notes app built with Vite + React and an Express + SQLite API. Supports Markdown, checklists, images, PWA, collaboration and Docker deployme...

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Google Keep+10

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

Web-based virtual tabletop for TTRPGs offering infinite canvas, layers, dynamic lighting, player vision, initiative tracking, offline support and self-hosting.

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Foundry Virtual Tabletop+2

Self-hosted Next.js React CalDAV client for managing VTODO tasks and VEVENT calendars with multi-account, list/Gantt/calendar views and filters.

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Google Calendar+10

Self-hosted read-it-later/news-reading platform that saves articles offline, organizes with categories, and integrates with external services via webhooks.

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Pocket+12

Self-hosted RSS reader inspired by Google Reader, featuring smart folders, advanced search expressions, clustering, quality scoring, and Fever/Google Reader API compatibi...

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Feedly+7

Create configurable RSS feeds from Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, Lobste.rs, PieFed, Mbin, and GitHub with optional AI summaries, media embedding, and comment inclusion.

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RSS.app+11

Self-hosted SvelteKit wishlist app that scrapes product metadata, supports groups, registry mode, PWA, OpenID Connect, and Docker deployment.

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Wishlistr

Web-based workout diary that visualizes activity as a GitHub-style year heatmap. Built in Go, configurable via file or env, Docker-ready with optional authentication and...

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Hevy+8

Privacy-first, self-hosted web app for planning workouts, logging sets, tracking personal records and importing smartwatch data. Built with Angular frontend and FastAPI b...

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JEFIT+7

Command-line utility to monitor RSS/Atom feeds and email new items to one or more addresses, configurable via XDG-style config and data files.

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Blogtrottr+3

Encrypted diary and journal web app with client-side encryption, markdown editor, file uploads, searchable entries, multi-user accounts and PWA support.

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Day One+11

Open-source real-time note-taking and todo app with WYSIWYG editor, JWT auth, role-based access control, and import/export capabilities.

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Evernote+9

Real-time collaborative mind-mapping web app with import/export, sharing via links/QR, undo/redo and Postgres storage. Runs with a TypeScript/NestJS backend and Angular f...

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Xmind+8

Self-hosted Go web app to share and store text snippets, files, links and a Markdown notepad over a local network with PWA support and configurable expirations.

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Apple AirDrop+10