Best Self-hosted Productivity & Utilities tools in 2026

Maxun is an open source no-code platform to build web scraping robots that extract structured data and expose websites as APIs, markdown, or automated pipelines.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Apify+1

Open-source collaborative documentation and wiki platform with real-time editing, offline sync, export features and flexible self-hosting options.

MITActively maintained

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Notion+17

Collaborative note-taking, wiki, and documentation platform with real-time editing, access control, and offline support. Built with Django and React/Next.js.

MITActively maintained

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Notion+19

Jackett is a self-hosted indexer proxy that integrates many torrent trackers and exposes them through a unified Torznab/Newznab-compatible API and RSS feeds for apps like Sonarr and Radarr.

transfer.sh is a lightweight Go server for sharing files via curl, generating shareable links with optional expiry, download limits, and pluggable storage backends.

MITActively maintained

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WeTransfer+7

FreshRSS is a fast, multi-user RSS/Atom feed aggregator with tagging, search, OPML import/export, WebSub push updates, and optional web scraping for sites without feeds.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Feedly+12

Self-hosted file sync and share platform with libraries, sharing links, versioning, and optional end-to-end encrypted libraries for private team collaboration.

Actively maintained

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Dropbox+19

Fast, lightweight BitTorrent client with desktop apps, a headless daemon, and a web UI for remote torrent management on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Actively maintained

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BitTorrent+2

Self-hosted server management platform with web SSH terminal, SSH tunneling, remote file manager/editor, Docker controls, monitoring, and RBAC with OIDC and 2FA.

Actively maintained

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Termius+4

Open-source proofreading and writing assistant that checks spelling, grammar, punctuation, and style across 30+ languages, with an HTTP API for integrations.

LGPL-2.1Actively maintained

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Grammarly+4

Self-hostable, privacy-first PDF toolkit that runs fully in the browser for editing, merging, converting, and processing PDFs without server-side uploads.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Adobe Acrobat+19

Open-source e-signature platform for creating, sending, embedding, and automating legally compliant digital signatures with API and developer tooling.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Docusign+15

Self-hosted Dropbox-like web file manager that connects to SFTP, S3, WebDAV, SMB/NFS, Git and more, with sharing links, plugins, and SSO integration.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Dropbox+19

A lightweight web interface for yt-dlp (youtube-dl fork) that manages queued downloads, playlists, and filename templates via Docker or local Python/Angular setup.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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4K Video Downloader+10

Desktop application that centralizes SSH, containers, VMs, Kubernetes and remote file management; integrates local CLI tools and syncs connection data via git.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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MobaXterm+6

OpenVPN is a widely used open-source VPN daemon providing TLS/SSL-based secure tunneling, flexible client-server and site-to-site modes, and cross-platform support.

Actively maintained

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OpenVPN CloudConnexa+18

Habitica is an open-source gamified task manager turning Habits, Dailies, and To-Dos into RPG quests with avatars, gear and social features.

Actively maintained

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Habitica+15

Automatisch is an open-source Zapier alternative for building no-code automations that connect apps and services while keeping data on your own infrastructure.

Slowing down

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Zapier+14

Self-hosted recipe manager with URL imports, meal planning, shopping lists, cookbooks, and an API-first backend with a Vue web interface.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Paprika Recipe Manager+8

Self-host Google Fonts easily: select variants and subsets, download font files (woff2, woff, ttf, eot, svg) and generate matching CSS snippets via web UI or API.

Gotenberg is a containerized HTTP API that converts HTML, Markdown, and Office documents to PDF using engines like Chromium and LibreOffice, with options to merge and automate outputs.

MITActively maintained

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PDFShift+9

wallabag is a self-hostable read-it-later service to save web pages, extract clean article content, tag and organize items, and read them on any device.

MITActively maintained

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Pocket+4

Self-hostable managed file transfer server supporting SFTP, FTPS, HTTPS and WebDAV with per-user storage backends (local, encrypted, S3-compatible, GCS, Azure Blob) and web UI.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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MOVEit Transfer+13

YOURLS is a self-hosted PHP URL shortener with custom short links, a developer API, detailed click analytics, and an extensible plugin architecture.

MITActively maintained

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Bitly+14

Community-developed Obsidian plugin to sync vaults via CouchDB or S3-compatible storage, with optional experimental WebRTC peer-to-peer syncing and end-to-end encryption.

MITActively maintained

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Obsidian

webhook is a lightweight Go server for creating HTTP endpoints that trigger scripts or shell commands with rule-based request validation.

MITActively maintained

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Webhook.site+2

Shiori is a lightweight bookmark manager with a web interface and CLI, full-text search, imports from Pocket/Netscape, and optional offline archiving of saved pages.

MITActively maintained

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Pocket+9

Homer is a lightweight static homepage dashboard configured via YAML to organize and quickly access self-hosted services, with search, theming, and PWA support.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Homarr Cloud+13

AirDrop-like P2P file and text transfer in the browser with device pairing and temporary public rooms for internet transfers.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Apple AirDrop+5

Self-hosted bookmark manager with tagging, notes, read-it-later, sharing, archiving, import/export, browser extensions, and a REST API.

MITActively maintained

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Raindrop.io+11