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330 open-source apps you can run on your own server with a Levelrail template. Each page lists the services, ports, volumes and environment variables the template sets up, and how to deploy it. For how templates work, see the service template catalog.

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AI

  • AnythingLLM: A private chat workspace over your documents, with built-in RAG and support for local or hosted models.
  • ComfyUI: A node-graph editor for building and running Stable Diffusion and other image generation pipelines.
  • Flowise: Drag-and-drop builder for LLM chatbots, agents, and RAG flows, with an API for each flow.
  • Flowise (Postgres + Qdrant): Flowise with a Postgres record manager, a Redis cache, and a Qdrant vector store, for production RAG flows.
  • Jupyter GPU Notebook: JupyterLab with a CUDA-ready data science stack for training and experimenting with models.
  • Label Studio: A flexible data labeling tool for text, images, audio, and video, with export to common ML formats.
  • Langflow: A visual low-code tool for building and deploying multi-agent and RAG workflows in Python.
  • Langfuse: Trace, evaluate, and debug LLM applications with prompt management and cost analytics.
  • LibreChat: A self-hosted ChatGPT-style interface for many model providers, with agents, search, and multi-user login.
  • LiteLLM Proxy: One OpenAI-format gateway in front of 100+ model providers, with keys, budgets, and spend tracking.
  • llama.cpp Server: The llama.cpp HTTP server: run quantized GGUF models on plain CPUs with an OpenAI-compatible API.
  • Lobe Chat: A modern, open-source AI chat framework supporting many model providers.
  • LocalAI: A drop-in OpenAI-compatible API that runs language, image, and speech models on your own hardware.
  • MLflow: Track experiments, compare runs, and manage models with a self-hosted MLflow tracking server.
  • n8n AI Starter Kit: n8n wired to a local Ollama model and a Qdrant vector store, ready for private AI workflows.
  • New API: An LLM gateway and AI asset management system that unifies many model providers.
  • Ollama: A local LLM runtime with an HTTP API. Pull any model yourself once it’s running.
  • Ollama + Open WebUI: A local LLM runtime paired with a ChatGPT-style web interface, for running open models on your own hardware.
  • Ollama: DeepSeek-R1 7B: DeepSeek’s R1 distilled 7B reasoning model, served locally through Ollama’s HTTP API.
  • Ollama: Llama 3 8B: Meta’s Llama 3 8B model, served locally through Ollama’s HTTP API.
  • Ollama: Mistral 7B: Mistral’s 7B instruct model, served locally through Ollama’s HTTP API.
  • Ollama: Phi-3 Mini: Microsoft’s Phi-3 Mini (3.8B), the smallest model in this catalog, good for constrained nodes.
  • Ollama: Qwen 2.5 7B: Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5 7B model, served locally through Ollama’s HTTP API.
  • Open WebUI: A self-hosted chat interface for running local large language models through Ollama.
  • Speaches: An OpenAI-compatible speech server: Whisper transcription and text-to-speech behind one API.
  • Stable Diffusion WebUI: A browser interface for generating and editing images with Stable Diffusion checkpoints.
  • Text Embeddings Inference: A lean server that turns text into embeddings with popular open models, on CPU with no extra setup.
  • Text Generation Inference: Hugging Face’s production inference server for transformer language models, with continuous batching and streaming.
  • Unstructured: An API that turns PDFs, Word files, and other documents into clean data for RAG pipelines.
  • vLLM: A fast, high-throughput inference server that exposes an OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight language models.

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Analytics

  • EmbyStat: Watch statistics and insight dashboards for your Emby or Jellyfin server.
  • GoatCounter: A privacy-friendly, open-source web analytics platform that never tracks individual visitors.
  • Matomo: A privacy-friendly, self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics with full data ownership.
  • Metabase: Ask questions of your data and share dashboards, no SQL required.
  • Plausible Analytics: Lightweight, privacy-friendly, cookie-free web analytics with no consent banner required.
  • Umami: Simple, privacy-focused website analytics without tracking cookies or ad-tech.

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Applications

  • Budibase: An open-source low-code platform for building internal tools, forms, and admin panels.
  • Cockpit CMS: A headless content platform for managing structured content behind a clean API, without a big CMS footprint.
  • Drupal: A mature, flexible CMS for structured content, multilingual sites, and large editorial teams.
  • EspoCRM: An open-source CRM for managing sales, support, and customer relationships end to end.
  • Ghost: A fast, modern publishing platform for blogs and newsletters, with built-in memberships.
  • GLPI: An IT asset and service management platform with helpdesk ticketing built in.
  • Joomla: A long-established CMS with a large extension ecosystem for business sites, portals, and communities.
  • Lowcoder: An open-source low-code platform for building internal apps, dashboards, and workflows with drag-and-drop.
  • MediaWiki: The wiki engine behind Wikipedia, for large collaborative knowledge bases with rich version history.
  • Minecraft Server: A vanilla Minecraft Java server that downloads and runs the selected version on first boot.
  • Moodle: A widely used, highly customizable learning management system for online courses.
  • Nextcloud: Self-hosted file sync, sharing, and collaboration, a full private alternative to consumer cloud drives.
  • Odoo: An all-in-one business suite covering CRM, sales, inventory, accounting, and a website builder.
  • OrangeHRM: An open-source human resources management suite: PTO, recruitment, performance, and an employee directory.
  • Redlib: A private, lightweight front-end for browsing Reddit without tracking or ads.
  • SearXNG: A privacy-respecting metasearch engine that aggregates results from dozens of search services.
  • Vvveb CMS: A CMS for building websites, blogs, and ecommerce stores.
  • WordPress: The world’s most widely used content management system, self-hosted with its own database.

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Automation

  • Activepieces: An open-source, no-code automation tool for connecting apps and building AI-powered workflows.
  • autobrr: Matches torrent releases from your indexers against filters and pushes hits straight to your download client.
  • n8n: Build automations and connect your tools with a visual, node-based workflow editor.
  • n8n (Postgres): n8n backed by Postgres instead of its default SQLite file, for production workflow volumes.
  • Node-RED: A flow-based visual editor for wiring together hardware, APIs, and online services.
  • Prefect: Python-native workflow orchestration with scheduling, retries, and a dashboard for every flow run.
  • Temporal: Durable workflow execution: write long-running business logic as code and let Temporal survive failures.
  • Windmill: Turn scripts in Python, TypeScript, Go, and SQL into webhooks, workflows, and internal UIs.

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Communication

  • Apache Answer: A Q&A platform for building a community knowledge base, in the style of a self-hosted Stack Overflow.
  • Apprise API: A single HTTP endpoint that fans a notification out to 100+ services such as Slack, Discord, and email.
  • Campfire: Basecamp’s open-source group chat app: rooms, direct messages, and file sharing, self-hosted as one container.
  • Chatwoot: An open-source customer support platform for live chat, email, and social messaging.
  • FreeScout: A free, self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox, a lighter alternative to Zendesk or Help Scout.
  • Gotify: A simple push notification server with a REST API and web UI, for sending messages to your devices.
  • Listmonk: A self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager with a fast, dependency-light core.
  • Matrix Synapse: A federated, end-to-end encrypted chat server implementing the Matrix protocol.
  • Matrix Synapse (Postgres): A Matrix homeserver backed by Postgres, for self-hosted federated chat and voice/video signaling.
  • Mattermost: An open-source, self-hosted alternative to Slack for team messaging and collaboration.
  • NodeBB: A modern forum platform with real-time discussions, SSO, and a plugin ecosystem, backed by Postgres.
  • ntfy: A simple pub-sub push notification service you can send alerts to from any script or app.
  • Once Campfire: A simple, self-hosted group chat app from 37signals, no subscription required.
  • Postiz: Schedules and publishes posts across social platforms from one calendar, with basic analytics.
  • Rocket.Chat: A full-featured, self-hosted team chat platform with video calls and app integrations.
  • Roundcube Webmail: A browser-based IMAP email client with a clean interface, address books, and plugin support.
  • Stalwart Mail Server: An all-in-one SMTP, IMAP, JMAP, and WebDAV mail server in a single lightweight container.

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Dashboard

  • Dashy: A feature-rich, self-hosted start page with widgets, status checks, and full visual customization.
  • Flame: A self-hosted start page with an app launcher, bookmarks, and Docker label integration.
  • Glance: A fast, self-hosted dashboard that pulls RSS, weather, and other widgets onto one page.
  • Heimdall: An application dashboard that gathers links to all your self-hosted services on one start page.
  • Homarr: A customizable start page dashboard for your self-hosted services with drag-and-drop widgets.
  • Homepage: A fast, static, highly customizable start page for all your self-hosted services.
  • Homer: A dead simple static start page for your services, configured with a single YAML file.
  • Organizr: A unified homepage and tabbed dashboard for linking every self-hosted app behind one interface.

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Database Tools

  • Adminer: A single-file database admin tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and more.
  • Baserow: A no-code database and spreadsheet hybrid you can build internal tools and apps on top of.
  • Bytebase: A database schema change and migration tool with review workflows built in.
  • Chroma: A developer-friendly embedding database for AI applications, served over a simple HTTP API.
  • ClickHouse: A columnar database built for fast analytical queries over large datasets.
  • CloudBeaver: A web-based database manager for browsing and querying Postgres, MySQL, SQLite and more.
  • Elasticsearch + Kibana: Elasticsearch paired with Kibana for log and document search with a visual dashboard.
  • InfluxDB: An open-source time-series database for metrics, events, and IoT analytics.
  • Milvus: A cloud-native vector database built for billion-scale similarity search, run here as a single standalone node.
  • NocoDB: Turn any database into a smart spreadsheet, with a real-time collaborative grid UI.
  • PG Back Web: A web UI for scheduling, encrypting, and restoring PostgreSQL backups.
  • pgAdmin: A full-featured web GUI for administering and querying PostgreSQL databases.
  • pgvector Postgres: PostgreSQL 17 with the pgvector extension preinstalled, for embeddings next to your relational data.
  • phpMyAdmin: A web-based admin tool for MySQL and MariaDB, built for ad-hoc use against any reachable database.
  • Qdrant: A vector similarity search engine for storing, searching, and managing embeddings.
  • Redis Insight: A GUI for exploring keys, running commands, and profiling workloads on any Redis-compatible server.
  • RedisInsight: A GUI for browsing keys, running commands, and profiling performance on any Redis instance.
  • Weaviate: An open-source vector database with hybrid search, built-in modules, and a GraphQL and REST API.

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Developer Tools

  • Appsmith: A low-code platform for building internal tools and admin panels on top of your own data.
  • Appwrite: An open-source backend-as-a-service with auth, databases, storage, and functions behind one API.
  • Browserless: A headless Chrome browser exposed as an HTTP/WebSocket API for scraping and PDF rendering.
  • ByteStash: A fast, self-hosted code snippet manager with syntax highlighting, tagging, and a built-in MCP endpoint for AI assistants.
  • code-server: Run VS Code in the browser, on your own hardware, from any device with a tab open.
  • ConvertX: A self-hosted file converter that handles well over a thousand image, document, and media formats.
  • CyberChef: The cyber swiss army knife: encode, decode, hash, and analyse data in the browser.
  • Databasus: A free, self-hosted backup tool for Postgres, MySQL, and MongoDB databases.
  • Directus: An open-source headless CMS and instant REST/GraphQL API layer over your own database.
  • Docker Registry: A private registry for storing and distributing your own container images.
  • Docker Registry: The official open source registry for storing and distributing your own container images.
  • Docker Registry (Authenticated): A private container registry with HTTP basic auth baked in at boot, unlike the catalog’s open registry entry.
  • FlareSolverr: A headless-browser proxy that solves Cloudflare and DDoS-Guard challenges for other self-hosted tools.
  • Flipt: A self-hosted feature flag and experimentation platform with a built-in UI and REST/gRPC APIs.
  • Forgejo: A lightweight, community-governed Git forge with issues, pull requests, and CI runners.
  • Forgejo (Postgres): Forgejo backed by Postgres instead of its default SQLite, for a multi-writer-safe production setup.
  • Gitea: A lightweight, self-hosted Git service with issues, pull requests, and a package registry.
  • Gitea (Postgres): Gitea backed by Postgres instead of its default MySQL, for operators standardizing on one database engine.
  • GitLab: GitLab Community Edition: Git hosting, CI/CD, issues, and a container registry in one Omnibus image.
  • GitLab CE: A complete DevOps platform for source control, code review, issues, and CI/CD in one place.
  • Gotenberg: A stateless API for converting HTML, Markdown, Office, and PDF documents in the background.
  • Hoppscotch: An open-source API development platform, a self-hosted alternative to Postman, backed by Postgres.
  • ImgCompress: An offline image compression, format conversion, and background-removal API for self-hosted pipelines.
  • IT Tools: A collection of handy online tools for developers: converters, generators, formatters, and more.
  • Jenkins: The long-running automation server for building, testing, and deploying with thousands of plugins.
  • Jupyter Notebook: A Jupyter Notebook server for interactive Python data work, protected by a generated access token.
  • Jupyter Notebook: A web-based notebook environment for interactive Python, data analysis, and visualization.
  • LibreTranslate: A free and open machine translation API that runs entirely on your own hardware.
  • Mailpit: A local SMTP server and web inbox for catching and inspecting outgoing email during development.
  • marimo: A reactive Python notebook that is reproducible, git-friendly, and shareable as an app.
  • Meilisearch: A fast, typo-tolerant search engine API you can drop into any app’s search bar.
  • NocoBase: An extensible no-code/low-code platform for building internal tools and databases.
  • PocketBase: An open-source backend in one file: embedded database, auth, file storage, and realtime API.
  • Proxyscotch: A small CORS proxy that lets Hoppscotch call APIs from the browser.
  • Semaphore UI: A modern web UI for running Ansible, Terraform, and shell tasks with schedules, history, and access control.
  • Shlink: A self-hosted URL shortener with a full REST API for creating and tracking short links.
  • Soketi: A simple, fast, Pusher-protocol-compatible WebSockets server for real-time app features.
  • SonarQube Community: Continuous code quality and security analysis across 30+ languages, with quality gates for every pull request.
  • Sonatype Nexus Repository: A universal artifact repository for Maven, npm, Docker, PyPI, and more, with proxying and caching.
  • Strapi: An open-source headless CMS with a customizable admin panel and a REST/GraphQL content API.
  • Termix: A web-based SSH, RDP, and VNC terminal manager for organizing and connecting to every server from one dashboard.
  • Tolgee: A localization management platform where developers and translators work in one shared UI.
  • TrailBase: A fast Rust and SQLite application server with type-safe APIs and auth.
  • Typesense: A fast, typo-tolerant search engine API built as a lighter alternative to Elasticsearch.
  • Unleash (Postgres): An open-source feature flag platform with gradual rollouts, A/B testing, and a permission model.
  • Verdaccio: A lightweight private npm proxy registry with caching and local package publishing.
  • Wakapi: A self-hosted, WakaTime-compatible backend for tracking coding time and stats.
  • Web Check: An all-in-one OSINT tool for inspecting a website’s DNS, headers, certs, and security posture.
  • Weblate: A continuous localization system for translating software with a web-based editor and review flow.
  • Woodpecker CI: A simple, container-native CI engine with a server and an agent, driven by pipelines in your repo.

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Finance

  • Actual Budget: A local-first, envelope-style budgeting app with optional multi-device sync.
  • Actual Budget: A local-first personal finance and budgeting app with multi-device sync you fully own.
  • Budge: A self-hosted envelope budgeting app for personal finance.
  • Dolibarr: An open-source ERP and CRM for small businesses: invoicing, contacts, stock, and accounting in one app.
  • Firefly III: A self-hosted personal finance manager for tracking budgets, bills, and spending.
  • Ghostfolio: A privacy-first wealth tracker for stocks, ETFs, and crypto, with portfolio analytics and no ads.
  • Invoice Ninja: Self-hosted invoicing, quotes, and payments for freelancers and small businesses.
  • Sure: A privacy-first personal finance app for tracking net worth, budgets, and investments across every account.
  • Wallos: A personal subscription tracker that shows what you pay each month, with reminders and multi-currency support.

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Infrastructure

  • AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad and tracker blocking with a DNS server and a friendly admin dashboard.
  • Cloudflare DDNS: Keeps Cloudflare DNS records pointed at your current public IP address.
  • Elasticsearch: A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine for full-text search and log analytics.
  • NetBox: Source-of-truth IPAM and DCIM for tracking IP space, racks, devices, and cabling.
  • Nginx Proxy Manager: A web UI for managing Nginx reverse-proxy hosts, redirects, and Let’s Encrypt certificates.
  • Pi-hole: Network-wide ad blocking that works as a DNS sinkhole for your whole network.
  • Portainer: A web UI for managing containers, images, volumes, and networks.
  • RabbitMQ: A widely used open-source message broker supporting AMQP, MQTT, and STOMP.
  • Snipe-IT: IT asset management for tracking hardware, licenses, and accessories, and who currently has what.
  • Technitium DNS Server: A full-featured authoritative and recursive DNS server with DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS and a web console.

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IoT

  • Eclipse Mosquitto: A lightweight MQTT broker for connecting IoT devices, sensors, and home automation hubs.
  • Home Assistant: Open-source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
  • Traccar: An open-source GPS tracking platform supporting over 170 device protocols.

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Media

  • Audiobookshelf: A self-hosted server for your audiobooks and podcasts, with sync across every device.
  • Bazarr: Companion to Sonarr and Radarr that finds and downloads subtitles for your media library.
  • Calibre-Web: A clean web interface for browsing, reading, and downloading your existing Calibre ebook library.
  • Castopod: An open-source podcast hosting platform with built-in analytics, a web player, and ActivityPub federation.
  • Emby: A media server that organizes your movies, shows, and music and streams them to any device.
  • Grimmory: Organize, read, annotate, and sync your entire book collection from one place.
  • Immich: Self-hosted photo and video backup with mobile apps, facial recognition, and timeline search.
  • Jackett: A proxy that translates queries from your media apps into torrent tracker searches.
  • Jellyfin: A free media server for streaming your own movies, shows, and music to any device.
  • Jellyseerr: A request manager for Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby libraries, wired to Sonarr and Radarr.
  • Kavita: A fast, feature-rich reader server for manga, comics, and ebooks.
  • Komga: A media server for comics, manga, and digital books with a clean reading interface.
  • Lidarr: Watches your indexers for new albums from artists you follow and automatically grabs and organizes them.
  • MeTube: A tidy web front end for yt-dlp: paste a link, pick a format, and download video or audio.
  • Navidrome: Stream your own music collection from a Subsonic-compatible server to any device, anywhere.
  • Overseerr: Lets your Plex users request new movies and TV shows straight from a shared web UI.
  • Owncast: Run your own live video streaming server with built-in chat, no third-party platform required.
  • PhotoPrism: An AI-powered photo management app that indexes and organizes your library as you own it.
  • Photoview: A fast, simple photo gallery that indexes an existing folder tree without importing or duplicating files.
  • Pinchflat: Automatically download and organize YouTube channels and playlists into your media library.
  • Plex: A media server that organizes your movies, TV, and music and streams them to any device.
  • Prowlarr: An indexer manager that syncs your torrent and Usenet indexers across the whole Arr stack.
  • qBittorrent: A free, self-hosted BitTorrent client with a full web UI for remote download management.
  • Radarr: Watches your favorite indexers for movies and automatically grabs, sorts, and renames them.
  • Sonarr: Watches your favorite indexers for new TV episodes and automatically grabs, sorts, and renames them.
  • Tdarr: Automated media transcoding, health checks, and library-wide format standardization.
  • Transmission: A fast, lightweight BitTorrent client with a simple web interface.
  • Yamtrack: A self-hosted media tracker for movies, TV, anime, manga, games, and books.

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Monitoring

  • Beszel: A lightweight server monitoring hub with historical stats for CPU, memory, disk, and network.
  • Bugsink: A self-hosted, lightweight error tracking server with a Sentry-compatible SDK ingestion API.
  • Changedetection.io: Monitor any webpage for changes and get notified the moment content updates.
  • Checkmate: An open-source uptime and server monitoring app with incident history and status pages.
  • Diun: Watches your running containers and notifies you the moment a new image tag is published.
  • Glances: A cross-platform system monitor showing CPU, memory, disk, and network at a glance.
  • GlitchTip: A lightweight, self-hosted error tracking service compatible with the Sentry SDK.
  • Grafana: Dashboards and exploration for metrics, logs, and traces from any data source.
  • Grafana (Postgres): Grafana backed by Postgres instead of its default embedded SQLite, for multi-instance or external-DB setups.
  • Grafana Loki: A horizontally scalable log aggregation system that indexes labels, not full text, to keep storage cheap.
  • Healthchecks: Cron job and scheduled task monitoring: get alerted the moment a periodic job stops checking in.
  • LibreSpeed: A lightweight, self-hosted internet speed test with no ads, tracking, or Flash required.
  • Netdata: Per-second infrastructure metrics with zero configuration and a live dashboard out of the box.
  • OpenObserve: A lightweight, single-binary observability platform for logs, metrics, and traces with a built-in UI.
  • Prometheus: A metrics time-series database and alerting engine built for pull-based scraping.
  • Speedtest Tracker: Runs Ookla speed tests on a schedule and charts your connection’s throughput, latency, and jitter over time.
  • Statusnook: Deploy a status page and start monitoring endpoints in minutes.
  • Tautulli: Monitors your Plex server and shows who watched what, with history, stats, and notifications.
  • Uptime Kuma: A self-hosted uptime monitor with a clean dashboard for HTTP, TCP, DNS, and ping checks.
  • Uptime Kuma (MariaDB): Uptime Kuma with a MariaDB sidecar provisioned, for the setups that opt out of its default SQLite file.
  • VictoriaMetrics: A fast, resource-frugal time-series database that speaks the Prometheus query and remote-write APIs.
  • Zabbix: Enterprise-grade network, server, and application monitoring with alerting and trend graphs.

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Productivity

  • AFFiNE: A block-based workspace combining docs, whiteboards, and databases in one self-hosted app.
  • AppFlowy: A self-hosted, open-source workspace for notes and collaborative knowledge, an alternative to Notion.
  • Baby Buddy: Track sleep, feeding, diaper changes, and growth for a baby or toddler, with charts and timers.
  • BookStack: A simple, self-hosted platform for organizing documentation into books, chapters, and pages.
  • Cal.com: Open-source scheduling infrastructure for booking meetings without the back-and-forth.
  • ConvertX: A self-hosted online file converter supporting over a thousand formats.
  • Docmost: An open-source, Notion-style collaborative wiki and documentation workspace.
  • Documenso: An open-source document signing platform, a self-hosted alternative to DocuSign.
  • DocuSeal: A free, open-source document signing tool, a lighter alternative to DocuSign.
  • DokuWiki: A simple, database-free wiki that stores pages as plain text files, easy to back up.
  • draw.io: A self-hosted diagramming and whiteboarding editor for flowcharts, architecture diagrams, and more.
  • Easy!Appointments: An open-source appointment scheduler for managing bookings, staff, and services.
  • Etherpad: A real-time collaborative editor for documents, with plugins and a clean export story.
  • Excalidraw: A self-hosted virtual whiteboard for sketching diagrams that feel hand-drawn.
  • Fider: A feedback platform for collecting and prioritizing user feature requests.
  • Firefox: A private Firefox browser running on your server and streamed to a web page.
  • flatnotes: A database-less note-taking app that keeps notes as plain Markdown files.
  • Formbricks: An open-source survey and experience-management platform you run on your own infrastructure.
  • FreshRSS: A lightweight, self-hosted RSS aggregator with multi-user support and a mobile-friendly API.
  • Gramps Web: An online genealogy system for researching and sharing family trees.
  • Grist: A modern relational spreadsheet that combines spreadsheet flexibility with database structure.
  • Grocy: A self-hosted ERP for your household: groceries, chores, and a shopping list that stays in sync.
  • HedgeDoc: Real-time collaborative markdown notes you can host yourself.
  • Homebox: A home inventory and organization system for tracking what you own and where it is.
  • Joplin Server: A self-hosted sync server for the Joplin note-taking app, keeping notes off third-party clouds.
  • Joplin Server: A self-hosted sync target for the Joplin note-taking app, replacing Dropbox or OneDrive sync.
  • Kanboard: A minimalist, keyboard-friendly kanban board for personal and team task tracking.
  • Karakeep: A self-hosted bookmark, note, and read-it-later manager with full-text search and tagging.
  • Kimai: A self-hosted time tracking tool for freelancers and teams, with invoicing and reporting.
  • Leantime: A goals-focused project management tool built for people who aren’t professional project managers.
  • LibreOffice (Remote Desktop): A full LibreOffice desktop running in a container, reachable from any browser, for editing office documents.
  • LimeSurvey: A mature, self-hosted online survey tool for building and analyzing anonymous surveys.
  • Linkding: A minimal, fast bookmark manager built for keeping a personal link archive.
  • Linkding Plus: Linkding’s extended image with full-page snapshot archiving bundled in, for bookmarks that must survive link rot.
  • Linkwarden: A bookmark manager that archives full page snapshots, not just links, so pages stay readable.
  • Mealie: A self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a clean web UI and API.
  • Memos: A lightweight, privacy-first note-taking service for jotting down quick thoughts.
  • Miniflux: A minimalist, fast RSS/Atom feed reader with no bloat and a keyboard-driven UI.
  • Obsidian LiveSync (CouchDB): A self-hosted CouchDB backend for the Obsidian LiveSync plugin, syncing your notes across devices.
  • osTicket: A widely used open-source support ticket system for teams handling customer requests.
  • Outline: A fast, structured team wiki and knowledge base with real-time collaborative editing.
  • PairDrop: An AirDrop-style app for sending files and messages between devices on the same network, from any browser.
  • Paperless-ngx: Scan, index, and archive your paper documents into a searchable digital library.
  • Penpot: An open-source design and prototyping platform, a self-hosted alternative to Figma.
  • Plane: An open-source project management tool for tracking issues and cycles, an alternative to Linear and Jira.
  • Planka: A Trello-style kanban board for visualizing and tracking work across a team.
  • Rallly: Find a time that works for everyone with polls for scheduling meetings and events.
  • Readeck: Save the readable content of web pages you want to keep, free of ads and clutter.
  • Redmine: A mature project management and issue tracker with Gantt charts, wikis and time tracking, backed by Postgres.
  • Ryot: A self-hosted tracker for media, fitness, and other parts of life.
  • Shiori: A simple bookmark manager with offline archiving, built as a single Go binary.
  • SilverBullet: A programmable, Markdown-based notes app you can extend with your own scripts and queries.
  • SiYuan: A privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management app with block-based markdown notes.
  • Slash: A self-hosted link shortener and bookmark sharing platform with tags and full-text search.
  • Snapdrop: Local network file sharing in the browser, inspired by AirDrop.
  • SparkyFitness: A fitness tracker for nutrition, exercise, and body measurements.
  • Stirling PDF: A self-hosted, all-in-one toolkit for merging, splitting, converting, and editing PDFs.
  • Tandoor Recipes: A recipe manager and meal planner with shopping lists and shared cookbooks.
  • Teable: A spreadsheet-style visual database backed by real PostgreSQL, an Airtable alternative.
  • TriliumNext: A hierarchical, self-hosted notebook for building a personal knowledge base, with full-text search.
  • TriliumNext Notes: A hierarchical, self-hosted note-taking application built for large personal knowledge bases.
  • Twenty CRM: An open-source CRM you fully control, built to look and feel like a modern spreadsheet.
  • Vert: A fast file converter for images, video, audio, and documents, processed entirely without a third-party upload.
  • Vikunja: An open-source task and project manager for teams that outgrew sticky notes.
  • Wallabag: A read-it-later app that saves web articles in a clean, distraction-free format.
  • Wiki.js: A modern wiki with Markdown and visual editing, page permissions and full-text search, backed by Postgres.

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Security

  • 2FAuth: A web app to manage your two-factor authentication accounts and generate one-time codes.
  • authentik: An identity provider and SSO platform with flows, policies, and support for OIDC, SAML, LDAP, and proxy auth.
  • Cap: A lightweight, privacy-friendly proof-of-work CAPTCHA, an alternative to reCAPTCHA or hCaptcha.
  • Cryptgeon: A self-destructing note and file sharing service inspired by PrivNote, with end-to-end encryption.
  • Infisical: An open-source secrets manager to centralize API keys, database credentials, and app config.
  • Keycloak: An open-source identity and access management server with SSO, OAuth2, and SAML support.
  • Keycloak (Postgres): Keycloak backed by Postgres instead of its default embedded database, for a real multi-instance setup.
  • lldap: A lightweight LDAP server with a friendly web UI, built for homelab and small-team authentication.
  • Logto: Modern, developer-first customer identity: sign-in experiences, social login, and OIDC without the plumbing.
  • One-Time Secret: Share a password or API key through a link that self-destructs after the first view, backed by Redis.
  • Passbolt: An open-source password manager built for teams, compatible with the usual browser extensions.
  • Pocket ID: A simple, secure OIDC provider that authenticates with passkeys instead of passwords.
  • PrivateBin: A minimalist, encrypted pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of what you paste.
  • SuperTokens: A self-hosted authentication backend with session management, social login, and passwordless, backed by Postgres.
  • Vault: HashiCorp Vault for secrets storage, encryption as a service, and dynamic credentials, in file-storage mode.
  • Vaultwarden: A lightweight, self-hosted password manager server compatible with the Bitwarden clients.
  • Whoogle Search: A privacy-focused front end for Google search results, with no tracking, ads, or JavaScript required.

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Starter Kits

  • Background Worker + Redis Queue: A worker process pulling jobs off a Redis-backed queue, the base shape for async job processing.
  • FastAPI + PostgreSQL: A minimal Python HTTP service wired to a Postgres database, the reference pairing for a FastAPI backend.
  • Next.js + PostgreSQL: The SSR-plus-database pairing behind most Next.js apps, wired with a healthchecked Postgres.
  • Nginx Reverse Proxy (Multi-Backend): One Nginx entrypoint routing to two independent backend services, demonstrating depends_on across three services.
  • Node.js API + PostgreSQL: A minimal Node HTTP service wired to a Postgres database, the most common backend pairing.
  • Redis Cache Starter: A web service backed by a Redis cache, the cache-aside pattern most apps reach for first.
  • Static Site + API Backend: A static frontend and a separate API service deployed together, the split most SPAs actually run.

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Storage

  • Chibisafe: A file vault for uploading and sharing files from the cloud.
  • Cloudreve: A self-hosted file management and sharing system with multiple storage backends.
  • copyparty: A portable file server with resumable uploads, a media player, and search, in a single small image.
  • Duplicati: Scheduled, encrypted backups of your files to local storage, network shares, or cloud storage.
  • File Browser: A simple web UI for browsing, uploading, and sharing files from your own storage.
  • Kopia: Fast, incremental, encrypted backups to a repository, driven from a web UI instead of a cron script.
  • MinIO: S3-compatible object storage you run yourself, with a built-in web console.
  • Pingvin Share: A self-hosted, ad-free alternative to WeTransfer for sending files with expiring links.
  • Seafile: Self-hosted file sync and share with real file-level versioning and client-side encryption options.
  • SeaweedFS: A distributed file and object store with an S3 gateway, built for billions of small files.
  • SFTPGo: An SFTP, FTP/S, and WebDAV server with a web admin UI and per-user storage backends.
  • Syncthing: Continuous, peer-to-peer file synchronization between your own devices, no cloud in between.
  • Zipline: A self-hosted file and screenshot host with a share-first upload flow and its own URL shortener.
Last modified on October 12, 2026