Self-Hosted Software Directory

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Could be You! — Daily arcades & puzzlers
Email/Discord for slots — Word lists, smarter
Email/Discord for slots — Tap • Match • Win
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Webmail & Groupware

Roundcube — Modern IMAP webmail
SnappyMail — Fast lightweight webmail
RainLoop (Community) — Simple PHP webmail
SOGo — Groupware, CalDAV, CardDAV
Horde Groupware Webmail — Full-featured groupware
Kopano WebApp — Self-hosted groupware suite
Cypht — Unified webmail client
Afterlogic WebMail Lite — Light IMAP webmail
Zimbra OSE — Open-source mail & collaboration

Office Suites & Collaboration

Collabora Online — LibreOffice in the browser
ONLYOFFICE Docs — Self-hosted docs/spreadsheets
Etherpad — Realtime collaborative editor
Ethercalc — Collaborative spreadsheet
CryptPad — Zero-knowledge collab suite
Draw.io (diagrams.net) Server — Self-host diagramming
Overleaf Community Edition — Collaborative LaTeX editor
Penpot — Open-source design & prototyping
Excalidraw (self-host) — Collaborative whiteboard

E-commerce & Shops

Magento Open Source — Enterprise-grade shop
PrestaShop — Popular PHP e-commerce
OpenCart — Lightweight store platform
Bagisto — Laravel-based commerce
Sylius — Symfony headless commerce
Spree Commerce — Rails-based commerce
Saleor — GraphQL headless commerce
Medusa — Headless Node.js commerce
Solidus — Open-source Rails storefront

Deploy & PaaS-on-your-server

CapRover — One-click apps & PaaS
Coolify — Open-source Heroku alt
Dokku — Docker-powered PaaS
Dokku-Alt — Fork with extras
Flynn (archived) — Classic self-host PaaS
Shipyard 2 — Legacy Docker UI
Ansible AWX — Ansible Tower upstream
Rundeck — Runbook automation
Semaphore (Ansible) — Web UI for Ansible

Code Search, Quality & Error Tracking

Sourcegraph (OSS) — Code search & intel
OpenGrok — Fast code search
Hound — Simple code search
SonarQube Community — Static code analysis
Sentry (self-hosted) — App error tracking
GlitchTip — Open-source Sentry alt
Errbit — Airbrake API compatible
Review Board — Code review tool
Gitness — Code hosting & CI

Maps, Geo & Routing

TileServer GL — Serve vector map tiles
OpenMapTiles — Map tiles from OSM
Nominatim — OSM geocoding
Photon — ElasticSearch geocoder
Pelias — Modular geocoder
Valhalla — Open-source routing engine
GraphHopper — Routing & navigation
GeoServer — OGC geospatial server
MapProxy — Map tile proxy/cacher

Data Pipelines (ELT/ETL)

Airbyte — ELT with many connectors
Meltano — Singer-based ELT
Apache NiFi — Dataflow automation
Apache Hop — Data orchestration
Dagster — Data orchestration platform
Prefect — Workflow orchestrator
Luigi — Batch pipeline framework
Singer — Open standard for data
DBT Core (self-host) — Analytics engineering

Message Brokers & Queues

RabbitMQ — AMQP message broker
Apache Kafka — Distributed event streaming
Redpanda Community — Kafka API compatible
NATS Server — High-performance messaging
ActiveMQ Artemis — Multi-protocol broker
EMQX — Scalable MQTT broker
VerneMQ — MQTT broker (Erlang)
NSQ — Realtime distributed messaging
Mosca/Aedes — Node.js MQTT server

Vector DBs & ML Tools

Qdrant — Vector search engine
Weaviate — Vector database
Milvus — Cloud-native vector DB
Chroma — Embeddings DB
Vespa — Large-scale search & vectors
pgvector (Postgres ext) — Vectors in PostgreSQL
Haystack — RAG framework, self-hostable
MLflow — ML experiment tracking
Label Studio — Data labeling platform

Notebooks & MLOps

JupyterHub — Multi-user notebooks
Kubeflow — ML toolkit for Kubernetes
DVC Server (OSS tools) — Data version control
ClearML — Experiment & model mgmt
BentoML — Model serving platform
MLRun (Iguazio OSS) — MLOps orchestration
JupyterLab (self-host) — Modern notebook UI
Voila — Turn notebooks into apps
Gradio — Web UIs for ML demos

IPAM & Datacenter Inventory

NetBox — DCIM & IPAM
Nautobot — NetBox fork w/ plugins
RackTables — Datacenter asset mgmt
GestioIP — Web-based IPAM
OpenDCIM — Datacenter management
Device42 Open Audits — (limited OSS tools)
Netdisco — Network discovery & mgmt

DNS & Resolvers

Technitium DNS Server — Authoritative & resolver
BIND 9 — Authoritative DNS server
Unbound — Validating DNS resolver
Knot DNS — High-performance authoritative
PowerDNS — Authoritative & recursor
CoreDNS — DNS server for cloud/K8s
Knot Resolver — Caching DNS resolver

Status Pages & Incident Tools

Cachet — Status page & metrics
Statping-ng — Status page monitor
cState — Static status pages
Vigil — Microservices status
Healthchecks — Cron & job monitoring
Dead Man’s Snitch (OSS alt: Healthchecks) — Deadman switch (self-host)
Cabot — Monitoring & alerts
UptimeRobot Self-host Alt (Uptime Kuma) — Status & uptime
PagerDuty OSS Alt (Alertmanager) — Alert routing

Remote Access & Screen

Apache Guacamole — Clientless RDP/VNC/SSH
RustDesk Server — Open remote desktop
MeshCentral — Remote device management
Remotely — Support & remote control
Sunshine — Self-host game streaming
ThinLinc (server) — Linux remote desktop
Teleport Community — Secure access to infra

Photo & Gallery (More)

Photoview — Fast photo gallery
Zenphoto — CMS for images & media
Sigal — Static photo gallery
PiGallery 2 (alt link) — Directory-based gallery
Thumbsup — Static album generator
Immich (server) — Mobile-first photo backup
LibrePhotos (alt link) — Self-hosted Photos alt

Media Requests & Subtitles

Overseerr — Requests for Plex/Emby/Jellyfin
Jellyseerr — Requests for Jellyfin
Ombi — Media request system
Bazarr — Subtitles for *Arr stack
Lidarr — Music manager (*Arr)
Whisparr — Adult content manager (*Arr)
Mylar3 — Comics manager
NZBHydra2 — Usenet meta search
pyLoad — Download manager (hosters)

YouTube Front-ends & Archiving

Invidious — Self-hosted YouTube frontend
AllTube — Self-host video downloader
YTDL-Material — Download & organize videos
NewPipe (serverless client) — Android client (reference)
ytarchive-webui — Archive livestreams

Finance & Budgeting (More)

IHateMoney — Group expense sharing
Actual (self-host) — Privacy-focused budgeting
MoneyManagerEx Web — Personal finance (web UIs)

HR & Applicant Tracking

OpenCATS — Applicant tracking system
OrangeHRM (Community) — HR management suite
IceHRM (Community) — HR & attendance
Sentrifugo — HRMS for small orgs
Kimai (timesheets) — Time tracking for teams
Open HRMS (Odoo modules) — HR on top of Odoo

Forms & Surveys

LimeSurvey — Powerful survey platform
KoboToolbox (server) — Field data collection
Nextcloud Forms — Forms inside Nextcloud
Formtools — Classic PHP forms
SurveyJS (self-host builder) — Embeddable survey suite
Paper Survey (LimeSurvey Kiosk) — Kiosk/kiosk mode tools

IT Asset & ITSM

GLPI — ITSM & asset management
OCS Inventory NG — Inventory & discovery
FusionInventory — Agent for GLPI/OCS
Rudder — Continuous config mgmt
TheForeman — Provisioning & lifecycle
FleetDM — Device mgmt via osquery
Collins — Asset mgmt platform
Manage LDAP (FusionDirectory) — LDAP admin console
Snipe-IT (link) — Hardware assets & licenses

Log Pipelines & Observability Add-ons

Vector — High-perf logs pipeline
Fluentd — Data collector for logs
Fluent Bit — Lightweight log forwarder
OpenTelemetry Collector — Telemetry pipeline
Prometheus Thanos — Metrics long-term storage
Grafana Mimir — Massive metrics storage
VictoriaMetrics — Fast TSDB
SigNoz — Open-source APM
Kibana (via OpenSearch Dashboards) — Dashboards for logs

PDF & Document Tools

Stirling-PDF — All-in-one PDF toolkit
Papermerge — Document archiving & OCR
Scribus Server (scripts) — Layout automation
Docmost — Self-hosted Notion-like
Meilisearch Docs Theme — Docs templates
Wikmd — Markdown wiki
Gollum Wiki — Git-backed wiki
HedgeDoc (alt link) — Collaborative Markdown

Headless CMS & APIs

Strapi — Node.js headless CMS
KeystoneJS — Headless CMS & GraphQL
Payload CMS — TypeScript CMS
ApostropheCMS — Node.js CMS
Directus (alt link) — Headless CMS for SQL
Plone — Python CMS
Backdrop CMS — Drupal fork
Typemill — Flat-file CMS
Statamic (Core) — Laravel flat-file CMS

Kubernetes Tools & Dashboards

Kubernetes Dashboard — Web UI for clusters
Lens (Open-Lens) — K8s IDE (self-host addons)
Kubeapps — App catalog for K8s
FluxCD — GitOps for Kubernetes
Argo Workflows — K8s native workflows
KEDA — Event-driven autoscaling
Kiali — Service mesh observability
Istio — Service mesh for K8s
Cert-Manager — Certificates on K8s

Registries (Containers & Packages)

ChartMuseum — Helm chart registry
Verdaccio — Private npm registry
Sonatype Nexus OSS — Artifact repository
Harbor (alt link) — Cloud-native registry
GitLab Container Registry — Built-in registry
ProGet (Community) — Package feeds server
CNAB Harbor Add-ons — Bundle artifacts

Bookmarks & Archivers (More)

Shiori — Simple bookmark manager
Linkding (alt link) — Minimal bookmarks
LinkAce (alt link) — Bookmark archiving
Monolith — Archive pages to single file
SingleFile (server) — Save complete pages
Kimurai — Web scraping framework
Archive.today Self-host Alt (Wayback) — Crawling & archiving

Education & LMS

Moodle — Learning management system
Open edX (Tutor) — MOOC platform
Canvas LMS (OSS parts) — Popular LMS (open core)
Sakai — Academic LMS
Chamilo — E-learning & CMS
H5P (self-host) — Interactive content
BigBlueButton (learning focus) — Virtual classroom

Household, Inventory & Groceries

Homebox — Home inventory manager
Homechart — Family organization suite

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