Best Self-Hosted Apps — Live Directory, Updated Daily

Best Self-Hosted Apps — Live Directory, Updated Daily

Workflow automation for technical teams

Replaces Zapier, Make

Run large language models locally

Extensible, self-hosted AI chat interface

Self-hosted photo and video backup

Replaces Google Photos, iCloud Photos

A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

Replaces UptimeRobot, Pingdom, StatusCake

Local-first home automation hub that controls thousands of smart devices without the cloud — for privacy-minded smart-home users.

Replaces Google Home, Samsung SmartThings, Amazon Alexa

Open-source home automation

Replaces Google Home, Samsung SmartThings, Apple HomeKit

Web-based toolkit to split, merge, convert, OCR, sign and edit PDFs entirely on your own server.

Replaces Adobe Acrobat, iLovePDF, Smallpdf

Continuous peer-to-peer file synchronization

Replaces Dropbox, Resilio Sync

Observability and data visualization

Replaces Datadog, New Relic

Lightweight Bitwarden-compatible password server

Replaces Bitwarden (cloud), 1Password, LastPass

Lightweight Rust server implementing the Bitwarden API — self-host your password vault on a Raspberry Pi or tiny VPS.

Replaces Bitwarden, 1Password, LastPass

Lightweight, markdown-native quick-capture note/microblog tool for individuals.

Replaces Twitter/X, Notion, Google Keep

Network-wide ad blocking via DNS

Replaces NextDNS, AdGuard DNS

DNS sinkhole that blocks ads and trackers for your whole network — the classic Raspberry Pi homelab project.

Self-hostable Heroku / Netlify alternative

Replaces Heroku, Vercel, Netlify

Painless self-hosted Git service

Replaces GitHub, GitLab

Self-hostable backend platform with auth, databases, storage and functions for apps.

Replaces Firebase, Supabase

Open-source note-taking and to-do app

Replaces Evernote, OneNote

Free media server that streams your movies, TV, and music to any device — for cord-cutters who want a fully open Plex.

Replaces Plex, Emby, Netflix

The free software media system

A painless, lightweight self-hosted Git service written in Go, for teams who want their own GitHub-like code host.

An ultra-lightweight, self-hosted personal AI agent with a web UI, tool use, memory and MCP support.

Replaces ChatGPT (agents/assistants)

Open-source team communication

Replaces Slack, Microsoft Teams

Privacy-first, block-based personal knowledge management and note-taking app.

Replaces Notion, Evernote, Obsidian

Scans, OCRs, indexes, and archives your physical documents into a searchable digital archive — for the paperless office.

Replaces Evernote, DEVONthink, Mayan EDMS

Offline desktop/server ChatGPT alternative that runs open LLMs 100% locally.

Open-source low-code platform for building internal tools, admin panels and dashboards on top of 25+ data sources.

AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

Replaces Google Photos

Team knowledge base and wiki

Replaces Notion, Confluence

Secure collaboration for developers

Container management made easy

Hierarchical personal knowledge base for building large, linked note trees.

Replaces Evernote, OneNote, Notion

Self-hosted PaaS to deploy apps, Docker Compose stacks and databases with Traefik routing.

Replaces Vercel, Netlify, Heroku

Self-hostable AI 'second brain' that answers questions over your docs and the web with custom agents.

Replaces ChatGPT, Notion AI

Self-hosted content collaboration platform for files, calendar, contacts, and office docs — a private cloud for individuals and teams.

Replaces Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft 365

Self-hosted content collaboration platform

Replaces Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft 365

Self-hosted dashboard that aggregates RSS, feeds, widgets and service status on one page.

Replaces iGoogle, Netvibes

Network-wide DNS ad and tracker blocker with a polished dashboard — protects every device on your LAN.

Replaces NextDNS, Pi-hole

Network-wide ad and tracker blocking DNS

Simple web-based file manager for browsing, uploading and sharing files on your server.

Replaces Dropbox, Google Drive

Local NVR with real-time AI object detection

Replaces Ring, Nest Aware

Easy reverse proxy with a web UI and SSL

Website change detection and monitoring with alerts for price/content changes.

Replaces Visualping, Distill.io

Open-source LLM engineering platform for tracing, evals, prompt management and observability.

A Docker-powered mini-Heroku that lets you deploy and manage the full lifecycle of your own applications on a single server.

Replaces Heroku, Render

Highly customizable application dashboard/startpage with Docker and service API integrations.

Replaces Heimdall, Netvibes

Bookmark-everything app for links, notes, and images with AI auto-tagging and full-text search — a self-hosted read-later.

Replaces Pocket, Raindrop.io, Instapaper

Local-first personal finance and budgeting

Local-first, privacy-focused envelope budgeting app — for households managing money with zero-based budgeting.

Full double-entry personal finance manager to track accounts, budgets, and bills — for detailed money management.

Replaces Mint, YNAB, Quicken

Personal finances manager

Lightweight server monitoring with historical metrics, Docker stats, and alerts — a tiny single-binary dashboard for homelabs.

Replaces Datadog, Netdata Cloud, Grafana Cloud

Reactive self-hosted manager for Docker Compose stacks from the Uptime Kuma author.

Open-source identity provider (SSO)

Replaces Okta, Auth0, Microsoft Entra

Subsonic-compatible music streaming server for your own library — stream your collection anywhere via many apps.

Replaces Spotify, Apple Music, Plexamp

Modern music server and streamer

Replaces Spotify, Apple Music, Plex (music)

A simple, self-hosted platform for organizing and storing documentation and wiki-style knowledge bases.

Replaces Confluence, Notion

Free, self-hostable RSS feed aggregator

Replaces Feedly, Inoreader

Simple self-hosted server for sending and receiving push notifications over WebSocket.

Replaces Pushover, Pushbullet

Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

Replaces Audible, Plex (audiobooks)

Gives a safe, simple web interface for running predefined shell commands/scripts on a server without exposing full shell access.

A simple, elegant open-source personal cloud/home-server OS for managing Docker apps and files from a friendly web UI.

Replaces Synology DSM, QNAP QTS

Open-source, self-hosted status page system for communicating incidents and uptime.

Replaces Atlassian Statuspage

High-performance file sync and share

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