Open Source Tools you can self-host

μlogger

( reviews)

Collect geolocation from users in real-time and display their GPS tracks on a website.

μlogger review

Zoneminder

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) software application which supports IP, USB and Analog cameras.

Zoneminder review

Zulip

Zulip is a powerful, open source group chat application.

üWave

Self-hosted collaborative listening platform. Users take turns playing media—songs, talks, gameplay videos, or anything else—from a variety of media sources like YouTube and SoundCloud.

ZOT OCI Registry

A production-ready vendor-neutral OCI-native container image registry.

ZOT OCI Registry review

µStreamer

Lightweight and very quick server to stream MJPEG video from any V4L2 device to the net.

µStreamer review

µTask

Automation engine that models and executes business processes declared in yaml.

Zusam

Free and open-source way to self-host private forums for groups of friends or family.

ZNC

Advanced IRC bouncer.

ZincSearch

Search engine that requires minimal resources (alternative to Elasticsearch).

ZincSearch review

ZOT OCI Registry

A production-ready vendor-neutral OCI-native container image registry.

ZOT OCI Registry review

Zipline

A lightweight, fast and reliable file sharing server that is commonly used with ShareX, offering a react-based Web UI and fast API.

TYPO3

Powerful and advanced CMS with a large community.

Umami

Simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.

Zimbra Collaboration

Email, calendar, collaboration server with Web interface and lots of integrations.

Zimbra Collaboration review

Zammad

Easy to use but powerful open-source support and ticketing system.

ZenTao

An agile(scrum) project management system/tool.

Zenphoto

Open-source gallery and CMS project.

Zenphoto review

YunoHost

Server operating system aiming to make self-hosting accessible to everyone.

YunoHost review

Zenko CloudServer

Zenko CloudServer, an open-source implementation of a server handling the Amazon S3 protocol.

Zenko CloudServer review

Zim

Graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images.

yt-dlp Web UI

Web GUI for yt-dlp.

yt-dlp Web UI review

YoutubeDL-Server

Web and REST interface for downloading videos onto a server.

YoutubeDL-Server review

YoutubeDL-Material

Material Design inspired YouTube downloader, based on youtube-dl. Supports playlists, quality select, search, dark mode and much more, all with a clean and modern design.

YoutubeDL-Material review

Zero-K

Open Source on Springrts engine. Zero-K is a traditional real time strategy game with a focus on player creativity through terrain manipulation, physics, and a large roster of unique units - all while being balanced to support competitive play.

Yopass

Secure sharing of secrets, passwords and files.

ydl_api_ng

Simple youtube-dl REST API to launch downloads on a distant server.

ydl_api_ng review

YOURLS

YOURLS is a set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run Your Own URL Shortener. Features include password protection, URL customization, bookmarklets, statistics, API, plugins, jsonp.

Your Spotify

Allows you to record your Spotify listening activity and have statistics about them served through a Web application.

Your Spotify review

Yarr

Yarr (yet another rss reader) is a web-based feed aggregator which can be used both as a desktop application and a personal self-hosted server.

Yacy

Peer based, decentralized search engine server.

ybFeed

Personal micro feed where you can post snippets of text or images.

YABin

A pastebin that contains plentiful features while remaining simple. Supports optional E2E encryption, a client-side CLI app, syntax highlighting, minimalistic UI, APIs, keyboard shortcuts, and more. It can even be run in serverless environments.

Yeti-Switch

Transit class4 softswitch(SBC) with integrated billing and routing engine and REST API.

Yeti-Switch review

yarn.social

Self-Hosted, Twitter™-like Decentralised micro-logging platform. No ads, no tracking, your content, your data.

yarn.social review

Xandikos

Open source CardDAV and CalDAV server with minimal administrative overhead, backed by a Git repository.

Xandikos review

XBackBone

A simple, fast and lightweight file manager with instant sharing tools integration, like ShareX (a free and open-source screenshot utility for Windows).

XBackBone review

xsrv

Install and manage self-hosted services/applications, on your own server(s).

Writing

Lightweight distraction-free text editor, in the browser (Markdown and LaTeX supported). No lag when writing.

Yaade

Yaade is an open-source, self-hosted, collaborative API development environment.

XWiki

Second generation wiki that allows the user to extend its functionalities with a powerful extension-based architecture.

WooCommerce

WordPress based e-commerce solution.

WooCommerce review

WordPress

World’s most-used blogging and CMS engine.

WordPress review

webtrees

Webtrees is the web’s leading on-line collaborative genealogy application.

webtrees review

WinterCMS

Speedy and secure content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework.

WinterCMS review

WriteFreely

Writing software for starting a minimalist, federated blog — or an entire community.

WriteFreely review

Word Mastermind

Wordle clone. A Mastermind-like game, but instead of colors you need to guess words.

Word Mastermind review

WonderCMS

WonderCMS is the smallest flat file CMS since 2008.

WonderCMS review

wildduck

Scalable no-SPOF IMAP/POP3 mail server.

wildduck review

WikiSuite

The most comprehensive and integrated Free / Libre / Open Source enterprise software suite.

WikiSuite review

Wikmd

Modern and simple file based wiki that uses Markdown and Git.

WeeWX

Open source software for your weather station.

Wiki.js

Modern, lightweight and powerful wiki app using Git and Markdown.

Whoogle

A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine.

WiKiss

Wiki, simple to use and install.

wger

Web-based personal workout, fitness and weight logger/tracker. It can also be used as a simple gym management utility and offers a full REST API as well.

WeTTY

Terminal in browser over http/https.

WikiDocs

A databaseless markdown flat-file wiki engine.

WikiDocs review

Websurfx

Aggregate results from other search engines (metasearch engine) without ads while keeping privacy and security in mind. It is extremely fast and provides a high level of customization (alternative to SearX).

Websurfx review

Webarchive

Lightweight self-hosted that creates HTML and PDF files from your bookmarks.

Webarchive review

WebDB

Efficient database IDE.

Weechat

Fast, light and extensible chat client.

Web-Portal

A python web app designed to allow a easy way to manage the links to all of your web services.

Web-Portal review

WebThings Gateway

WebThings is an open source implementation of the Web of Things, including the WebThings Gateway and the WebThings Framework.

WebThings Gateway review

Weblate

Web-based translation tool with tight version control integration.

Wekan

Open-source Trello-like kanban.

wantguns/bin

Minimal pastebin for both textual and binary files shipped in a single statically linked binary.

wantguns/bin review

Wallabag

Wallabag, formerly Poche, is a web application allowing you to save articles to read them later with improved readability.

Wallabag review

Uptime Kuma

Self-hosted website monitoring tool like “Uptime Robot”.

Uptime Kuma review

Wastebin

Lightweight, minimal and fast pastebin with an SQLite backend.

Wastebin review

WBO

Web Whiteboard to collaborate in real-time on schemas, drawings, and notes.

Watcharr

A free and open source content watch list. Add and track all the shows and movies you are watching. Comes with user authentication, modern and clean UI and a very simple setup.

Watcharr review

Wayback

A self-hosted toolkit for archiving webpages to the Internet Archive, archive.today, IPFS, and local file systems.

Warpgate

Smart SSH and HTTPS bastion that works with any SSH client.

Warpgate review

Wazo

Full-featured IPBX solution built atop Asterisk with integrated Web administration interface and REST-ful API.

Wakapi

Tracking tool for coding statistics, compatible with WakaTime.

WackoWiki

WackoWiki is a light and easy to install multilingual Wiki-engine.

WackoWiki review

Vigil

Microservices Status Page. Monitors a distributed infrastructure and sends alerts (Slack, SMS, etc.).

Vendure

A headless commerce framework.

Wagtail

Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience.

vod2pod-rss

Convert YouTube and Twitch channels to podcasts, no storage required. Transcodes VoDs to MP3 192k on the fly, generates an RSS feed to use in podcast clients.

vod2pod-rss review

VideoLAN Client (VLC)

Cross-platform multimedia player client and server supporting most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

VideoLAN Client (VLC) review

Vikunja

The to-do app to organize your life.

UVDesk

UVDesk community is a service oriented, event driven extensible opensource helpdesk system that can be used by your organization to provide efficient support to your clients effortlessly whichever way you imagine.

Veloren

Multiplayer RPG. Open-source game inspired by Cube World, Legend of Zelda, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft.

VanDAM

Digital asset manager for 3d print files; STL, OBJ, 3MF and more.

Uploady

Uploady is a simple file uploader script with multi file upload support.

Upsnap

A simple Wake on LAN (WOL) dashboard app. Wake up devices on your network and see current status.

Vaultwarden

Lightweight Bitwarden server API implementation written in Rust.

Vaultwarden review

URL-to-PNG

URL to PNG utility featuring parallel rendering using Playwright for screenshots and with storage caching via Local, S3, or CouchDB.

URL-to-PNG review

Typemill

Author-friendly flat-file-cms with a visual markdown editor based on vue.js.

Typemill review

tubesync

Syncs YouTube channels and playlists to a locally hosted media server.

tubesync review

UBOS

Linux distro that runs on indie boxes (personal servers and IoT devices). Single-command installation and management of apps - Jenkins, Mediawiki, Owncloud, WordPress, etc., and other features.

Unison

Unison is a file-synchronization tool for OSX, Unix, and Windows.

Uguu

Stores files and deletes after X amount of time.

UnrealIRCd

Modular, advanced and highly configurable IRC server written in C for Linux, BSD, Windows, and macOS.

UnrealIRCd review

Umbraco

The friendly CMS. Free and open source with an amazing community.

Typebot

Conversational app builder (alternative to Typeform or Landbot).

txtdot

A HTTP proxy that parses only text, links and pictures from pages reducing internet bandwidth usage, removing ads and heavy scripts.

Typesense

Blazing fast, typo-tolerant open source search engine optimized for developer happiness and ease of use.

Typesense review