Open Source Tools you can self-host

Elgg

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Powerful open source social networking engine.

Easyshortener

A simple URL shortener.

Easyshortener review

edX

The Open edX platform is open-source code that powers edX.org.

elixire

Simple yet advanced screenshot uploading and link shortening service.

EasyWI

Easy-Wi is a Web-interface that allows you to manage server daemons like gameservers. In addition it provides you with a CMS which includes a fully automated game- and voiceserver lending service.

eLabFTW

Online lab notebook for research labs. Store experiments, use a database to find reagents or protocols, use trusted timestamping to legally timestamp an experiment, export as pdf or zip archive, share with collaborators….

EDA

Web application for data analysis and visualization.

egroupware

Software suite including calendars, address books, notepad, project management tools, client relationship management tools (CRM), knowledge management tools, a wiki and a CMS.

egroupware review

Drupal Commerce

Drupal Commerce is a popular e-commerce module for Drupal CMS, with support for dozens of payment, shipping, and shopping related modules.

Drupal Commerce review

Dotclear

Take control over your blog.

Dotclear review

Druid

Distributed, column-oriented, real-time analytics data store.

Drift

Self-hosted Github Gist clone.

DragonFly

A small MTA for home and office use. Works on Linux and FreeBSD.

DragonFly review

Easy!Appointments

A highly customizable web application that allows your customers to book appointments with you via the web.

Easy!Appointments review

Domoticz

Home Automation System that lets you monitor and configure various devices like: Lights, Switches, various sensors/meters like Temperature, Rain, Wind, UV, Electra, Gas, Water and much more.

Domoticz review

Drupal

Advanced open source content management platform.

DreamFactory

Turns any SQL/NoSQL/Structured data into Restful API.

DreamFactory review

dpaste

Simple pastebin with multiple text and code option, with short url result easy to remember.

Dovel

SMTP server that sends and receives emails according to a simple configuration file, with an optional web interface that you can use to browse your emails.

Dovecot

IMAP and POP3 server written primarily with security in mind.

DSpace

Turnkey repository application providing durable access to digital resources.

draw.io

Diagram software for making flowcharts, process diagrams, org charts, UML, ER and network diagrams.

DocKing

Document management service/microservice that handles templates and renders them in PDF format, all in one place.

docassemble

A free, open-source expert system for guided interviews and document assembly, based on Python, YAML, and Markdown.

docassemble review

docker-mailserver

Production-ready fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) running inside a container. Only configuration files, no SQL database.

docker-mailserver review

Dokuwiki

Easy to use, lightweight, standards-compliant wiki engine with a simple syntax allowing reading the data outside the wiki. All data is stored in plain text files, therefore no database is required.

Dokuwiki review

Docspell

Auto-tagging document organizer and archive.

Docspell review

Documize

Modern Docs + Wiki software with built-in workflow, single binary executable, just bring MySQL/Percona.

Documize review

Dokku

An open-source PaaS (alternative to Heroku).

DOMJudge

A system for running a programming contest, like the ICPC regional and world championship programming contests.

DOMJudge review

Dnote

A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and web interface.

DockSTARTer

DockSTARTer helps you get started with home server apps running in Docker.

DockSTARTer review

Dolibarr

Dolibarr ERP CRM is a modern software package to manage your company or foundation activity (contacts, suppliers, invoices, orders, stocks, agenda, accounting, …).

Dolibarr review

DomainMOD

Application to manage your domains and other internet assets in a central location. DomainMOD includes a Data Warehouse framework that allows you to import your WHM/cPanel web server data so that you can view, export, and report on your data.

DomainMOD review

Docuseal

Create, fill, and sign digital documents (alternative to DocuSign).

Docuseal review

Discourse

Advanced forum / community solution based on Ruby and JS.

Discourse review

Dim

Dim is a self-hosted media manager fueled by dark forces. With minimal setup, Dim will organize and beautify your media collections, letting you access and play them anytime from anywhere.

DOCAT

Host your docs. Simple. Versioned. Fancy.

Directus

An Instant App & API for your SQL Database. Directus wraps your new or existing SQL database with a realtime GraphQL+REST API for developers, and an intuitive admin app for non-technical users.

Directus review

Digiwall

Create multimedia collaborative walls for in-person or remote work (documentation in French).

Digiwall review

DirectoryLister

Simple PHP based directory lister that lists a directory and all its sub-directories and allows you to navigate there within.

DirectoryLister review

dillinger

The last Markdown editor, ever.

dillinger review

Digiwords

A simple online application for creating word clouds (documentation in French).

Digiwords review

Digiscreen

Interactive whiteboard/wallpaper for the classroom, in person or remotely (documentation in French).

Digiscreen review

django-wiki

Wiki system with complex functionality for simple integration and a superb interface. Store your knowledge with style: Use django models.

django-wiki review

Digistorm

Create collaborative surveys, quizzes, brainstorms, and word clouds (documentation in French).

Digistorm review

Digiface

Create avatars using the Avataaars library (documentation in French).

Digiface review

Digicard

Create simple graphic compositions (documentation in French).

Digicard review

Digibunch

Create bunches of links to share with your learners or colleagues.

Digibunch review

Digiboard

Create collaborative whiteboards (documentation in French).

Digiboard review

Digimindmap

Create simple mindmaps (documentation in French).

Digimindmap review

Digitools

A set of simple tools to accompany the animation of courses in person or remotely. (documentation in French).

Digitools review

Digiview

View YouTube videos in a distraction-free interface (documentation in French).

Digiview review

Digipad

An online self-hosted application for creating collaborative digital notepads (Documentation in french).

DietPi

Minimal Debian OS optimized for single-board computers, which allows you to easily install and manage several services for selfhosting at home.

DeviceHive

Open Source IoT Platform with a wide range of integration options.

DeviceHive review

diaspora*

Distributed social networking server.

diaspora* review

Digibuzzer

Create a virtual game room around a connected buzzer (documentation in French).

Digibuzzer review

Darkwire.io

End-to-end encrypted instant web chat.

Darkwire.io review

Dalton Plan

Dalton Plan is a modern adoption of a free teaching method developed by Helen Parkhurst in the 20th century.

Dalton Plan review

Davis

A simple, dockerizable and fully translatable admin interface for sabre/dav based on Symfony 5 and Bootstrap 4, largely inspired by Baïkal.

Dashy

Feature-rich homepage for your homelab, with easy YAML configuration.

Dat Project

Powerful decentralized file sharing applications built from a large ecosystem of modules.

Dat Project review

Dashpress

Generate fully functional admin apps in seconds from your database information, with a single command.

Dashpress review

DAViCal

Server for calendar sharing (CalDAV) that uses a PostgreSQL database as a data store.

DebOps

Your Debian-based data center in a box. A set of general-purpose Ansible roles that can be used to manage Debian or Ubuntu hosts.

Databunker

Network-based, self-hosted, GDPR compliant, secure database for personal data or PII.

Databunker review

Datasette

An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data, easy import and export and database management.

Datasette review

Deluge

Lightweight, cross-platform BitTorrent client.

DePay

Accept Web3 Payments directly into your wallet. Peer-to-peer, free, self-hosted & open-source.

Databag

Federated, end-to-end encrypted messaging service for the web, iOS, and Android, supporting text, photos, video, and WebRTC video and audio calls.

Dendrite

Second-generation Matrix homeserver written in Go. It intends to provide an efficient, reliable and scalable alternative to Synapse.

Dendrite review

Crafty Controller

Crafty Controller is a free and open-source Minecraft launcher and manager that allows users to start and administer Minecraft servers from a user-friendly interface.

Crafty Controller review

Cypht

Feed reader for your email accounts.

Dada Mail

Web-based list management system that can be used for announcement lists and/or discussion lists.

Dada Mail review

Corteza

CRM including a unified workspace, enterprise messaging and a low code environment for rapidly and securely delivering records-based management solutions.

Cozy Cloud

Personal cloud where you can manage and sync your contact, files and calendars, and manage your budget with an app store full of community contributions.

Cozy Cloud review

CyTube

CyTube is a web application providing media synchronization, chat, and more for an arbitrary number of channels.

CryptPad

CryptPad is a collaboration suite that is end-to-end-encrypted and open-source. It is built to enable collaboration, synchronizing changes to documents in real time.

CryptPad review

Damselfly

Fast server-based photo management system for large collections of images. Includes face detection, face & object recognition, powerful search, and EXIF Keyword tagging. Runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows.

Damselfly review

CUPS

The Common Unix Print System uses Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) to support printing to local and network printers.

cState

Static status page for hyperfast Hugo. Clean design, minimal JS, super light HTML/CSS, high customization, optional admin panel, read-only API, IE8+. Best used with Netlify, Docker.

DailyTxT

Encrypted diary Web application to save your personal memories of each day. Includes a search function and encrypted file upload.

DailyTxT review

Courier MTA

Fast, scalable, enterprise mail/groupware server providing ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, mailing list, basic web-based calendaring and scheduling services.

Courier MTA review

CyberChef

Perform all manner of operations within a web browser such as AES, DES and Blowfish encryption and decryption, creating hexdumps, calculating hashes, and much more.

CyberChef review

Cyrus IMAP

Email (IMAP/POP3), contacts and calendar server.

Cyrus IMAP review

CoreShop

CoreShop is a e-commerce plugin for Pimcore.

CoreShop review

Coolify

An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify alternative (and even more).

Coral

A better commenting experience from Vox Media.

Countly Community Edition

Real time mobile and web analytics, crash reporting and push notifications platform.

Countly Community Edition review

CouchCMS

Simple Open-Source CMS for designers.

CouchCMS review

copyparty

Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, deduplication, WebDAV, FTP, zeroconf, media indexer, video thumbnails, audio transcoding, and write-only folders, in a single file with no mandatory dependencies.

copyparty review

Contao

Contao is a powerful open source CMS that allows you to create professional websites and scalable web applications.

Coppermine

Multilingual photo gallery that integrates with various bulletin boards. Includes upload approval and password protected albums.

Coppermine review

Converse.js

Free and open-source XMPP chat client in your browser.

Converse.js review

Collective Access - Providence

Highly configurable Web-based framework for management, description, and discovery of digital and physical collections supporting a variety of metadata standards, data types, and media formats.

Collective Access - Providence review

Conduit

A simple, fast, and reliable chat server powered by Matrix.

Chyrp Lite

Extra-awesome, extra-lightweight blog engine.

Chyrp Lite review

CommaFeed

Google Reader inspired self-hosted RSS reader.

CommaFeed review

Convos

Always online web IRC client.