Open Source Tools you can self-host

Limbas

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Limbas is a database framework for creating database-driven business applications. As a graphical database frontend, it enables the efficient processing of data stocks and the flexible development of comfortable database applications.

LinkAce

A bookmark archive with automatic backups to the Internet Archive, link monitoring, and a full REST API. Installation is done via Docker, or as a simple PHP application.

LinkStack

Link all your social media platforms easily accessible on one page, customizable through an intuitive, easy to use user/admin interface (alternative to Linktree and Manylink).

LinkStack review

Live Helper Chat

Live Support chat for your website.

Live Helper Chat review

Livebook

Realtime collaborative notebook app based on Markdown that supports running Elixir code snippets, TeX and Mermaid Diagrams. Easily deployed using Docker or Elixir.

Livebook review

liteshort

User-friendly, actually lightweight, and configurable URL shortener.

liteshort review

Lidarr

Lidarr is a music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users.

LinuxGSM

CLI tool for deployment and management of dedicated game servers on Linux: more than 120 games are supported.

LinuxGSM review

Listmonk

High performance, self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard.

Listmonk review

LiveStreamDVR

An automatic Twitch recorder capable of capturing live streams, chat messages and stream metadata.

LiveStreamDVR review

LinkWarden

A self-hosted bookmark + archive manager to store your useful links.

LinkWarden review

LMS

Access your self-hosted music using a web interface.

LittleLink

A simplistic approach for links in bio with 100+ branded buttons (alternative to Linktree).

LittleLink review

Local Food Nodes

Your open source platform for peoples driven local food markets and CSA.

Local Food Nodes review

Lodestone

A free, open source server hosting tool for Minecraft and other multiplayers.

Lodestone review

Loomio

Loomio is a collaborative decision-making tool that makes it easy for anyone to participate in decisions which affect them.

Lynx

URL shortener with many functions such as multiple accounts, ShareX support and an attractive but simple interface.

LocalStack

LocalStack is a fully functional local AWS cloud stack. This includes Lambda for serverless computation.

LocalStack review

Lychee

Open source grid and album based photo-management-system.

Lowdefy

Build internal tools, BI dashboards, admin panels, CRUD apps and workflows in minutes using YAML / JSON on an self-hosted, open-source platform. Connect to your data sources, host via Serverless, Netlify or Docker.

lufi

Let’s Upload that FIle, client-side encrypted.

Maddy Mail Server

All-in-one mail server that implements SMTP (both MTA and MX) and IMAP. Replaces Postfix, Dovecot, OpenDKIM, OpenSPF, OpenDMARC with single daemon.

Maddy Mail Server review

Lstu

Lightweight URL shortener.

Loggit

End-to-end encrypted and simple life tracking & logging.

Lura

Open source High-Performance API Gateway.

Mail-in-a-Box

Turns any Ubuntu server into a fully functional mail server with one command.

Mail-in-a-Box review

Magento Open Source

Leading provider of open omnichannel innovation.

Magento Open Source review

Mailcow

Mail server suite based on Dovecot, Postfix and other open source software, that provides a modern Web UI for administration.

MailCatcher

Ruby gem that deploys a simply SMTP MTA gateway that accepts all mail and displays in web interface. Useful for debugging or development.

MailCatcher review

Mailman

The Gnu mailing list server.

Mailchimp Open Commerce

Customizable, real-time reactive, Javascript commerce platform (formerly Reaction Commerce).

Mailchimp Open Commerce review

MailCare

Open source disposable email address service.

MailCare review

Mailu

Mailu is a simple yet full-featured mail server as a set of Docker images.

Manticore Search

Full-text search and data analytics, with fast response time for small, medium and big data (alternative to Elasticsearch).

Manticore Search review

Mataroa

Mataroa is a naked blogging platform for minimalists.

Mattermost

Platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle, can be integrated with Gitlab (alternative to Slack).

Mattermost review

Maloja

Self-hosted music scrobble database (alternative to Last.fm).

MailyGo

MailyGo is a small tool written in Go that allows to send HTML forms, for example from static websites without a dynamic backend, via email.

Matomo

Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers’ privacy.

Matchering

A containerized web app for automated music mastering (alternative to LANDR, eMastered, and MajorDecibel).

Matchering review

Mainsail

A modern and responsive user interface for the Klipper 3D printer firmware. Control and monitor your printer from everywhere, from any device.

Mainsail review

Mautic

Mautic is marketing automation software (email, social and more).

Manage My Damn Life

Manage my Damn Life (MMDL) is a self-hosted front end for managing your CalDAV tasks and calendars.

Manage My Damn Life review

Mars Server

Managed home server with Docker, Docker Compose, Make and Bash.

Mars Server review

MantisBT

Self hosted bug tracker, fits best for software development.

MantisBT review

Mathesar

An intuitive UI for managing data collaboratively, for users of all technical skill levels. Built on Postgres – connect an existing DB or set up a new one.

Mathesar review

Meemo

Personal notes stream with Markdown support.

Mediawiki

MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software package written in PHP. It serves as the platform for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, used by hundreds of millions of people each month.

Mediawiki review

Mealie

Material design inspired recipe manager with category and tag management, shopping-lists, meal-planner, and site customizations. Mealie is focused on simple user interactions to keep the whole family using the app.

Maza ad blocking

Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system.

Maza ad blocking review

MedusaJs

Medusa is an open-source headless commerce engine that enables developers to create amazing digital commerce experiences.

MedusaJs review

Mediagoblin

Free software media publishing platform that anyone can run (alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc).

Mediagoblin review

Medusa

Automatic Video Library Manager for TV Shows. It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows, and when they are posted it does its magic.

Mayan EDMS

Free Open Source Electronic Document Management System. An electronic vault for your documents with preview generation, OCR, and automatic categorization among other features.

Mayan EDMS review

MediaCMS

MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django/React, featuring a REST API.

MediaCMS review

Metronome IM

Lightweight xmpp server with advanced microblogging features (fork of Prosody).

Metronome IM review

Meetable

A minimal events aggregator.

Meetable review

MeTube

Web GUI for youtube-dl, with playlist support. Allows downloading videos from dozens of websites.

Mejiro

An easy-to-use PHP web application for instant photo publishing.

Microweber

Drag and Drop CMS and online shop.

Microweber review

MeiliSearch

Ultra relevant, instant and typo-tolerant full-text search API.

MeiliSearch review

MicroBin

Simple, performant, configurable, entirely self-contained pastebin and URL shortener.

MicroBin review

Mastodon

Federated microblogging server.

Mastodon review

Memos

An open source, self-hosted knowledge base that works with a SQLite db file.

Metabase

Easy, open-source way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data.

Metabase review

Mibew

Mibew Messenger is an open-source live support application written in PHP and MySQL. It enables one-on-one chat assistance in real-time directly from your website.

MeshCentral

A full computer management website. With MeshCentral, you can run your own web server to remotely manage and control computers on a local network or anywhere on the internet.

MeshCentral review

Mere Medical

With Mere Medical, you can finally manage all of your medical records from Epic MyChart, Cerner, and OnPatient patient portals in one place. Privacy-focused, self-hosted, and offline-first.

Mere Medical review

MetaTube

A Web GUI to automatically download music from YouTube add metadata from Spotify, Deezer or Musicbrainz.

MetaTube review

MiAOU

Multi-room persistent chat server.

Minio

Minio is an open source object storage server compatible with Amazon S3 APIs.

mikochi

Browse remote folders, upload files, delete, rename, download and stream files to VLC/mpv.

Mindwendel

Brainstorm and upvote ideas and thoughts within your team.

Mindwendel review

Minetest

An open source voxel game engine. Play one of our many games, mod a game to your liking, make your own game, or play on a multiplayer server.

Minetest review

MindsDB

MindsDB is an open source self hosted AI layer for existing databases that allows you to effortlessly develop, train and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning models using standard queries.

minimalist-web-notepad

Minimalist notepad.cc clone.

minimalist-web-notepad review

Mindustry

Factorio-like tower defense game. Build production chains to gather more resources, and build complex facilities.

Mindustry review

miniserve

CLI tool to serve files and dirs over HTTP.

miniserve review

Miniflux

Miniflux is a minimalist and open source news reader, written in Go and PostgreSQL.

Miniflux review

Mixpost

Self-hosted social media management software. Easily create, schedule, publish, and manage social media content in one place (alternative to Hootsuite, Buffer, and other social media tools).

MODX

MODX is an advanced content management and publishing platform. The current version is called ‘Revolution’.

Misago

Misago is fully featured modern forum application that is fast, scalable and responsive.

MiroTalk P2P

Simple, secure, fast real-time video conferences up to 4k and 60fps, compatible with all browsers and platforms.

MiroTalk P2P review

MiroTalk SFU

Simple, secure, scalable real-time video conferences up to 4k, compatible with all browsers and platforms.

MiroTalk SFU review

MiroTalk C2C

Real-time cam-2-cam video calls & screen sharing, end-to-end encrypted, to embed in any website with a simple iframe.

MiroTalk C2C review

Misskey

Decentralized app-like microblogging server/SNS for the Fediverse, using the ActivityPub protocol like GNU social and Mastodon.

Monica

Personal relationship manager, and a new kind of CRM to organize interactions with your friends and family.

Modoboa

Modoboa is a mail hosting and management platform including a modern and simplified Web User Interface.

Mistborn

Mistborn is your own virtual private cloud platform and WebUI that manages self hosted services.

Mistborn review

Mobilizon

A federated tool that helps you find, create and organise events and groups.

Mobilizon review

MongooseIM

Mobile messaging platform with a focus on performance and scalability.

MongooseIM review

MistServer

Streaming media server that works well in any streaming environment.

MistServer review

musikcube

Streaming audio server with Linux/macOS/Windows/Android clients.

musikcube review

Mumble

Low-latency, high quality voice/text chat software.

Motor Admin

No-code admin panel and business intelligence software - search, create, update, and delete data entries, create custom actions, and build reports.

Motor Admin review

mosparo

The modern spam protection tool. It replaces other captcha methods with a simple and easy to use spam protection solution.

Mycorrhiza Wiki

Filesystem and git-based wiki engine written in Go using Mycomarkup as its primary markup language.

Mycorrhiza Wiki review

mpd

Daemon to remotely play music, stream music, handle and organize playlists. Many clients available.

My Mind

Web application for creating and managing mind maps.

Moodle

Moodle is a learning and courses platform with one of the largest open source communities worldwide.