The open source software roster.
A curated roster of open source applications — guides, comparisons, and how-tos in one place.
Tools
OpenClaw_
Self-hosted personal AI assistant on your everyday chat apps.
Hermes Agent_
Self-hosted personal AI assistant that learns and remembers.
OpenCode_
Open source terminal AI coding agent, any model.
n8n_
Open source workflow automation — a Zapier alternative.
Dify_
Build LLM apps and agents with RAG and LLMOps.
Ollama_
Run open source LLMs locally with one command.
Open WebUI_
Self-hosted AI chat UI for Ollama; a ChatGPT alternative.
Supabase_
Open source Postgres backend — a Firebase alternative.
vLLM_
High-throughput LLM inference and serving on your own GPUs.
Immich_
Self-hosted photo backup — a Google Photos alternative.
Uptime Kuma_
Self-hosted uptime monitoring, alerts, and status pages.
Langflow_
Visual, Python-native builder for LLM apps and agents.
Excalidraw_
Open source whiteboard — a Miro and FigJam alternative.
RAGFlow_
Self-hosted RAG engine with deep document parsing.
Grafana_
Open source observability dashboards — a Datadog alternative.
Apache Superset_
Open source business intelligence and dashboards — a Tableau alternative.
OpenHands_
Open source AI software engineer — a Devin alternative.
Firecrawl_
Open source scraping API turning sites into LLM-ready data.
Strapi_
Open source headless CMS — a Contentful alternative.
Stirling-PDF_
Self-hosted PDF toolkit — an Adobe Acrobat alternative.
LobeChat_
Self-hosted multi-model AI chat UI; a ChatGPT alternative.
DeerFlow_
ByteDance's self-hosted deep research agent framework.
Syncthing_
Peer-to-peer file sync — an open source Dropbox alternative.
Hoppscotch_
Open source API client — a Postman alternative.
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Alternatives
1Password_
Hosted password manager and secrets vault.
Acuity Scheduling_
Appointment booking with intake forms and payments, by Squarespace.
Adobe Acrobat_
Subscription PDF editor, converter, and e-sign suite.
Adobe XD_
Adobe's UI/UX design and prototyping app.
Adyen_
Enterprise global payments platform.
Agora_
Pay-as-you-go real-time voice and video APIs.
Airtable_
Spreadsheet-database for apps and workflows.
Algolia_
Managed search-as-a-service for site and app search.
Amazon Bedrock_
AWS managed service for calling foundation models.
Amazon Bedrock Agents_
AWS managed service for building and running AI agents.
Amazon Cognito_
AWS user sign-up, sign-in, and access control.
Amazon ECR_
AWS's managed Elastic Container Registry.
Amazon Kendra_
Managed intelligent enterprise search from AWS.
Amazon Kinesis_
AWS's fully managed real-time data streaming service.
Amazon Photos_
Amazon's cloud photo storage bundled with Prime.
Amazon Redshift_
AWS cloud data warehouse for analytics.
Amazon S3_
Scalable cloud object storage with an S3 API.
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth_
AWS managed data labeling service.
Amazon SQS_
AWS's fully managed message queue service.
Amazon Timestream_
AWS-managed time-series database billed per write, query, and stored GB.
Amplitude_
Hosted product analytics for behavioral cohorts.
Apify_
Cloud platform for web scraping and automation.
AppDynamics_
Cisco's hosted APM and full-stack observability.
Asana_
Proprietary work management for teams and projects.