Best Self-Hosted Apps

n8n Automation

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Workflow automation for technical teams

Replaces Zapier, Make

Ollama AI

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Run large language models locally

Replaces OpenAI API

Open WebUI AI

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Extensible, self-hosted AI chat interface

Replaces ChatGPT

Immich Media

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Self-hosted photo and video backup

Replaces Google Photos, iCloud Photos

Uptime Kuma Monitoring & Dashboards

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A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

Replaces UptimeRobot, Pingdom, StatusCake

Home Assistant Home Automation

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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

Home Assistant Home Automation

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Open-source home automation

Replaces Google Home, Samsung SmartThings, Apple HomeKit

Stirling-PDF Files & Storage

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

Replaces Adobe Acrobat, iLovePDF, Smallpdf

Syncthing Files & Storage

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Continuous peer-to-peer file synchronization

Replaces Dropbox, Resilio Sync

Grafana Monitoring & Dashboards

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Observability and data visualization

Replaces Datadog, New Relic

Vaultwarden Passwords & Security

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Lightweight Bitwarden-compatible password server

Replaces Bitwarden (cloud), 1Password, LastPass

Vaultwarden Passwords & Security

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

Replaces Bitwarden, 1Password, LastPass

Memos Notes & Docs

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

Replaces Twitter/X, Notion, Google Keep

Pi-hole Networking & DNS

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Network-wide ad blocking via DNS

Replaces NextDNS, AdGuard DNS

Pi-hole Networking & DNS

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

Replaces NextDNS, AdGuard DNS

Coolify Dev & Git

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Self-hostable Heroku / Netlify alternative

Replaces Heroku, Vercel, Netlify

Gitea Dev & Git

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Painless self-hosted Git service

Replaces GitHub, GitLab

Appwrite Dev & Git

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

Replaces Firebase, Supabase

Joplin Notes & Docs

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Open-source note-taking and to-do app

Replaces Evernote, OneNote

Jellyfin Media

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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

Jellyfin Media

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The free software media system

Replaces Plex, Emby

Gogs Dev & Git

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

Replaces GitHub, GitLab

nanobot AI

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

Replaces ChatGPT (agents/assistants)

Rocket.Chat Communication

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Open-source team communication

Replaces Slack, Microsoft Teams

SiYuan Notes & Docs

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

Replaces Notion, Evernote, Obsidian

Paperless-ngx Files & Storage

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

Replaces Evernote, DEVONthink, Mayan EDMS

Jan AI

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

Replaces ChatGPT

Appsmith Dev & Git

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

Replaces Retool

PhotoPrism Media

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AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

Replaces Google Photos

Outline Notes & Docs

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Team knowledge base and wiki

Replaces Notion, Confluence

Mattermost Communication

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Secure collaboration for developers

Replaces Slack, Microsoft Teams

Portainer Monitoring & Dashboards

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Container management made easy

Trilium Notes Notes & Docs

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

Replaces Evernote, OneNote, Notion

Dokploy Dev & Git

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

Replaces Vercel, Netlify, Heroku

Khoj AI

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

Replaces ChatGPT, Notion AI

Nextcloud Files & Storage

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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

Nextcloud Files & Storage

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Self-hosted content collaboration platform

Replaces Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft 365

Glance Monitoring & Dashboards

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

Replaces iGoogle, Netvibes

AdGuard Home Networking & DNS

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

Replaces NextDNS, Pi-hole

AdGuard Home Networking & DNS

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Network-wide ad and tracker blocking DNS

Replaces NextDNS, Pi-hole

File Browser Files & Storage

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

Replaces Dropbox, Google Drive

Frigate Home Automation

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Local NVR with real-time AI object detection

Replaces Ring, Nest Aware

Nginx Proxy Manager Networking & DNS

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Easy reverse proxy with a web UI and SSL

changedetection.io Monitoring & Dashboards

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

Replaces Visualping, Distill.io

Langfuse Dev & Git

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

Replaces LangSmith

Dokku Dev & Git

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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

Homepage Monitoring & Dashboards

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

Replaces Heimdall, Netvibes

Karakeep Notes & Docs

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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

Actual Budget Finance

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Local-first personal finance and budgeting

Replaces YNAB

Actual Budget Finance

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

Replaces YNAB, Mint

Firefly III Finance

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

Replaces Mint, YNAB, Quicken

Firefly III Finance

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Personal finances manager

Replaces Mint, YNAB, Quicken

Beszel Monitoring & Dashboards

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

Replaces Datadog, Netdata Cloud, Grafana Cloud

Dockge Dev & Git

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

Replaces Portainer

Authentik Passwords & Security

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Open-source identity provider (SSO)

Replaces Okta, Auth0, Microsoft Entra

Navidrome Media

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

Replaces Spotify, Apple Music, Plexamp

Navidrome Media

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Modern music server and streamer

Replaces Spotify, Apple Music, Plex (music)

BookStack Notes & Docs

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

Replaces Confluence, Notion

FreshRSS Reading & RSS

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Free, self-hostable RSS feed aggregator

Replaces Feedly, Inoreader

Gotify Communication

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

Replaces Pushover, Pushbullet

Audiobookshelf Media

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Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

Replaces Audible, Plex (audiobooks)

OliveTin Automation

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

Replaces Rundeck

CasaOS Files & Storage

Stale

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

Cachet Monitoring & Dashboards

Stale

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

Replaces Atlassian Statuspage

Seafile Files & Storage

Stale

High-performance file sync and share

Replaces Dropbox, Google Drive