Best Self-Hosted Automation Apps

n8n Automation

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Workflow automation for technical teams

Replaces Zapier, Make

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

Coolify Dev & Git

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Self-hostable Heroku / Netlify alternative

Replaces Heroku, Vercel, Netlify

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

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

changedetection.io Monitoring & Dashboards

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

Replaces Visualping, Distill.io

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

Gotify Communication

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

Replaces Pushover, Pushbullet

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