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Dittofeed

DittofeedOpen

Self-hostable customer engagement for automated lifecycle messaging

Stars2,975
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

Dittofeed is a self-hostable customer engagement platform that automates marketing and transactional messages across email, SMS, webhooks, and mobile push.

Alternative toMailchimpSendGridNovu
Financial Freedom

Financial FreedomOpen

Self-hosted open source budgeting and wealth planner

Stars2,930
Commitjust now
LicenseGPL-3.0

Financial Freedom is a self-hosted, open source personal finance planner for budgeting and building wealth while keeping data on your own server.

Alternative toYNABActual
Padloc

PadlocOpen

Open-source E2E-encrypted password manager for people and teams

Stars2,929
Commit1y ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Padloc is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted password manager for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and major browsers. It stores passwords, credit cards, notes, documents, and license keys in encrypted vaults that sync through the Padloc cloud, which cannot read them. It serves individuals, families, and teams that want transparent, audited credential management with secure sharing.

Alternative toBitwarden
Defguard

Defguard

Self-hosted WireGuard VPN with per-connection MFA and built-in SSO

Stars2,857
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0-only

Defguard is a self-hosted access platform that combines WireGuard VPN, identity management, and per-connection multi-factor authentication.

Alternative toAuthentikAuthgear
OpenLIT

OpenLITAIOpen

Open-source OpenTelemetry observability for LLM apps and AI agents

Stars2,842
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

OpenLIT is an Apache-2.0 platform tracing and evaluating LLM apps and AI agents over OpenTelemetry, self-hosted with Docker or Kubernetes.

Alternative toLangfuse
ALTCHA

ALTCHAOpen

Proof-of-work CAPTCHA alternative with no cookies or tracking

Stars2,794
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

ALTCHA is a self-hosted CAPTCHA alternative that blocks bots and form spam with a silent proof-of-work challenge instead of image puzzles.

BookWyrm

BookWyrm

Federated book tracking and social reading without the ad platform

Stars2,789
Commitjust now
LicenseACSL-1.4

BookWyrm is a federated social reading platform: readers track what they are reading, write reviews, and follow friends across independently run instances.

Autumn

AutumnOpen

Open-source billing layer that sits on top of Stripe

Stars2,772
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Autumn is a billing layer that sits between a product and Stripe. Plans, prices, entitlements, and usage metering are defined in Autumn, while payment processing and subscription records stay inside Stripe, so teams keep their existing Stripe setup instead of migrating off it.

Quant-UX

Quant-UXOpen

Open-source prototyping with built-in usability testing

Stars2,732
Commitjust now
LicenseGPL-3.0

Quant-UX is a free, open-source tool for building interactive prototypes, running usability tests with real users, and analyzing results with heatmaps.

Alternative toFigmaPenpot
OpenWebAnalytics

OpenWebAnalytics

Self-hosted open-source web analytics with full data ownership

Stars2,694
Commitjust now
LicenseGPL-2.0

OpenWebAnalytics is a GPL-licensed web analytics framework that site owners host on their own PHP and MySQL servers to track visitors with full data ownership.

KrakenD

KrakenDOpen

Stateless open-source API gateway for aggregation and traffic control

Stars2,690
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

KrakenD is a stateless, open-source API gateway written in Go that merges multiple backend calls into single endpoints with authentication, rate limiting, and observability.

Grida

GridaOpen

Open-source design canvas with forms and database

Stars2,665
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Grida is an open-source design platform that pairs a Figma-style vector canvas with customer-facing forms, a Postgres-backed database, and a content backend for designers and frontend developers.

Alternative toFigma
Quiet

QuietOpen

Peer-to-peer encrypted team chat over Tor with no servers

Stars2,658
Commitjust now
LicenseGPL-3.0

Quiet is a peer-to-peer team chat app that syncs encrypted messages directly between member devices over Tor, with no central server.

Alternative toDiscordElement
Open Wearables

Open WearablesAIOpen

Self-hosted health intelligence platform unifying wearable data

Stars2,638
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

Open Wearables is a self-hosted, MIT-licensed platform that unifies wearable data behind one API with open health scores.

Alternative toNango
Firecamp

Firecamp

Open-source API client for REST, GraphQL, and WebSocket testing

Stars2,618
Commit6mo ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0-only

Firecamp is a free, open-source API development client for testing REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, and SocketIO endpoints from one desktop or web app.

Alternative toBrunoPostman
Donetick

DonetickOpen

Self-hosted tasks and chores with fair rotation and smart scheduling

Stars2,612
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Donetick is a self-hosted app for managing household tasks and chores with recurring schedules, assignee rotation, and shared circles.

Alternative toTrello
Wire

WireOpen

End-to-end encrypted messaging and collaboration for enterprises

Stars2,552
Commit8mo ago
LicenseGPL-3.0

Wire is an end-to-end encrypted messaging and collaboration platform for enterprises and governments, with open-source clients and cloud or on-premises hosting.

Alternative toSlack
Paymenter

PaymenterOpen

Self-hosted open-source billing and invoicing for hosting providers

Stars2,546
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

Paymenter is a self-hosted open-source billing platform for hosting providers, automating subscriptions, invoicing, and service provisioning.

Alternative toInvoice Ninja
Peergos

PeergosOpen

Post-quantum encrypted storage, sync, and sharing you can self-host

Stars2,533
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Peergos is a peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted drive for storing, syncing, and sharing files, with a self-hostable open-source server.

mCaptcha

mCaptchaOpen

Privacy-focused proof-of-work CAPTCHA with no tracking or puzzles

Stars2,492
Commit11mo ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

mCaptcha is a free, self-hosted CAPTCHA that protects websites and forms with proof-of-work challenges instead of image puzzles or visitor tracking.

Ballerine

BallerineOpen

Open-source KYC, KYB, and risk decisioning workflows for fintech teams

Stars2,437
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Ballerine is an open-source platform for identity verification and risk decisioning aimed at fintech and marketplace teams. It combines vendor orchestration for KYC, KYB, and sanctions screening with a no-code rules and workflow engine plus a case-management backoffice for manual review. The codebase is a TypeScript monorepo with a NestJS workflows service and React frontends, and the company also sells a managed SaaS with usage-based pricing. Note: the public repo currently banners itself as undergoing a major rebuild and not actively supported, so intake should confirm maintenance status before publication.

Elementary Data

Elementary DataOpen

dbt-native data observability with tests, lineage, and alerts

Stars2,416
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Elementary Data is a dbt-native data observability tool that monitors tables with tests, anomaly detection, lineage, and alerts.

Frappe Builder

Frappe BuilderOpen

Open-source visual website builder for fast, responsive sites

Stars2,411
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

Frappe Builder is a self-hosted, low-code website builder that turns drag-and-drop designs into fast, responsive pages with one-click publishing.

Alternative toBuilder
Checkmk

Checkmk

Agent-based infrastructure and application monitoring for hybrid IT

Stars2,385
Commitjust now
LicenseGPL-2.0

Checkmk is a self-hosted monitoring platform for servers, networks, containers, and cloud services, with automatic discovery and alerting built in.

Alternative toDatadogGrafana

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