Self hosted apps

Postiz

A social media scheduler you run yourself, with an MCP server for agents

OpenReply

An open source ManyChat alternative: Instagram comment to DM on your server

Jellyfin

A free media server for your own videos, music and courses

Uptime Kuma

A self hosted status monitor that tells you when a service goes down

Cloudflare Tunnel (cloudflared)

Publish a home service on your domain without opening a single router port

Tailscale

A private WireGuard network between your devices, with almost no setup

Immich

A self hosted photo library that feels close to Google Photos

Vaultwarden

A lightweight Bitwarden compatible password server written in Rust

Paperless-ngx

Scan, OCR and search every paper document you own

Nextcloud

Files, calendar, contacts and office tools in one self hosted suite

Syncthing

Peer to peer folder sync between your own devices, no server needed

Home Assistant

Local first home automation that ties every smart device together

n8n

Visual workflow automation you can host, with a fair code license

Umami

Simple, privacy friendly website analytics you host yourself

Plausible Community Edition

The self hosted edition of Plausible's lightweight, cookie free analytics

AdGuard Home

Network wide ad and tracker blocking at the DNS level

Homepage

A fast, YAML configured dashboard for everything you self host

Audiobookshelf

A self hosted server for your audiobooks and podcasts

Navidrome

A light music streaming server compatible with Subsonic apps

Gitea

A light self hosted Git forge with issues, pull requests and CI

Coolify

A self hosted platform for deploying apps and databases, Heroku style

Stirling-PDF

Every PDF tool you search for online, running on your own server

FreshRSS

A self hosted RSS reader that keeps your feeds and your attention

Ollama

Run open language models locally behind a simple API

Kavita

A reading server for manga, comics and ebooks, read in the browser

A media server for comics and manga, with OPDS and e-reader sync

Calibre-Web

A web interface for an existing Calibre ebook library

PhotoPrism

A private photo library with automatic tagging, faces and maps

Alternative to Google Photos

Lychee

A clean photo gallery for sharing albums from your own server

Alternative to Flickr

Trilium Notes

A hierarchical notes app for building a large personal knowledge base

Alternative to Evernote

Outline

A fast team wiki with real-time editing, source available under BSL

Alternative to Notion · Confluence

BookStack

A simple wiki organised as shelves, books, chapters and pages

Alternative to Confluence

Wiki.js

A Node.js wiki with Markdown editing and Git backed storage

Alternative to Confluence

Memos

A lightweight timeline of quick notes, like a private microblog

Alternative to Google Keep

Linkwarden

A bookmark manager that saves a copy of every page you keep

Alternative to Raindrop.io

Karakeep

A bookmark-everything app with AI tagging and full text search

Alternative to Raindrop.io

Wallabag

A read-it-later app that saves clean copies of articles to read offline

Alternative to Instapaper

Mealie

A recipe manager that imports from any URL and plans your meals

Alternative to Paprika

Grocy

Household management for groceries, stock, chores and expiry dates

Actual Budget

A local-first envelope budgeting app with an optional sync server

Alternative to YNAB

Firefly III

A personal finance manager with double-entry bookkeeping and rules

Authentik

An identity provider for single sign-on across your self-hosted apps

Alternative to Okta · Auth0

Authelia

A light login portal with two-factor auth in front of your reverse proxy

Kopia

Encrypted, deduplicated backups to disks, servers or cloud storage

Alternative to Backblaze Personal Backup

Pi-hole

A DNS server for your home network that blocks ads and trackers for every device

Nginx Proxy Manager

A web interface for Nginx that adds proxy hosts and free HTTPS certificates

Traefik

A reverse proxy that configures itself from your Docker labels

Caddy

A web server and reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS turned on by default

WireGuard Easy

A WireGuard VPN server with a web interface to add clients and show QR codes

An open source Tailscale control server you run yourself

Alternative to Tailscale

Grafana

Dashboards and alerts on top of your metrics, logs and databases

Alternative to Datadog

Prometheus

A time series database that scrapes and stores metrics from your services

Beszel

Lightweight server monitoring with Docker stats, history and alerts

Gatus

Health checks and a status page defined in one YAML file

Alternative to Atlassian Statuspage

Dozzle

A live log viewer for your Docker containers, in the browser

Portainer

A web interface to manage Docker, Swarm and Kubernetes environments

Woodpecker CI

A light CI engine that runs pipelines in containers from a YAML file

Alternative to GitHub Actions

Dokploy

A self hosted platform to deploy apps and databases from git on your server

Alternative to Vercel · Heroku

Node-RED

A visual, flow based tool for wiring devices, APIs and services together

Glance

A fast start page that gathers your feeds, links and service status in one place

Zulip

Team chat organised by topic, so conversations stay readable

Alternative to Slack

Stalwart

An all in one mail server in Rust with SMTP, IMAP, JMAP and spam filtering

Alternative to Google Workspace

Matomo

Full featured web analytics you host, with the data kept on your server

Alternative to Google Analytics

ntfy

Send push notifications to your phone with a simple HTTP request

Alternative to Pushover