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[ definitive-opensource ]

The definitive list of the best of everything open source

Status: Active - Projects: 453

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Discussions and contributions are welcome! This project is in it's early stages and a lot hasn't been ironed out yet. For more information on contributing and guidelines for open-source software submissions, consult their respective pages.

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My MacOS configuration.

Windows · MacOS · Linux · SelfHosted

Our Goal - There's plenty of awesome lists on GitHub, many focusing on open source specifically. However I've found them including many long-deprecated apps, cluttered with smaller projects on the verge of extinction, or missing a lot of modern open source projects.

This list aims to serve as a single centralized location for the best of open source, characterized by a solid user base, solid set of contributors, visible long term growth, and overall product quality.

More Information

Definitive-opensource aims to consolidate only the best open source projects. Our guidelines include strict minimum requirements and additional research for vetting. For a project to pass it's likely popular enough to survive far into the future, however we continously monitor projects on the list and remove anything that no longer fits the criteria.

 

It is a fundamental goal for this list to be as neutral as possible and simply present options, not persuade or redact, regardless of the maintainer's opinion. Projects that fit the criteria, which by passing will inherently be used by thousands to millions, are put on the list. This list is "curated" - not relative to opinion but statistics and facts.

 

Although the list is called definitive, in this context it doesn't quite mean the implied dictionary definition of finality. This project can only survive and thrive through continuous contributions by the community, as this list is, in itself, open source.

How The List Works

Definitive-opensource was initially a single markdown file that was edited directly. However, as the list scaled, this manual approach proved cumbersome and limited. Additionally, as popularity increased, we recieved many requests for README's of individual platforms - something that would be not be realistic to do manually.

 

As of v0.6.2-beta, the project was fundamentally re-made. Categories and applications were put in categories.json and applications.json, respectively. Python scripts were made to generate one main list and more platform-specific lists. This was paired with GitHub actions to run the scripts when any changes were made. This opened up a world of possibilies, making refactoring the list format far easier whilst eliminating typos.

 

This list aims to stand in the middle ground between human input and automation. Mostly automated websites exist for finding open source projects, but statistics alone fails to encompass the complete picture. This list has scripts to automate markdown formatting, updating stats, and finding potentially abandoned projects. However, the actual processes of choosing which projects make it onto the list, which ones should be removed, and what tags to assign are controlled entirely by humans.

Project Status

Active - Active Development

Incremental - Minor Updates

Maintenence - Critical Fixes

Idle - Temporarily Paused

Abandoned - Development Halted

Tags

Alerts

🟡 🟠 🔴 ⭕ - Security incident (Minor, Moderate, Major, Critical)

🚫 - Potentially abandoned

🔒 - Potentially closed source

🛑 - Development paused

⏳ - Development slowed

⚠️ - Restrictive license

🏦 - Corporate influence

💰 - Commercial

🧪 - Experimental (Pre-Alpha)

🚧 - Critically unstable/buggy

❌ - On watch for removal

Highlights

💥 - Disruptive

🌍 - Influential

🌟 - Pioneering

💡 - Innovative

Awards (At 10k Stars)

🏆 - Crown of open source

🥈 - Second

🥉 - Third

Platforms

Cross - Cross-platform (MacOS, Windows, Linux)

Mobile - Android and IOS

Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, IOS, SelfHost, Web (Cloud), VSCode, JetBrains, Chromium, Firefox, N/A

Properties

CLI+ - CLI in addition to GUI

TUI - Terminal user interface

Manual - Installation with pip, npm, cargo, building from source

CLI, Plugin, Extension, Web UI

Note

Cross, MacOS, Linux, and Windows tags, by default, imply that the app ships as a binary (EX: exe, dmg) unless they are accompanied by the manual tag that indicates another runtime or installation method.

Table of Contents

Alphabetical

• AD Blocker
• Agent
• AI Image GUI
• AI Utilities
• All In One
• Antivirus
• Arr
• Assistant
• Audio Editor
• Audio Player
• Authentication
• Automation
• Backup
• Bookmark Manager
• Browser
• Browser Extensions
• Calendar
• Chat
• Cleaner
• Clipboard Manager
• Code Assistant
• Code Editor
• Collaboration
• Containers
• Context
• Dashboard
• Dev Tools
• Document Editor
• Document Management
• Document Modifier
• Dotfiles Manager
• Download Manager
• EMACS Packages
• File Manager
• File Sharing
• Finance
• Firewall
• Game Engine
• Game Launcher
• Games
• Git GUI
• Git Hosting
• Graphics
• Home Automation
• Home Server
• IDE
• Image Processing
• Information Processing
• Keyboard Manager
• Knowledge Base
• Language Package Manager
• Launcher
• Linux
• LLM GUI
• MacOS
• Mail
• Manager
• Markdown Editor
• Media Downloader
• Media Management
• Model Tools
• Neovim Extensions
• Note Taking
• Office Suite
• Operating System
• Other
• Package Manager
• Password Manager
• Project Management
• Proofreading
• RAG
• Remote Desktop
• Research
• Screen Recording
• Search Engine
• Server Management
• Shell
• Spreadsheet
• Storage
• Surveillance
• Sync
• System
• System Monitoring
• Task Management
• Terminal Emulator
• Terminal Multiplexer
• Terminal Utilities
• Text Editor
• Time Management
• Tools
• Uncategorized
• Version Manager
• Video Conference
• Video Editing
• Video Player
• Video Transcoder
• Virtual Machine
• VPN
• Wiki
• Window Management
• Windows

Categorized

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Agent
  • AI Image GUI
  • AI Utilities
  • All In One
  • Assistant
  • Context
  • Information Processing
  • LLM GUI
  • Manager
  • Model Tools
  • RAG
  • Research
• Communication
  • Chat
  • Collaboration
  • Mail
  • Video Conference
• Data
  • Backup
  • Storage
  • Sync
• Development
  • Code Assistant
  • Code Editor
  • Dev Tools
  • Game Engine
  • Git GUI
  • Git Hosting
  • IDE
  • Language Package Manager
• Entertainment
  • Game Launcher
  • Games
• Extensions
  • Browser Extensions
  • EMACS Packages
  • Neovim Extensions
• Internet
  • Browser
  • Download Manager
  • Search Engine
• Media
  • Audio Editor
  • Audio Player
  • Graphics
  • Image Processing
  • Media Downloader
  • Screen Recording
  • Video Editing
  • Video Player
  • Video Transcoder
• Operating System
  • Linux
  • MacOS
  • Operating System
  • Windows
• Organization
  • Bookmark Manager
  • Document Management
• Productivity
  • Calendar
  • Document Modifier
  • Finance
  • Knowledge Base
  • Project Management
  • Task Management
  • Time Management
• Security/Privacy
  • AD Blocker
  • Antivirus
  • Authentication
  • Firewall
  • Password Manager
  • VPN
• Server
  • Arr
  • Dashboard
  • Home Automation
  • Home Server
  • Media Management
  • Server Management
  • Surveillance
• Terminal
  • Shell
  • Terminal Emulator
  • Terminal Multiplexer
  • Terminal Utilities
• Text
  • Document Editor
  • Markdown Editor
  • Note Taking
  • Office Suite
  • Proofreading
  • Spreadsheet
  • Text Editor
  • Wiki
• Utilities
  • Automation
  • Cleaner
  • Clipboard Manager
  • Containers
  • Dotfiles Manager
  • File Manager
  • File Sharing
  • Keyboard Manager
  • Launcher
  • Package Manager
  • Remote Desktop
  • System
  • System Monitoring
  • Tools
  • Version Manager
  • Virtual Machine
  • Window Management
• Other
  • Other
  • Uncategorized
• Removed Projects
• FAQ
• Honorable Mentions of Closed-Source Software

Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Go to top

Agent

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
AgentGPT	🤖 Assemble, configure, and deploy autonomous AI Agents in your browser.	SelfHost	33.9k
AutoGPT	AutoGPT is the vision of accessible AI for everyone, to use and to build on. Our mission is to provide the tools, so that you can focus on what matters.	SelfHost	174.7k
gptme CLI Manual	Your agent in your terminal, equipped with local tools: writes code, uses the terminal, browses the web, vision.	Cross	3.7k
Huginn	Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!	SelfHost	46k
Open Intepreter Manual	A natural language interface for computers	Cross	59.2k
Telegraf CLI+	Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.	Cross SelfHost	15.5k
TEN Agent	TEN Agent is a conversational voice AI agent powered by TEN, integrating Deepseek, Gemini, OpenAI, RTC, and hardware like ESP32. It enables realtime AI capabilities like seeing, hearing, and speaking, and is fully compatible with platforms like Dify and Coze.	SelfHost	5.7k
WrenAI	🤖 Open-source GenBI AI Agent that empowers data-driven teams to chat with their data to generate Text-to-SQL, charts, spreadsheets, reports, dashboards and BI. 📈📊📋🧑‍💻	Web (Cloud) SelfHost	7.6k

AI Image GUI

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Auto1111	Stable Diffusion web UI	SelfHost	151.6k
ComfyUI	The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface.	SelfHost	75.1k
Fooocus	Focus on prompting and generating	SelfHost	44.5k
InvokeAI	Invoke is a leading creative engine for Stable Diffusion models, empowering professionals, artists, and enthusiasts to generate and create visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies. The solution offers an industry leading WebUI, and serves as the foundation for multiple commercial products.	Cross SelfHost	24.9k
SD.Next	SD.Next: All-in-one for AI generative image	SelfHost	6.2k
WebUI Forge	Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge is a platform on top of Stable Diffusion WebUI (based on Gradio ) to make development easier, optimize resource management, speed up inference, and study experimental features.	SelfHost	10.6k

AI Utilities

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Netron	Visualizer for neural network, deep learning and machine learning models	Cross	30k

All In One

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
AIChat CLI	All-in-one LLM CLI tool featuring Shell Assistant, Chat-REPL, RAG, AI Tools & Agents, with access to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, Groq, and more.	Cross	6.5k
Khoj AI	Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.	Web (Cloud) SelfHost	28.8k
Lobe Chat	🤯 Lobe Chat - an open-source, modern-design AI chat framework. Supports Multi AI Providers( OpenAI / Claude 3 / Gemini / Ollama / DeepSeek / Qwen), Knowledge Base (file upload / knowledge management / RAG ), Multi-Modals (Plugins/Artifacts) and Thinking. One-click FREE deployment of your private ChatGPT/ Claude / DeepSeek application.	Web (Cloud) SelfHost	59.2k

Assistant

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Leon	🧠 Leon is your open-source personal assistant.	SelfHost	16.2k
Meetily	A free and open source, self hosted Ai based live meeting note taker and minutes summary generator that can completely run in your Local device (Mac OS and windows OS Support added. Working on adding linux support soon) https://meetily.zackriya.com/	Windows MacOS	4.5k

Context

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
omi	AI wearables. Put it on, speak, transcribe, automatically	Mobile	5.4k
screenpipe 💰 💥	AI app store powered by 24/7 desktop history. open source - 100% local - dev friendly - 24/7 screen, mic recording	MacOS Windows	13.6k

Information Processing

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Code2prompt CLI	A CLI tool to convert your codebase into a single LLM prompt with source tree, prompt templating, and token counting.	Cross	5.5k
Docling CLI Manual	Get your documents ready for gen AI	Cross	28.2k
Firecrawl	🔥 Turn entire websites into LLM-ready markdown or structured data. Scrape, crawl and extract with a single API.	Web (Cloud) SelfHost	36.7k
Gitingest Manual	Replace 'hub' with 'ingest' in any github url to get a prompt-friendly extract of a codebase	Web (Cloud) Chromium Firefox	8.2k
GPT crawler	Crawl a site to generate knowledge files to create your own custom GPT from a URL	SelfHost	21.4k
Repomix CLI	📦 Repomix (formerly Repopack) is a powerful tool that packs your entire repository into a single, AI-friendly file. Perfect for when you need to feed your codebase to Large Language Models (LLMs) or other AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Gemini, Gemma, Llama, Grok, and more.	Web (Cloud) npm	15k
Unstract	No-code LLM Platform to launch APIs and ETL Pipelines to structure unstructured documents	MacOS Linux SelfHost	5.1k

LLM GUI

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Chatbox	User-friendly Desktop Client App for AI Models/LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Ollama...)	Cross	34.4k
Cherry Studio	🍒 Cherry Studio is a desktop client that supports for multiple LLM providers.	Cross	24.5k
GPT4ALL	GPT4All: Run Local LLMs on Any Device. Open-source and available for commercial use.	Cross	73.2k
h2oGPT	Private chat with local GPT with document, images, video, etc. 100% private, Apache 2.0. Supports oLLaMa, Mixtral, llama.cpp, and more. Demo: https://gpt.h2o.ai/ https://gpt-docs.h2o.ai/	SelfHost	11.8k
Jan	Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer	Cross	28.6k
LibreChat	Enhanced ChatGPT Clone: Features Agents, DeepSeek, Anthropic, AWS, OpenAI, Assistants API, Azure, Groq, o1, GPT-4o, Mistral, OpenRouter, Vertex AI, Gemini, Artifacts, AI model switching, message search, Code Interpreter, langchain, DALL-E-3, OpenAPI Actions, Functions, Secure Multi-User Auth, Presets, open-source for self-hosting. Active project.	SelfHost	24.8k
NextChat CLI+	✨ Light and Fast AI Assistant. Support: Web - iOS - MacOS - Android - Linux - Windows	Cross Web (Cloud)	83k
Open WebUI	User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)	SelfHost	91k
SillyTavern	LLM Frontend for Power Users.	SelfHost	13.8k
Text generation webUI	A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models with support for multiple inference backends.	SelfHost	43.3k

Manager

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
KoboldCpp	Run GGUF models easily with a KoboldAI UI. One File. Zero Install.	Cross SelfHost	7.1k
Ollama 🌍CLI	Get up and running with Llama 3.3, DeepSeek-R1, Phi-4, Gemma 3, Mistral Small 3.1 and other large language models.	Cross SelfHost	138.4k
StabilityMatrix	Multi-Platform Package Manager for Stable Diffusion	Cross	5.9k

Model Tools

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Agno CLI Manual	Agno is a lightweight library for building Agents with memory, knowledge, tools and reasoning.	Cross	25.6k
GPT-SoVITS-WebUI Manual	1 min voice data can also be used to train a good TTS model! (few shot voice cloning)	Cross SelfHost	44.9k
Kiln	The easiest tool for fine-tuning LLM models, synthetic data generation, and collaborating on datasets.	Cross	3.4k
LLaMa-Factory CLI+ Manual	Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ LLMs & VLMs (ACL 2024)	SelfHost	47.5k
PyTorch Lightning CLI Manual	Pretrain, finetune ANY AI model of ANY size on multiple GPUs, TPUs with zero code changes.	Cross	29.4k
Second Me	Train your AI self, amplify you, bridge the world	SelfHost Web (Cloud)	11.3k

RAG

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
AnythingLLM	The all-in-one Desktop & Docker AI application with built-in RAG, AI agents, No-code agent builder, MCP compatibility, and more.	Cross	43.2k
AutoFlow	pingcap/autoflow is a Graph RAG based and conversational knowledge base tool built with TiDB Serverless Vector Storage. Demo: https://tidb.ai	SelfHost	2.5k
DocsGPT	DocsGPT is an open-source genAI tool that helps users get reliable answers from knowledge source, while avoiding hallucinations. It enables private and reliable information retrieval, with tooling and agentic system capability built in.	Cross SelfHost	15.6k
kotaemon Manual	An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents.	SelfHost	22.1k
PaperQA2 CLI Manual	High accuracy RAG for answering questions from scientific documents with citations	Cross	7.2k
R2R CLI	SoTA production-ready AI retrieval system. Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with a RESTful API.	Web (Cloud) SelfHost	6.5k
RAGFlow	RAGFlow is an open-source RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) engine based on deep document understanding.	SelfHost	50.1k
Verba	Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) chatbot powered by Weaviate	SelfHost	7.1k

Research

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
DeepSearcher CLI	Open Source Deep Research Alternative to Reason and Search on Private Data. Written in Python.	Cross	5.6k
GPT Researcher CLI+	LLM based autonomous agent that conducts deep local and web research on any topic and generates a long report with citations.	Cross SelfHost	21.1k

Communication - Go to top

Chat

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Signal	A private messenger for Android.	Cross	26.9k
SimpleX CLI+	SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱!	Cross	8.4k
Telegram Desktop	Telegram Desktop messaging app	Cross	27.4k

Collaboration

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Mattermost	Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..	SelfHost	32.4k
Rocket.Chat	The communications platform that puts data protection first.	SelfHost Web (Cloud)	42.5k
Zulip	Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.	SelfHost Web (Cloud)	22.7k

Mail

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Mailspring	💌 A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux.	Cross	16.2k
Thunderbird	Meet Thunderbird, the email and productivity app that maximizes your freedoms.	Cross	11.8k

Video Conference

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Element CLI+	A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.	Web (Cloud)	11.7k
Jitsi Meet CLI+	Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.	Web (Cloud)	25.3k

Data - Go to top

Backup

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Backrest	Backrest is a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup.	Cross SelfHost	2.7k
Borg CLI	Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.	Cross	11.7k
Duplicacy CLI	A new generation cloud backup tool	Cross	5.4k
Duplicati	Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!	Cross	12.2k
Kopia CLI	Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.	Cross	9.3k
Rclone CLI	"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files	Cross	50k
Restic CLI	Fast, secure, efficient backup program	Cross	28.4k
Timeshift	System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is running or from Live CD/USB.	Linux	3k

Storage

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Ceph	Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform	SelfHost	14.9k
myDrive	Node.js and mongoDB Google Drive Clone	SelfHost	3.7k
Nextcloud	☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data	Cross SelfHost	29.3k
ownCloud	☁️ ownCloud web server core (Files, DAV, etc.)	SelfHost	8.5k
Seafile CLI+	High performance file syncing and sharing, with also Markdown WYSIWYG editing, Wiki, file label and other knowledge management features.	Cross SelfHost	13k

Sync

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Rsync CLI	An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases.	Cross	3.4k
Syncthing CLI+	Open Source Continuous File Synchronization	Cross	69.6k
syncthing-macos CLI+	Official frugal and native macOS Syncthing application bundle	MacOS	3k

Development - Go to top

Code Assistant

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Aider CLI	aider is AI pair programming in your terminal	Cross	31.9k
Cline	Autonomous coding agent right in your IDE, capable of creating/editing files, executing commands, using the browser, and more with your permission every step of the way.	VSCode	41.6k
Codex CLI	Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal	Cross npm	19.7k
Cody	Type less, code more: Cody is an AI code assistant that uses advanced search and codebase context to help you write and fix code.	VSCode JetBrains	3.6k
Continue	⏩ Create, share, and use custom AI code assistants with our open-source IDE extensions and hub of models, rules, prompts, docs, and other building blocks	VSCode JetBrains	25.8k
Goose CLI+	an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM	Cross	12k
GPT Pilot CLI	The first real AI developer	Cross	32.6k
MetaGPT	🌟 The Multi-Agent Framework: First AI Software Company, Towards Natural Language Programming	SelfHost Web (Cloud)	54.9k
OpenHands	🙌 OpenHands: Code Less, Make More	Cross SelfHost	53.4k
Plandex CLI	Open source AI coding agent. Designed for large projects and real world tasks.	Cross	12.5k
Roo Code	Roo Code (prev. Roo Cline) gives you a whole dev team of AI agents in your code editor.	VSCode	12.2k
Tabby	Self-hosted AI coding assistant	SelfHost VSCode JetBrains	30.9k

Code Editor

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
code-server	VS Code in the browser	SelfHost	71.3k
CodeEdit	📝 CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.	MacOS	21.6k
Helix CLI	A post-modern modal text editor.	Cross	37k
Lapce	Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust	Cross	35.2k
LazyVim CLI	Neovim config for the lazy	Cross	20.2k
neovim CLI	Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability	Cross	88.9k
NvChad CLI	Blazing fast Neovim framework providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience.	Cross	26k
SpaceVim CLI	A modular configuration of Vim and Neovim	Cross	20.4k
Vim 🌍CLI	The official Vim repository	Cross	38k
Void	Void is the open-source Cursor alternative.	Windows MacOS	12k
VS Code	Visual Studio Code	Cross	170.3k
VSCodium	binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing	Cross	27.1k
Zed 🏦	Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.	MacOS Linux	57.3k

Dev Tools

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
bat CLI	A cat(1) clone with wings.	Cross	52.3k
DevToys	A Swiss Army knife for developers.	Cross	28.7k
massCode	A free and open source code snippets manager for developers	Cross	6.1k
Watchexec CLI	Executes commands in response to file modifications	Cross	5.9k

Game Engine

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
GDevelop	🎮 Open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D/multiplayer game engine designed for everyone.	Cross	13.8k
Godot	Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine	Cross	96.5k

Git GUI

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
GitHub Desktop	Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git.	Cross	20.4k
GitHub Desktop - The Linux Fork	Fork of GitHub Desktop to support various Linux distributions	Linux	7.2k
Lazygit TUI	simple terminal UI for git commands	Cross	59.1k

Git Hosting

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Gitea	Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD	SelfHost	48.2k
GitLab	GitLab CE Mirror - Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com	SelfHost Web (Cloud)	24k
Gogs	Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service	SelfHost	46.3k

IDE

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
IntelliJ IDEA	IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition & IntelliJ Platform	Cross	17.9k
Neovide	No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust	Cross	13.9k
Qt Creator	A cross-platform Qt IDE	Cross	2.8k

Language Package Manager

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Bun CLI	Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one	Cross	77.6k
PNPM CLI	Fast, disk space efficient package manager	Cross	31.4k
uv CLI	An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.	Cross	51k
Yarn CLI	📦🐈 Active development trunk for Yarn ⚒	Cross	7.7k

Entertainment - Go to top

Game Launcher

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Heroic Games Launcher	A games launcher for GOG, Amazon and Epic Games for Linux, Windows and macOS.	Cross	9k
Hydra	Hydra is a game launcher with its own embedded bittorrent client	Cross	12.7k
Lutris	Lutris desktop client	Linux	8.5k
Pelican Panel	Pelican Panel is an open-source, web-based application designed for easy management of game servers.	SelfHost	1.3k
Playnite	Video game library manager with support for wide range of 3rd party libraries and game emulation support, providing one unified interface for your games.	Windows	10.5k
RomM	A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.	SelfHost	3.6k

Games

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Cataclysm DDA	Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.	Cross	11.2k
Endless Sky	Space exploration, trading, and combat game.	Cross	6.5k
lichess	♞ lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server ♞	Web (Cloud)	16.5k
OpenRA	Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.	Cross	15.5k
Unciv	Open-source Android/Desktop remake of Civ V	Cross Android	9.1k
Veloren	[mirror of https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren] An open world, open source voxel RPG inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Cube World. This repository is a mirror. Please submit all PRs and issues on our GitLab page.	Cross	6.3k
Wesnoth	An open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme.	Cross	5.9k

Extensions - Go to top

Browser Extensions

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Dark Reader	Dark Reader Chrome and Firefox extension	Chromium Firefox	20.6k
Page Assist	Use your locally running AI models to assist you in your web browsing	Chromium Firefox	6.3k
uBlock Origin	uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.	Chromium Firefox	52.9k

EMACS Packages

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars

Neovim Extensions

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Coq	Fast as FUCK nvim completion. SQLite, concurrent scheduler, hundreds of hours of optimization.	N/A	3.7k
lazy.nvim	💤 A modern plugin manager for Neovim	N/A	17.2k
Neorg	Modernity meets insane extensibility. The future of organizing your life in Neovim.	N/A	6.8k
nvim-dap	Debug Adapter Protocol client implementation for Neovim	N/A	6.2k
VimWiki	Personal Wiki for Vim	N/A	9k

Internet - Go to top

Browser

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Brave	Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.	Cross	19.1k
Firefox	Fast, reliable and private — for peace of mind online.	Cross Mobile	3.6k
Floorp	All of source code of version 10 or later of Floorp Browser, the most Advanced and Fastest Firefox derivative 🦊	Cross	7.2k
Min	A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy	Cross	8.3k
Neko	A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.	SelfHost	10.1k
Noi	🚀 Power Your World with AI - Explore, Extend, Empower.	Cross	7.4k
Zen	Welcome to a calmer internet	Cross	29.1k

Download Manager

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
AB	A Download Manager that speeds up your downloads	Cross	7.2k
File Centipede	Cross-platform internet upload/download manager for HTTP(S), FTP(S), SSH, magnet-link, BitTorrent, m3u8, ed2k, and online videos. WebDAV client, FTP client, SSH client.	SelfHost	10.3k
GoPeed	A modern download manager that supports all platforms. Built with Golang and Flutter.	Cross	18.9k
Persepolis	Persepolis is a download manager written in Python.	Cross	6.5k

Search Engine

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Perplexica	Perplexica is an AI-powered search engine. It is an Open source alternative to Perplexity AI	SelfHost	21.5k
Scira	Scira (Formerly MiniPerplx) is a minimalistic AI-powered search engine that helps you find information on the internet. Powered by Vercel AI SDK! Search with models like Grok 2.0.	SelfHost Web (Cloud)	7.8k

Media - Go to top

Audio Editor

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Audacity	Audio Editor	Cross	13.5k
OpenUtau	Open singing synthesis platform / Open source UTAU successor	Cross	2.6k

Audio Player

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Feishin	A modern self-hosted music player.	Cross SelfHost	3.7k
Navidrome	🎧☁️ Your Personal Streaming Service	Cross SelfHost	14.2k
Spotube	🎧 Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile!	Cross	40k
Supersonic	A lightweight and full-featured cross-platform desktop client for self-hosted music servers	Cross	1.3k
Youtube Music	YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader)	Cross	18.8k

Graphics

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Blender	Official mirror of Blender	Cross	14.9k
CadQuery	A python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT	Cross	3.6k
darktable	darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer	Cross	10.7k
FreeCAD	This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler.	Cross	24k
Gaphor	Gaphor is the simple modeling tool	Cross	2k
Graphite	2D vector & raster editor that melds traditional layers & tools with a modern node-based, non-destructive, procedural workflow.	Web (Cloud)	11.6k
Krita	Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch built on the KDE and Qt frameworks.	Cross	8.1k
OpenSCAD	OpenSCAD - The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller	Cross	7.8k
Penpot	Penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration	Web (Cloud)	37.7k
RawTherapee	A powerful cross-platform raw photo processing program	Cross	3.2k

Image Processing

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
chaiNNer	A node-based image processing GUI aimed at making chaining image processing tasks easy and customizable. Born as an AI upscaling application, chaiNNer has grown into an extremely flexible and powerful programmatic image processing application.	Cross	5k
Upscayl	🆙 Upscayl - #1 Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows.	Cross	36.5k

Media Downloader

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Cobalt	best way to save what you love	Web (Cloud)	31.1k
YoutubeDownloader	Downloads videos and playlists from YouTube	Cross	11.2k
yt-dlp CLI	A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader	Cross	109.1k

Screen Recording

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Cap	Open source Loom alternative. Beautiful, shareable screen recordings.	Cross	7.8k
Flameshot	Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software 🖥️ 📸	Cross	26k
OBS Studio	OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording	Cross	63.7k
ShareX	ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.	Windows	32.1k

Video Editing

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Kdenlive	Free and open source video editor, based on MLT Framework and KDE Frameworks	Cross	3.7k
LossletCut	The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing	Cross	30.8k
Natron	Open-source video compositing software. Node-graph based. Similar in functionalities to Adobe After Effects and Nuke by The Foundry.	Cross	4.9k
Olive	Free open-source non-linear video editor	Cross	8.5k
Shotcut	cross-platform (Qt), open-source (GPLv3) video editor	Cross	11.8k

Video Player

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
IINA	The modern video player for macOS.	MacOS	40.1k
mpv	🎥 Command line media player	Cross	30.4k
VLC	VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please use MRs on https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc	Cross	15.4k

Video Transcoder

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
HandBrake	HandBrake's main development repository	Cross	19.3k

Operating System - Go to top

Linux

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Extension Manager	A utility for browsing and installing GNOME Shell Extensions.	Linux	1.1k
Flatseal	Manage Flatpak permissions	Linux	1.3k

MacOS

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
AltTab	Windows alt-tab on macOS	MacOS	12.2k
AppLite	User-friendly GUI macOS application for Homebrew Casks	Cross	4.9k
Cork	A fast GUI for Homebrew written in SwiftUI	MacOS	3k
Ice ⏳	Powerful menu bar manager for macOS	MacOS	18.4k
Itsycal	Itsycal is a tiny calendar for your Mac's menu bar. http://www.mowglii.com/itsycal	MacOS	3.5k
KeepingYouAwake	Prevents your Mac from going to sleep.	MacOS	5.8k
LinearMouse	The mouse and trackpad utility for Mac.	MacOS	4.5k
Lunar	Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors	MacOS	5k
MeetingBar	🇺🇦 Your meetings at your fingertips in the macOS menu bar	MacOS	4.8k
OnlySwitch	⚙️ All-in-One menu bar app, hide 💻MacBook Pro's notch, dark mode, AirPods, Shortcuts	MacOS	4.6k
Reminders MenuBar	Simple macOS menu bar application to view and interact with reminders. Developed with SwiftUI and using Apple Reminders as a source.	MacOS	3.1k
SketchyBar	A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement	MacOS	8.5k
SwiftBar	Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool	MacOS	3.2k
TheBoringNotch	TheBoringNotch: Not so boring notch That Rocks 🎸🎶	MacOS	3.2k

Operating System

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
openmediavault	openmediavault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins. openmediavault is primarily designed to be used in home environments or small home offices.	N/A	5.6k
Puter	🌐 The Internet OS! Free, Open-Source, and Self-Hostable.	N/A	30.4k
umbrelOS	A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store. Buy a pre-built Umbrel Home with umbrelOS, or install on a Raspberry Pi or any x86 system.	N/A	8.7k
YunoHost	YunoHost is an operating system aiming to simplify as much as possible the administration of a server. This repository corresponds to the core code, written mostly in Python and Bash.	N/A	2.4k

Windows

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
UniGetUI	UniGetUI: The Graphical Interface for your package managers. Could be terribly described as a package manager manager to manage your package managers	Windows	15.8k

Organization - Go to top

Bookmark Manager

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
buku CLI+	🔖 Personal mini-web in text	Cross	6.7k
hoarder	A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search	SelfHost	15.4k
linkding	Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.	SelfHost	8.1k
Linkwarden	⚡️⚡️⚡️ Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize, and preserve webpages, articles, and documents.	SelfHost	11.3k
Shiori	Simple bookmark manager built with Go	SelfHost	10.3k
wallabag	wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages: Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely.	SelfHost	11.2k

Document Management

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Docspell CLI+	Assist in organizing your piles of documents, resulting from scanners, e-mails and other sources with miminal effort.	SelfHost Android	1.8k
Paperless-ngx	A community-supported supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents	SelfHost	26.7k
TagSpaces	TagSpaces is an offline, open source, document manager with tagging support	SelfHost	4.2k

Productivity - Go to top

Calendar

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Cal	Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.	SelfHost	35.9k

Document Modifier

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Documenso	The Open Source DocuSign Alternative.	SelfHost Web (Cloud)	10.8k
DocuSeal	Open source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, and sign digital documents ✍️	SelfHost	9k
OCRmyPDF CLI	OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched	Cross	27.9k
OpenSign	🔥 The free & Open Source DocuSign alternative	SelfHost Web (Cloud)	4.5k
Stirling PDF	#1 Locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files	MacOS Windows SelfHost	56.3k

Finance

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Actual	A local-first personal finance app	SelfHost Cross	18.5k
Firefly III	Firefly III: a personal finances manager	SelfHost	18.8k
Ghostfolio	Open Source Wealth Management Software. Angular + NestJS + Prisma + Nx + TypeScript 🤍	SelfHost	5.7k
Maybe	The OS for your personal finances	SelfHost	43.7k
Wallos	Wallos: Open-Source Personal Subscription Tracker	SelfHost	4.3k

Knowledge Base

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Affine	There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.	Cross	50k
Anytype	Official Anytype client for MacOS, Linux, and Windows	Cross	5.4k
AppFlowy 💰	Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The leading open source Notion alternative.	Cross	62.3k
FastGPT	FastGPT is a knowledge-based platform built on the LLMs, offers a comprehensive suite of out-of-the-box capabilities such as data processing, RAG retrieval, and visual AI workflow orchestration, letting you easily develop and deploy complex question-answering systems without the need for extensive setup or configuration.	Cross	23.7k
Foam	A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode	VSCode	15.9k
Logseq	A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Download link: http://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases. roadmap: http://trello.com/b/8txSM12G/roadmap	Cross	36.1k
Outline	The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.	Cross	31.7k
Siyuan	A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.	Cross	34k

Project Management

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Focalboard	Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.	Cross SelfHost	23.2k
Huly	Huly — All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion)	SelfHost Web (Cloud)	20.3k
Leantime	Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.	SelfHost	5.3k
OpenProject	OpenProject is the leading open source project management software.	SelfHost	10.9k
Plane	🔥 🔥 🔥 Open Source JIRA, Linear, Monday, and Asana Alternative. Plane helps you track your issues, epics, and cycles the easiest way on the planet.	SelfHost Web (Cloud)	35.5k

Task Management

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Planka CLI+	The realtime kanban board for workgroups built with React and Redux.	SelfHost	9.1k
Super Productivity	Super Productivity is an advanced todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. It also comes with integrations for Jira, GitLab, GitHub and Open Project.	Cross	13.5k

Time Management

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
ActivityWatch	The best free and open-source automated time tracker. Cross-platform, extensible, privacy-focused.	Cross Android	14k
solidtime	Modern open-source time-tracking app	SelfHost Web (Cloud)	5.4k

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AD Blocker

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
AdGuard CLI+	Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server	SelfHost Chromium Firefox	28k
Blocky	Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network with many features	SelfHost	5.3k
Pi-hole	A black hole for Internet advertisements	SelfHost	51.6k

Antivirus

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
ClamAV	ClamAV - Documentation is here: https://docs.clamav.net	Cross SelfHost	5k

Authentication

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
2FAuth	A Web app to manage your Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) accounts and generate their security codes	SelfHost	2.7k
Aegis	A free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens.	Android	10.1k
authelia	The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps	SelfHost	23.5k
Tailscale	The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.	SelfHost	22.2k

Firewall

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
BunkerWeb	🛡️ Open-source and next-generation Web Application Firewall (WAF)	SelfHost	7.8k
SafeLine	SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.	SelfHost	16.1k

Password Manager

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Bitwarden CLI+	Open source security solutions for individuals, teams, and business organizations. Explore Password Manager, Secrets Manager, and passkey innovations.	Cross Mobile Chromium Firefox	16.4k
KeePass	KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.	Cross	23k
LessPass CLI CLI+	🔑 stateless open source password manager	Cross Chromium Firefox	5.8k
Passbolt CLI+	Passbolt Community Edition (CE) API. The JSON API for the open source password manager for teams!	Cross SelfHost Chromium Firefox	5k
Vaultwarden	Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs	SelfHost	43.8k

VPN

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Amnezia CLI+	Amnezia VPN Client (Desktop+Mobile)	Cross	7k
NetBird	Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.	Cross	13.4k
ProtonVPN CLI+	Official ProtonVPN Android app	Cross	2.7k

Server - Go to top

Arr

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
autobrr	Modern, easy to use download automation for torrents and usenet.	Cross SelfHost	1.8k
Bazarr	Bazarr is a companion application to Sonarr and Radarr. It manages and downloads subtitles based on your requirements. You define your preferences by TV show or movie and Bazarr takes care of everything for you.	Cross SelfHost	3.2k
Jellyseerr	Open-source media request and discovery manager for Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby.	SelfHost	5.1k
Lidarr	Looks and smells like Sonarr but made for music.	Cross SelfHost	4k
Overseerr	Request management and media discovery tool for the Plex ecosystem	Windows Linux SelfHost	4.4k
Prowlarr	Prowlarr is an indexer manager/proxy built on the popular *arr .net/reactjs base stack to integrate with your various PVR apps, supporting management of both Torrent Trackers and Usenet Indexers.	Cross SelfHost	4.7k
Radarr	Movie organizer/manager for usenet and torrent users.	Cross SelfHost	11.4k
Readarr	Book Manager and Automation (Sonarr for Ebooks)	Cross SelfHost	3.2k
Sonarr	Smart PVR for newsgroup and bittorrent users.	Cross SelfHost	11.7k

Dashboard

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Cockpit	Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers.	Linux	12k
dashdot	A simple, modern server dashboard, primarily used by smaller private servers	SelfHost	2.9k
Dashy	🚀 A self-hostable personal dashboard built for you. Includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor and tons more!	SelfHost	20.5k
Glance	A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place	SelfHost	22.8k
Heimdall	An Application dashboard and launcher	SelfHost	8.3k
homepage	A highly customizable homepage (or startpage / application dashboard) with Docker and service API integrations.	SelfHost	23.2k
Homer	A very simple static homepage for your server.	SelfHost	10k

Home Automation

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Domoticz	Open source Home Automation System	SelfHost	3.6k
ESPHome	ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.	SelfHost	9.2k
Gladys	A privacy-first, open-source home assistant	SelfHost	2.8k
Home Assistant	🏡 Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.	Cross SelfHost	78.2k

Home Server

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
CapRover	Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids	Linux	13.9k
CasaOS	CasaOS - A simple, easy-to-use, elegant open-source Personal Cloud system.	Linux	29.5k
Cosmos	☁️ The Most Secure and Easy Selfhosted Home Server. Take control of your data and privacy without sacrificing security and stability (Authentication, anti-DDOS, anti-bot)	SelfHost	4.4k
Runtipi	Runtipi is a homeserver for everyone! One command setup, one click installs for your favorites self-hosted apps. ✨	SelfHost	8.4k
Sandstorm	Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite. It's implemented as a security-hardened web app package manager.	SelfHost	6.8k

Media Management

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
audiobookshelf	Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server	IOS Android SelfHost	8.4k
Calibre-Web	📚 Web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database	SelfHost	14.4k
Ente	End-to-end encrypted platform for photos, videos and 2FA secrets.	Web (Cloud)	18.9k
Immich	High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.	SelfHost	64.2k
Jellyfin	The Free Software Media System - Server Backend & API	SelfHost	39k
Kavita	Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with the goal of being a full solution for all your reading needs. Setup your own server and share your reading collection with your friends and family.	SelfHost	7.6k
Kodi	Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.	Cross SelfHost	19.2k
LibrePhotos	A self-hosted open source photo management service. This is the repository of the backend.	SelfHost	7.3k
Librum	The Librum client application	SelfHost	4.5k
Lychee	A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.	SelfHost	3.7k
Memories	Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app.	SelfHost	3.5k
PhotoPrism	AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨	SelfHost	37k
Piwigo	Manage your photos with Piwigo, a full featured open source photo gallery application for the web. Star us on Github! More than 200 plugins and themes available. Join us and contribute!	SelfHost	3.4k

Server Management

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
1Panel	🔥 1Panel provides an intuitive web interface and MCP Server to manage websites, files, containers, databases, and LLMs on a Linux server.	SelfHost	27.9k

Surveillance

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Frigate	NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras	SelfHost	22.1k
Scrypted	Scrypted is a high performance video integration and automation platform	SelfHost	4.7k
ZoneMinder	ZoneMinder is a free, open source Closed-circuit television software application developed for Linux which supports IP, USB and Analog cameras.	SelfHost	5.4k

Terminal - Go to top

Shell

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
fish CLI	The user-friendly command line shell.	Cross	29.6k
Nushell CLI	A new type of shell	Cross	34.9k
xonsh CLI	🐚 Python-powered shell. Full-featured and cross-platform.	Cross	8.7k

Terminal Emulator

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Alacritty	A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.	Cross	58.4k
kitty	Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal	Cross	27.1k
Rio	A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers.	Cross	5k
Tabby	A terminal for a more modern age	Cross	63.2k
Waveterm	An open-source, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows	Cross	10k
WezTerm	A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust	Cross	20k

Terminal Multiplexer

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
tmux CLI	tmux source code	Cross	37.2k
Zellij CLI	A terminal workspace with batteries included	Cross	24k

Terminal Utilities

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Atuin CLI	✨ Magical shell history	Cross	23.5k
delta CLI	A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, and blame output	Cross	25.9k
eza CLI	A modern alternative to ls	Cross	15.1k
fzf CLI	🌸 A command-line fuzzy finder	Cross	69.6k
McFly CLI	Fly through your shell history. Great Scott!	Cross	7.2k
Oh My Zsh CLI	🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.	Cross	177.9k
ShellGPT CLI	A command-line productivity tool powered by AI large language models like GPT-4, will help you accomplish your tasks faster and more efficiently.	Cross	10.7k
zoxide CLI	A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.	Cross	26.1k
zsh-autosuggestions CLI	Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh	Cross	32.8k

Text - Go to top

Document Editor

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Etherpad	Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.	SelfHost Web (Cloud)	17.4k

Markdown Editor

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
HedgeDoc	HedgeDoc - Ideas grow better together	SelfHost	5.9k
Zettlr	Your One-Stop Publication Workbench	Cross	10.9k

Note Taking

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Better Notes	Everything about note management. All in Zotero.	plugin	6.2k
Blinko	An open-source, self-hosted personal AI note tool prioritizing privacy, built using TypeScript .	SelfHost	3.6k
Joplin	Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.	Cross	48.9k
jrnl CLI	Collect your thoughts and notes without leaving the command line.	Cross	6.7k
Memos	An open-source, lightweight note-taking solution. The pain-less way to create your meaningful notes. Your Notes, Your Way.	SelfHost	39.1k
nb CLI	CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.	Cross	7k
Notesnook	A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.	Cross	11.7k
Reor	Private & local AI personal knowledge management app for high entropy people.	Cross	7.9k
Rnote	Sketch and take handwritten notes.	Cross	9.4k
SilverBullet	An open source personal productivity platform built on Markdown, turbo charged with the scripting power of Lua	Cross	3.3k
Simplenote	Simplenote for Web, Windows, and Linux	Cross IOS Android	5k
Standard Notes	Think fearlessly with end-to-end encrypted notes and files. For issues, visit https://standardnotes.com/forum or https://standardnotes.com/help.	Cross IOS Android	5.7k
VNote	A pleasant note-taking platform in native C++.	Cross	12.2k

Office Suite

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
CryptPad	Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.	SelfHost	6.2k
LibreOffice	Read-only LibreOffice core repo - no pull request (use gerrit instead https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/) - don't download zip, use https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bundles/ instead	Cross	3.1k
OnlyOffice	Open-source office suite pack that comprises all the tools you need to work with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, and PDF forms on Windows, Linux, and macOS	Cross	3.5k

Proofreading

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Harper	The Grammar Checker for Developers	VSCode	4k
LanguageTool	Style and Grammar Checker for 25+ Languages	SelfHost Web (Cloud)	13k
WritingTools	The world's smartest system-wide grammar assistant; a better version of the Apple Intelligence Writing Tools. Works on Windows, Linux, & macOS, with the free Gemini API, local LLMs, & more.	Cross	1.4k

Spreadsheet

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Grist	Grist is the evolution of spreadsheets.	SelfHost Web (Cloud)	8.3k

Text Editor

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
CotEditor	Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS	MacOS	6.8k
Emacs	Mirror of GNU Emacs	Cross	4.6k
Kakoune CLI	mawww's experiment for a better code editor	Cross	10.2k
Lite XL	A lightweight text editor written in Lua	Cross	5.2k
Micro CLI	A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor	Cross	26k
NotepadNext	A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++	Cross	9.9k
Notepads	A modern, lightweight text editor with a minimalist design.	Windows	9.2k
Quill	Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility	Web (Cloud)	45.2k

Wiki

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
BookStack	A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel	SelfHost	16.5k
Docmost 💰	Docmost is an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It is an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion.	SelfHost Web (Cloud)	14.7k
MediaWiki	🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.	SelfHost	4.5k
Wiki.js	Wiki.js - A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js	SelfHost	26.1k

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Automation

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Ansible CLI+	Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.	Cross	64.8k
Cronicle CLI+	A simple, distributed task scheduler and runner with a web based UI.	Cross SelfHost	4.4k
Hammerspoon	Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua	MacOS	12.8k
Script Kit	Script Kit. Automate Anything.	Cross	4k
Semaphore	Modern UI and powerful API for Ansible, Terraform, OpenTofu, PowerShell and other DevOps tools.	Cross	11.7k

Cleaner

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
BleachBit	BleachBit system cleaner for Windows and Linux	Windows Linux	3.4k
Pearcleaner	A free, source-available and fair-code licensed mac app cleaner	MacOS	6.2k

Clipboard Manager

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Clipboard	😎🏖️🐬 Your new, 𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙠𝙪𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙮 smart clipboard manager	Cross	5.2k
CopyQ	Clipboard manager with advanced features	Cross	9.6k
Maccy	Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS	MacOS	14.9k

Containers

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Colima CLI	Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup	Cross	22.4k
Dockge	A fancy, easy-to-use and reactive self-hosted docker compose.yaml stack-oriented manager	Cross	17k
lazydocker TUI	The lazier way to manage everything docker	Cross	43.6k
Podman Desktop	Podman Desktop is the best free and open source tool to work with Containers and Kubernetes for developers. Get an intuitive and user-friendly interface to effortlessly build, manage, and deploy containers and Kubernetes — all from your desktop.	Cross	5.7k
Portainer	Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.	SelfHost	32.7k

Dotfiles Manager

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
chezmoi	Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.	Cross	14.7k
yadm CLI	Yet Another Dotfiles Manager	Cross	5.6k

File Manager

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Electerm	📻Terminal/ssh/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/sftp client(linux, mac, win)	Cross	12.3k
File Browser	📂 Web File Browser	SelfHost	28.7k
FileGator	Powerful Multi-User File Manager	SelfHost	2.4k
Files	A modern file manager that helps users organize their files and folders.	Windows	36.9k
Filestash	📁 A file manager / web client for SFTP, S3, FTP, WebDAV, Git, Minio, LDAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, Mysql, Backblaze, ...	SelfHost	11.2k
If CLI	Terminal file manager	Cross	8.1k
nnn CLI	n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager	Linux	20k
Ranger CLI	A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console	Cross	16.1k
Spacedrive 🛑	Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.	Cross	34.3k
Superfile	Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager	Cross	13.6k
xplr CLI	A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer	Cross	4.4k
Yazi TUI	💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.	Cross	24.4k

File Sharing

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
LocalSend CLI+	An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop	Cross	60.4k
OnionShare	Securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network	Cross	6.5k
PairDrop	PairDrop: Transfer Files Cross-Platform. No Setup, No Signup.	Web (Cloud)	6.5k

Keyboard Manager

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Kanata	Improve keyboard comfort and usability with advanced customization	Cross	4.8k
Karabiner-Elements	Karabiner-Elements is a powerful tool for customizing keyboards on macOS	MacOS	19.9k
Kmonad	An advanced keyboard manager	Cross	4.4k

Launcher

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Albert	A fast and flexible keyboard launcher	Cross	7.5k
Kando	🌸 Do things with utmost efficiency.	Cross	4.1k
Sol	MacOS launcher & command palette	MacOS	2.2k
Ueli	Cross-Platform Keystroke Launcher	Cross	3.9k
Ulauncher	Feature rich application Launcher for Linux	Linux	3.9k
Wox	A cross-platform launcher that simply works	Cross	25.5k

Package Manager

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Choco	Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows	Windows	10.7k
Homebrew CLI	🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)	MacOS Linux	43.3k
Nix	Nix, the purely functional package manager	Cross	14.1k
Spack	A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.	Cross	4.6k

Remote Desktop

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
RustDesk	An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.	Cross	87.3k

System

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Background Music	Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.	MacOS	17.2k

System Monitoring

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
bottom CLI	Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.	Cross	11.2k
Stats	macOS system monitor in your menu bar	MacOS	30.9k
Vitals	A glimpse into your computer's temperature, voltage, fan speed, memory usage and CPU load.	Linux	1.6k

Tools

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
balenaEtcher	Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.	Cross	31.2k
Czkawka	Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.	Windows Linux	23.2k
fd CLI	A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'	Cross	37.6k
inshellisense CLI	IDE style command line auto complete	Cross	9.3k
MonitorControl	🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.	MacOS	29.7k
OpenRGB	Open source RGB lighting control that doesn't depend on manufacturer software. Supports Windows, Linux, MacOS. Mirror of https://gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1/OpenRGB. Releases can be found on GitLab.	Cross	3.1k
rga CLI	rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.	Cross	8.7k

Version Manager

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
asdf CLI	Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more	Cross	23.4k
mise CLI	dev tools, env vars, task runner	Cross	14.9k
nvm CLI	Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions	Cross	84.1k
pyenv CLI	Simple Python version management	Cross	41.8k
rbenv CLI	Manage your app's Ruby environment	Cross	16.3k
vfox CLI	A cross-platform and extendable version manager with support for Java, Node.js, Flutter, .Net & more	Cross	3.2k
XcodesApp	The easiest way to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode - with a mouse click.	MacOS	7.5k

Virtual Machine

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Lima	Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers	MacOS Linux	16.8k
Quickemu	Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines	MacOS Linux	11.8k
UTM	Virtual machines for iOS and macOS	MacOS	29k
VirtualBuddy	Virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon, VirtualBuddy is a virtual machine GUI for macOS M1, M2, M3, M4	MacOS	5.8k

Window Management

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
AeroSpace	AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS	MacOS	11.7k
Amethyst	Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.	MacOS	15.3k
Loop	Window management made elegant.	MacOS	8.2k
Rectangle	Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas	MacOS	26.8k
yabai	A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning	MacOS	25.5k

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Other

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
Grocy	ERP beyond your fridge - Grocy is a web-based self-hosted groceries & household management solution for your home	Windows SelfHost	7.4k
ImHex	🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.	Cross	48.6k
Mealie	Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue for a pleasant user experience for the whole family. Easily add recipes into your database by providing the url and mealie will automatically import the relevant data or add a family recipe with the UI editor	SelfHost	8.9k
openpilot	openpilot is an operating system for robotics. Currently, it upgrades the driver assistance system on 300+ supported cars.	Linux	53.2k

Uncategorized

Name	Description	Platform(s)	Stars
KOReader	An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices	Android	20.6k
ProtonUp-Qt	Install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda & more for Steam and Wine-GE & more for Lutris with this graphical user interface.	Linux	1.4k
vim-plug	🌺 Minimalist Vim Plugin Manager	N/A	34.8k
Whisky	A modern Wine wrapper for macOS built with SwiftUI	MacOS	14.4k
XPipe	Access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop	Cross	10.7k

Honorable Mentions of Closed-Source Software

Some proprietary software just deserve recognition.

• Davinci Resolve - Professional Editing, Color, Effects and Audio Post!
• Obsidian - The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.
• LM Studio - Discover, download, and run local LLMs
• JetBrains - A rich suite of tools that provide an exceptional developer experience
• Raycast - A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher.

Removed Projects

Projects that were once on this list but removed - usually due to abandonement or going closed source.

Archive

• eqMac - Closed source
• Hyper - Abandoned
• DiffusionBee - Closed source
• Lunarvim - Abandoned
• Motrix - Abandoned
• StableSwarmUI - Abandoned
• Trilium - Abandoned

FAQ

How about a definitive-opensource website?

A website is definitely on the roadmap. It would provide much requested features like tag based filtering and, on the backend, automate much of what we currently have to do manually. However, for the foreseeable future, the list will remain as a markdown file for one reason: to keep things simple. The current system lets me focus solely on the projects within. The complexities of web development seem unnecessary and an added pain for a task that can suffice, for now, as a markdown file.

 

The current system could also be considered a stepping stone to guage the community's needs prior to building a website, which would inherently be far more complex.

Stars aren't a good metric to guage popularity/quality.

The minimum star count of 1k has been a major point of contention. Admittedly, star counts don't always reflect project popularity and quality. Stars are biased towards developers because they are the ones with a GitHub account, thus leaving out the input of the end users. But no solution is going to be a one size fits all solution. It's critically important that as the list scales it doesn't devolve into a clutter trap, even if the price is some projects getting left out.

 

Stars tend to be synonomous with community recognition, making it a good starting point for further vetting to check for contributors, future plans, and popularity. Most compotent software will have no trouble reaching the 1k star count. This requirement is also just the first step for further vetting.

 

Artificial star counts (EX: buying stars) has also been brought up. This isn't that big of a problem, again, stars are just to quality a project for further vetting. We check community engagement, developer responsiveness and the project's statistics over time. A popular project should have lots of community activity, GitHub issues, pr's, etc. Evidence of foul play will disquality a project.

License

This project is released under the MIT license, hereby granting anyone to use, distribute, or modify this project for, but not limited to, commercial purposes. See the license tab for further information.

 

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