Open-source software by category

220 open-source projects in 12 categories, each checked against its GitHub repository every day for health, license and setup effort.

  1. AI chat & local LLMs

    Open-source apps for chatting with AI models, running language models on your own hardware and building private assistants over your documents.

    Healthiest: AnythingLLM, RAGFlow, KoboldCpp, Ollama, llama.cpp

    Projects
    36
    Fully open source
    30
    Not OSI open source
    3

  2. AI coding agents

    Open-source coding agents for the terminal, the editor and the cloud, plus the tools that route, orchestrate and review their work.

    Healthiest: CC Switch, PR-Agent, Zed, Goose, OpenHands

    Projects
    27
    Fully open source
    24
    Not OSI open source
    1

  3. Workflow automation

    Open-source tools that connect your apps, schedule data pipelines and run long-lived business processes, ranked by health and with every license checked.

    Healthiest: changedetection.io, Apache Airflow, Argo Workflows, Langflow, Kestra

    Projects
    33
    Fully open source
    24
    Not OSI open source
    4

  4. Notes & knowledge bases

    Open-source tools for notes, personal knowledge and team documentation that keep your writing on your own devices or servers.

    Healthiest: Joplin, MarkText, Memos, Zettlr, HedgeDoc

    Projects
    34
    Fully open source
    29
    Not OSI open source
    2

  5. Project & task management

    Open-source tools for tracking work, from issues and boards for teams to personal task lists, that you can run on your own server or computer.

    Healthiest: Paca, OpenProject, ZenTao, Plane, Super Productivity

    Projects
    26
    Fully open source
    23
    Not OSI open source
    2

  6. Web analytics

    Open-source alternatives to Google Analytics, from simple cookie-free counters to full product analytics, that keep visitor data on your own servers.

    Healthiest: Matomo, PostHog, Umami, OpenReplay, RudderStack

    Projects
    24
    Fully open source
    18
    Not OSI open source
    2

  7. Self-hosting & PaaS

    Open-source platforms for deploying apps on your own servers and for running a home server, from Heroku-style PaaS to server panels.

    Healthiest: 1Panel, Dokploy, DietPi, Coolify, Dokku

    Projects
    25
    Fully open source
    21
    Not OSI open source
    3

  8. Media servers & streaming

    Self-hosted servers that stream the films, series, music and audiobooks you own to every screen at home, without a subscription or a company account.

    Healthiest: Jellyfin, Navidrome, Audiobookshelf

    Projects
    3
    Fully open source
    3
    Not OSI open source
    0

  9. Team chat

    Team chat platforms you can run on your own servers, so company conversations, files and history stay under your control instead of a vendor's.

    Healthiest: Zulip, Rocket.Chat, Mattermost

    Projects
    3
    Fully open source
    1
    Not OSI open source
    0

  10. Developer tools

    Tools developers use every day, from a code editor in the browser to error tracking and AI tracing, that you can run on your own infrastructure.

    Healthiest: code-server, Sentry, Langfuse

    Projects
    3
    Fully open source
    1
    Not OSI open source
    1

  11. Money & budgeting

    Apps for budgets, expenses and investments that keep your financial records on your own devices or server instead of a fintech company's cloud.

    Healthiest: Actual Budget, Ghostfolio, Firefly III

    Projects
    3
    Fully open source
    3
    Not OSI open source
    0

  12. Websites & CMS

    Content management systems you can host yourself for company websites, publications and portals, from developer frameworks to ready-made site builders.

    Healthiest: Umbraco, Wagtail, Joomla

    Projects
    3
    Fully open source
    3
    Not OSI open source
    0

“Fully open source”: an OSI-approved license with no paid parts in the repository. How we read licenses