Puter

A self-hostable internet computer: a personal workspace in the browser with built-in apps and an app store, also offered as a hosted service.

44.2k stars, 4.2k forks TypeScript On GitHub since March 2024

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Puter at a glance

Open sourceYes, AGPL-3.0No paid parts in the repository
Health85 of 100Actively developed
Self-hostingDockerOne-click in Unraid
Interface38 languagesIncluding English, German and French
Issue repliesWithin ~16 hoursMedian first reply; 73% of recent issues answered

What is Puter?

Puter runs a personal computing environment inside a web browser. Users get small built-in apps such as Notepad, Voice Recorder, Spreadsheet and Camera, plus an App Store for more, with the stated aim of covering work, creative tasks and play in one place. For developers it supplies building blocks for web apps and games, including AI, cloud storage, a database and serverless workers, and finished apps can be published to the store to find users. The same software powers the hosted service at puter.com, and the interface is translated into 38 languages.

Good fit if

  • You want a personal cloud workspace on your own server that you can open from any browser.
  • You build small web apps or games and want storage, a database and AI features without running separate backends.

Look elsewhere if

  • You only need to serve or share folders with something lighter: copyparty.
  • You want files mirrored between your own devices: Syncthing.

Before you adopt it

Puter is licensed under AGPL-3.0, so anyone who offers a modified version to users over a network must publish those changes. The repository has no paid parts; the HeyPuter organization maintains it and also runs puter.com. Development is very active, with more than a thousand commits in the last 90 days. The Docker Compose file defines 10 services, among them Redis, MySQL and a proxy, so expect a heavier setup than a single binary.

Drafted with AI from the project's README and repository data, then checked against that data on 7 November 2026. Report a correction

How to run Puter yourself

One-click install

  • Unraid

Not listed in Umbrel, YunoHost, TrueNAS, CasaOS, Runtipi, Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts and Coolify. Checked against each panel’s app catalog on 12 November 2026.

Ways to install

Docker files
Dockerfile or compose file in the repository
Docker image
heyputer/puter: 12k pulls · x86-64, ARM64 · 419 MB downloadAlso ghcr.io/heyputer/puter
Compose file
docker-compose.yml: 10 services (redis, mysql, proxy)
Setup effort
4 of 5, judged from the compose file
Kubernetes
No Helm chart in the repository
Desktop and mobile
No app builds in GitHub releases
Interface languages
38 languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish and Japanese
Show all 38

Arabic, Armenian, Bangla, Breton, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Igbo, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Malayalam, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese

Install instructions: puter.com or the README on GitHub. Docker images and packages are checked weekly.

Puter health: is it still maintained?

85 of 100, actively developed

Release rhythmEvery ~11 daysLatest: 26.11, 2 November 2026
Issue repliesWithin ~16 hoursMedian first reply; 73% of recent issues answered
Bus factorLow riskThe most active of 8 authors wrote 49% of recent commits
  • Activity
    1,183 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 12 November 2026.
    30 / 30
  • Contributors
    8 people wrote the latest 100 commits; the most active wrote 49% of them.
    13 / 20
  • Releases
    15+ releases in the last 12 months; the latest, 26.11, on 2 November 2026.
    19 / 20
  • Replies to issues
    Maintainers answered 73% of recent issues, with a median first reply after 16 hours.
    18 / 20
  • Security practices
    No OpenSSF Scorecard for this repository yet, so this part gets a neutral score.
    5 / 10

Read from GitHub on 12 November 2026. How the score works

Puter security

Security advisories are the vulnerabilities the maintainers disclosed on GitHub, with the versions that fix them; many advisories can mean careful disclosure as much as weak code.

Security advisoriesNone publishedNo advisories in the repository’s Security tab

Advisories read from GitHub on 12 November 2026.

Puter license: is it open source?

Puter uses AGPL-3.0, an open-source license approved by the OSI.

  1. March 2024First published on GitHub.
  2. TodayAGPL-3.0.

Puter for developers

Written in

  • TypeScript 63%
  • JavaScript 34%
  • CSS 2%
  • HTML 1%
  • Shell <1%
  • Other <1%

Getting involved

Help wanted1Open, labelled “help wanted”Contributing guideYesCONTRIBUTING.mdOpen issues15On GitHub
Authors, 90 days8Of the latest 100 commits

Language shares are GitHub’s count of the code in the repository.

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Questions about Puter

Is Puter open source?

Yes. Puter is published under AGPL-3.0, an OSI-approved open-source license.

Is Puter still maintained?

Its health score is 85 of 100 (actively developed). It had 1,183 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 12 November 2026, and its latest release came out on 2 November 2026.

How do I run Puter?

You can run it with the Docker image heyputer/puter and in one click from Unraid. The README on GitHub has the exact steps.

What is Puter written in?

Puter is written mainly in TypeScript (63% of the code), with JavaScript (34%), by GitHub’s count of the repository.

What languages is Puter available in?

The repository has interface translations for 38 languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish and Russian.

What are the alternatives to Puter?

Close alternatives in the File storage & sync category include Nextcloud, Cloudreve, ownCloud.