Software Directory
A full list of the open source software referenced across this website, gathered onto one page so you don't have to go hunting through blog posts and service pages to find it again.
Up until July 2026, there are 21 tools listed on this website (more to come!)
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This is the full list, every open source tool referenced anywhere on the site, including the ones mentioned in blog posts and training guides that don't have room on the service pages themselves. It grows as new content does.
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Vaultwarden™ is a lightweight, self-hosted implementation of the Bitwarden API. It gives you and your team a shared, encrypted password vault with browser extensions and mobile apps that work exactly like the real Bitwarden. |
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WireGuard™ is a fast, modern VPN protocol for securely reaching your home network or internal services from anywhere, with a far smaller footprint than older VPN technologies. |
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Mattermost™ is self-hosted team chat with channels, threads, and integrations. A privacy-first alternative to Slack or Teams that stays entirely on your own server, under your own control. |
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Nextcloud™ replaces Google Drive or Dropbox for file storage and sync, and pairs with Collabora Online or OnlyOffice for real-time collaborative document, spreadsheet, and presentation editing in the browser. |
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Stirling PDF™ is a self-hosted, all-in-one PDF toolkit for merging, splitting, converting, compressing, and OCR-ing documents, without uploading anything to a third-party website to do it. |
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GitLab Community Edition™ hosts your own Git repositories with issue tracking, merge requests, and full CI/CD pipelines. The most feature-complete of the self-hosted git platforms, and the most resource-hungry. |
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Gitea™ is a lightweight self-hosted git platform with repositories, issues, pull requests, and basic CI runners, built for teams who don't need GitLab's full feature set. |
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Forgejo™ is a community-driven fork of Gitea, offering the same lightweight self-hosted git experience with development steered independently of any single company. |
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WordPress™ is the world's most-deployed CMS. Self-hosted WordPress gives you a full publishing platform with no ongoing licence fees and a plugin ecosystem covering almost any requirement. |
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Ghost™ is a leaner, more focused alternative to WordPress, built specifically for blogging, newsletters, and paid subscriptions rather than general-purpose site building. |
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Vikunja™ is a self-hosted to-do and task management app, a straightforward alternative to Todoist or Asana for personal or small-team task tracking. |
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Planka™ is a self-hosted, Trello-style kanban board for visual project tracking, with drag-and-drop cards, boards, and real-time updates across a team. |
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Trilium Notes™ is a hierarchical, self-hosted note-taking application built for large knowledge bases. Supports rich text, code blocks, scripting, and end-to-end encryption. |
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Wallabag™ saves articles and web pages to read later, stripped of trackers and ads. A self-hosted alternative to Pocket or Instapaper, with tagging, annotations, and RSS export. |
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Miniflux™ is a deliberately minimal, self-hosted RSS aggregator. Fast, opinionated, and distraction-free, with almost no configuration surface to fight with. |
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Linkding™ is a minimal, tag-based bookmark manager with a browser extension, useful as a shared reference library for a small team. |
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Grafana™ provides dashboards, alerting, and full-stack observability. Pair it with Prometheus and Loki for real-time visibility into your infrastructure, applications, and logs. |
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Uptime Kuma™ is a self-hosted uptime monitor with a clean public status page, useful when you want something far lighter than a full Grafana stack just to show a service is up. |
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Umami™ gives you visitor counts, referrers, and page views for your website without cookies, without tracking individuals, and without sending any of it to Google. |
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n8n™ replaces Zapier or Make for connecting services together, triggering actions on schedules or webhooks, and automating the small repetitive tasks that otherwise eat an afternoon. |
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Overleaf Community Edition™ is a collaborative LaTeX editor in the browser, ideal for teams producing technical reports or any document where precise typesetting matters more than dragging boxes around in Word. |