Self-hosted apps: top picks for 2026

A self-hosted personal AI assistant that runs on your own devices and answers you through chat apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, and Discord.

Fair-code workflow automation platform for building AI agents and workflows, with a visual canvas, custom code, and 1500+ integrations.

Self-hosted photo and video management app for backing up, browsing and searching your media, a Google Photos alternative.

Self-hosted, open-source PDF editing platform for editing, signing, redacting, converting and automating PDFs in the browser, desktop, or via API.

Self-hosted uptime monitoring tool that checks HTTP, TCP, DNS, ping and more, with status pages and notifications.

An open-source, AI-powered workspace for notes, docs, wikis, and project tasks, positioned as an alternative to Notion.

A Simplified Chinese guide to health, money, legal red lines and life decisions, with each of 765 tips rated for cost, benefit and evidence level.

A free, self-hostable no-code platform that turns SQL databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite into an Airtable-style spreadsheet interface with automatic REST APIs.

Open-source design platform for product teams, offering real-time collaboration, design tokens, and self-hosting.

Open-source, self-hostable backend platform for building apps, offering Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, Realtime, Hosting and MCP access for agents.

Self-hosted, privacy-first personal knowledge workspace with block-level references, Markdown WYSIWYG editing, and AI agent collaboration.

Open-source product platform combining product analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments, error tracking, logs, and data pipelines, with AI agent access.

Self-hosted, network-wide DNS server that blocks ads and trackers for every device on your home network without client software.

Open-source social media scheduling and management platform for planning, publishing, and analyzing posts across many social networks.

CasaOS is an open-source personal cloud system for home servers that adds a web UI for managing files, storage and Docker apps.

A self-hostable workspace where humans and AI agents share channels, built on a Nostr relay you run yourself.

All-in-one OSINT web app that runs on-demand checks on any website, covering DNS, SSL, headers, server info, and security configuration.

Self-hosted tool that monitors web pages for content, price, and stock changes and sends alerts through many notification channels.

Open-source, OpenTelemetry-native observability platform combining logs, metrics, traces, alerts and dashboards in one tool.

Open-source, local-first AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes in real time, and generates summaries on macOS and Windows.

A self-hostable personal dashboard for homelabs, with status checks, widgets, themes, icon packs and a visual config editor.

A self-hosted web application firewall and reverse proxy that filters HTTP traffic to block attacks like SQL injection, XSS, and bot floods.

A self-hosted web app that converts files between over a thousand formats using tools like FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc and LibreOffice.

Open-source web data platform that turns any website into a structured API via scraping, crawling, search, monitoring and AI extraction.

Sonarr is a PVR for Usenet and BitTorrent users that monitors RSS feeds for TV episodes and automatically grabs, sorts and renames them.

A privacy-first PDF toolkit that edits, converts, merges, and secures PDFs entirely in the browser, and can be self-hosted as static files.

Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server with multi-user support, progress syncing, and a web app plus Android and iOS clients.

A self-hosted gym and body-weight tracker for planning routines, logging workouts and tracking progress, with passkey login and data kept on your own server.

A network bootable iPXE-based menu that lets you boot and install many operating systems and utility disks over the network without downloading ISOs.

A minimal Rust CLI that exposes a local TCP port to a remote server, so localhost services can be reached from the public internet.

A self-hosted Docker dashboard that aggregates dozens of public OSINT feeds (aircraft, ships, satellites, earthquakes, CCTV, radio) onto one live map with an optional AI agent interface.

A self-hosted web app for downloading videos and audio from 1000+ sites via yt-dlp, exporting as MP4 or MP3.

Long-term memory for AI coding agents that lets a session continue across agent CLIs such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, backed by a git-tracked markdown wiki.

A curated, community-maintained list of open-source and privacy-respecting apps, software, and service providers, organised by category.

Self-hosted ACME tool that automates SSL certificate issuance, deployment, renewal and monitoring through a visual workflow.

Open-source game server management panel that runs each game server in an isolated Docker container behind a web UI.

Self-hosted AI research assistant that runs deep, multi-step research with local or cloud LLMs and searches the web, academic databases and your own documents.

Free, self-hosted PostgreSQL backup tool with Point-in-Time Recovery, automated restore verification, and a web UI.

Browser extension that syncs native bookmarks across browsers and devices to your own server or cloud storage.

A self-hosted Rust knowledge base that builds a bitemporal knowledge graph from documents, so facts carry when they held and when the system learned them.

Self-hosted, open-source workout, nutrition and body weight tracker built on Django, with Docker deployment and a REST API.

A free, open-source Android app that lets you manage your phone's files, messages, calls, and screen from a web browser on the same network.

Self-hosted real-time monitoring dashboard for Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, TrueNAS and vSphere, with alerts and scheduled AI patrol checks.

Self-hosted AI accounting app that extracts data from receipts, invoices and PDFs into a structured, exportable transaction database.

A self-hosted web workspace for the Hermes Agent, combining chat, files, terminal, memory, skills and multi-agent controls in one UI.

A self-hosted AI coworker platform where each agent gets its own browser, files and tools, with every action gated by policy and logged.

A self-hosted home server gateway and manager that adds reverse proxy, SSO/2FA authentication, anti-bot and anti-DDoS protection to your apps.

A private, self-hosted search engine that indexes the web pages you visit and the files you keep, searchable from the browser, terminal, or an AI assistant via MCP.

Turns your Android phone into an SMS gateway, letting you send and receive text messages through a simple HTTP API.

Self-hosted network scanner that discovers hosts and services on a schedule and maintains live network diagrams in four views.

A PowerPoint alternative delivered as a single HTML file that carries its own viewer, presenter, and editor, runnable in any browser.

A Go tool for searching and downloading music from many Chinese and international streaming platforms, via CLI, Web, TUI, or desktop app.

An alpha personal agent app with a persistent browser, optional Linux terminal, file workspace, and durable background tasks, built on CopilotKit and AG-UI.

A Docker image that runs a headless Steam client with a desktop, streaming it to browsers, Moonlight, or Steam Remote Play.

A fast, single-binary web UI for managing multiple qBittorrent instances, with automations and cross-seeding.

Self-hosted AI assistant and persistent bot platform where you choose the model and sandbox, available on web, desktop, iPhone and Android.

A self-hosted job search pipeline that searches multiple job boards, scores and tailors your CV per role, and tracks applications in one dashboard.

Open-source skill memory layer that turns agent learnings into editable Markdown skill files shared across agents and LLMs.

Free, open-source private screen sharing for live streams with up to 20 friends, viewed in a browser or self-hosted.

A web desktop operating system that runs in a browser on low-power hardware such as Raspberry Pi, providing file management and NAS-style storage.