Discover the Best Self-Hosted Apps for Your Homelab

A curated directory of open-source, self-hosted alternatives to the apps you already pay for – plus the hardware to run them on and a fortnightly newsletter.

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Backrest

Schedule, browse, and restore Restic backups from a web dashboard with S3, Backblaze B2, SFTP, and rclone support.

Caddy

Caddy is an open source web server and reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS through Let's Encrypt.

Duplicacy

A self-hosted backup tool with lock-free deduplication for local drives, cloud storage, or SFTP.

Frigate

Local AI object detection, RTSP camera support, and native Home Assistant integration with no cloud required.

Home Assistant

The open source smart home platform for connecting, automating, and monitoring devices privately on your own hardware.

Immich

The open source Google Photos alternative with automatic mobile backup, facial recognition, and full privacy on your own hardware.

Jellyfin

Stream your own movies, TV, and music anywhere with no subscription, cloud dependency, or Plex Pass.

Linkwarden

A self-hosted, open source bookmark manager that saves a permanent archived copy of every webpage.

LocalAI

Run local LLMs, image generation, and voice AI on your own hardware with no cloud and no required GPU.

ownCloud

Your private Dropbox with WebDAV, CalDAV, and LDAP running on your own hardware.

Paperless-ngx

A document management system that turns your scanned paper documents into a searchable online archive.

Passbolt

Run Passbolt on your own hardware with Docker to store, share, and audit passwords for self-hosted services.

Pi-hole

A DNS sinkhole that blocks ads and unwanted content for every device on your network, with no client software to install.

Scrypted

Stream any camera to HomeKit, Google Home, and Alexa simultaneously with local AI object detection and zero cloud dependency.

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Seafile

Faster than Nextcloud, private as Dropbox should be, with block-level file synchronization on your own hardware.

Zigbee2MQTT

Connect Philips Hue, IKEA, Xiaomi, and more than 5,000 Zigbee devices to Home Assistant without a proprietary hub.