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.
Dockhand
Portainer alternative with built-in vulnerability scanning, GitOps deployments, and zero telemetry.
Duplicacy
A self-hosted backup tool with lock-free deduplication for local drives, cloud storage, or SFTP.
Filestash
One web file manager for SFTP, S3, WebDAV, SMB and about 20 other storage backends, so you can browse and share files from a single place.
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.
Karakeep
Save links, notes and images, then let an AI model tag and summarize them. Runs on your own server with local models through Ollama.
n8n
Run n8n on your home server with Docker and build automations connecting more than 2,000 apps without sending data to a third-party cloud.
Node-RED
A browser-based flow editor for wiring together MQTT, APIs, and smart home devices, with thousands of community nodes.
Plex Media Server
Stream your own movies, TV shows, and music to any device with a personal self-hosted media server.
Speedtest Tracker
Automatically test internet speed on a schedule and save every result to track connection reliability.
Stirling PDF
Edit, merge, sign, redact, convert and OCR PDFs on your own server without sending documents to outside services.
Zigbee2MQTT
Connect Philips Hue, IKEA, Xiaomi, and more than 5,000 Zigbee devices to Home Assistant without a proprietary hub.
Best NAS operating systems
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Unraid
Pool drives of different sizes behind one or two parity disks, then run Docker apps and VMs from a friendly web UI.
TrueNAS
Free, open-source NAS OS built around ZFS, with snapshots, replication and Docker apps on a Debian base.
HexOS
A guided, beginner-friendly layer on top of TrueNAS, managed from an online dashboard instead of ZFS settings.