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List of open-source alternatives to everyday SaaS products.

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supabase/supabase

The Postgres development platform. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-23
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2019-10-12
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1,044 open
Forks
13,623
Commits
38,067 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
hoppscotch/hoppscotch

Open-Source API Development Ecosystem • https://hoppscotch.io • Offline, On-Prem & Cloud • Web, Desktop & CLI • Open-Source Alternative to Postman, Insomnia

Updated
2026-08-16
Lists
8 list mentions
First commit
2019-08-21
License
MIT
Issues
795 open
Forks
6,036
Commits
6,177 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy

Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The leading open source Notion alternative.

Updated
2026-08-11
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2021-06-16
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
999 open
Forks
5,894
Commits
7,210 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
strapi/strapi

🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2015-09-30
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
538 open
Forks
9,851
Commits
37,762 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
toeverything/AFFiNE

There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-06
Lists
7 list mentions
First commit
2022-07-22
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
692 open
Forks
5,120
Commits
11,438 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
prometheus/prometheus

The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-03
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2012-11-24
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
899 open
Forks
10,738
Commits
18,207 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
nocodb/nocodb

🔥 🔥 🔥 A Free & Self-hostable Airtable Alternative

Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2017-10-29
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
705 open
Forks
5,006
Commits
44,312 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
coollabsio/coolify

An open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlify that lets you easily deploy static sites, databases, full-stack applications and 280+ one-click services on your own servers.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-02
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2021-03-24
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
841 open
Forks
5,199
Commits
16,265 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
penpot/penpot

Penpot: The open-source design platform for Product teams that need scalable collaboration.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-03
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2015-06-18
License
MPL-2.0
Issues
782 open
Forks
4,047
Commits
23,533 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+226 +0.4%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+59 +0.3%
makeplane/plane

🔥🔥🔥 Open-source Jira, Linear, Monday, and ClickUp alternative. Plane is a modern project management platform to manage tasks, sprints, docs, and triage.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-30
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2022-11-19
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
1,071 open
Forks
5,583
Commits
7,133 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
appwrite/appwrite

Appwrite® - complete cloud infrastructure for your web, mobile and AI apps. Including Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, Hosting, Realtime and more

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2019-04-08
License
BSD-3-Clause
Issues
1,005 open
Forks
5,662
Commits
37,695 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
laurent22/joplin

Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-02
Lists
8 list mentions
First commit
2016-10-19
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
621 open
Forks
6,205
Commits
15,535 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
TryGhost/Ghost

Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-24
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2013-05-04
License
MIT
Issues
130 open
Forks
11,918
Commits
53,193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
metabase/metabase

The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data :bar_chart:

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-04
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2015-02-02
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
4,383 open
Forks
6,788
Commits
44,607 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+100 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+157 +0.4%
siyuan-note/siyuan

An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted knowledge workspace where humans and AI agents work together 开源、隐私优先、自托管的知识工作空间,让人与智能体在此协作

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-02
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2020-08-30
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
75 open
Forks
2,976
Commits
27,108 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

The Secure CommsOS™ for mission-critical operations

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2015-05-19
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
3,979 open
Forks
13,808
Commits
30,117 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
milvus-io/milvus

Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-04
Lists
8 list mentions
First commit
2019-03-18
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1,320 open
Forks
4,223
Commits
25,502 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+106 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+49 +0.2%
payloadcms/payload

Payload is the open-source, fullstack Next.js framework, giving you instant backend superpowers. Get a full TypeScript backend and admin panel instantly. Use Payload as a headless CMS or for building powerful applications.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-01
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2018-04-14
License
MIT
Issues
1,104 open
Forks
4,117
Commits
15,828 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
logseq/logseq

A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Download link: http://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases. roadmap: https://logseq.io/p/NX4mc_ggEV

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-02
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2019-12-11
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
933 open
Forks
2,748
Commits
24,928 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
appsmithorg/appsmith

Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2019-01-21
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
4,473 open
Forks
4,734
Commits
20,446 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
ToolJet/ToolJet

ToolJet is the open-source foundation of ToolJet AI - the enterprise app generation platform for building internal tools, dashboard, business applications, workflows and AI agents 🚀

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2021-03-31
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
1,146 open
Forks
5,397
Commits
17,105 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Kong/insomnia

The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-03
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2016-03-16
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
864 open
Forks
2,359
Commits
6,389 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
mattermost/mattermost

Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-23
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2015-06-15
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
967 open
Forks
8,929
Commits
23,131 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
umami-software/umami

Umami is a privacy-first analytics platform. Traffic, campaigns, behavior, conversions, and revenue in one place — no cookies, no surveillance, self-hosted or in the cloud.

Updated
2026-08-20
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2020-07-17
License
MIT
Issues
102 open
Forks
7,823
Commits
6,753 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
PostHog/posthog

:hedgehog: PostHog is the leading platform for building self-driving products. Our developer tools – AI observability, analytics, session replay, flags, experiments, error tracking, logs, and more – capture all the context agents need to diagnose problems, uncover opportunities, and ship fixes. Steer it all from Slack, web, desktop, or the MCP.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-03
Lists
8 list mentions
First commit
2020-01-23
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
5,373 open
Forks
3,133
Commits
53,463 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
LAION-AI/Open-Assistant

OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so.

Updated
2024-08-17
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2022-12-13
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
297 open
Forks
3,283
Commits
3,477 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
chatwoot/chatwoot

Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-03
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2019-08-14
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
1,354 open
Forks
8,800
Commits
6,739 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+189 +0.5%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+32 +0.5%
transloadit/uppy

The next open source file uploader for web browsers :dog:

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-07
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2015-11-16
License
MIT
Issues
197 open
Forks
2,105
Commits
10,777 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
jitsi/jitsi-meet

Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-22
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2013-12-16
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
149 open
Forks
8,005
Commits
14,139 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
plausible/analytics

Open source, privacy-first web analytics. Lightweight, cookie-free Google Analytics alternative. Self-hosted or cloud.

Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2019-09-02
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
59 open
Forks
1,808
Commits
4,362 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Budibase/budibase

AI agents, automations and apps that run your operations. Model agnostic.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2019-03-19
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
274 open
Forks
2,198
Commits
59,333 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
bagisto/bagisto

Open Source eCommerce Platform Built with Laravel for Enterprise-Scale Commerce Supporting 10M+ SKUs

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2018-06-12
License
MIT
Issues
29 open
Forks
3,242
Commits
22,815 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
typesense/typesense

Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍 ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-18
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2015-11-10
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
871 open
Forks
963
Commits
4,831 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
mattermost-community/focalboard

Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.

Updated
2026-05-18
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2020-10-08
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
784 open
Forks
2,577
Commits
3,646 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history