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Open Source Alternatives

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
2026-07-25
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2019-10-12
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1,140 open
Forks
13,244
Commits
37,584 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
2026-07-22
Lists
8 list mentions
First commit
2019-08-21
License
MIT
Issues
758 open
Forks
5,979
Commits
6,163 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
2026-07-24
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2021-06-16
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
1,002 open
Forks
5,707
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
2026-07-24
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2015-09-30
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
484 open
Forks
9,810
Commits
37,622 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
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
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
2026-07-24
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2017-10-29
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
687 open
Forks
4,952
Commits
43,916 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
2026-08-12
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2015-06-18
License
MPL-2.0
Issues
798 open
Forks
3,930
Commits
23,331 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+283 +0.5%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+45 +0.2%
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
2026-07-24
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2019-04-08
License
BSD-3-Clause
Issues
1,086 open
Forks
5,569
Commits
36,999 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
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
2026-07-28
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2022-11-19
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
960 open
Forks
5,138
Commits
7,088 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
2026-07-25
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2013-05-04
License
MIT
Issues
116 open
Forks
11,830
Commits
52,677 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
mastodon/mastodon

Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

Updated
2026-07-28
Lists
7 list mentions
First commit
2016-02-20
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
4,479 open
Forks
7,480
Commits
21,909 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
2026-08-13
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2015-02-02
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
4,313 open
Forks
6,742
Commits
44,006 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+158 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+94 +0.2%
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

The Secure CommsOS™ for mission-critical operations

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-24
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2015-05-19
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
3,907 open
Forks
13,741
Commits
29,968 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
2026-08-13
Lists
7 list mentions
First commit
2019-03-18
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1,285 open
Forks
4,174
Commits
25,327 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+77 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+44 +0.2%
siyuan-note/siyuan

A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-30
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2020-08-30
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
174 open
Forks
2,924
Commits
25,033 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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
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
2026-07-30
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2018-04-14
License
MIT
Issues
934 open
Forks
3,980
Commits
15,716 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
2026-07-24
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2019-01-21
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
4,470 open
Forks
4,680
Commits
20,389 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
2026-07-25
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2015-06-15
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
949 open
Forks
8,855
Commits
22,951 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
2026-07-24
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2021-03-31
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
1,075 open
Forks
5,188
Commits
16,903 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 modern, privacy-focused analytics platform. An open-source alternative to Google Analytics, Mixpanel and Amplitude.

Updated
2026-07-24
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2020-07-17
License
MIT
Issues
110 open
Forks
7,626
Commits
6,514 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
2026-08-13
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2019-08-14
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
1,314 open
Forks
8,587
Commits
6,618 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+213 +0.6%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+42 +0.6%
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
2026-07-23
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2013-12-16
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
150 open
Forks
7,967
Commits
14,080 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
2026-07-24
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2019-03-19
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
271 open
Forks
2,186
Commits
58,402 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
2026-07-24
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2019-09-02
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
53 open
Forks
1,732
Commits
4,324 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
bagisto/bagisto

Free and open source laravel eCommerce platform

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-21
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2018-06-12
License
MIT
Issues
45 open
Forks
3,221
Commits
22,673 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
2026-07-18
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2015-11-10
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
854 open
Forks
957
Commits
4,825 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
783 open
Forks
2,566
Commits
3,646 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history