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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
2026-08-23
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
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%
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
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
zulip/zulip

Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-01
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2012-08-28
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
2,058 open
Forks
10,174
Commits
71,616 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
dubinc/dub

The modern link attribution platform. Loved by world-class marketing teams like Framer, Perplexity, Superhuman, Twilio, Buffer and more.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-22
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2022-08-26
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
150 open
Forks
3,245
Commits
26,121 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
activepieces/activepieces

AI Agents & MCPs & AI Workflow Automation • (~400 MCP servers for AI agents) • AI Automation / AI Agent with MCPs • AI Workflows & AI Agents • MCPs for AI Agents

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-04
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2022-12-03
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
522 open
Forks
4,138
Commits
60,707 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+147 +0.6%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+70 +0.1%
matomo-org/matomo

Empowering People Ethically 🚀 — Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐️ – Pull Requests welcome!

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-22
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2007-07-24
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
2,554 open
Forks
2,890
Commits
31,374 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history