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Open Source Alternatives

List of open-source alternatives to everyday SaaS products.

btw-so/open-source-alternatives
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145
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59
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362
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strapi/strapi

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

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-06
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2015-09-30
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
523 open
Forks
9,800
Commits
37,499 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
2026-07-15
Lists
7 list mentions
First commit
2022-07-22
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
670 open
Forks
5,061
Commits
11,384 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
laurent22/joplin

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

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-16
Lists
8 list mentions
First commit
2016-10-19
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
598 open
Forks
6,179
Commits
15,430 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+88 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+47 +0.3%
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

The Secure CommsOS™ for mission-critical operations

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-07
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2015-05-19
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
3,846 open
Forks
13,717
Commits
29,789 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
2026-07-06
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2019-01-21
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
4,457 open
Forks
4,639
Commits
20,352 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
299 open
Forks
3,277
Commits
3,477 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
-14 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
transloadit/uppy

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

AI dev
Updated
2026-06-30
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2015-11-16
License
MIT
Issues
215 open
Forks
2,102
Commits
10,551 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
2026-07-06
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2019-03-19
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
246 open
Forks
2,174
Commits
57,774 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
knadh/listmonk

High performance, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard. Single binary app.

Updated
2026-07-16
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2018-10-25
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
101 open
Forks
2,399
Commits
2,019 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+127 +0.6%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+2 +0.1%
streetwriters/notesnook

A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.

Updated
2026-07-06
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2019-11-14
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
948 open
Forks
969
Commits
15,395 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
automatisch/automatisch

The open source Zapier alternative. Build workflow automation without spending time and money.

Updated
2026-02-11
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2021-10-01
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
283 open
Forks
1,056
Commits
4,776 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
doccano/doccano

Open source annotation tool for machine learning practitioners.

Updated
2026-04-14
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2018-05-09
License
MIT
Issues
395 open
Forks
1,827
Commits
3,554 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
highlight/highlight

highlight.io: The open source, full-stack monitoring platform. Error monitoring, session replay, logging, distributed tracing, and more.

AI dev
Updated
2026-04-16
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2020-08-20
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
555 open
Forks
667
Commits
7,060 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
crater-invoice-inc/crater

Open Source Invoicing Solution for Individuals & Businesses

Updated
2024-08-10
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2019-11-11
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
425 open
Forks
1,692
Commits
1,292 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
webiny/webiny-js

Open-source, self-hosted CMS platform on AWS serverless (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3). TypeScript framework with multi-tenancy, lifecycle hooks, GraphQL API, and AI-assisted development via MCP server. Built for developers at large organizations.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-06
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2018-01-09
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
337 open
Forks
675
Commits
19,535 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
openblocks-dev/openblocks

🔥 🔥 🔥 The Open Source Retool Alternative

Updated
2023-10-19
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2022-11-14
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
128 open
Forks
407
Commits
535 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
kubero-dev/kubero

A free and self-hosted PaaS alternative to Heroku / Netlify / Coolify / Vercel / Dokku / Portainer running on Kubernetes

Updated
2026-07-10
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2022-05-17
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
92 open
Forks
204
Commits
2,206 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
cozodb/cozo

A transactional, relational-graph-vector database that uses Datalog for query. The hippocampus for AI!

Updated
2024-12-04
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2022-04-01
License
MPL-2.0
Issues
47 open
Forks
158
Commits
1,813 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey

🔥 LimeSurvey – A powerful, open-source survey platform. A free alternative to SurveyMonkey, Typeform, Qualtrics, and Google Forms, making it simple to create online surveys and forms with unmatched flexibility.

Updated
2026-07-06
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2003-03-07
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
Disabled
Forks
1,107
Commits
43,104 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Peppermint-Lab/peppermint

An open source issue management & help desk solution. A zendesk & jira alternative

Updated
2025-09-21
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2020-11-05
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
101 open
Forks
384
Commits
1,730 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history