Guide

A lightweight server that emulates the HomeKit API, letting non-HomeKit smart-home devices (and hubs like Home Assistant) show up and work natively in Apple's Home app.

A fast, highly customizable self-hosted start page for your homelab — service links, live widgets (Docker container status, weather, RSS, and dozens of app integrations) defined in simple YAML files.

Hugo is one of the fastest static site generators available — write content in Markdown, generate a complete site in milliseconds, and serve the resulting plain HTML files with Nginx for maximum speed and minimal attack surface.

A self-hosted collection of over 80 small developer/IT utilities in one page — JSON formatter, JWT decoder, UUID generator, regex tester, hash generator, and many more.

Icinga 2 is a scalable, Nagios-compatible monitoring engine that checks hosts and services, collects performance data, and ships with IcingaDB for storing state in Redis and a SQL database.

A self-hosted photo and video backup solution that mirrors the Google Photos experience, with mobile apps that auto-upload your camera roll to your own server.

A purpose-built time-series database for metrics and events — the standard backend for storing sensor readings, IoT telemetry, and infrastructure monitoring data at high write volume.

ADB (Android Debug Bridge) installs an APK straight from your computer over USB or Wi-Fi -- useful for devices with an awkward on-device file browser (TVs, some tablets) or installing several APKs at once via script.

F-Droid is a free, open-source app store for Android — every app in its main repository is built from source and verified to be free/open-source software, and it's the actual index this site's own Android catalog syncs from.

Invoice Ninja is a self-hostable invoicing, billing and payments platform for freelancers and small businesses, officially distributed as Docker images for quick, reproducible deployment.

Free, open-source media server — stream your own movies, TV, and music to any device, no subscription or tracking.

Jenkins is a widely used, extensible open-source automation server for building, testing, and deploying software through CI/CD pipelines defined in Jenkinsfiles.

The self-hosted sync backend for the Joplin notes app, letting you keep your end-to-end-encrypted notes syncing across devices without relying on a third-party cloud.

Kanboard is a lightweight, no-frills kanban board application, officially published as a Docker image with example Compose files for SQLite or PostgreSQL backends.

A fast, feature-rich server for reading and organizing comics, manga, and ebooks from your own library across all your devices.

Open-source identity and access management — single sign-on (SSO), OAuth2/OIDC, and user federation for your other self-hosted apps.

A media server built specifically for comics, manga, and digital book collections, with a clean reading interface and OPDS support for e-readers.

Kopia is a fast, secure, cross-platform backup tool that snapshots files into a deduplicated, encrypted, and compressed repository on local disk or a wide range of cloud/object storage backends.

LibreNMS is a full-featured, auto-discovering network monitoring platform built on PHP and RRDtool, distributed as an official multi-container Docker stack.

A minimal, fast, self-hosted bookmark manager with tagging, full-text search, automatic snapshotting, and a browser extension for saving links.

MISP is a threat intelligence platform for storing, correlating, and sharing indicators of compromise between organizations and analysts, distributed as an official production-ready Docker Compose stack.

Configure MacOS's built-in, automatic, versioned backup system -- to an external drive, a network share, or a Time Capsule -- so a drive failure or bad update doesn't cost you your files.

Install and switch between several Linux distributions side by side under WSL2 -- useful for testing across distros, or keeping a clean distro per project without them interfering with each other.

A self-hosted, privacy-respecting web analytics platform — a fully-featured alternative to Google Analytics where you own 100% of the visitor data instead of sending it to a third party.

Synapse is the reference server implementation for the federated Matrix chat protocol, officially published as a Docker image for self-hosting a homeserver.

Mattermost is a self-hosted, Slack-style messaging platform for teams, with its official Docker Compose deployment intended for smaller, non-clustered installs.

The open-source wiki software that powers Wikipedia itself — the standard choice for a large, heavily-cross-referenced, community-editable knowledge base.

Metabase is a business intelligence tool for building dashboards and ad-hoc charts over your data without writing SQL, distributed as an official Docker image.