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Windshift

Sponsored

Alternative toJira

Self-hosted work management for teams leaving Jira

  • 404 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0

Nuphos

Sponsored

Alternative toConductor

Agent workspace for teams running Claude Code or Codex

  • 372 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #AI Agents

n8n

Alternative toZapier

Self-hosted workflow automation with 400+ node connectors

  • 209,760 GitHub stars

Hermes Agent

Alternative toGrok Bot

Self-hosted AI agent: persistent memory, multi-channel chat, model choice.

  • 261,524 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #AI Agents

CleanYourTV

Alternative toATV Launcher Pro

Debloat any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi and get an Apple TV-style home.

  • 53,395 GitHub stars
  • MIT LicenseLicence MIT License

paperclip

Alternative toGrok Bot

Self-hosted AI agent management with org charts and budgets

  • 112,038 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #AI Agents

God's Eye View

Alternative toFFlightradar24

Real-time global intelligence on a 3D globe

  • 62,832 GitHub stars
  • CustomLicence MIT with third-party data restrictions
  • #AI Agents

rakazo

Sponsored

Alternative toGrok Bot

AI teammates you own: your keys, your model, your machine.

  • 7,028 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #AI Agents

Buzz

Alternative toSlack

Self-hosted team chat where people and AI agents work together

  • 36,787 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #Chat

Spotifast

Alternative toSpotify Premium

Spotify, native and fast, for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

  • 9,822 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #macOS

It's a Plan

Alternative toLinear

Self-hosted issue tracker where people and AI agents share one board.

  • 2,210 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0

Agent Reach

Alternative toFirecrawl

Give any AI agent internet access, free and local

  • 109,989 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #AI Agents

SnitchFeed

Sponsored

Live monitoring on LinkedIn, X, Reddit & more. Agentic social listening for startups.

Marketing & Growth

REA (Reverse Engineer Anything)

Alternative toRevEng.AI

AI-powered reverse engineering for binaries, apps, and assemblies.

  • 431,018 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

OpenClaw

Alternative toMuse

Self-hosted AI assistant for WhatsApp, Telegram, and more

  • 394,144 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #AI Agents

Inbox Zero

Sponsored

Alternative toSuperhuman

AI email assistant that drafts replies and clears your inbox

  • 12,915 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0
  • #Email

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    REA (Reverse Engineer Anything)

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    AI-powered reverse engineering for binaries, apps, and assemblies.

    Alternative toRevEng.AI

    Alternative toRevEng.AI

    +25,464 stars this week441,320 GitHub stars
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    T3 Code

    Control your coding agents from one interface

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    +15,602 stars this week51,391 GitHub stars
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    Desktop computer use for AI agents via OS accessibility tree

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    +14,472 stars this week18,978 GitHub stars
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    security-audit-skill

    Multi-phase security audits with machine-readable findings

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    Alternative toSnyk

    +10,440 stars this week65,882 GitHub stars
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    Skills for Real Engineers

    Empower AI coding agents with essential engineering skills.

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    +9,305 stars this week317,816 GitHub stars
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    OpenMausBot

    Your AI agent team in a chat app, local-first and Apache-2.0 licensed

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    +7,394 stars this week17,141 GitHub stars
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    Voice cloning, dubbing, and transcription that runs fully offline

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    +7,024 stars this week103,987 GitHub stars
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    Orca

    The ultimate IDE for coding agents

    Alternative toConductor

    Alternative toConductor

    +6,857 stars this week118,656 GitHub stars
  9. 0909+6,555 stars this week

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    Stop re-explaining your codebase to every new agent session

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    +6,555 stars this week114,546 GitHub stars
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    Hallmark

    Design skill for coding agents with 48 themes, real photos and lint.

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    +6,338 stars this week50,351 GitHub stars

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Long, ranked guides to open source software alternatives, each reviewed and dated by our editors.

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Claude Code open source alternatives

10 ranked · reviewed 15 Sept
  1. 1OpenCode225,303 GitHub stars
  2. 2oh-my-pi38,138 GitHub stars
  3. 3kilocode27,863 GitHub stars
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Jira open source alternatives

10 ranked · reviewed 10 Sept
  1. 1Windshift404 GitHub stars
  2. 2OpenProject17,089 GitHub stars
  3. 3Plane62,127 GitHub stars
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Notion open source alternatives

9 ranked · reviewed 25 Aug
  1. 1AppFlowy78,217 GitHub stars
  2. 2AFFiNE74,300 GitHub stars
  3. 3Outline41,200 GitHub stars
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Slack open source alternatives

8 ranked · reviewed 2 Sept
  1. 1Mattermost39,555 GitHub stars
  2. 2Rocket.Chat46,374 GitHub stars
  3. 3Zulip26,188 GitHub stars
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Linear open source alternatives

8 ranked · reviewed 2 Sept
  1. 1GitLab24,548 GitHub stars
  2. 2OpenProject17,089 GitHub stars
  3. 3Taiga385 GitHub stars
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Wispr Flow open source alternatives

8 ranked · reviewed 18 Sept
  1. 1Handy37,556 GitHub stars
  2. 2VoiceInk7,045 GitHub stars
  3. 3FluidVoice12,818 GitHub stars
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Conductor open source alternatives

12 ranked · reviewed 5 Nov
  1. 1Orca118,573 GitHub stars
  2. 2T3 Code46,806 GitHub stars
  3. 3Paseo23,411 GitHub stars
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Arc open source alternatives

6 ranked · reviewed 27 Oct
  1. 1Zen Browser45,639 GitHub stars
  2. 2Floorp8,477 GitHub stars
  3. 3Brave3,751 GitHub stars
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CapCut open source alternatives

5 ranked · reviewed 6 Oct
  1. 1Concat14,778 GitHub stars
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Grok Bot open source alternatives

8 ranked · reviewed 8 Sept
  1. 1rakazo7,028 GitHub stars
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  3. 3OpenBot10,318 GitHub stars
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Superhuman open source alternatives

7 ranked · reviewed 2 Sept
  1. 1Inbox Zero12,915 GitHub stars
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  3. 3Mailspring17,998 GitHub stars
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Airtable open source alternatives

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  2. 2Budibase 28,394 GitHub stars
  3. 3ToolJet41,196 GitHub stars
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OmniRoute

Alternative toOpenRouter

352-provider AI gateway with automatic fallback and token compression

  • 85,118 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #LLM

LobeHub

Alternative toRelevance AI

AI agent team operator with IM gateway and persistent memory.

  • 84,338 GitHub stars
  • CustomLicence Apache-2.0 with LobeHub Community License additional terms
  • #AI Agents

MiroFish

InAI & Machine Learning

Multi-agent simulation engine that predicts real-world outcomes

  • 84,238 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0

MinerU

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Document parsing for LLM workflows, OCR, and agent reading.

  • 83,174 GitHub stars
  • CustomLicence Apache-2.0 with commercial threshold and attribution terms
  • #LLM

Netdata

Alternative toDatadog

Real-time infrastructure monitoring with zero configuration

  • 81,300 GitHub stars
  • GPL-3.0Licence GPL-3.0
  • #Monitoring

RuFlo

Alternative toConductor

Deploy intelligent AI agents with ease.

  • 81,153 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #AI Agents

screenshot-to-code

Alternative toGoogle Stitch

Turn any design screenshot into clean, working code with AI

  • 81,027 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

Hoppscotch

Alternative toPostman

Open source Postman alternative for REST and GraphQL testing

  • 80,764 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #API Client

career-ops

Alternative toAIApply

AI job search agent that scores listings and tailors CVs locally.

  • 80,255 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

Code Server

Alternative toGitHub Codespaces

VS Code in the browser, self-hosted, with no per-seat pricing.

  • 79,785 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

Unsloth

Alternative toTogether AI

Train LLMs locally without code using a browser-based interface

  • 79,164 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #LLM

OBS Studio

Alternative tovMix

Record and stream with multi-source scenes and hardware encoding

  • 79,121 GitHub stars
  • GPL-2.0Licence GPL-2.0
  • #Video

headroom

Alternative toThe Token Company

Compress LLM context before it reaches the model

  • 79,068 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #LLM

hyperframes

Alternative toRemotion

Turn HTML and CSS into rendered MP4 videos, built for AI agents.

  • 79,032 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #Video

Brag

NEW

InDesign & Creative

Agent skill that turns any project into a launch video in one command

  • 20,679 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #Video

AppFlowy

Alternative toNotion

Open source Notion alternative with AI, self-hosted

  • 78,217 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0

Grafana

Alternative toDatadog

Open source dashboards for metrics, logs, and traces

  • 77,750 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0
  • #Monitoring

Billion Context

NEW

Alternative toCompresr

Compression proxy for AI coding agents, enabling 5x token savings.

  • 4,620 GitHub stars
  • CustomLicence MIT with attribution requirement
  • #LLM

Redis

Alternative toAmazon ElastiCache for Redis

High-performance open source in-memory data structure store

  • 77,199 GitHub stars
  • #Database

OpenMontage

Alternative toInVideo AI

Turn your AI coding assistant into a video studio

  • 76,842 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0
  • #Video

Nvke

NEW

Alternative toNVIDIA Run:ai

Kubernetes management plane for NVIDIA AI factory operators.

  • 560 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #Kubernetes

codegraph

Alternative toAtlassian Code Context

Transform codebases into queryable knowledge graphs

  • 76,617 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

Apache Superset

Alternative toMicrosoft Power BI

Open source data visualization and BI exploration tool

  • 75,451 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0

Localthings

NEW

Alternative toSamsung SmartThings

Home Assistant integration for local Samsung appliance control.

  • 1,063 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #IoT

OpenBB

Alternative toLSEG Workspace (formerly Refinitiv Eikon)

Open source AI research workspace for financial analysis

  • 75,117 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #AI Agents

AFFiNE

Alternative toNotion

Local-first workspace combining docs, whiteboards, and notes

  • 74,300 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

Astryx

NEW

Alternative toMUI X

Agent-ready React design system with 150+ accessible components.

  • 14,538 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

OpenSpec

Alternative toAmazon Kiro

Spec-driven development for AI coding assistants

  • 74,144 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

Mole

Alternative toCleanMyMac X

Free CLI and native app for Mac cleanup, uninstall, and disk analysis

  • 74,093 GitHub stars
  • GPL-3.0Licence GPL-3.0
  • #macOS

Sherlock

NEW

Alternative toOSINT Industries

OSINT username search across 400+ networks, self-hosted.

  • 100,494 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

strix

Alternative toXBOW

Autonomous AI pentesting with proof-of-exploit and auto-fix PRs.

  • 73,803 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0

Strapi

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Headless CMS with auto-generated REST and GraphQL for any content model.

  • 73,440 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

Tidemark

NEW

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Cookie-free web analytics for shared hosting, Docker, or cloud.

  • 3 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

Cline

Alternative toGitHub Copilot

VS Code AI agent that plans and edits across your entire project

  • 71,447 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0

Vaultwarden

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Lightweight self-hosted password manager server, Bitwarden compatible

  • 70,378 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0
  • #Security

Voxos

NEW

Alternative toVapi

Self-hosted voice AI agent for calls, SMS, WhatsApp and web chat.

  • 2 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #AI Agents

AnythingLLM

Alternative toChatGPT

Chat with your documents using any LLM, private and self-hosted

  • 68,047 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #AI Agents

daily_stock_analysis

Alternative toSeeking Alpha Premium

AI-driven stock analysis for A, HK, and US markets

  • 67,572 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #LLM

Commonly

NEW

InCommunication & Collaboration

Bring your AI agents into one shared team workspace, self-hosted.

  • 1,391 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #AI Agents

Prometheus

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Time series monitoring with a dimensional model and PromQL query language.

  • 67,390 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #Monitoring
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AI & Machine Learning

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Business & Productivity

OpenClaw, Excalidraw, RustDesk213

Web Development

Skills for Real Engineers, freeCodeCamp, superpowers175

Security & Monitoring

RustDesk, REA (Reverse Engineer Anything), Sherlock158

Communication & Collaboration

iptv, freeCodeCamp, Excalidraw149

IT Management

Immich, RustDesk, Stirling PDF130

LLMOps & AI Tooling

Hermes Agent, OpenCode, MarkItDown129

Cloud & Hosting

dify, RuView, rtk125

Product & Project Management

agency-agents, freeCodeCamp, Gstack122

Design & Creative

ComfyUI, Excalidraw, Godot Engine122

DevOps & CI/CD

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Data & Analytics

Firecrawl, ragflow, Worldmonitor90

APIs & Integration

n8n, Firecrawl, iptv84

Backend Development

graphify, dify, Rust76

Databases & Storage

Supabase, Immich, Redis73

Marketing & Growth

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Web & App Development

Flutter, Rust, Angular40

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