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Hermes Agent

Alternative toGrok Bot

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

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

Agent Reach

Alternative toFirecrawl

Give any AI agent internet access, free and local

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

rakazo

Sponsored

Alternative toGrok Bot

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

  • 7,478 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #AI Agents

REA (Reverse Engineer Anything)

Alternative toRevEng.AI

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

  • 441,247 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

God's Eye View

Alternative toFFlightradar24

Real-time global intelligence on a 3D globe

  • 63,448 GitHub stars
  • CustomLicence MIT with third-party data restrictions
  • #AI Agents

CleanYourTV

Alternative toATV Launcher Pro

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

  • 55,564 GitHub stars
  • MIT LicenseLicence MIT License

Nuphos

Sponsored

Alternative toConductor

Agent workspace for teams running Claude Code or Codex

  • 372 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

paperclip

Alternative toGrok Bot

Self-hosted AI agent management with org charts and budgets

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

Spotifast

Alternative toSpotify Premium

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

  • 10,063 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #macOS

OpenClaw

Alternative toMuse

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

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

n8n

Alternative toZapier

Self-hosted workflow automation with 400+ node connectors

  • 209,760 GitHub stars

SnitchFeed

Sponsored

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

Marketing & Growth

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

Inbox Zero

Sponsored

Alternative toSuperhuman

AI email assistant that drafts replies and clears your inbox

  • 12,942 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0
  • #Email

Windshift

Sponsored

Alternative toJira

Self-hosted work management for teams leaving Jira

  • 413 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0

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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

    +23,899 stars this week447,353 GitHub stars
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    Sherlock

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

    Alternative toOSINT Industries

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    +6,636 stars this week107,384 GitHub stars
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    Agent-ready React design system with 150+ accessible components.

    Alternative toMUI X

    Alternative toMUI X

    +5,796 stars this week20,440 GitHub stars
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    Free IDM alternative in Rust, with torrents and video downloads.

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    +2,384 stars this week4,237 GitHub stars
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    T3 Code

    Control your coding agents from one interface

    Alternative toConductor

    Alternative toConductor

    +12,104 stars this week54,341 GitHub stars
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    Multi-phase security audits with machine-readable findings

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    +10,694 stars this week68,201 GitHub stars
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    +10,385 stars this week20,623 GitHub stars
  8. 0808+9,515 stars this week

    Skills for Real Engineers

    Empower AI coding agents with essential engineering skills.

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    +9,515 stars this week319,878 GitHub stars
  9. 0909+8,536 stars this week

    OpenMausBot

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

    Alternative toGrok Bot

    Alternative toGrok Bot

    +8,536 stars this week19,870 GitHub stars
  10. 1010+7,096 stars this week

    VoiceStudio

    Voice cloning, dubbing, and transcription that runs fully offline

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    +7,096 stars this week106,294 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. 3kilocode27,906 GitHub stars
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Jira open source alternatives

10 ranked · reviewed 10 Sept
  1. 1Windshift413 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. 1AppFlowy78,440 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. 1GitLab24,552 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. 1Handy37,955 GitHub stars
  2. 2VoiceInk7,045 GitHub stars
  3. 3FluidVoice12,897 GitHub stars
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Conductor open source alternatives

13 ranked · reviewed 9 Nov
  1. 1Orca118,573 GitHub stars
  2. 2T3 Code51,445 GitHub stars
  3. 3Nuphos386 GitHub stars
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Arc open source alternatives

6 ranked · reviewed 27 Oct
  1. 1Zen Browser45,639 GitHub stars
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  3. 3Brave3,761 GitHub stars
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CapCut open source alternatives

5 ranked · reviewed 6 Oct
  1. 1Concat16,156 GitHub stars
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Grok Bot open source alternatives

8 ranked · reviewed 8 Sept
  1. 1rakazo7,478 GitHub stars
  2. 2OpenMausBot17,251 GitHub stars
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Superhuman open source alternatives

7 ranked · reviewed 2 Sept
  1. 1Inbox Zero12,942 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. 3ToolJet41,207 GitHub stars
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The most starred open source alternatives to paid software, then the newest additions. Each one is free to install or self-host.

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Immich

Alternative toGoogle Photos

Self-hosted Google Photos with mobile backup and face search

  • 118,521 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0

claude-mem

Alternative toContextPool

Stop re-explaining your codebase to every new agent session

  • 114,886 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #AI Agents

Supabase

Alternative toFirebase

Open source Firebase: Postgres database, auth, and file storage

  • 114,639 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #BaaS

Agent Skills

InAI & Machine Learning

Structured workflows for AI coding agents.

  • 113,902 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

Fastapi

Alternative toAWS API Gateway

High-performance Python API framework with auto OpenAPI documentation

  • 104,604 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

VoiceStudio

Alternative toElevenLabs

Voice cloning, dubbing, and transcription that runs fully offline

  • 103,961 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0

Neovim

Alternative toSublime Text

Hyperextensible Vim-based editor with Lua plugin support

  • 103,483 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0

RuView

Alternative toAWS IoT

Intelligent AI agents for real-world applications

  • 102,825 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #AI Agents

Angular

InWeb Development

TypeScript web framework with signals, SSR, and first-party modules

  • 101,465 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

Sherlock

Alternative toOSINT Industries

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

  • 100,494 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

material-ui

Alternative toKendoReact

Open source React components for Google's Material Design

  • 99,300 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

OpenCut

Alternative toCapCut

Open source video editing in your browser, free forever

  • 97,869 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #Video

LocalSend

Alternative toSend Anywhere

Free cross-platform file sharing over local network, no cloud

  • 97,739 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0

Vllm

Alternative toTogether AI

High-throughput LLM inference server with OpenAI-compatible API

  • 96,543 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #LLM

Pots

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Alternative toGrok Bot

Self-hosted AI coworker for Slack and Discord with autonomous action.

  • 23 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #AI Agents

manim

Alternative toAnimo

Programmatic animation engine for explanatory math videos

  • 96,263 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #Video

Stirling PDF

Alternative toAdobe Acrobat

Self-hosted PDF editor with 50+ tools for every PDF task

  • 95,953 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

Elephant Goldfish Model

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Alternative toAmazon Kiro

Draft specs with context, review with fresh zero-context agents.

  • 16,479 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0

Nvm

InDeveloper Tools

Switch Node.js versions per shell with a single bash command

  • 95,767 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #CLI

Zed

Alternative toCursor

High-performance open source code editor with built-in AI

  • 94,371 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0

Claude Quickstarts

NEW

InAI & Machine Learning

MIT-licensed quickstarts for Claude agents, bots, and browser tasks.

  • 20,022 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #LLM

ragflow

Alternative toVectara

Open-source RAG engine with document parsing and agent orchestration

  • 93,740 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #LLM

Uptime Kuma

Alternative toUptimeRobot

Track uptime for websites and APIs with 90+ alert integrations

  • 93,354 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #Monitoring

Planning With Files

NEW

InDeveloper Tools

File-based task planning for AI agents, survives /clear and crashes.

  • 27,973 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

OpenHands

Alternative toDevin AI

Delegate scoped coding tasks in isolated, reviewable agent sessions

  • 92,918 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #AI Agents

PaddleOCR

Alternative toGoogle Document AI

Self-hosted OCR toolkit turning PDFs and images into LLM-ready data

  • 92,411 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #AI Agents

LiveReview

NEW

Alternative toCodeRabbit

Self-hosted AI code review with auto-approve and blast-radius scoring

  • 128 GitHub stars
  • CustomLicence Sustainable Use License (fair-code, modified)

Home Assistant

Alternative toSamsung SmartThings

Open source home automation with local control priority

  • 92,053 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #IoT

servers

Alternative toComposio

Open reference servers for connecting AI to external tools and data

  • 91,890 GitHub stars
  • CustomLicence Apache-2.0 and MIT (dual, transitioning)
  • #AI Agents

Ice

NEW

Alternative toBartender

Menu bar manager for macOS with item search and appearance controls.

  • 29,996 GitHub stars
  • GPL-3.0Licence GPL-3.0
  • #macOS

uv

Alternative toAnaconda

Python package manager written in Rust, 10-100x faster than pip

  • 91,808 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0

Understand-Anything

Alternative toSourcegraph

Interactive knowledge graphs for codebases

  • 91,285 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

Rustdesk Server

NEW

Alternative toTeamViewer

Self-hosted relay and rendezvous server for RustDesk remote desktop.

  • 10,720 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0

Worldmonitor

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Self-hosted geopolitical risk map: 58 layer types, 469 OSINT feeds.

  • 90,351 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0

Syncthing

Alternative toResilio Connect

Decentralized continuous file sync with no central server

  • 90,213 GitHub stars
  • MPL-2.0Licence MPL-2.0

Laravel Crm

NEW

Alternative toHubSpot CRM

Self-hosted Laravel CRM for leads, contacts, and sales pipelines.

  • 24,128 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #CRM

crawl4ai

Alternative toFirecrawl

LLM-ready web crawling without API keys or rate limits

  • 87,103 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #Scraping

OmniRoute

Alternative toOpenRouter

352-provider AI gateway with automatic fallback and token compression

  • 85,935 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #LLM

Excelize

NEW

InDeveloper Tools

Pure Go library for Excel files with streaming and chart support.

  • 21,124 GitHub stars
  • BSD-3-ClauseLicence BSD-3-Clause

rtk

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CLI proxy that removes 89% of agent context noise on average

  • 85,850 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #CLI
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AI & Machine Learning

freeCodeCamp, REA (Reverse Engineer Anything), OpenClaw291

Business & Productivity

OpenClaw, Excalidraw, RustDesk215

Web Development

Skills for Real Engineers, freeCodeCamp, superpowers180

Security & Monitoring

RustDesk, REA (Reverse Engineer Anything), Sherlock160

Communication & Collaboration

iptv, freeCodeCamp, Excalidraw151

IT Management

Immich, RustDesk, Stirling PDF132

LLMOps & AI Tooling

Hermes Agent, OpenCode, MarkItDown129

Cloud & Hosting

dify, RuView, OmniRoute126

Product & Project Management

agency-agents, freeCodeCamp, Gstack125

Design & Creative

ComfyUI, Excalidraw, Godot Engine123

DevOps & CI/CD

Nvm, Uptime Kuma, Netdata119

Data & Analytics

Firecrawl, ragflow, Worldmonitor91

APIs & Integration

n8n, Firecrawl, iptv85

Backend Development

graphify, dify, Rust76

Databases & Storage

Supabase, Immich, Redis74

Marketing & Growth

MoneyPrinterTurbo, agency-agents, MiroFish47

Web & App Development

Flutter, Rust, Angular40

No-Code & Low-Code

Langflow, n8n, dify38

Finance & Fintech

TradingAgents, MiroFish, OpenBB33

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