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It's a Plan

Sponsored

Alternative toLinear

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

  • 2,170 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0

Agent Reach

Alternative toFirecrawl

Give any AI agent internet access, free and local

  • 108,787 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #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

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

n8n

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Self-hosted workflow automation with 400+ node connectors

  • 209,549 GitHub stars

Windshift

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Alternative toJira

Self-hosted work management for teams leaving Jira

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

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

REA (Reverse Engineer Anything)

Alternative toRevEng.AI

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

  • 431,018 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

SnitchFeed

Sponsored

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

Marketing & Growth

OpenClaw

Alternative toMuse

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

  • 393,917 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #AI Agents

Hermes Agent

Alternative toGrok Bot

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

  • 260,560 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.

  • 51,495 GitHub stars
  • MIT LicenseLicence MIT License

Spotifast

Alternative toSpotify Premium

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

  • 9,584 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #macOS

paperclip

Alternative toGrok Bot

Self-hosted AI agent management with org charts and budgets

  • 111,113 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #AI Agents

Buzz

Alternative toSlack

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

  • 36,728 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #Chat

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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

    +28,084 stars this week431,382 GitHub stars
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    Desktop computer use for AI agents via OS accessibility tree

    InAI & Machine Learning

    InAI & Machine Learning

    +10,891 stars this week15,397 GitHub stars
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    T3 Code

    Control your coding agents from one interface

    Alternative toConductor

    Alternative toConductor

    +15,588 stars this week46,806 GitHub stars
  4. 0404+8,899 stars this week

    claude-mem

    Stop re-explaining your codebase to every new agent session

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    +8,899 stars this week112,965 GitHub stars
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    CleanYourTV

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

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    +8,059 stars this week52,086 GitHub stars
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    VoiceStudio

    Voice cloning, dubbing, and transcription that runs fully offline

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    +7,951 stars this week101,114 GitHub stars
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    security-audit-skill

    Multi-phase security audits with machine-readable findings

    Alternative toSnyk

    Alternative toSnyk

    +7,786 stars this week59,599 GitHub stars
  8. 0808+7,648 stars this week

    Skills for Real Engineers

    Empower AI coding agents with essential engineering skills.

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    InDeveloper Tools

    +7,648 stars this week313,509 GitHub stars
  9. 0909+7,175 stars this week

    Hallmark

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

    InDesign & Creative

    InDesign & Creative

    +7,175 stars this week48,053 GitHub stars
  10. 1010+6,841 stars this week

    DeepTutor

    Agentic framework for lifelong personalized tutoring

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    Alternative toKhanmigo

    +6,841 stars this week55,204 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. 1OpenCode224,587 GitHub stars
  2. 2oh-my-pi37,794 GitHub stars
  3. 3kilocode27,863 GitHub stars
Read the Claude Code guide →

Jira open source alternatives

10 ranked · reviewed 10 Sept
  1. 1Windshift404 GitHub stars
  2. 2OpenProject16,986 GitHub stars
  3. 3Plane61,974 GitHub stars
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Notion open source alternatives

9 ranked · reviewed 25 Aug
  1. 1AppFlowy78,217 GitHub stars
  2. 2AFFiNE74,216 GitHub stars
  3. 3Outline41,170 GitHub stars
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Slack open source alternatives

8 ranked · reviewed 2 Sept
  1. 1Mattermost39,524 GitHub stars
  2. 2Rocket.Chat46,371 GitHub stars
  3. 3Zulip26,171 GitHub stars
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Linear open source alternatives

8 ranked · reviewed 2 Sept
  1. 1GitLab24,548 GitHub stars
  2. 2OpenProject16,986 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. 2VoiceInk7,023 GitHub stars
  3. 3FluidVoice12,818 GitHub stars
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Conductor open source alternatives

12 ranked · reviewed 5 Nov
  1. 1Orca115,397 GitHub stars
  2. 2T3 Code46,806 GitHub stars
  3. 3Paseo23,074 GitHub stars
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Arc open source alternatives

6 ranked · reviewed 27 Oct
  1. 1Zen Browser45,562 GitHub stars
  2. 2Floorp8,474 GitHub stars
  3. 3Brave3,751 GitHub stars
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CapCut open source alternatives

5 ranked · reviewed 6 Oct
  1. 1Concat13,996 GitHub stars
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  3. 3Shotcut15,607 GitHub stars
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Grok Bot open source alternatives

8 ranked · reviewed 8 Sept
  1. 1rakazo7,028 GitHub stars
  2. 2OpenMausBot12,186 GitHub stars
  3. 3OpenBot9,980 GitHub stars
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Superhuman open source alternatives

7 ranked · reviewed 2 Sept
  1. 1Inbox Zero12,915 GitHub stars
  2. 2Macro6,143 GitHub stars
  3. 3Mailspring17,995 GitHub stars
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Airtable open source alternatives

7 ranked · reviewed 2 Sept
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  2. 2Budibase 28,382 GitHub stars
  3. 3ToolJet41,196 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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LobeHub

Alternative toRelevance AI

AI agent team operator with IM gateway and persistent memory.

  • 83,879 GitHub stars
  • CustomLicence Apache-2.0 with LobeHub Community License additional terms
  • #AI Agents

MinerU

Alternative toLlamaParse

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

  • 81,270 GitHub stars
  • GPL-3.0Licence GPL-3.0
  • #Monitoring

screenshot-to-code

Alternative toGoogle Stitch

Turn any design screenshot into clean, working code with AI

  • 81,027 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

RuFlo

Alternative toConductor

Deploy intelligent AI agents with ease.

  • 80,856 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #AI Agents

Hoppscotch

Alternative toPostman

Open source Postman alternative for REST and GraphQL testing

  • 80,746 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.

  • 79,767 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

Unsloth

Alternative toTogether AI

Train LLMs locally without code using a browser-based interface

  • 79,053 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

OBS Studio

Alternative tovMix

Record and stream with multi-source scenes and hardware encoding

  • 78,960 GitHub stars
  • GPL-2.0Licence GPL-2.0
  • #Video

headroom

Alternative toThe Token Company

Compress LLM context before it reaches the model

  • 78,829 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #LLM

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

  • 77,679 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0
  • #Monitoring

Dev 3.0

NEW

Alternative toConductor

Kanban board where every card is a live AI agent in its own worktree.

  • 326 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0

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

Agent Teams AI

NEW

Alternative toConductor

AI agent teams with a Kanban board, code review, and 300+ models.

  • 2,406 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0
  • #AI Agents

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

  • 75,404 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0

Termic

NEW

Alternative toConductor

Parallel AI coding agents in isolated git worktrees, no extra cost.

  • 326 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0

OpenBB

Alternative toLSEG Workspace (formerly Refinitiv Eikon)

Open source AI research workspace for financial analysis

  • 75,027 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #AI Agents

AFFiNE

Alternative toNotion

Local-first workspace combining docs, whiteboards, and notes

  • 74,216 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

wmux

NEW

Alternative toConductor

Native ADE for running multiple AI agents on Windows and macOS

  • 448 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #AI Agents

strix

Alternative toXBOW

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

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

OpenSpec

Alternative toAmazon Kiro

Spec-driven development for AI coding assistants

  • 73,798 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

Agentbox

NEW

Alternative toConductor

Desktop inbox for parallel Claude Code and Codex agents

  • 351 GitHub stars
  • GPL-3.0Licence GPL-3.0
  • #AI Agents

Mole

Alternative toCleanMyMac X

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

  • 73,715 GitHub stars
  • GPL-3.0Licence GPL-3.0
  • #macOS

Strapi

Alternative toContentful

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

  • 73,431 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

Hive

NEW

Alternative toConductor

AI coding agent orchestrator for isolated parallel worktrees

  • 474 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

Cline

Alternative toGitHub Copilot

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

  • 71,305 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0

Vaultwarden

Alternative toBitwarden

Lightweight self-hosted password manager server, Bitwarden compatible

  • 70,224 GitHub stars
  • AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0
  • #Security

Cate

NEW

Alternative toConductor

Infinite canvas IDE for parallel AI coding agents in git worktrees.

  • 2,226 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT

AnythingLLM

Alternative toChatGPT

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

  • 67,943 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #AI Agents

daily_stock_analysis

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

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

cmux

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Alternative toConductor

Native macOS terminal for running AI coding agents side by side.

  • 28,707 GitHub stars
  • #macOS

Prometheus

Alternative toDatadog

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

  • 66,940 GitHub stars
  • Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
  • #Monitoring

Ladybird

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Browser with its own rendering engine, no Chrome or Firefox code

  • 66,849 GitHub stars
  • BSD-2-ClauseLicence BSD-2-Clause

Ghostex

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Native multi-agent workspace for Claude Code, Codex, and 20+ agents

  • 1,599 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
  • #AI Agents

Docusaurus

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React-based static site generator for documentation

  • 66,653 GitHub stars
  • MITLicence MIT
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Web Development

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Security & Monitoring

RustDesk, REA (Reverse Engineer Anything), Uptime Kuma154

Communication & Collaboration

iptv, freeCodeCamp, Excalidraw146

IT Management

Immich, RustDesk, Stirling PDF128

Cloud & Hosting

dify, RuView, rtk128

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Hermes Agent, OpenCode, MarkItDown123

Product & Project Management

agency-agents, freeCodeCamp, Gstack119

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Data & Analytics

Firecrawl, ragflow, Worldmonitor115

Design & Creative

ComfyUI, Excalidraw, Godot Engine90

APIs & Integration

n8n, Firecrawl, iptv81

Backend Development

graphify, dify, Rust75

Databases & Storage

Supabase, Immich, Redis70

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MoneyPrinterTurbo, agency-agents, MiroFish43

Web & App Development

Flutter, Rust, Nvm40

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Langflow, n8n, dify38

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