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definitive-opensource

The definitive list of the best of (consumer facing) open source.
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  • Honorable Mentions of Closed-Source Software

    • Uncategorized

      • Davinci Resolve - Professional Editing, Color, Effects and Audio Post!
      • Obsidian - The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.
      • LM Studio - Discover, download, and run local LLMs
      • JetBrains - A rich suite of tools that provide an exceptional developer experience
      • Raycast - A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher.
  • Removed Projects

  • Table of Contents

    • AD Blocker

      • Blocky - blocker for local network with many features | `SelfHost` | **7k** |
      • Pi-hole
      • AdGuard - wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server | `SelfHost` `Chromium` `Firefox` | **37.4k** |
      • hBlock
      • wBlock - generation ad blocker for Safari. Free and open source on macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS, with 750,000 rules, userscripts, userstyles, and an element zapper. | `MacOS` | **3k** |
      • Zen - wide ad-blocker and privacy guard for Windows, macOS and Linux. | `Cross` | **4.3k** |
      • adguard mini
    • Agent

      • AutoGPT
      • gptme
      • Huginn
      • Telegraf
      • WrenAI - source, governed text-to-SQL through an open context layer that turns natural-language questions into trusted dashboards, charts, and SQL across 20+ data sources, such as BigQuery, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Amazon Redshift, Databricks and more. | `Web (Cloud)` `SelfHost` | **17.9k** |
      • Browser Use
      • c/ua - use 2.0 with open-source drivers, cross-OS fleets, and benchmarks for training, evaluation, and data generation. | `Cross` | **29.5k** |
      • UI-TARS - Source Multimodal AI Agent Stack: Connecting Cutting-Edge AI Models and Agent Infra | `Cross` | **39.3k** |
      • AgenticSeek
      • Gemini CLI - source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal. | `Cross` | **107.3k** |
      • Crush
      • Nanobrowser - Source Chrome extension for AI-powered web automation. Run multi-agent workflows using your own LLM API key. Alternative to OpenAI Operator. | `Chromium` | **14.1k** |
      • opcode - Create custom agents, manage interactive Claude Code sessions, run secure background agents, and more. | `Cross` | **22.4k** |
      • opencode
      • TEN - source framework for conversational voice AI agents | `SelfHost` | **11.2k** |
      • Open Interpreter
    • AI Image GUI

      • Auto1111
      • Fooocus
      • InvokeAI - driven technologies. The solution offers an industry leading WebUI, and serves as the foundation for multiple commercial products. | `Cross` `SelfHost` | **28.6k** |
      • SD.Next - in-one WebUI for AI generative image and video creation, captioning and processing | `SelfHost` | **7.4k** |
      • WebUI Forge
      • SwarmUI - User-Interface, with an emphasis on making powertools easily accessible, high performance, and extensibility. | `Cross` | **4.7k** |
      • ComfyUI
    • AI Utilities

      • Netron
      • mem0 - Drop-in memory infrastructure for AI agents and apps. Context that persists. Built for production. | `SelfHost` | **67.1k** |
    • All In One

      • AIChat - in-one LLM CLI tool featuring Shell Assistant, Chat-REPL, RAG, AI Tools & Agents, with access to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, Groq, and more. | `Cross` | **10.5k** |
      • Khoj AI - hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free. | `Web (Cloud)` `SelfHost` | **37.7k** |
      • LobeHub
      • ClaraVerse
    • Antivirus

      • ClamAV - Documentation is here: https://docs.clamav.net | `Cross` `SelfHost` | **7.4k** |
    • API Client

      • Yaak
      • Hoppscotch - Source API Development Ecosystem • https://hoppscotch.io • Offline, On-Prem & Cloud • Web, Desktop & CLI • Open-Source Alternative to Postman, Insomnia | `Cross` `Web (Cloud)` | **80.6k** |
      • Insomnia - source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage. | `Cross` | **40k** |
      • Restfox - First Minimalistic HTTP & Socket Testing Client for the Web & Desktop | `Cross` | **2.8k** |
    • Archiving

      • ArchiveBox - hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more... | `SelfHost` | **28.7k** |
      • monolith
      • percollate - line tool to turn web pages into readable PDF, EPUB, HTML, or Markdown docs. | `Cross` | **4.7k** |
    • Arr

    • Assistant

      • Leon - source personal assistant. | `SelfHost` | **17.6k** |
      • Glass
      • OpenClaw
      • Meetily - https://meetily.ai) is the #1 Self-hosted, Open-source Ai meeting note taker for macOS & Windows. Understand How to write meeting minutes | `Windows` `MacOS` | **31.7k** |
    • Audio Editor

    • Audio Player

      • Feishin - hosted music player. | `Cross` `SelfHost` | **10.1k** |
      • Navidrome
      • Spotube
      • Supersonic - featured cross-platform desktop client for self-hosted music servers | `Cross` | **2.4k** |
      • spotify_player
      • Pear Desktop
      • SimpMusic - platform music app using YouTube Music for backend | `Android` | **12k** |
      • Harmonoid
      • kew
      • Swing Music - hosted music player for your local audio files. Like a cooler Spotify ... but bring your own music. | `SelfHost` `Cross` `Android` | **2.1k** |
      • librespot
      • gonic - software subsonic server API implementation | `Cross` `SelfHost` | **2.6k** |
      • Music Player Daemon
      • Nuclear
      • PixelPlayer - first Android music player built with Material 3 Expressive. Play offline, sync lyrics, fine-tune with equalizer presets, and cast to your devices. | `Android` | **6.7k** |
    • Authentication

      • 2FAuth - Factor Authentication (2FA) accounts and generate their security codes | `SelfHost` | **4.2k** |
      • Aegis - step verification tokens. | `Android` | **13.3k** |
      • authelia - On Multi-Factor portal for web apps. OpenID Certified™ and Post-Quantum Cryptography Ready. | `SelfHost` | **29.2k** |
      • 2FAS
      • Zitadel - Identity infrastructure, simplified for you. | `SelfHost` `Web (Cloud)` | **15.3k** |
    • Automation

      • Ansible
      • Cronicle
      • Hammerspoon
      • Script Kit
      • Semaphore
      • Healthchecks - source cron job and background task monitoring service, written in Python & Django | `SelfHost` `Web (Cloud)` | **10.4k** |
      • n8n - code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations. | `Web (Cloud)` `SelfHost` | **207.2k** |
      • Keyboard Cowboy 3
      • Node-RED - code programming for event-driven applications | `SelfHost` | **23.7k** |
    • Autonomy

    • Backup

      • Backrest
      • Borg
      • Duplicacy
      • Duplicati
      • Kopia - platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included. | `Cross` | **14.3k** |
      • Rclone - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files | `Cross` | **60.3k** |
      • Restic
      • Timeshift
      • Vorta
      • Cryptomator - side encryption for your cloud storage, ensuring privacy and control over your data. | `Cross` `Mobile` | **16.3k** |
      • rustic - fast, encrypted, and deduplicated backups powered by Rust | `Cross` | **3.3k** |
      • Rclone UI - platform GUI for rclone & S3. | `Cross` | **2.3k** |
      • Portabase - Database backup & restore tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MsSQL, MariaDB, Firebird SQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis and Docker Volume | `SelfHost` | **1.8k** |
    • Bookmark Manager

      • buku - web in text | `Cross` | **7.2k** |
      • linkding - hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker. | `SelfHost` | **11.3k** |
      • Linkwarden - hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place. | `SelfHost` | **20.1k** |
      • Shiori
      • wallabag
      • Karakeep - hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search | `SelfHost` | **29.6k** |
      • LinkAce - hosted archive to collect links of your favorite websites. | `SelfHost` | **3.3k** |
    • Browser

    • Browser Extensions

    • CAD

      • CadQuery
      • FreeCAD
      • OpenSCAD - The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller | `Cross` | **10.4k** |
      • CAD Sketcher - based geometry sketcher for blender | `N/A` | **3.4k** |
      • CQ-editor
      • Chili3D
      • LeoCAD
      • QCAD - The Open Source 2D CAD. QCAD is a cross-platform CAD solution for Windows, macOS and Linux. It supports the DXF format and optionally the DWG format (through a proprietary plugin). | `Cross` | **1.9k** |
    • Calendar

    • Canvas

    • Chat

      • SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱! | `Cross` | **19.5k** |
      • Telegram Desktop
      • Signal
      • bitchat
      • Toxic - based instant messaging and video chat client. | `Cross` | **1.3k** |
    • Cleaner

    • Clipboard Manager

    • Code Assistant

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Uncategorized 51 MacOS 29 Media Management 23 Transcription 18 Note Taking 17 Agent 16 Tools 16 Dev Tools 16 Terminal Utilities 15 Audio Player 15 LLM GUI 15 VPN 15 Text Editor 15 Launcher 14 Window Management 14 Media Downloader 14 Backup 13 Miscellaneous 13 File Manager 13 Code Editor 12 System Monitoring 12 Code Assistant 11 Games 11 Knowledge Base 10 Finance 10 Automation 9 Download Manager 9 Terminal Emulator 9 Graphics 9 Discord Client 9 Browser 8 CAD 8 Browser Extensions 8 Model Tools 8 Information Processing 8 AD Blocker 7 Arr 7 File Sharing 7 Version Manager 7 Dashboard 7 Game Launcher 7 Git Client 7 Task Management 7 Operating System 7 IDE 7 Container Management 7 Password Manager 7 RAG 7 Cleaner 7 Bookmark Manager 7 AI Image GUI 7 Windows 7 Reading 6 Time Management 6 Project Management 6 Mail 6 Video Editing 6 Containers 6 Autonomy 6 Package Manager 6 Prompt 5 Home Server 5 Image Editing 5 Social Network 5 Neovim Extensions 5 Home Automation 5 Search Engine 5 Screen Recording 5 Wiki 5 Chat 5 Virtual Machine 5 RSS Reader 5 Mapping 5 Manager 5 Authentication 5 Storage 5 Document Modifier 5 All In One 4 Git Hosting 4 Markdown Editor 4 Video Player 4 Context 4 Sync 4 Network 4 Document Management 4 API Client 4 Language Package Manager 4 Surveillance 4 Assistant 4 Clipboard Manager 4 Collaboration 3 Audio Editor 3 Firewall 3 Firmware 3 Journal 3 Game Engine 3 Archiving 3 Linux 3 System 3 Office Suite 3 Keyboard Manager 3 Engineering 3 Robotics 3 Control 3 Video Conference 3 Research 3 Shell 3 Diagrams 3 RSS Manager 3 Proofreading 3 Dotfiles Manager 2 Mouse 2 Image Processing 2 Canvas 2 Terminal Multiplexer 2 AI Utilities 2 Simulation 2 Server Management 1 Rocketry 1 Video Transcoder 1 Spreadsheet 1 Document Editor 1 Antivirus 1 Remote Desktop 1 Calendar 1