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definitive-opensource

The definitive list of the best of (consumer facing) open source.
https://github.com/mustbeperfect/definitive-opensource

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    • Office Suite

      • LibreOffice - only LibreOffice core repo - no pull request (use gerrit instead https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/) - don't download zip, use https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bundles/ instead | `Cross` | **4k** |
    • Operating System

    • Other

      • Grocy - Grocy is a web-based self-hosted groceries & household management solution for your home | `Windows` `SelfHost` | **9.1k** |
      • Mealie
      • ImHex
      • EOS
      • Klipper - printer firmware | `N/A` | **11.6k** |
      • TeslaMate - hosted data logger for your Tesla 🚘 [main maintainer=@JakobLichterfeld] | `SelfHost` | **8k** |
      • Ryot
      • GoldenCheetah
      • Stellarium
      • Device Activity Tracker - activity patterns. (WhatsApp / Signal) | `SelfHost` | **5k** |
      • John the Ripper - advanced offline password cracker, which supports hundreds of hash and cipher types, and runs on many operating systems, CPUs, GPUs, and even some FPGAs | `Cross` | **13.2k** |
      • KeyCastr - source keystroke visualizer | `MacOS` | **14.9k** |
      • PeaNUT
    • Package Manager

    • Password Manager

      • Bitwarden
      • KeePass - platform community-driven port of the Windows application “KeePass Password Safe”. | `Cross` | **27.5k** |
      • LessPass
      • Passbolt
      • Vaultwarden
      • Bitwarden
      • Infiscal - source platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management. | `Cross` `Web (Cloud)` `SelfHost` | **27.2k** |
      • AliasVault - first password manager with built-in email aliasing. Fully encrypted and self-hostable. | `Mobile` `Chromium` `Firefox` | **2.7k** |
    • Project Management

      • Focalboard - hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana. | `Cross` `SelfHost` | **26.2k** |
      • Huly - in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion) | `SelfHost` `Web (Cloud)` | **26.1k** |
      • Leantime - project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind. | `SelfHost` | **10k** |
      • OpenProject
      • Plane - source Jira, Linear, Monday, and ClickUp alternative. Plane is a modern project management platform to manage tasks, sprints, docs, and triage. | `SelfHost` `Web (Cloud)` | **50.2k** |
      • Worklenz
    • Prompt

      • Liquid Prompt - featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh | `Cross` | **4.7k** |
      • Oh My Posh - latency cross platform/shell prompt renderer | `Cross` | **22.7k** |
      • Pure
      • Spaceship Prompt
      • starship - fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell! | `Cross` | **57.9k** |
    • Proofreading

      • Harper - first grammar checker. Fast, open-source, Rust-powered | `VSCode` | **10.7k** |
      • LanguageTool
      • WritingTools - wide grammar assistant; a better version of the Apple Intelligence Writing Tools. Works on Windows, Linux, & macOS, with the free Gemini API, local LLMs, & more. | `Cross` | **2.3k** |
    • RAG

      • AnythingLLM - first agent experience | `Cross` | **61k** |
      • AutoFlow
      • DocsGPT - in Agent Builder, Deep research, Document analysis, Multi-model support, and API connectivity for agents. | `Cross` `SelfHost` | **17.9k** |
      • kotaemon - source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents. | `SelfHost` | **25.4k** |
      • PaperQA2
      • R2R - ready AI retrieval system. Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with a RESTful API. | `Web (Cloud)` `SelfHost` | **7.9k** |
      • RAGFlow - source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that fuses cutting-edge RAG with Agent capabilities to create a superior context layer for LLMs | `SelfHost` | **81.8k** |
      • Verba
    • Reading

      • KOReader
      • Anx Reader - book formats, it makes reading smarter and more focused. | `Windows` `MacOS` `Mobile` | **8.2k** |
      • Foliate - books in style | `Linux` | **8.4k** |
      • Koodo Reader
      • Readest - rich ebook reader designed for avid readers offering seamless cross-platform access, powerful tools, and an intuitive interface to elevate your reading experience. | `Cross` `Mobile` `Web (Cloud)` | **21.1k** |
      • Thorium Reader
    • Remote Desktop

      • RustDesk - source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer. | `Cross` | **115.4k** |
    • Research

      • DeepSearcher
      • GPT Researcher
      • STORM - powered knowledge curation system that researches a topic and generates a full-length report with citations. | `Cross` | **28.3k** |
    • Robotics

      • OpenArm - source humanoid arm for physical AI research and deployment in contact-rich environments. | `Cross` | **2.5k** |
      • Webots
      • XLeRobot - Arm Mobile Home Robot for $660 | `N/A` | **5.2k** |
    • Rocketry

      • OpenRocket - rocketry aerodynamics and trajectory simulation software | `Cross` | **2.9k** |
    • RSS Manager

    • RSS Reader

    • Screen Recording

      • Cap
      • Flameshot
      • OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording | `Cross` | **72.9k** |
      • ShareX - source application that enables users to capture or record any area of their screen with a single keystroke. It also supports uploading images, text, and various file types to a wide range of destinations. | `Windows` | **37.9k** |
      • ksnip - platform screenshot and annotation tool | `Cross` | **3.2k** |
      • Perplexica - powered answering engine. | `SelfHost` | **33.7k** |
      • Scira - powered search engine that helps you find information on the internet and cites it too. Powered by Vercel AI SDK! | `SelfHost` `Web (Cloud)` | **11.7k** |
      • Morphic - powered search engine with a generative UI | `SelfHost` `Web (Cloud)` | **8.9k** |
      • SearXNG
      • YaCy - to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance | `SelfHost` | **4k** |
      • Vane - powered answering engine. | `SelfHost` | **35.1k** |
    • Server Management

      • 1Panel - source VPS control panel — and the only one with native AI agent support. Run Ollama models, deploy OpenClaw agents, and manage your entire server stack from one clean web interface. | `SelfHost` | **35.7k** |
    • Shell

      • fish - friendly command line shell. | `Cross` | **33.6k** |
      • Nushell
      • xonsh - powered shell. Full-featured, cross-platform and AI-friendly. | `Cross` | **9.5k** |
    • Simulation

    • Social Network

      • Mastodon - hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community | `Web (Cloud)` `Mobile` | **50k** |
      • Pixelfed
      • IceCubesApp
      • Folo
      • Toot - Mastodon CLI & TUI | `Cross` | **1.3k** |
    • Spreadsheet

    • Storage

    • Surveillance

      • Frigate
      • Scrypted
      • ZoneMinder - circuit television software application developed for Linux which supports IP, USB and Analog cameras. | `SelfHost` | **5.8k** |
      • Viseron - hosted, local only NVR and AI Computer Vision software. With features such as object detection, motion detection, face recognition and more, it gives you the power to keep an eye on your home, office or any other place you want to monitor. | `SelfHost` | **3.2k** |
    • Sync

    • System

      • Background Music
      • auto-cpufreq
      • FineTune - app volume control, multi-device output, audio routing, and 10-band EQ. Free and open-source alternative to SoundSource. | `MacOS` | **7.5k** |
    • System Monitoring

      • bottom - platform graphical process/system monitor. | `Cross` | **13.4k** |
      • Stats
      • Vitals
      • Glances
      • NeoHtop - fast system monitoring for your desktop (built with Rust, Tauri & Svelte) | `Cross` | **9k** |
      • nvitop - GPU process viewer and beyond, the one-stop solution for GPU process management. | `Cross` | **6.9k** |
      • NVTOP
      • htop - an interactive process viewer | `MacOS` `Linux` | **8.1k** |
      • LibreHardwareMonitor
      • System Informer - purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware. Brought to you by Winsider Seminars & Solutions, Inc. @ https://windows-internals.com | `Windows` | **14.9k** |
      • Btop
      • Zenith - sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage | `MacOS` `Linux` | **3k** |
    • Task Management

    • Terminal Emulator

      • Alacritty - platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. | `Cross` | **64.3k** |
      • kitty - platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based. | `Cross` | **33.3k** |
      • Rio - accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers. | `Cross` | **6.9k** |
      • Tabby
      • Waveterm - source, AI-integrated, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows | `Cross` | **21k** |
      • Ghostty - rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. | `Cross` | **55.8k** |
      • Terminal
      • WezTerm - accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust | `Cross` | **25.5k** |
      • cmux - based macOS terminal with vertical tabs and notifications for AI coding agents | `MacOS` | **20.8k** |
      • WezTerm - accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust | `Cross` | **26.4k** |
    • Terminal Multiplexer

    • Terminal Utilities

      • Atuin
      • McFly
      • Oh My Zsh - driven (with 2,500+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community. | `Cross` | **187.6k** |
      • ShellGPT - line productivity tool powered by AI large language models like GPT-5, will help you accomplish your tasks faster and more efficiently. | `Cross` | **12.1k** |
      • zoxide
      • zsh-autosuggestions - like autosuggestions for zsh | `Cross` | **35.6k** |
      • delta - highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, rg --json, and blame output | `Cross` | **31k** |
      • eza
      • fzf - line fuzzy finder | `Cross` | **80.7k** |
      • television
      • Term.Everything
      • Atuin Desktop
      • sshx
      • ripgrep
      • hiSHtory
    • Text Editor

    • Time Management

      • ActivityWatch - source automated time tracker. Cross-platform, extensible, privacy-focused. | `Cross` `Android` | **17.8k** |
      • solidtime - source time-tracking app | `SelfHost` `Web (Cloud)` | **8.6k** |
    • Tools

    • Transcription

      • Hyprnote
      • WhisperLiveKit - to-text models | `SelfHost` | **10.4k** |
      • Handy - to-text application that works completely offline. | `MacOS` | **23k** |
Sub Categories
Uncategorized 46 MacOS 27 Media Management 22 Agent 21 Note Taking 18 LLM GUI 17 Code Assistant 17 Text Editor 16 Tools 16 Window Management 16 Dev Tools 16 VPN 16 Terminal Utilities 15 Audio Player 15 File Manager 14 Code Editor 13 Media Downloader 13 Other 13 Launcher 13 System Monitoring 12 Backup 12 Information Processing 11 Terminal Emulator 10 Games 10 Finance 10 Knowledge Base 10 Chat 9 Download Manager 9 Automation 9 Arr 9 Browser 9 Graphics 9 Model Tools 9 Browser Extensions 8 Password Manager 8 RAG 8 AD Blocker 8 AI Image GUI 8 Game Launcher 8 CAD 8 Bookmark Manager 8 Windows 8 Cleaner 7 Dashboard 7 File Sharing 7 Version Manager 7 Container Management 7 Git Client 7 Mail 7 Reading 6 Project Management 6 Operating System 6 Transcription 6 Package Manager 6 Storage 6 API Client 6 Video Editing 6 Task Management 6 Autonomy 6 Containers 6 IDE 6 All In One 6 Search Engine 6 Neovim Extensions 5 Prompt 5 Context 5 Image Editing 5 Social Network 5 Home Automation 5 Video Player 5 Assistant 5 Document Modifier 5 Screen Recording 5 Wiki 5 Document Management 5 Home Server 5 Authentication 5 Manager 5 Virtual Machine 5 RSS Reader 5 Clipboard Manager 4 Office Suite 4 Git Hosting 4 Markdown Editor 4 Control 4 Network 4 Video Conference 4 Surveillance 4 Sync 4 Language Package Manager 4 Robotics 3 Collaboration 3 Game Engine 3 Archiving 3 Firmware 3 Firewall 3 Keyboard Manager 3 AI Utilities 3 Research 3 Proofreading 3 Audio Editor 3 System 3 Engineering 3 Shell 3 RSS Manager 3 Diagrams 3 Linux 3 Journal 3 Canvas 2 Terminal Multiplexer 2 Dotfiles Manager 2 Image Processing 2 Document Editor 2 Time Management 2 Mouse 2 Simulation 2 Calendar 2 Rocketry 1 Server Management 1 Video Transcoder 1 Spreadsheet 1 Antivirus 1 Remote Desktop 1