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awesome-foss-alternatives

Awesome Free / Open Source Alternatives (to common SaaS products) for Business Use
https://github.com/sfermigier/awesome-foss-alternatives

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  • Collaboration

    • Knowledge Bases (Notion alternatives)

      • AppFlowy - Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The leading open source Notion alternative. [Dart, GNU Affero General Public License v3.0].
      • AFFiNE - There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ษ™โ€˜fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use. [TS, Other license].
      • BookStack - A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel. [PHP, MIT License].
      • MediaWiki - ๐ŸŒป The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirrorย fromย https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. Seeย https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access forย contributing. [PHP, Other license].
      • MoinMoin - MoinMoin Wiki Development (2.0+), unstable, for production please use 1.9.x. [๐Ÿ, Other license].
      • XWiki - The XWiki platform. [โ˜•๏ธ, GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1].
      • WikiMatrix - Compare them all. (WikiMatrix helps you compare the features of many different Wikis in a comfortable side-by-side table.).
      • List of wiki software
      • Wiki Engines - dead ones, with a short description of each one).

    • Chat & Team Communication (Slack, Discord alternatives)

      • Rocket.chat - The communications platform that puts data protection first. [TS, Other license].
      • Zulip - Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused. [๐Ÿ, Apache License 2.0].
      • RelatedChat - Messenger. [Swift, Unknown license].
      • Spacebar - ๐Ÿ“ฌ Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform. [GNU Affero General Public License v3.0].

    • Video Conferencing (Zoom, Webex, Google Meet, Skype... alternatives)

      • BigBlueButton - Complete open source web conferencing system. [JS, GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0].
      • Element Call - Group calls powered by Matrix. [TS, Apache License 2.0].
      • Galene - The Galรจne videoconference server. [Go, MIT License].
      • Jitsi Meet - Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application. [TS, Apache License 2.0].
      • Element Call - Group calls powered by Matrix. [TS, GNU Affero General Public License v3.0].

    • Note-taking / Personal Knowledge Management (Evernote alternatives)

      • Joplin - Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. [TS, Other license].
      • Logseq - A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Download link: http://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases. roadmap: http://trello.com/b/8txSM12G/roadmap. [Clojure, GNU Affero General Public License v3.0].
      • Notesnook - A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote. [TS, GNU General Public License v3.0].
      • SiYuan - A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang. [TS, GNU Affero General Public License v3.0].

    • Kanban board (Trello alternatives)

      • Kanboard - Kanban project management software. [PHP, MIT License].
      • Planka - The realtime kanban board for workgroups built with React and Redux. [JS, GNU Affero General Public License v3.0].
      • WeKan - The Open Source kanban (built with Meteor). Keep variable/table/field names camelCase. For translations, only add Pull Request changes to wekan/i18n/en.i18n.json , other translations are done at https://app.transifex.com/wekan/wekan only. [JS, MIT License].
      • Focalboard - Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana. [TS, Other license].

  • Business

    • Invoicing (FreshBooks / QuickBooks alternatives)

      • Crater - Open Source Invoicing Solution for Individuals & Businesses. [PHP, GNU Affero General Public License v3.0].
      • Invoice Ninja - A source-available invoice, quote, project and time-tracking app built with Laravel. [PHP, Other license].
      • SolidInvoice - Simple and elegant invoicing solution. [PHP, MIT License].

    • ERP (SAP Alternatives)

      • ERP5 - ERP5 Open Source ERP/CRM/KM. (Mirror of https://lab.nexedi.com/nexedi/erp5 ; Please submit patches and issues there). [JS, Unknown license].
      • IDURAR ERP CRM - Free Open Source ERP CRM Accounting Invoicing Software | Node Js React. [JS, GNU Affero General Public License v3.0].
      • Odoo - Odoo. Open Source Apps To Grow Your Business. [๐Ÿ, Other license].

    • CRM (Salesforce alternatives)

      • SuiteCRM - SuiteCRM - Open source CRM for the world. [PHP, GNU Affero General Public License v3.0].
      • EspoCRM - EspoCRM โ€“ Open Source CRM Application. [PHP, GNU Affero General Public License v3.0].

    • Document Management / ECM (Documentum alternatives)

      • Alfresco - Alfresco Content Application. [TS, GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0].
      • Nuxeo - Content management platform to build modern business applications. [โ˜•๏ธ, Apache License 2.0].
      • LogicalDOC - LogicalDOC Community open source document management system https://www.logicaldoc.com. [โ˜•๏ธ, GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0].
      • Mayan EDMS - Free Open Source DMS (document management system).
      • OpenKM - OpenKM is a Open Source Document Management System. [โ˜•๏ธ, GNU General Public License v2.0].

    • Applicant Tracking System

      • FreeATS - . [๐Ÿ’Ž, MIT License].

  • Web

    • Web analytics (Google Analytics alternatives)

      • Matomo - Empowering People Ethically ๐Ÿš€ โ€” Matomo is hiring! Join us โ†’ https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub โญ๏ธ โ€“ Pull Requests welcome!. [PHP, GNU General Public License v3.0].
      • Shynet - Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS. [๐Ÿ, Apache License 2.0].
      • Umami - Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics. [TS, MIT License].
      • Prisme Analytics - ๐Ÿ’Ž An Open Source, privacy-focused and progressive analytics service. [Go, GNU Affero General Public License v3.0].
      • Plausible - Simple, open source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics. [๐Ÿ’ง, GNU Affero General Public License v3.0].

    • Web CMS and Blog Engines

      • Wordpress - WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull requests to https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop and patches to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ instead. [PHP, Other license].
      • Ghost - Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters. [JS, MIT License].
      • List of content management systems on Wikipedia

    • Blogging platform/ Personal website builder (Medium alternatives)

      • btw - Open source Medium alternative- set up your personal blog in minutes. [JS, GNU General Public License v3.0].
      • WriteFreely - A clean, Markdown-based publishing platform made for writers. Write together and build a community. [Go, GNU Affero General Public License v3.0].

    • Static website generator

      • 11ty - A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML. [JS, MIT License].
      • Hugo - The worldโ€™s fastest framework for building websites. [Go, Apache License 2.0].
      • Jekyll - :globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby. [๐Ÿ’Ž, MIT License].
      • Lektor - The lektor static file content management system. [๐Ÿ, BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License].
      • Pelican - Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Powered by Python. [๐Ÿ, GNU Affero General Public License v3.0].
      • Zola - A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org. [๐Ÿฆ€, MIT License].
      • Awesome Static Web Site Generators - A curated list of static web site generators. [Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal].
      • A List of Static Site Generators for Jamstack Sites

  • Platforms services and devops

    • Platform as a Service / PaaS (Heroku, Fly, Render... alternatives):

      • Abilian Hop3 - Hop3 - Open source platform as a service: deploy and manage your applications seamlessly. [๐Ÿ, Other license].
      • Abilian Nua - Open source PaaS and application marketplace. [๐Ÿ, GNU Affero General Public License v3.0].
      • CapRover - Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids. [TS, Other license].
      • Coolify - An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative. [PHP, Apache License 2.0].
      • Dokku - A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications. [Shell, MIT License].

    • User authentication (Auth0 alternatives)

      • Janssen - The Janssen Project maintains open source IAM components, featuring Agama for identity orchestration, and the Cedarling, a WASM or embedded policy evaluation engine. [โ˜•๏ธ, Apache License 2.0].
      • Logto - ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿš€ The better auth and identity infrastructure and the open-source alternative to Auth0. No framework restrictions. [TS, Mozilla Public License 2.0].
      • Authgear - Authgear is an open-source Auth0/Clerk alternative for all of your consumer authentication needs. Get started in 5 minutes to integrate passwordless login, passkeys, 2FA, and enterprise-grade security into your applications. It supports modern authentication protocols OIDC and SAML. It features a web portal for user management and setting up authentication/authorization configurations. [โ˜•๏ธ, Apache License 2.0]
      • Keycloak - Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services. [โ˜•๏ธ, Apache License 2.0].
      • SuperTokens - Open source alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito. [โ˜•๏ธ, Other license].
      • Mellisearch - A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications. [๐Ÿฆ€, MIT License].
      • Sonic - ๐Ÿฆ” Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM. [๐Ÿฆ€, Mozilla Public License 2.0].
      • Tantivy - Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust. [๐Ÿฆ€, MIT License].
      • Typesense - Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch โšก ๐Ÿ” โœจ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences. [C++, GNU General Public License v3.0].

    • Backend-as-a-Service (Firebase alternatives)

      • Supabase - The open source Firebase alternative. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications. [TS, Apache License 2.0].
      • Appwrite - Build like a team of hundreds_. [TS, BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License].
      • Nhost - The Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL. [TS, MIT License].
      • Manifest - ๐Ÿฆš The 1-file backend. [TS, MIT License].

    • Push notifications (OneSignal alternatives)

      • Novu - The open-source notification Inbox infrastructure. E-mail, SMS, Push and Slack Integrations. [TS, Other license].
      • Apprise - Apprise - Push Notifications that work with just about every platform!. [๐Ÿ, BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License].
      • ntfy - Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using PUT/POST. [Go, Apache License 2.0].

    • Monitoring/Observability (Datadog alternatives)

      • Coroot - Coroot is an open-source APM & Observability tool, a DataDog and NewRelic alternative. Metrics, logs, traces, continuous profiling, and SLO-based alerting, supercharged with predefined dashboards and inspections. [Go, Apache License 2.0].
      • hyperdx - Resolve production issues, fast. An open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces and errors powered by Clickhouse and OpenTelemetry. [TS, MIT License].
      • signoz - SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. ๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐Ÿ–ฅ. ๐Ÿ‘‰ Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool. [TS, Other license].
      • Sentry - Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring. [๐Ÿ, Other license].

    • Logging (Loggly alternatives)

      • Graylog - Free and open log management. [โ˜•๏ธ, Other license].

    • Webhooks notifications (Svix, HostedHooks alternatives)

      • Hook0 - Open-Source webhooks api and server that makes it easy for developers to send webhooks from their app and SaaS. [โ˜•๏ธ, Other license].

  • Software development

    • Bug tracking (Jira alternatives):

      • Plane - ๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐Ÿ”ฅ Open Source JIRA, Linear, Monday, and Asana Alternative. Plane helps you track your issues, epics, and cycles the easiest way on the planet. [TS, GNU Affero General Public License v3.0].
      • Bugzilla - Official repository for the Bugzilla bug tracking system. Report bugs to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla&format=__default__ . Main website:. [Perl, Mozilla Public License 2.0].
      • Redmine - Mirror of redmine code source - Official Subversion repository is at https://svn.redmine.org/redmine - contact: @vividtone or maeda (at) farend (dot) jp. [๐Ÿ’Ž, Other license].
      • Taiga - Taiga is a free and open-source project management for cross-functional agile teams. [๐Ÿ, Mozilla Public License 2.0].

    • Code hosting & collaboration (Github alternatives)

      • Gitea - Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD. [Go, MIT License].
      • Gitlab - GitLab CE Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com. [๐Ÿ’Ž, Other license].
      • Gogs - Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service. [Go, MIT License].
      • Pagure - pagure is a light-weight git-centered forge based on pygit2. (MIRROR). [๐Ÿ, GNU General Public License v2.0].
      • Sourcehut - This suite of open source tools is the software development platform you've been waiting for.

    • Continuous integration (CircleCI alternatives)

      • Buildbot - Python-based continuous integration testing framework; your pull requests are more than welcome!. [๐Ÿ, GNU General Public License v2.0].
      • Jenkins - Jenkins automation server. [โ˜•๏ธ, MIT License].
      • Drone - Harness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform with Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries. [Go, Apache License 2.0].

    • Code review (Github alternatives)

      • Gerrit - Gerrit Code Review - (mirror of https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit). [โ˜•๏ธ, Apache License 2.0].
      • Review Board - An extensible and friendly code review tool for projects and companies of all sizes. [๐Ÿ, MIT License].

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Programming Languages
TypeScript 19 Python 14 PHP 11 Java 10 Go 9 JavaScript 8 Ruby 4 Rust 4 C++ 1 Elixir 1
Categories
Platforms services and devops 27 Collaboration 26 Web 18 Business 14 Software development 14 Other lists of free / open source software 11
Sub Categories
Code review (Github alternatives) 13 Knowledge Bases (Notion alternatives) 9 Static website generator 8 Code hosting & collaboration (Github alternatives) 5 User authentication (Auth0 alternatives) 5 Web analytics (Google Analytics alternatives) 5 Platform as a Service / PaaS (Heroku, Fly, Render... alternatives): 5 Document Management / ECM (Documentum alternatives) 5 Video Conferencing (Zoom, Webex, Google Meet, Skype... alternatives) 5 Chat & Team Communication (Slack, Discord alternatives) 4 Bug tracking (Jira alternatives): 4 Kanban board (Trello alternatives) 4 Search (Algolia alternatives) 4 Note-taking / Personal Knowledge Management (Evernote alternatives) 4 Backend-as-a-Service (Firebase alternatives) 4 Monitoring/Observability (Datadog alternatives) 4 Push notifications (OneSignal alternatives) 3 Continuous integration (CircleCI alternatives) 3 Web CMS and Blog Engines 3 ERP (SAP Alternatives) 3 Invoicing (FreshBooks / QuickBooks alternatives) 3 CRM (Salesforce alternatives) 2 Blogging platform/ Personal website builder (Medium alternatives) 2 Logging (Loggly alternatives) 1 Webhooks notifications (Svix, HostedHooks alternatives) 1 Applicant Tracking System 1
Keywords
python 15 javascript 14 self-hosted 11 php 9 docker 9 react 8 open-source 8 analytics 7 nextjs 6 postgresql 6 go 6 kanban 6 cms 6 markdown 6 static-site-generator 6 privacy 6 typescript 6 note-taking 5 foss 5 web-analytics 5 nodejs 5 devops 5 database 5 wiki 5 rust 5 kubernetes 5 metrics 5 electron 5 monitoring 5 security 4 react-native 4 webrtc 4 oauth2 4 apm 4 authentication 4 backend 4 search-engine 4 flutter 4 selfhosted 4 reactjs 4 django 4 git 4 blog-engine 4 java 4 collaboration 4 awesome-list 4 chat 3 clickhouse 3 rest-api 3 passwordless 3