It Tools
The utilities engineers otherwise scatter across a dozen ad-laden websites - 80+ of them - live together in IT-Tools, one fast, polished web app. Crypto covers JWT decoding, MD5 through SHA-512 hashing, HMAC and bcrypt generation, RSA key pairs, and password strength analysis. Converters handle JSON to CSV, YAML, and TOML, Base64 files, URL encoding, HTML entities, color formats, and Docker run commands to Compose files. Generators produce UUIDv4, ULID, BIP39 mnemonics, QR codes (including Wi-Fi QR), and tokens; text tools include a regex tester, diff viewer, slug and case converters; web utilities parse URLs and user agents, look up HTTP status codes and MIME types, and inspect Open Graph metadata; plus a cron parser, chmod calculator, and more. The privacy argument is the point: JWTs contain user IDs, hashes derive from passwords, JSON dumps hold PII - exactly the inputs you least want a third-party utility site to log. IT-Tools is a frontend-only static bundle (Vue/TypeScript, GPL-3.0, 39k+ GitHub stars) served by Nginx in one container, so everything runs client-side on your infrastructure with nothing transmitted anywhere. New tools ship roughly monthly, and a scaffolding script makes adding custom ones straightforward.
Leantime
"As simple as Trello but as feature-rich as Jira" is how the Leantime team frames its goals-focused project management system for non-project managers - built from the ground up with ADHD, autism, and dyslexia in mind, with behavioral science shaping customizable dashboards, time blocking, low-cognitive-load prioritization, and Kanban, list, table, Gantt, and calendar views so each person works the way their brain does. The PHP application (AGPL, Laravel Blade frontend) connects strategy to execution: tasks with unlimited subtasks and dependencies roll up into milestones on a timeline, sprints and retrospectives handle iteration, and strategy-level blueprint boards - Lean Canvas, SWOT, risk analysis, goal and metric tracking - keep the "why" attached to the work. Knowledge lives alongside: wikis and docs, idea boards, comments on everything, file storage on S3 or local disk, even screen and webcam recording. Time tracking with timesheets supports estimation and client billing. Admin features are serious for an OSS tool: per-project permissions, two-factor auth, LDAP and OIDC single sign-on, Slack, Mattermost, and Discord integrations, a plugin system, and an expanding API that now powers a mobile app. Recent releases added multi-collaborator task assignment and low-vision accessibility improvements. Available in 20+ languages.
Personal Management System
Consolidate daily to-do lists, encrypted passwords, household spending, contacts, and family photo galleries into Personal Management System, a self-hosted private command center for everyday life. Individuals can organize recurring schedules and calendar milestones with proactive notification alerts so important appointments, vehicle servicing dates, and recurring bill renewals are never overlooked. Users can balance household budgets and track expenditure across custom spending categories, calculating monthly cash flow balances while monitoring debts owed to friends or family members. Privacy-conscious users can safeguard account credentials inside an encrypted password vault featuring quick-copy buttons and secondary lock protection for sensitive personal entries. Goal setters can track multi-step personal targets and link financial milestones directly to dedicated savings pools. Home organizers can catalog contacts, log travel destinations with mapped imagery, and maintain categorized notes containing voice memos, bookmarks, and reference materials. Collectors can sort family photos and video recordings into interactive masonry galleries with built-in lightbox previews and file download tools. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
Dashy
Every service you run, behind one polished start page: Dashy is the most customizable homelab dashboard, built as a Vue.js homepage. Configuration lives in a single YAML file, but you never have to hand-edit it: an integrated UI editor with real-time validation writes changes back to disk, so both config-as-code and point-and-click camps are served. Status indicators put a live health dot next to every app - HTTP checks or pings on custom intervals, with response time and status details on hover - giving you an at-a-glance uptime overview before anything breaks. Over 50 built-in widgets pull dynamic content from the services you already run: Pi-hole and AdGuard block stats, Proxmox lists, Nextcloud status, Netdata CPU/memory history, Prometheus data, plus weather, RSS, crypto prices, and generic iframe/API-response widgets for anything with an endpoint. Instant fuzzy search launches any app as you type, with customizable hotkeys and web-search fallthrough. Theming is deep: dozens of built-in themes, a UI color palette editor, and custom CSS over CSS variables. Alternate views include a fast-loading minimal startpage and a workspace view that embeds apps side-by-side without leaving the dashboard. Icons resolve from Font Awesome, homelab icon packs, emojis, or auto-fetched favicons. Built-in authentication, multi-page support, cloud backup/sync, and multi-language round out an MIT project with a massive community.
Plane
The most-starred open-source project management platform on GitHub with over 55,000 stars, Plane delivers what Jira, Linear, Monday, and ClickUp charge thousands per year for — issue tracking, sprint planning, documentation, and AI-powered workflows in one unified workspace that you own and control entirely. Work items feature a rich text editor with file uploads, sub-properties, custom states, priorities, labels, assignees, and cross-referencing, organized across five customizable layout views (list, board, table, spreadsheet, Gantt) with Command-K navigation for instant access to anything. Time-boxed Cycles provide sprint planning with automatic burn-down charts, velocity tracking, and scope change detection, while Modules break complex projects into manageable deliverables with progress aggregation. Built-in Pages combine AI-powered documentation with rich formatting, image embedding, and one-click conversion of notes into actionable work items. The AI layer reads across every project, cycle, document, and thread in the workspace — agents take real assignments, triage incoming requests, assign owners, track blockers, and ship status updates automatically. Native integrations connect GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Sentry, Figma, and 50+ tools with bidirectional issue sync and PR tracking, while import pipelines migrate entire workspaces from Jira, Linear, Asana, ClickUp, or Monday in minutes. The REST API with OAuth 2.0, HMAC-signed webhooks, typed SDKs in Node.js and Python, and a native MCP server enable custom automations. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.
Shiori
Most web links eventually break - the sobering statistic Shiori, a bookmark manager with archiving by default, is built on. Its answer is archiving by default - where possible, every bookmark you save gets a clean, readable offline copy parsed from the page, ads and navigation stripped, so the article survives even after the original URL dies. Conceived as a simple Pocket clone and written in Go, the entire server is a single binary using roughly 25-30 MB of RAM with SQLite out of the box (Postgres and MySQL supported) - genuinely the lightest archiving bookmark manager you can run. Saving is one click through the Firefox and Chrome extensions, and finding things again is where Shiori quietly outperforms its size: full-text search covers the archived page content, not just titles and tags, so you can find that article by a phrase you remember from paragraph six. Reader mode presents the cleaned text; archive mode shows the preserved page. It's dual-interface by design - a pretty web UI (installable as a PWA on mobile) and a complete CLI for terminal devotees - plus a REST API for scripting. Pocket imports work natively, and Netscape HTML handles browser imports and exports. Multi-user support included. MIT-licensed.
Cal.diy
With over 47,000 GitHub stars, Cal.diy is the fully open-source community fork of Cal.com that strips away every proprietary license gate and enterprise paywall to deliver a pure MIT-licensed scheduling platform you completely own. The booking engine supports individual event types including recurring events, seated events with capacity limits, and paid bookings through Stripe and PayPal, all backed by customizable availability schedules with date overrides, buffer times, minimum notice periods, and travel schedule support. Calendar synchronization is bidirectional across nine providers — Google Calendar, Outlook and Office 365, Apple Calendar, CalDAV, Lark, Feishu, Zoho, Exchange, and ICS feeds — so every booking automatically appears on your existing calendar while blocking conflicting slots. Video conferencing links generate automatically for Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Jitsi, Daily.co, Whereby, and Huddle01, eliminating manual link management. The automation layer connects through webhooks, Zapier, n8n, Make, and Pipedream to CRM platforms like HubSpot, Salesforce, and Close, messaging services including Discord, Telegram, and WhatsApp, and analytics tools such as Google Analytics 4, PostHog, and Fathom. The entire application is built on the T3 stack — Next.js for server-rendered pages, tRPC for end-to-end type-safe APIs, Prisma for PostgreSQL database access, and Tailwind CSS for the responsive interface. Unlike Cal.com's open-core model, Cal.diy requires no license key and includes no gated features. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
Kanboard
"Less is more" is Kanboard's stated philosophy, and the free, MIT-licensed PHP application lives it: drag tasks between customizable columns, enforce work-in-progress limits per column, and slice boards horizontally with swimlanes for releases, teams, or priorities. Tasks carry what matters - colors, categories, subtasks with time estimates, Markdown descriptions, comments, attachments, internal links, and due dates - and move or duplicate across projects in one click. A concise query language filters any board dynamically (assignee, category, due date, description), and saved filters become custom views. The automatic-actions engine kills repetitive triage: on events like column moves or task creation, Kanboard reassigns, recolors, recategorizes, or closes tasks by rule. Around the board sit a calendar, per-project analytics (cumulative flow, lead and cycle time), Gantt view, and time tracking. Authentication spans LDAP/Active Directory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, and reverse-proxy headers; a JSON-RPC API, webhooks for creating tasks from external systems, and a CLI cover integration. A large community plugin catalog adds what core deliberately omits. With no external dependencies, it runs happily on anything from a Raspberry Pi up - translated into 30+ languages.
HeyForm
Typeform's conversational format, self-hosted: HeyForm is the open-source form builder that presents one question at a time. Forms present one question at a time, which measurably improves completion rates compared to long static pages. It supports 40+ field types, from text, email, and phone inputs to picture choices, date pickers, star ratings, signatures, and file uploads. Conditional logic shows or hides questions based on earlier answers, routes respondents to different endings, and redirects to URLs, so a single form can serve multiple flows. Completed submissions land in a results dashboard with drop-off and completion analytics, and connect outward through webhooks or integrations with Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Notion, Airtable, and Slack. Theming covers fonts, colors, backgrounds, and custom CSS, so embedded forms look native to your site rather than like a third-party widget; the JavaScript embed library renders them inline, as popups, or full-page, with shareable standalone links as the default. Team workspaces and projects with member management let multiple teams share one instance without mixing data. Self-hosting removes per-response pricing entirely - unlimited forms and submissions for flat hosting cost - and keeps lead data, feedback, and quiz answers in your own MongoDB, simplifying GDPR compliance. The stack is a NestJS server and React webapp backed by MongoDB and KeyDB, distributed under GPLv3 as a Docker image.
Rocket.Chat
Blast off into productivity space with Rocket.Chat SIX, the ultimate team collaboration cosmos! Imagine a place where your messages, tasks, and projects all live in harmony, orbiting around your team's efficiency like a well-organized galaxy. This isn't just any old chat platform; it's a customizable universe where you're the master of your data domain, with the power to tweak, integrate, and innovate to your heart's content. Ready to provide stellar customer service? Engage with your clients in a way that's so contextually on-point, they'll feel like you're mind-reading across the cosmos. Plus, with a chat engine that's like a gravitational pull for user engagement, your app or website will become the center of your users' universe. And for the security-conscious space cadets, fear not! Rocket.Chat SIX is locked down tighter than a spaceship hatch, with end-to-end encryption and a buffet of deployment options to satisfy your security appetite. All this, hosted on RepoCloud, where the cost is as lightweight as zero-gravity. So why settle for a terrestrial tool when you can have a celestial experience? Rocket.Chat SIX: because your team deserves to collaborate in a universe that's light-years ahead!
Zero Email
Zero unifies Gmail, Outlook, and IMAP accounts into a single AI-enhanced inbox with keyboard-driven navigation that matches premium email clients in speed. Backed by 10,000+ stars and positioned as the alternative to Superhuman, it keeps your email data in your own PostgreSQL database while LLM agents handle categorization, priority sorting, draft composition, and natural language mailbox queries. You choose whether models run locally or through cloud providers you control. The Next.js and React interface delivers customizable keyboard shortcuts for every action: reading, archiving, labeling, composing. A WorkflowEngine defines automated multi-step rules including label application, bulk archiving, and conditional routing based on sender, subject, or content analysis. Built on Drizzle ORM with Better Auth handling Google OAuth, styled with TailwindCSS and Shadcn UI components, the interface is polished without being bloated. MCP integration exposes email management tools to external AI assistants for programmatic inbox control through standardized protocols. The Nizzy CLI handles environment configuration, database synchronization, and development server orchestration. Deploys via Docker Compose with a single database initialization command. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
Kimai
From a freelancer logging billable hours to companies with hundreds of users, Kimai scales professional-grade open-source time tracking - a Symfony/PHP application without the per-seat pricing of Harvest or Toggl. Tracking is flexible by design: run multiple concurrent timers, use punch-in/punch-out mode, or enter times manually, organized by customer, project, and activity with tags, and priced by user-, customer-, or project-specific rates. The billing pipeline is where Kimai earns "professional grade": generate invoices directly from timesheet data with configurable templates (DOCX, ODS, XLSX, PDF), entry grouping, and invoice-number generators, while an export flag locks billed records against editing and excludes them from future invoices - the audit-safety detail spreadsheet workflows never get right. E-invoicing supports EN 16931, XRechnung 3.0, and Zugferd/Factur-X. Enterprise controls come standard: SAML and LDAP login against Google Workspace, Azure AD, or Authentik, TOTP two-factor auth, customizable role permissions, and teams that scope customers and projects to departments. Money and time budgets alert before overruns, advanced reporting slices recorded time by any dimension, and an extensive JSON API plus a plugin marketplace (expenses, approvals, and more) integrate it with existing infrastructure. Over 30 translations, multi-timezone, AGPL-licensed.
Grocy
Grocy is a household management system, bringing ERP-grade inventory tracking to kitchens, pantries, and homes worldwide. The stock management system tracks products with expiration dates, best-before dates, and opened tracking, while barcode scanning via USB readers or device cameras with Open Food Facts product lookup enables rapid item entry. Minimum stock amounts trigger automatic shopping list entries so frequently used products never run out, and multiple shopping lists can be maintained and shared across household members. Recipe management links ingredients directly to stock inventory, showing at-a-glance fulfillment status and a Due Score that highlights recipes best suited for consuming items approaching expiration. The meal planner organizes daily meals across customizable time periods and adds all missing ingredients to shopping lists with one click. Chore tracking schedules recurring household tasks with assignment to specific members, due date tracking, and completion history logging. Battery management monitors charge cycles for household devices with configurable reminder intervals. Custom fields and userfields extend any entity with additional data, while feature flags disable unused modules to simplify the interface. The RESTful API with integrated Swagger UI at the /api endpoint exposes every operation the web frontend uses, enabling third-party integrations with home automation systems. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
PsiTransfer
Upload files, get a share link, let it expire: PsiTransfer is a self-hosted WeTransfer with no accounts, no logins, and no third-party cloud with size caps and metadata harvesting. The engineering focus is large files over imperfect networks. Uploads use the tus.io resumable protocol, so a dropped connection on a multi-gigabyte video resumes exactly where it stopped once you're back online; downloads support HTTP range headers for the same resilience, and everything streams, so file size is bounded by your disk rather than memory. Files organize into upload buckets with retention you control: expire after a set time (up to weeks) or after a one-time download, with automatic cleanup when links lapse. Recipients need nothing installed - they open the link, preview files in modal views, and grab everything as a zip or tar.gz archive with one click. Buckets can be password-protected (AES-encrypted download lists), and security-through-obscurity is done properly: bucket URLs use hashed UUID tokens and stored filenames are replaced with UUIDs. An optional admin page (enabled by setting an admin password) lists bucket information and storage. The Vue.js frontend ships under 100 KB gzipped and is fully responsive. Honest caveat from the author: no end-to-end payload encryption yet. BSD-licensed, Docker-ready.
Wiki.js
Team and product documentation on a fast Vue frontend with PostgreSQL storage: Wiki.js is a Node.js wiki engine. Its distinguishing trait is per-page editor choice: authors pick Markdown with live preview, a WYSIWYG visual builder for non-technical writers, or raw HTML, page by page. Native Git synchronization commits every page change to GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, or any Git remote - bi-directionally, so edits made in the repository flow back into the wiki - giving documentation version-controlled backup for free. Authentication coverage is among the broadest of any self-hosted wiki: local accounts with self-registration, social login via Google, GitHub, Discord, and Slack, and enterprise SSO through LDAP/Active Directory, SAML, CAS, Auth0, Okta, Azure AD, Keycloak, and generic OAuth2/OIDC, with optional MFA. Built-in full-text search runs on PostgreSQL with zero setup, and external engines like Algolia or Solr can substitute. Page history with visual version comparison, granular group-based permissions per path, nested navigation menus, 50+ integration modules, and full localization round it out. AGPLv3-licensed with a 28k-star community.
PilotDeck
PilotDeck introduces a WorkSpace-first architecture where each project receives its own isolated file system, memory store, and skill set, preventing context bleed between parallel tasks. White-box memory makes generation, extraction, storage, and retrieval fully visible, letting users audit, edit, pin, and rollback individual entries when the agent misremembers, while Dream Mode consolidates memory fragments during idle windows. Smart Routing auto-detects task difficulty and sends complex calls to flagship models like Claude Sonnet or GPT-4o while routing simple requests to lighter models, achieving claimed 70% cost savings through on-device and cloud co-orchestration with TokenSaver tiering and sticky session binding. Always-on background execution keeps agents running after the user closes the browser, with Discovery and Cron-based scheduling for recurring workflows. The platform natively supports the Model Context Protocol for first-class MCP server integration, community skills via ClawHub on npm, lifecycle hooks intercepting PreToolUse and UserPromptSubmit events, and custom memory store providers. Multi-provider fallback automatically switches to backup providers on timeout or rate-limit errors. The WebSocket and HTTP gateway serves web, CLI, desktop, and Feishu IM channels from a single configuration. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.
TriliumNext
TriliumNext organizes notes in an infinitely deep tree where any single note can be cloned into multiple branches without duplication, building personal knowledge bases that mirror how ideas actually connect rather than forcing a single rigid folder hierarchy. Carrying forward the original Trilium project under active community stewardship with nearly 37,000 GitHub stars, the application is built on TypeScript with a CKEditor 5 WYSIWYG editor supporting rich text, tables, images, KaTeX math expressions, Mermaid diagrams, Excalidraw canvases, mind maps, spreadsheets with XLSX and CSV import/export, and code blocks with full syntax highlighting. A built-in JavaScript scripting engine runs on both frontend and backend, enabling custom widgets, automated workflows, scheduled tasks, and direct interaction with external REST services through a typed Script API. Full-text and fuzzy search with attribute-based queries locates any note instantly across databases tested at over 100,000 notes without performance degradation. The v0.104 release introduced importers for OneNote, Notion, Google Keep, Anytype, and Obsidian alongside 16 dedicated security fixes. Per-note AES encryption, OpenID Connect authentication, and TOTP two-factor protection safeguard sensitive content. The sync server keeps desktop clients, the progressive web app, and mobile devices in lockstep with zero third-party cloud dependency. Web Clipper captures content directly from browsers. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.
Wallabag
With 12,800+ GitHub stars and over a decade of active development since 2013, wallabag is the most established open-source read-it-later application — built for readers who want complete ownership of their article archive without depending on services that shut down (RIP Pocket). The Symfony-based PHP application extracts clean article content using Graby and php-readability, stripping advertisements, pop-ups, and tracking scripts to deliver a distraction-free reading experience optimized for both desktop and mobile screens. Save articles via Chrome, Firefox, or Safari browser extensions, Android and iOS native apps, REST API, or the built-in bookmarklet — all syncing to your self-hosted instance. Organize your library with tags, automated tagging rules that classify articles by content patterns, starred favorites, and archived collections. The annotation system enables highlighting extracts and attaching notes directly within articles for research and reference workflows. Import your existing reading lists from Pocket, Omnivore, Instapaper, Pinboard, Readability, and browser bookmarks. Export articles in PDF, ePUB, MOBI, JSON, CSV, TXT, or HTML for offline reading on Kindle, Kobo, and other e-readers. Full-text search with filters by reading time, domain, language, and creation date makes retrieval instant across thousands of saved articles. RSS feed output integrates with feed readers and automation services. Docker deployment with SQLite, MySQL, or PostgreSQL persistence backends takes under five minutes. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.