322,645 stars · CC-BY-SA-3.0, read from /blob/master/LICENSE on 2026-09-29. A content licence rather than a software licence: attribution required, share-alike on any adaptation, no sublicensing, and adaptations must be marked as changed. · 1.0.0, dated 22 August with no year readable from here; the release note records the move to awesome-selfhosted.net and the split of the raw data into awesome-selfhosted-data. Currency rests on the code date, 2026-09-29, the morning of the run. · Track this in Scout
A hand-curated list of free software that can be run on a computer of your own, sorted by what the software does.
▶Repo detailsthe review · specs · pros & cons · install
What it is
A Markdown file in a public repository, maintained since June 2015 by more than 1,200 contributors, with a searchable website built from the same data. It is one of the most-starred repositories on GitHub, at 322,645 stars, and it took new code on the morning this edition was written.
What it is good for. Anyone about to pay for a hosted tool and wondering whether a free one exists that they could run themselves. It is also useful in the other direction: if you have an unusual need and assume nothing exists, this is the fastest place to find out that something does. The website at awesome-selfhosted.net gives search and filters that the plain text file cannot.
- Enormous coverage across dozens of categories, and it has been maintained for over eleven years.
- Each entry carries a short description, a licence and the language it is written in, so you can rule things out before opening anything.
- The list itself is a plain text file in a repository, so it can be read, searched or copied without an account.
- It is a list, not a review. An entry means somebody proposed it and a maintainer accepted it. It does not mean the software is good, popular or currently maintained.
- The licence is CC-BY-SA-3.0, which is a licence for writing rather than for software. If you republish the list or a large part of it, your copy has to carry the same terms and the same credit.
- Its size works against you. Twenty entries in a category is not obviously more helpful than five, and the list does not rank.
- sindresorhus/awesome
510,300 stars, CC0-1.0, and it is the index of lists rather than a list of software; you would use it to find this one, not instead of it.
Track this in Scout - awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin
34,900 stars, CC-BY-SA-4.0, the same idea aimed at people running servers, so it leans towards infrastructure rather than applications a person opens.
Track this in Scout - mikeroyal/Self-Hosting-Guide
21,900 stars, and it explains how to run things rather than cataloguing what to run, which makes it the companion to this list rather than a replacement.
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https://awesome-selfhosted.net/
