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"Self-hosted PaaS for rapid app and database deployment." ZaneOps puts it on your own servers: free SSL, preview deployments and zero downtime, with new apps live in under a minute. Just listed. openalternative.co/zaneops

Macro Chat now has 5,000 developers among its GitHub stargazers. It puts chat, email and an AI agent in one team workspace, with inline threads. openalternative.co/macro-chat

Firefly III brings double-entry bookkeeping, multi-currency support and a REST API to personal finance you host yourself. Its GitHub repo has now reached 25,000 stars. openalternative.co/firefly-iii

An auditor asks where the team's shared drive actually lives. With @opencloud.eu the answer is your own server: file sharing, an office suite and zero-trust security, built for digital sovereignty. openalternative.co/opencloud

Need AWS services locally without paying for them? MiniStack runs 60+ of them in one Docker container, MIT licensed, as a drop-in LocalStack replacement. Fresh on OpenAlternative. openalternative.co/ministack

Dictate into any app without your voice leaving the machine. OpenWispr transcribes locally, and its GitHub repo now has 10,000 stars. openalternative.co/openwispr

RustDesk is remote desktop software that replaces TeamViewer and AnyDesk, with one difference: you run the servers. Cross-platform, and your data stays yours. openalternative.co/rustdesk

Happy puts Claude Code, Codex and Grok in one app for desktop and phone, where each vendor's own app covers only its own model. It reuses your existing AI subscriptions, so there's nothing extra to buy. Listed on OpenAlternative today. openalternative.co/happy

ChatbotX is an open source, self-hostable platform for running omnichannel chatbots, with a flow builder, shared inbox, CRM and AI agents. Agencies can white-label it and resell it. Its GitHub repo is at 1,000 stars. openalternative.co/chatbotx

Want time-series storage without running a second database next to Postgres? TimescaleDB is a Postgres extension with automatic partitioning, up to 95% compression and about 200 SQL functions for working with time. openalternative.co/timescale

If you hand work to Claude Code or Codex and then walk away, Codync lets you keep talking to them. Persistent bots for 40+ agents on iPhone, Mac, Windows and Linux, with approvals and end-to-end encryption. Just listed on OpenAlternative. openalternative.co/codync

"Local AWS emulator with no account, gates, or paid tiers." Floci runs AWS services in dev and CI under an MIT license, and it collects no telemetry. Showed up on OpenAlternative today. openalternative.co/floci

Shipped a few quality-of-life improvements to OpenAlternative search. Results are ranked by relevance now, and a small typo still finds the right tool.

Postal is a self-hosted platform for sending and receiving email, with a web interface, webhooks, IP pools and spam filtering integrations. Listed on OpenAlternative today. openalternative.co/postal

Production is returning odd answers and you can't see the prompts behind them. Helicone sits in front of your LLM calls, logs each one, and shows cost, latency and errors. It's open source. openalternative.co/helicone

Got bare metal but no cloud layer on top of it? Ubicloud gives you elastic compute, managed Postgres, block storage, networking and GitHub Actions runners, and you can host it yourself. Fresh on OpenAlternative. openalternative.co/ubicloud

Search on OpenAlternative now ranks results by relevance. Look up "google analytics" and its alternatives page comes first, with the open source tools that replace it right after. Small typos work too: "imich" finds Immich. Try it with ⌘K openalternative.co

Roundcube is webmail you run on your own server. It reads any IMAP account in the browser and covers folders, threaded views, an address book and PGP. Just listed in the directory. openalternative.co/roundcube

Rakazo has collected 5,000 stars from developers on GitHub. You host the agents yourself, point them at your own model, and they get on with the work until they need a yes from you. openalternative.co/rakazo

Gumroad lets creators sell digital products, from courses to software, and takes care of payments and delivery. The GitHub repo just passed 10,000 stars. openalternative.co/gumroad

iMovie stays on Apple devices. Shotcut is an open source video editor that cuts 4K on Windows, Mac and Linux, and it costs nothing. openalternative.co/shotcut

Elmo tracks what AI engines say about your brand, on a server you run: • Mentions in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity • Competitors that show up next to you • Sources the answers cite Listed on OpenAlternative this week. openalternative.co/elmo

Three accounts, three tabs, and you still miss the reply that mattered. Mailspring puts them in one unified inbox on Mac, Windows or Linux, with send later and grammar checking built in. Landed on OpenAlternative this week. openalternative.co/mailspring

100,000 GitHub stars for Orca. It's an agent development environment that runs CLI coding agents side by side in isolated git worktrees. openalternative.co/orca

Frappe Books now has 5,000 GitHub stars from developers. It's a modern, free desktop app for invoices, expenses and bookkeeping. openalternative.co/frappe-books

Isolated Git worktrees are the trick behind Jean: each AI coding agent works in its own checkout, so you can run several in parallel on one codebase. Claude, Codex and Cursor all plug in. openalternative.co/jean

Upload a few thousand images and let AI index them, then find any one through Elasticsearch search. Phrasea does that on your own servers, with permissions you can set as finely as you need. OpenAlternative picked it up this week. openalternative.co/phrasea

Outlook for Android is made for Outlook. Thunderbird for Android (@thunderbird.net) merges every account into one inbox, supports OpenPGP, and has no ads or tracking. Added to OpenAlternative today. openalternative.co/thunderbird...

next thing I'm building in revinel: monthly reports for advertisers impressions, clicks and ctr, straight to your inbox every month a gold ad on @openalternative.co did ~400k impressions and 1,200 clicks last month, so there's plenty to show 👀

Looking for an AI setup that can finish a multi-step job on your computer? Eigent runs several agents together to browse, work with files and execute commands, all from a desktop app you can host yourself. openalternative.co/eigent

"Track your brand's presence in AI-generated answers" OneGlanse runs your prompts through the AI assistants for you and logs who gets named and cited. A new entry on OpenAlternative. openalternative.co/oneglanse

$19 a month gets you MailCheap, an open-source newsletter app billed by emails sent. Scheduling, a public website, AI agent access and deliverability tools are in. Fresh on OpenAlternative. openalternative.co/mailcheap

"Scalable SQL database for real-time analytics." I'd reach for CrateDB when the sensor data never stops and you still want to query it with SQL. openalternative.co/cratedb

Where does your AI agent go off script? LangWatch runs it through multi-turn simulations, scores the replies with an LLM, then traces live traffic to show you. openalternative.co/langwatch

MausBot puts a team of AI agents in a chat app on your own machine, running on your own API keys. 5,000 GitHub stars say plenty of people want that. openalternative.co/mausbot

Nanobot is a self-hosted AI agent that stays small: • Web UI, terminal or chat app • Long-running workflows • Token budgets you control openalternative.co/nanobot

It's Friday evening and your AI feature just started returning odd answers. With Langfuse you open the trace, see each step and its cost, and compare prompt versions before touching code. openalternative.co/langfuse

Canonry measures how often ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity cite your brand in their answers, and helps you improve it. Built for teams that care about AI visibility, and the newest tool we have listed. openalternative.co/canonry