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OpenSEO

OpenSEOOpen

Self-hosted keyword, backlink, and rank tracking

Stars15.9K
Commit8d ago
LicenseMIT

OpenSEO covers keyword research, backlink analysis, competitor monitoring, and rank tracking in one self-hosted application, using DataForSEO as the data source so you pay for the data rather than the seat.

Alternative togoogle analytics
OpenCode

OpenCodeAIOpen

AI coding agent for terminal, editor, and desktop

Stars202.9K
Commit8h ago
LicenseMIT

OpenCode is a coding agent that runs where you already work rather than in a separate chat window. The same session can be driven from a terminal, an editor extension, or a desktop client, and it keeps context across all three.

Alternative togithub copilot
GitHub Copilot

GitHub CopilotAI

AI completion and chat inside the editor

CompanyGitHub
Since2021
PricingFreemium

Copilot put model assisted completion in front of a very large number of developers first, and inline suggestion in the editor remains the interaction most people mean by AI coding.

Cursor

CursorAI

An editor rebuilt around model assisted editing

CompanyAnysphere
Since2023
PricingFreemium

Cursor forked VS Code rather than extending it, which let it change the editing model itself. Multi-file edits, codebase-wide context, and a tab completion that predicts the next edit rather than the next token are the result.

Alternative togithub copilot
Firecrawl

FirecrawlAIOpen

Turn any website into clean, model-ready data

Stars174.9K
Commit11h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Firecrawl handles the unglamorous part of feeding the web to a language model: rendering JavaScript, following pagination, stripping navigation and cookie banners, and returning markdown or structured JSON that a model can actually use.

Alternative tobrowserbase
VoiceInk

VoiceInkAIOpen

Local voice dictation with AI cleanup for macOS

Stars6,222
Commit23h ago
LicenseGPL-3.0

VoiceInk transcribes speech on the machine itself using a local Whisper model, then runs the raw transcript through a cleanup pass that removes filler and applies punctuation.

Alternative towispr flow
Wispr Flow

Wispr FlowAI

AI dictation that cleans up speech as you talk

CompanyWispr
Since2024
PricingFreemium

Wispr Flow is dictation that accounts for how people actually speak. False starts, filler, and self-correction are removed, and the output is punctuated text rather than a transcript.

OpenHands

OpenHandsAIOpen

Autonomous agents that complete real engineering tasks

Stars85.8K
Commit8h ago
LicenseMIT

OpenHands runs agents that plan and execute multi-step engineering work: reading a repository, editing files, running tests, and iterating until a task is done. Each agent works inside a sandboxed runtime rather than on the host machine.

Alternative togithub copilot
Hanko

Hanko

Passkeys, SSO, and MFA without vendor lock-in

Stars9,019
Commit18h ago
LicenseUnknown

Hanko is an authentication service built passkey-first rather than passkey-eventually. Passwords are optional from the start, and the hosted components handle the awkward parts of the WebAuthn ceremony that teams usually get wrong.

Alternative toauth0
Auth0

Auth0

Hosted identity covering login, SSO, and multi-factor

CompanyOkta
Since2013
PricingFreemium

Auth0 made outsourcing authentication respectable. Social providers, enterprise SSO, multi-factor, and the awkward edges of OAuth arrive already handled, with rules and actions for the parts that are specific to your product.

Okta

Okta

Workforce identity and access management for enterprises

CompanyOkta
Since2009
PricingPaid

Okta is aimed at employee identity rather than customer identity: single sign-on across hundreds of business applications, lifecycle provisioning tied to a HR system, and the access reviews auditors ask for.

Alternative toauth0
Novu

Novu

Multi-channel notification infrastructure for applications

Stars39.7K
Commit8h ago
LicenseUnknown

Novu takes the notification logic that usually ends up scattered across a codebase - which channel, which template, which quiet hours, which digest window - and puts it behind one API and one workflow editor.

Alternative totwiliomailchimp
Twilio

Twilio

APIs for SMS, voice, and verification at scale

CompanyTwilio
Since2008
PricingPaid

Twilio turned telecommunications into an HTTP request, and the abstraction held. Sending a message to a phone anywhere in the world became a few lines of code rather than a carrier negotiation.

SendGrid

SendGrid

Transactional and marketing email delivery

CompanyTwilio
Since2009
PricingFreemium

SendGrid handles the part of email nobody wants to own: reputation, authentication, bounce processing, and the endless negotiation with inbox providers about whether your mail is wanted.

Alternative totwilio
Tolgee

TolgeeOpen

Localisation platform with in-context translation editing

Stars4,085
Commit13h ago
LicenseApache-2.0

Tolgee's distinguishing feature is that translators work in the running application. Alt-click a string in the app and the editor opens over it, with surrounding context visible, which removes most of the ambiguity that produces bad translations from a spreadsheet.

Alternative tocrowdin
Crowdin

Crowdin

Localisation management for software and content

CompanyCrowdin
Since2009
PricingFreemium

Crowdin coordinates the people, files, and machine translation involved in shipping a product in more than one language. Source strings sync from a repository, translators work in the web editor, and translated files come back on merge.

Twenty

TwentyOpen

A modern CRM that does not fight the way you work

Stars9,167
Commit2d ago
LicenseMIT

Twenty rebuilds CRM around the interaction patterns people already know from modern productivity tools: keyboard navigation, inline editing, flexible record views, and a data model you can extend without a consultant.

Alternative tosalesforce
Salesforce

Salesforce

Enterprise CRM and the platform built around it

CompanySalesforce
Since1999
PricingPaid

Salesforce is less a product than a platform with a CRM at the centre. Objects, fields, validation, and automation are all configurable, and an entire consulting industry exists to configure them.

HubSpot

HubSpot

CRM with marketing and support attached

CompanyHubSpot
Since2006
PricingFreemium

HubSpot's free CRM is a genuine product rather than a trial, and that is the strategy: get the contact database in place, then sell the marketing, sales, and service hubs around it.

Alternative tosalesforce
Postiz

PostizOpen

Schedule and analyse posts across 30+ social networks

Stars35.3K
Commit8h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Postiz is a self-hostable scheduler for teams that publish to many networks and do not want to pay per seat for the privilege. It covers planning, drafting, approval, and publishing, with AI assistance for turning one post into per-network variants.

Alternative tobuffer
Buffer

Buffer

Social media scheduling with a deliberately small surface

CompanyBuffer
Since2010
PricingFreemium

Buffer schedules posts and reports on them, and has resisted becoming a suite for over a decade. That restraint is why it stays usable for a one person marketing function.

Dify

DifyAI

Build and deploy AI agents and RAG pipelines visually

Stars154.1K
Commit8h ago
LicenseUnknown

Dify is where a prompt experiment becomes something a team can operate. Workflows are assembled on a canvas, datasets are indexed and versioned, and every deployment gets an API endpoint with logging and cost tracking attached.

Alternative toretoolchatgpt
Retool

Retool

Internal tool builder assembled from components and queries

CompanyRetool
Since2017
PricingFreemium

Retool exists because internal admin panels are important, tedious, and never prioritised. It connects to databases and APIs directly and puts a drag and drop interface over them, so an operations tool takes an afternoon rather than a sprint.

OpenPanel

OpenPanelOpen

Web and product analytics in one cookie-free dashboard

Stars6,832
Commit3d ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

OpenPanel merges the two dashboards most teams keep open side by side: page-level web analytics and event-level product analytics. Funnels, retention curves, and session replay sit next to traffic sources rather than in a separate product.

Mixpanel

Mixpanel

Product analytics built around events and cohorts

CompanyMixpanel
Since2009
PricingFreemium

Mixpanel answers behavioural questions rather than traffic ones: which sequence of actions precedes retention, where a funnel leaks, and how a cohort from March differs from one from June.

Alternative togoogle analytics
Amplitude

Amplitude

Product analytics with experimentation attached

CompanyAmplitude
Since2014
PricingFreemium

Amplitude covers similar ground to Mixpanel with a stronger pull towards experimentation and governance. Event taxonomies can be enforced, which matters once more than one team is instrumenting the same product.

Cap

CapOpen

Screen recorder with editing and instant shareable links

Stars21.4K
Commit16h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Cap records screen and camera, then gives you an editor with backgrounds, automatic zooms, and cursor smoothing before you share a link. It is built in Rust on Tauri, so the binary is small and recording does not tax the machine it is recording.

Alternative toloomscreen studio
Screen Studio

Screen Studio

Screen recording with automatic zooms and polished motion

CompanyScreen Studio
Since2022
PricingPaid

Screen Studio produces product demos that look edited without anyone editing them. Cursor movement is smoothed, clicks trigger zooms, and the resulting motion reads as deliberate rather than as somebody's screen recording.

Alternative toloom
Loom

Loom

Asynchronous screen and camera recording shared by link

CompanyAtlassian
Since2016
PricingFreemium

Loom's contribution was the workflow, not the recording. Stop the recording and the link is already on your clipboard, which is what made replacing a meeting with a three minute video actually happen.

Parlant

ParlantAIOpen

A control layer for customer-facing AI agents

Stars18.3K
Commit2mo ago
LicenseApache-2.0

Parlant addresses the problem that stops most support agents from shipping: a model that is helpful ninety-five percent of the time is not safe to put in front of customers. It manages behaviour through explicit, context-matched guidelines rather than one long prompt.

Alternative tointercom
Langflow

LangflowAIOpen

Drag-and-drop builder for agents and RAG pipelines

Stars154K
Commit10h ago
LicenseMIT

Langflow turns pipeline construction into a graph you can see. Components are Python underneath, so a flow that outgrows the canvas can be exported and run as code rather than rebuilt.

Alternative toretool
Browser Use

Browser UseAIOpen

Let AI agents drive a real browser

Stars111.9K
Commit15h ago
LicenseMIT

Browser Use gives an agent a real browser rather than an HTTP client. It handles the translation between a model's intent and DOM actions, keeps a structured representation of the page in context, and recovers from the usual navigation failures.

Alternative tobrowserbase
Browserbase

BrowserbaseAI

Hosted headless browser infrastructure for agents

CompanyBrowserbase
Since2024
PricingFreemium

Browserbase runs the browsers so you do not have to. Sessions, proxies, captcha handling, and stealth configuration are managed, which removes the least interesting and most fragile part of building anything that scrapes or automates the web.

Openlane

OpenlaneOpen

Continuous compliance automation across many frameworks

Stars297
Commit17h ago
LicenseApache-2.0

Openlane automates the evidence collection and control tracking behind SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and a dozen other frameworks, mapping shared controls once rather than per framework.

Alternative tovanta
Vanta

Vanta

Compliance automation for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and friends

CompanyVanta
Since2018
PricingPaid

Vanta turned compliance from a consulting engagement into a software subscription. It connects to cloud accounts, identity providers, and code hosting, then continuously checks controls and collects the evidence an auditor will ask for.

Ollama

OllamaAIOpen

Run open language models locally with one command

Stars179.9K
Commit14h ago
LicenseMIT

Ollama reduced local model hosting from an afternoon of CUDA troubleshooting to a single pull command. It handles model download, quantisation selection, GPU offloading, and memory management, and exposes an OpenAI-compatible endpoint on localhost.

Alternative tolm studio
LM Studio

LM StudioAI

Desktop application for running language models locally

CompanyElement Labs
Since2023
PricingFree

LM Studio made local models approachable for people who do not want a terminal. Browse a catalogue, download a quantisation that fits the machine, and chat, with hardware requirements explained in plain language.

LobeChat

LobeChatAI

Polished chat interface for many model providers

Stars82.1K
Commit8h ago
LicenseUnknown

LobeChat is the most designed of the open chat front ends. Plugins, an assistant marketplace, voice input and output, and vision support are all present, and the interface holds up next to commercial products.

Alternative tochatgpt
OpenCut

OpenCutOpen

Video editor that runs entirely in the browser

Stars88.2K
Commit22d ago
LicenseMIT

OpenCut is a timeline video editor that installs nothing and uploads nothing. Media stays in the browser, processing happens locally through WebCodecs, and there is no account step before you can cut a clip.

Alternative tocapcut
CapCut

CapCut

Free video editor built for social formats

CompanyByteDance
Since2020
PricingFreemium

CapCut is free, capable, and shaped entirely around vertical video for social platforms. Auto captions, trend templates, and one-tap effects remove most of the craft barrier to publishing.

Claude

ClaudeAI

Anthropic's assistant, strongest on long documents and code

CompanyAnthropic
Since2023
PricingFreemium

Claude is positioned around careful reasoning over long inputs. The large context window makes whole-repository and long-document work practical in a way that shorter context assistants cannot match.

Alternative tochatgpt
Open WebUI

Open WebUIAIOpen

One chat interface for every model you run or connect

Stars150.5K
Commit10h ago
LicenseBSD-3-Clause

Open WebUI is the front end that turns a local inference server into something a household or a team can actually use. It handles accounts, conversation history, document retrieval, and model switching, and speaks to both local runtimes and hosted APIs.

Alternative tochatgpt
ChatGPT

ChatGPTAI

OpenAI's assistant and the interface that set the pattern

CompanyOpenAI
Since2022
PricingFreemium

ChatGPT is the product that made conversational assistants ordinary. Beyond the chat box it now covers file analysis, image generation, web browsing, voice, and custom assistants sharing one account.

n8n

n8n

Visual workflow automation with room to drop into code

Stars203K
Commit8h ago
LicenseUnknown

n8n sits between a no-code automation builder and a scripting environment. Workflows are assembled on a canvas from several hundred integrations, and any node in that canvas can be replaced with a JavaScript or Python function when the visual version stops being expressive enough.

Alternative tozapier
Zapier

Zapier

Hosted automation connecting thousands of applications

CompanyZapier
Since2011
PricingFreemium

Zapier's moat is the integration catalogue. Almost anything with an API is already connected, maintained by someone else, and works without a developer, which is worth a great deal to teams with no engineering capacity to spare.

llama.cpp

llama.cppAIOpen

Inference engine that runs LLMs on almost any hardware

Stars126.6K
Commit8h ago
LicenseMIT

llama.cpp is the layer most local model tooling is built on. It is a C and C++ inference engine with no Python runtime, aggressive quantisation support, and hand-tuned kernels for a remarkably wide range of hardware.

Alternative tolm studio
Docmost

DocmostOpen

Collaborative wiki with real-time editing and diagrams

Stars15.4K
Commit2d ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Docmost is a documentation workspace with real-time collaborative editing, nested spaces, and diagram support built in rather than embedded from elsewhere.

Alternative tonotion
Apple Photos

Apple Photos

Photo library synced through iCloud across Apple devices

CompanyApple
Since2015
PricingPaid

Apple Photos does most of its analysis on the device rather than in the cloud, so face grouping and object search work without the library being readable by the vendor. Sync happens through iCloud, and the library is a first party part of the operating system rather than an app you install.

Alternative togoogle photos
Immich

ImmichOpen

Self-hosted photo and video backup for your own server

Stars113.1K
Commit8h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Immich replaces a cloud photo service with software that runs on hardware you own. Mobile apps for iOS and Android back up new photos and videos in the background, so the library on your server stays current without you thinking about it.

Alternative togoogle photosdropbox
Google Photos

Google Photos

Cloud photo library with automatic backup and search

CompanyGoogle
Since2015
PricingPaid

Google Photos backs up everything a phone takes and then makes it findable. Search understands objects, places, and people without any tagging, and the timeline handles libraries in the hundreds of thousands without stalling.

Coolify

CoolifyOpen

Deploy applications to your own servers with one click

Stars48.9K
Commit8h ago
LicenseApache-2.0

Coolify is a deployment platform that runs on servers you already pay for. It builds from a Git repository, provisions databases, issues certificates, and handles rollbacks, without the per-instance pricing of a hosted platform.

Alternative tofirebase
Baserow

BaserowOpen

No-code database and application builder you can host

Stars5,757
Commit8h ago
LicenseMIT

Baserow is a spreadsheet-shaped database with the API and permission model of a real backend underneath. Non-technical colleagues get grid, gallery, kanban, and calendar views; engineers get a REST API and webhooks over the same data.

Alternative toairtableretool
Airtable

Airtable

Spreadsheet interface over a real relational database

CompanyAirtable
Since2015
PricingFreemium

Airtable let non-engineers build relational data models without knowing they were doing it. Linked records, typed fields, and multiple views over one table cover an enormous amount of internal tooling that would otherwise be a spreadsheet or a small application.

Ente

EnteOpen

End-to-end encrypted photo storage across devices

Stars28.6K
Commit8h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Ente stores photos and videos encrypted on the client, so the server holds ciphertext it cannot read. Sync, albums, and sharing all work on top of that constraint rather than around it.

Alternative togoogle photos
Google Drive

Google Drive

Storage and document collaboration inside Workspace

CompanyGoogle
Since2012
PricingPaid

Google Drive is storage with an office suite attached, and the suite is the reason most organisations are on it. Docs, Sheets, and Slides collaborate in real time well enough that the underlying file storage barely gets thought about.

Alternative todropbox
RustDesk

RustDeskOpen

Remote desktop you can point at your own relay server

Stars122.3K
Commit11h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

RustDesk is remote desktop software where the relay server is a binary you can run yourself. That is the whole argument: the same convenience as the commercial tools, without your screen sessions transiting a vendor's infrastructure.

Alternative toanydesk
Dropbox

Dropbox

File sync and sharing across devices and teams

CompanyDropbox
Since2008
PricingPaid

Dropbox made file sync boring in the best sense: a folder that is the same everywhere, with conflict handling that mostly does the right thing. Two decades on, the sync engine is still the part competitors struggle to match.

AnyDesk

AnyDesk

Remote desktop access with very low latency

CompanyAnyDesk Software
Since2014
PricingFreemium

AnyDesk built its own codec for screen transport, and it shows: sessions over ordinary connections feel closer to local than most competitors manage. For support work where someone is watching you move their cursor, that latency difference matters.

Dub

DubOpen

Link management and attribution for modern marketing

Stars24.6K
Commit8h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Dub is a link platform rather than a shortener. Every link carries analytics, UTM handling, device and geographic targeting, and conversion attribution back to the click that produced it.

Alternative tomixpanel
Cal.com

Cal.comOpen

Scheduling infrastructure you can host and extend

Stars38.2K
Commit9h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Cal.com covers the booking link case well, but its real distinction is that scheduling is exposed as infrastructure. Availability, event types, and bookings all have APIs, and the booking page can be embedded rather than linked.

Alternative tocalendly
Calendly

Calendly

Booking links that read your real availability

CompanyCalendly
Since2013
PricingFreemium

Calendly removed an email thread from every meeting anyone arranges with someone outside their company. Share a link, the other person picks from real availability, and both calendars update.

Infisical

InfisicalOpen

Secret management for applications and infrastructure

Stars21.8K
Commit8h ago
LicenseMIT

Infisical stores application secrets, syncs them into the platforms that need them, and rotates the ones that support rotation. Environments and folders keep development and production credentials properly separated.

Alternative to1password
Supabase

SupabaseOpen

Postgres-powered backend platform for production apps

Stars108.7K
Commit8h ago
LicenseApache-2.0

Supabase gives an application everything it needs on the server side without hiding the database behind a proprietary abstraction. The primitive is plain Postgres, and the platform layers authentication, generated APIs, storage, realtime subscriptions, and edge functions on top of it.

Alternative tofirebase
Firebase

Firebase

Google's application backend for mobile and web

CompanyGoogle
Since2012
PricingFree

Firebase gets a product to users faster than almost anything else. Authentication, a realtime document database, storage, hosting, and functions arrive already wired together, with client SDKs that handle offline state.

Godot Engine

Godot EngineOpen

Free 2D and 3D game engine with no royalties

Stars116.5K
Commit22h ago
LicenseMIT

Godot ships a complete engine, editor, and export pipeline under the MIT licence, which means no royalties, no revenue thresholds, and no licensing conversation before a project starts.

Alternative tounity
Unity

Unity

Commercial game engine with the widest platform reach

CompanyUnity Technologies
Since2005
PricingFreemium

Unity's advantage is distribution. Console certification, mobile export, XR headsets, and the middleware ecosystem around them are all solved problems, which is why studios keep choosing it even after several rounds of unpopular licensing changes.

Documenso

DocumensoOpen

Document signing you can host and audit yourself

Stars12.5K
Commit3d ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Documenso handles electronic signature collection with the signing certificate, audit trail, and field placement you expect, while keeping the documents on infrastructure you control.

Alternative todocusign
DocuSign

DocuSign

Electronic signature and agreement workflow

CompanyDocusign
Since2003
PricingPaid

DocuSign is the name that makes a signature request unremarkable to the person receiving it, which is most of the value. Recipients already know what the email is and how to complete it.

Typebot

TypebotOpen

Conversational forms built on a visual flow canvas

Stars9,240
Commit2d ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Typebot builds forms that behave like a conversation: one question at a time, branching on answers, with the flow assembled visually rather than written in code.

Alternative totypeform
Home Assistant

Home AssistantOpen

Local-first smart home automation with no cloud dependency

Stars90.2K
Commit8h ago
LicenseApache-2.0

Home Assistant runs on a box in your house and talks to devices directly rather than through their manufacturers' servers. That single design decision is why automations keep working when the internet is down, and why a discontinued cloud service does not brick your lights.

Alternative togoogle assistant
Google Assistant

Google Assistant

Voice control for smart home devices and routines

CompanyGoogle
Since2016
PricingFree

Google Assistant is the voice layer most smart home hardware supports first. Routines, broadcast messages, and device groups work across a very wide range of manufacturers with minimal setup.

Tidal

Tidal

Streaming aimed at audio quality and artist payout

CompanyBlock
Since2014
PricingPaid

Tidal competes on two things the larger services do not lead with: high resolution audio formats, and a payout model that directs a share of a subscription to the artists that subscriber actually listened to.

Alternative tospotify
YouTube Music

YouTube Music

Streaming backed by YouTube's catalogue of everything

CompanyGoogle
Since2015
PricingFreemium

YouTube Music reaches material no licensed catalogue contains: live sets, remixes, covers, and regional uploads that never had a commercial release. For anyone whose listening goes past the mainstream, that coverage is decisive.

Alternative tospotify
whisper.cpp

whisper.cppAIOpen

Speech recognition that runs anywhere, with no runtime

Stars43.2K
Commit1d ago
LicenseMIT

whisper.cpp is a C and C++ port of the Whisper speech recognition model with no Python dependency, quantised weights, and hardware acceleration across Apple Silicon, CUDA, and plain CPU.

Alternative towispr flow
Apple Music

Apple Music

Music streaming with lossless audio and no free tier

CompanyApple
Since2015
PricingFreemium

Apple Music ships lossless and spatial audio at no extra cost, which is the clearest technical differentiator in the category. Editorial curation is stronger than the algorithmic competition; algorithmic discovery is weaker.

Alternative tospotify
Spotify

Spotify

Catalogue music streaming with algorithmic discovery

CompanySpotify
Since2008
PricingFreemium

Spotify's advantage is not the catalogue, which is broadly the same everywhere, but the recommendation layer on top of it. Discover Weekly and the radio features remain the reason many people stay.

Confluence

Confluence

Enterprise wiki wired into Atlassian's tooling

CompanyAtlassian
Since2004
PricingFreemium

Confluence is where large organisations put documentation that has to outlive the people who wrote it. Spaces, permissions, page trees, and approval workflows are built for scale and governance rather than for speed.

Alternative tonotion
AFFiNE

AFFiNEOpen

Documents, whiteboard, and database in one canvas

Stars54.3K
Commit12h ago
LicenseMIT

AFFiNE puts a document editor and an infinite canvas over the same content. A page can be read as a document or arranged spatially as a whiteboard, and edits in one mode are edits in the other.

Alternative tonotionmiro
Notion

Notion

Documents, databases, and project tracking in one workspace

CompanyNotion Labs
Since2016
PricingFreemium

Notion's insight was that a document and a database can be the same object. A page can be prose, a table, a board, or all three, and the same records can be viewed differently by different teams without duplication.

Miro

Miro

Infinite whiteboard for workshops and planning

CompanyMiro
Since2011
PricingFreemium

Miro is the canvas most distributed teams reach for when the work is thinking rather than producing: retrospectives, service maps, story mapping, and anything else that used to need a wall and sticky notes.

Alternative tofigma
Penpot

PenpotOpen

Design and prototyping built on open web standards

Stars42.2K
Commit21h ago
LicenseMPL-2.0

Penpot stores designs as SVG and uses CSS layout primitives - flex and grid - as its layout model, so what a designer builds maps onto what a developer implements rather than needing translation.

Alternative tofigma
Figma

Figma

Collaborative interface design in the browser

CompanyFigma
Since2016
PricingFreemium

Figma moved interface design out of single-user desktop files and into a shared document, and the industry reorganised around it. Multiplayer editing, comments in context, and a link that always shows the current state changed how design and engineering hand work to each other.

Excalidraw

ExcalidrawOpen

Collaborative whiteboard with a hand-drawn look

Stars130.9K
Commit23h ago
LicenseMIT

Excalidraw's sketchy rendering is not decoration. Diagrams that look provisional invite comment, where a crisp vector diagram signals a decision already made, so it is unusually good at the early part of a design conversation.

Alternative tomirofigma
monday.com

monday.com

Colourful work operating system for cross-functional teams

Companymonday.com
Since2014
PricingFreemium

monday.com presents work as configurable boards with strongly typed columns, then layers dashboards and automations on top. It is aimed at operations, marketing, and sales teams that want structure without a database.

Alternative toasana
Trello

Trello

Kanban boards simple enough that people actually use them

CompanyAtlassian
Since2011
PricingFreemium

Trello is a board, a list, and a card, and for a very long time that was all. The restraint is why it spread beyond software teams to weddings, house moves, and editorial calendars.

Alternative toasana
Asana

Asana

Work management for teams that are not only engineers

CompanyAsana
Since2012
PricingFreemium

Asana is aimed at the coordination work around delivery rather than at engineering tickets: campaigns, launches, onboarding, and the dependencies between them. Timeline and workload views are the parts teams adopt first.

Alternative tojira
Linear

Linear

Issue tracking built around speed and opinionated defaults

CompanyLinear
Since2019
PricingFreemium

Linear is fast in a way that changes behaviour. Keyboard navigation, instant sync, and a deliberately narrow feature set mean issues actually get filed, which is the hard part of any tracker.

Plane

PlaneOpen

Issue tracking and planning without per-seat pricing

Stars40.1K
Commit20h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Plane covers the ground between a lightweight tracker and a full project suite: issues, cycles, modules, and roadmaps, with views that suit both engineers and the people asking them for dates.

Alternative tojiralinear
Jira

Jira

Configurable issue tracking and agile planning at scale

CompanyAtlassian
Since2002
PricingFreemium

Jira can model almost any process an organisation has, which is both why it survives in large companies and why it is disliked in small ones. Workflows, fields, screens, and permission schemes are all configurable, and each configuration is a decision someone has to maintain.

Formbricks

FormbricksOpen

Surveys and in-product research on your own infrastructure

Stars11.3K
Commit1d ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Formbricks covers both link surveys and in-product micro-surveys triggered by user behaviour, which is the combination most research tooling splits across two paid products.

Alternative totypeform
Typeform

Typeform

Conversational forms that ask one question at a time

CompanyTypeform
Since2012
PricingFreemium

Typeform's premise is that a form which asks one question at a time gets finished more often than a wall of fields. For consumer facing surveys and lead capture that holds up, and completion rates are the number it sells on.

GlitchTip

GlitchTipOpen

Error tracking that speaks the Sentry protocol

Stars2,140
Commit5d ago
LicenseMIT

GlitchTip accepts events from the official Sentry SDKs, which means adopting it is a DSN change rather than an instrumentation project. Stack traces, breadcrumbs, releases, and issue grouping all work as expected.

Alternative tosentry
Sentry

Sentry

Error tracking and performance monitoring for applications

CompanyFunctional Software
Since2012
PricingFreemium

Sentry is the tool most teams install first and remove last. An unhandled exception arrives with a stack trace, the release that introduced it, the users affected, and the breadcrumbs leading up to it.

LastPass

LastPass

Browser-first password manager with a long history

CompanyLastPass
Since2008
PricingFreemium

LastPass popularised the browser based password manager and for years was the default recommendation for people moving off reused passwords.

Alternative to1password
Vaultwarden

VaultwardenOpen

Lightweight password vault server for Bitwarden clients

Stars48.1K
Commit4d ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Vaultwarden reimplements the Bitwarden server API in Rust so that it runs comfortably on a Raspberry Pi or a small VPS, while the official Bitwarden desktop, mobile, and browser clients connect to it unchanged.

Alternative to1password
1Password

1Password

Password and secret management for people and teams

CompanyAgileBits
Since2006
PricingPaid

1Password is the credential manager most often recommended to people who will not tolerate friction. The apps are good on every platform, sharing within a family or team is comprehensible, and the security model has held up under scrutiny.

Listmonk

ListmonkOpen

Self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager

Stars18.4K
Commit3d ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Listmonk is a single Go binary and a Postgres database that handles subscriber lists, segmentation, campaigns, and bounce processing at a scale that would be expensive on a hosted platform.

Alternative tomailchimp
Mailchimp

Mailchimp

Marketing email, audiences, and campaign reporting

CompanyIntuit
Since2001
PricingFreemium

Mailchimp made email marketing approachable for people who are not marketers. The editor, the templates, and the reporting are all pitched at a small business owner rather than at a growth team.

Medusa

MedusaOpen

Commerce building blocks rather than a fixed storefront

Stars32.4K
Commit2d ago
LicenseMIT

Medusa is a set of commerce modules - cart, orders, pricing, inventory, fulfilment - exposed as APIs you compose, rather than a themed storefront you customise around the edges.

Alternative toshopify
Shopify

Shopify

Hosted commerce covering storefront, checkout, and payments

CompanyShopify
Since2006
PricingPaid

Shopify's real product is checkout. Conversion on a Shopify checkout is high enough, and the payment, tax, and fraud handling behind it complete enough, that most merchants should think very hard before replacing it.

Plausible Analytics

Plausible AnalyticsOpen

Lightweight web analytics without cookies or personal data

Stars23.5K
Commit2d ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Plausible answers the handful of questions most sites actually ask - what pages get read, where readers came from, what converted - and deliberately declines to answer the rest. There are no cookies, no cross-site identifiers, and no consent banner needed.

Alternative togoogle analytics
Google Analytics

Google Analytics

Web and product analytics tied to Google's ad stack

CompanyGoogle
Since2005
PricingFreemium

Google Analytics is free at the point of use because the data feeds an advertising business. For sites that advertise through Google, that integration is the entire value: audiences built here are usable directly in campaigns.

Meilisearch

MeilisearchOpen

Typo-tolerant search that is fast to run and fast to tune

Stars52.3K
Commit1d ago
LicenseMIT

Meilisearch is a search engine you can be productive with in an afternoon. Indexing is a POST, relevance is tuned through an ordered list of ranking rules, and results come back typo-tolerant by default.

Alternative toalgolia
Algolia

Algolia

Hosted search with millisecond responses and ranking control

CompanyAlgolia
Since2012
PricingFreemium

Algolia is search as a managed service, tuned so hard for latency that typing into a search box feels like filtering a local list. Typo tolerance, synonyms, and merchandising rules are all configurable without touching the index code.

Zendesk

Zendesk

Ticketing and help desk for support organisations

CompanyZendesk
Since2007
PricingPaid

Zendesk is built for support as a function with headcount, shifts, and service level agreements, rather than for a founder answering email. Routing, macros, and SLA policies are the substance of it.

Alternative tointercom
Chatwoot

ChatwootOpen

Customer conversations from every channel in one inbox

Stars24.7K
Commit1d ago
LicenseMIT

Chatwoot collects website chat, email, WhatsApp, Instagram, and SMS into a single agent inbox with shared assignment, canned replies, and a help centre.

Alternative tointercomzendesk
Intercom

Intercom

Customer messaging combining chat, help centre, and bots

CompanyIntercom
Since2011
PricingPaid

Intercom put support, onboarding, and product messaging into one thread per customer. The messenger in the corner of a product is close to a genre convention now, and Intercom largely defined it.

Hoppscotch

HoppscotchOpen

API client that runs in the browser and stays fast

Stars74.2K
Commit1d ago
LicenseMIT

Hoppscotch is an API client that opens in a tab. Requests, collections, environments, and history are all there, and it starts in the time a desktop client takes to check for updates.

Alternative topostman
Postman

Postman

API client and collaboration platform

CompanyPostman
Since2012
PricingFreemium

Postman is where most developers first poke at an API, and it grew from that into documentation, mock servers, monitoring, and team workspaces around shared collections.

Directus

Directus

A content platform that wraps your existing SQL database

Stars30.8K
Commit1d ago
LicenseBSL-1.1

Directus points at a SQL database you already have and generates an admin interface and an API over it, without imposing its own schema. Existing tables keep their names, types, and constraints.

Alternative tocontentfulairtable
Contentful

Contentful

Headless content management delivered over APIs

CompanyContentful
Since2013
PricingFreemium

Contentful separated content from presentation properly and early. Editors work with structured content models, and any number of front ends consume the same entries through an API.

Outline

Outline

Team knowledge base that stays fast as it grows

Stars34.2K
Commit21h ago
LicenseBSL-1.1

Outline is a documentation workspace built around search and structure rather than infinite nesting. Collections, a strong editor, and genuinely fast full text search make it usable at the size where most wikis become write-only.

Alternative tonotion
Focalboard

FocalboardOpen

Project boards that work offline and stay local

Stars24.3K
Commit2mo ago
LicenseMIT

Focalboard is a board and table tool that runs as a desktop application against local files, or as a server for a team. It covers the kanban, table, and calendar views most planning needs without a subscription or an account.

Alternative tonotionasana
Gmail

Gmail

Google's email client and the inbox most people mean

CompanyGoogle
Since2004
PricingFreemium

Gmail's search is still the reason to use it. Conversation threading, effectively unlimited retention on paid plans, and spam filtering that most self-hosted setups cannot match make it the default even for people uncomfortable with the arrangement.

Jitsi Meet

Jitsi MeetOpen

Video meetings with no account and no install

Stars25.6K
Commit2d ago
LicenseApache-2.0

Jitsi Meet gets to a working video call faster than anything else: open a URL, share it, done. No accounts, no downloads, no meeting identifiers to read out.

Alternative tozoom
Zoom

Zoom

Video meetings that hold up on a bad connection

CompanyZoom Communications
Since2013
PricingFreemium

Zoom won on the least glamorous quality possible: calls connected, and kept working on poor networks when competitors did not. Everything else it has added sits on top of that reliability.

Uptime Kuma

Uptime KumaOpen

Self-hosted uptime monitoring with a clean status page

Stars76.4K
Commit4d ago
LicenseMIT

Uptime Kuma monitors HTTP endpoints, TCP ports, containers, and certificates, and notifies through almost a hundred channels. Setup is a container and a few minutes.

Alternative todatadog
Discord

Discord

Voice, video, and text communities organised into servers

CompanyDiscord
Since2015
PricingFreemium

Discord was built for people who wanted to talk while doing something else, and that origin still shapes it. Persistent voice rooms you drop into, rather than scheduled calls, is a genuinely different model from workplace chat.

Alternative toslack
Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams

Chat, calls, and files bundled into Microsoft 365

CompanyMicrosoft
Since2017
PricingFreemium

Teams wins on bundling rather than on craft. If an organisation already pays for Microsoft 365, Teams arrives at no additional cost with identity, files, and calendar already wired together.

Alternative toslack
Mattermost

MattermostOpen

Team messaging for organisations that cannot use hosted chat

Stars33.2K
Commit19h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Mattermost is channel-based team chat designed for environments where the message history has to stay inside a boundary: defence, healthcare, and regulated finance are its natural constituency.

Alternative toslack
Slack

Slack

Channel based team messaging with a large integration ecosystem

CompanySalesforce
Since2013
PricingFreemium

Slack replaced internal email for a generation of companies by making conversation searchable and public by default. Channels, threads, and a very large app directory are the shape most team chat now copies.

Syncthing

SyncthingOpen

Continuous file sync between your own devices only

Stars72.1K
Commit3d ago
LicenseMPL-2.0

Syncthing synchronises folders directly between devices with no server in the middle. There is no account, no storage quota, and no third party holding the data, because the data never leaves the set of machines you nominate.

Alternative todropbox
Nextcloud

NextcloudOpen

File sync, sharing, and a suite of apps on your own server

Stars30.1K
Commit8h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Nextcloud started as file sync and grew into a full collaboration suite: documents, calendar, contacts, chat, and an application ecosystem on top of the same account system.

Alternative todropboxnotion
New Relic

New Relic

Application performance monitoring with usage based pricing

CompanyNew Relic
Since2008
PricingFree

New Relic was the application performance monitoring product for a generation of web applications, and its repricing to per-user plus per-gigabyte was an explicit attempt to answer the complaint about host based billing.

Alternative todatadog
Grafana

GrafanaOpen

Dashboards over whatever data you already store

Stars71.2K
Commit8h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Grafana is the visualisation layer that sits above other systems rather than a monitoring stack of its own. It queries Prometheus, Loki, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and dozens of other sources, and puts them on the same dashboard.

Alternative todatadog
Datadog

Datadog

Infrastructure monitoring, logs, and tracing in one platform

CompanyDatadog
Since2010
PricingPaid

Datadog's value is correlation. A latency spike on a dashboard, the traces behind it, and the logs from the affected hosts are one or two clicks apart, which is the difference between a ten minute incident and an hour.