Open source alternatives

Immich

Automatic backup from your phone, search by faces and places, albums to share. Except the library is yours and sits in the EU.

Paperless-ngx

Two ways out, depending on what you keep there: scanned documents into document management, typed notes into a notes app.

Readeck

Pocket shut down in July 2025. Here you keep reading later — without the list belonging to someone else, and without saved pages vanishing when the source goes offline.

Anchor

A notes app for quick notes, checklists, images and voice memos — on your devices and your own instance.

Actual

Budgeting without a bank connection: envelope method, or simply income and spending at a glance. No access to your account, no subscription.

Mealie

A recipe app for the whole household: collect, plan the week, generate the shopping list — on your own instance.

Twenty

An open source CRM for a small team: contacts, companies and deals, without a price per seat and without features behind the next tier.

Checkmate

Uptime monitoring on your own instance: check whether your services respond and see how your servers are doing — without a cap on the number of checks.

Fider

A feedback board on your own domain: users post ideas and vote on them — without a price per collected vote.

Homebox

An inventory app for a household, a club or a small stockroom: location, receipt, warranty, photo — and QR labels for the box.

Donetick

A chore chart for flatmates and families — the part where task lists fall down: recurring work that rotates.

Immich

Back up the photos from your iPhone, search them by people and places, share albums. The library sits in your own instance in the EU, reachable from any device with a browser.

Immich

Back up photos and videos from your phone automatically, search by faces, share albums with the family. In an instance that belongs only to you, with the photo archive tied to no shopping account.

Immich

Show your pictures in albums, with a map and camera data, and share them by link. On your own instance, where you decide who sees what.

Anchor

Quick notes, checklists, images and voice memos, even without a connection. In a notes app that runs in the browser on any device and keeps its data in your own instance.

Anchor

If you mostly use OneNote for notes, lists and images, a lean notes app is enough. It works offline and syncs through your own instance.

Readeck

Save articles and read them later in peace, without ads, with highlights in the text. Your reading list sits in your own instance and stays readable even when the original disappears.

Readeck

Collect articles, read them in peace and highlight what matters. In a reading app that runs in your own instance, with no subscription for your reading list.

Karakeep

Drop everything in one place, links, notes and images, and find it again through search instead of folders. In an instance that belongs to you.

Linkding

Collect bookmarks, tag them and find them again in seconds. Plain and fast, on your own instance, with copies of the pages when you need them.

Pinry

Collect images, arrange them on boards and see them side by side, as ideas, references or finds. No feed and no ads, in your own instance.

Flame

A browser start page with everything you open every day: services, bookmarks and a search box. On your own instance, without an account with a provider.

Actual

Mint shut down in March 2024. Here you keep track of your money, without a bank connection, and your financial data stays with you.

Actual

Income, spending and fixed costs at a glance, without an app accessing your bank account. You fetch the transactions from online banking yourself, and the analysis stays with you.

Actual

Budgeting with categories, goals and reports, without a subscription and without a bank connection. You load transactions from online banking, and the data lives in your own instance.

Actual

A tidy budgeting app with categories, budgets and trends that runs in the browser on any device. No bank connection and no subscription, in your own instance.

Actual

Zero-based budgeting: every euro gets a job before the month begins. Actual does exactly that from the ground up, without a subscription or access to your account.

Actual

The envelope method, digital: split money into envelopes and see what is left in each. With no cap on the number of envelopes, in your own instance.

Mealie

Collect recipes, plan the week and turn it into a shopping list, together with everyone in the household. Your recipes move over directly.

Mealie

Shopping list, recipes and a weekly plan in one app the whole household shares. On your own instance, without a subscription.

Mealie

Samsung Food, formerly Whisk: save recipes, plan meals, generate the shopping list. Here it runs in your own instance, without an account with a device maker.

Mealie

Collect recipes from anywhere with one click and find them again in a clean layout. Your collection moves over directly, into an instance that belongs to you.

Donetick

A cleaning schedule that looks after the home: recurring chores, shared fairly, with reminders. For everyone in the household, on your own instance.

Donetick

Housework on a rhythm instead of a daily list: the windows every two weeks, the bathroom every Saturday, and everyone takes a turn. On your own instance, for the whole household.

Donetick

The cleaning rota for a shared flat: chores rotate, everyone sees whose turn it is, and nobody has to chase anyone. On an instance of its own for your flat.

Twenty

Drag deals across a board from stage to stage, with contacts and companies behind them and notes and tasks on the record. Without a price per seat, on your own instance.

Twenty

For small teams that find a big CRM too much: companies, contacts and deals in tables you extend yourselves. Open, without seats, on your own instance.

Twenty

Contacts, companies, deals and tasks in one tidy interface, extensible with your own fields. Open, without tiers or seats, on your own instance.

Twenty

A CRM that thinks like a database: custom objects, views and fields, plus a board for deals. Open and on your own instance instead of a subscription per seat.

Monica

A personal CRM for the people in your life: birthdays, conversations and what you promised. In an instance that belongs only to you, because these notes are nobody else’s business.

Fider

A board where users post ideas, vote and see what becomes of them. On your domain, with no cap on users or votes.

Fider

For the public part: a portal where users post ideas, vote and see the status. Open, on your domain, with no price per team member.

Fider

A feedback board for your product where ideas are collected, weighed and answered. Open and on your domain, without tiers that hold features back.

Fider

A plain board for ideas and bug reports where your users vote. On your own instance, on your domain.

Checkmate

Check whether your website responds and how fast, with a history and an alert when something goes down. On your own instance, with no price per check.

Checkmate

A public status page that tells your users whether everything is up, fed by your own checks. On your own instance.

Checkmate

Uptime checks for websites and servers, with response times, history and a status page. On your own instance, without tiers on the number and interval of checks.

Checkmate

For the uptime part: check whether your services respond, report outages, show a status page. Plus, if you like, the load on your servers. On your own instance.

Beszel

For a handful of servers, less will do: CPU, memory, disk and network over time, containers per machine and alerts on thresholds. On your own instance, with no price per host.

Flarum

A forum for your community where conversations stay sorted by topic instead of vanishing in a feed. On your domain, without anyone needing a Facebook account.