The Unfound: Self-Hosted Apps Yet to Be Discovered
This is a list of apps that people would like to self-host, but can not find a good application / self-hostable alternative for.
Notion(11)
Google Photos(8)
Chatgpt(5)
Onenote(5)
Logseq(4)
Obsidian(4)
Gmail(3)
Google Photos Alternative(3)
Mail(3)
Todoist(3)
-(2)
Ai(2)
Discord(2)
Email(2)
Evernote(2)
Google Docs(2)
Google Drive(2)
Google Keep(2)
Google Maps(2)
Miro(2)
Myfitnesspal(2)
None(2)
Spotify(2)
To-Do List(2)
Ynab(2)
"Cdn" Server (Like Tixte), Doppler (There Are Similar Selfhosted Solutions But They Are Way More Complicated)
3D File Previewer Like Sketchfab
A Budgeting App
A Client That Can Interact With And Display Many Calendars
A Collection App ThatS Better Than A Spreadsheet
A Combined Mail Reader Aggregator And Message Archiver
A Combined Tasks And Notes App
A Contacts Sync Server ThatS Not Painful To Use.
A Cool Dashboard, I Use Organizr Now But I Am Not Convinced Yet
A Decent Calendar And Contact Suite That Syncs Well With Windows.
A Decent Log Aggregator
A Employee Timesheet Portal With Invoice Tracking
A Game Server Management Panel That Allows My Friends To Provision Their Own Servers. Kinda Like Pterodactyl Panel, But More Design To Be Exposed To The Wide Internet.
A General Health Tracker With Medication Reminders (Like Medisafe), Connection To Fitness Apps Like Google Fit
A Good Calendar App With Encryption
A Good Free Erp Like Completely Free And Good Customization Capabilities
A Good Music/Film Tagger Scraper For All My Self Hosted Datas
A Google Photos Replacement
A Home Management App Like Dwellin
A Journal/Diary Type Program. There ArenT Many Out There, And Whenever It Comes Up, People Suggest Things That ArenT Journals Specifically, Like Using A Note-Taking Or Wiki Program
A Personal Finance / Budgeting Application With The Same Robust Feature Set As Ynab
A Proper Mail Service That Doesnt Requite Open That Many Ports Or Could Be Proxied Trought A Domain
A Reliable Music Stack Which Ibcludes Auto Downloading From Youtube Music And Also To Stream It Via Web
A Retro Gaming Platform. At The Moment I Have To Use A Virtual Machine And Parsec For This. However, Hardware Input Management May Be A Barrier.
A Reverse Proxy Server
A Selfhosted Dndbeyond
A Selfhosted Local Ai That Controls The Smart Home
A Selfhosted Software, Where I Can Watch Anything From Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Plex, Emby, ... . All In One App Without The Need To Open Other Apps At The Same Time.
A Shared Shopping List Manager, Accessible And Editable By Multiple People
A Simple And Fast Web File Manager I Could Use To Move Files On Nas Easily From Desktop And Mobile. All Alternatives Are Too Primitive To Horribly Bloat.
A Simple Photo Backup/View Application
A Subscription Tracker
A To-Do List On The Same Level As Todoist
A Tool That Will Let Me Track Last Time Something Was Done (Closest App Is Last Time On Ios), But I Would Like It To Be User Specific And Because It Is Self Hosted,Should Be Accessie From Any Computer That I Log In From
A Web Based Document And Pdf Editor For Nextcloud.
A Website Rebuilder Similar To Sitesucker On Mac
Accounting - Sage
Accounting Software
Acrobat Documents And Scan
Activitypub/Mastodon, May Write My Own
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Adobe Creative Cloud
Ai Assisted Call Recording And Transcription
Ai Data Aggregation Server Allowing An Open Ai Api Configuration - Still Immature
Ai Powered Voice Assistant. I CanT Find Anything That Performs Well With The Resources I Have. Yet.
All In One Cloud Server
An Actual Ebook Manager, That IsnT Built Primarily For Comics/Manga.
An Actually-Good App For Photos That Can Compete With Icloud
An Alternative To Google Podcast, A Podcast Player, Both Synchronised With Web Player And Mobile (Tested Audiobookshelf, Gpodded And Podfetch, None Are Mature Enough For Podcasts Features)
An App Where I Can Store My Health Data Such As Medicine, Tests, Exercises, Measurements Etc...
An Ip Camera System And Nvr That Could Use My Existing Storage And DoesnT Have Any Questionable Licenses
Ansible
Any Music Bot For Discord That Plays From My Plex Server And Can Be Controlled From Plex
Anything Email
Anytype/Notion/Notes Taking App
Audiobook Player
Authentik/Keycloak
Automate My Social Life (Ig, X). Less Manual Interaction More Bot
Aws Greengrass
Backup Solution For Multiple Devices
Backup Solution To Properly Backup Docker Volumes Of Compose Stacks
Been Trying To Figure Out Gluetun With An Unsupported Provider. Been Very Tricky So Far
Better Contact And Calendar Sync
Bitcoin Node
Blue Iris
Bookmarking Application With An Android App + Automatic Tagging Of Bookmarks With A Good Ui (Wallabag Is Closest)
Bookmarks Manager With Multiple Folder Structure
Books
Bring For Grocery And Google Keep For Meal Planning
Bring!
Budget App
Budget Management With Bank Intergration
Budgeting App With Open Banking Support
Calendar, Genealogy
Calibre
Calorie Counter
Cannot Find A Good Replacement For Atlassian Confluence Server. (Bookstack Does Not Fit For Me)
Canvas
Car Gas & Maintenance Tracking. I Use Acar (Bought By Fuelly) Which Has Recently Added Ads Which Have Slowed The App Down A Lot.
Car Maintenance Planner
Chromecast Replacement
Cloud Desktop On Demand
Cloud File Storage (Alternative To Nextcloud)
Cloudflare
Complete Monitoring Platform For Kubernetes
Confluence
Contact Backups
Contacts And/Or Calendar
CouldnT Think In One In The Moment
Cross-Platform Bookmark Manager That DoesnT Fuckin Suck
Daily Food And Calorie Tracking
Database Explorer
Datadog
Decent Photo Gallery, Organization Platform.
Decentralized Spotify Alternative?
Dedicated Calendar With Web View
Digital Signage
Discord-Like Voip/Messenger
Discord/Youtube
Docker Of Iventoy
Docker Volume Backup Tool
Document Management
Document Management System Like Only Office, Flexible Knowledge Base Like Obsidian
Document Management/Wiki
Document Searcher That DoesnT Make You Put Everything In One Location.
Documentation Software
DonT Know
Doorbell
Double-Entry Accounting (Gnucash)
Dunno
Dvr Video Recorder: Take Video Streams In, Provide Interface To View And Clip Them
E-Mail
Ebook + Audiobook Library With Good Ui On Desktop + Mobile Devices (App) Wirh Useable Progress Sync
Ebook Downloaded With The “Arr” Group Family Of Apps
Ehhh Maybe Email? Kinda Scared To Do It So I Still DonT Self-Host That.
Elasticsearch
Email (ItS Just Not Worth The Hassle)
Email Server, Public Social Media Instance (Legality Concerns)
Email, Calendar, Contacts
Email, Photos
Email, Weather Station
Encrypted Short Lived Messaging (Snapchat)
Eventbrite
Evernote Alternative (With Proper Sync Option!)
Excalidraw
Facebook Events
Federated Xmpp Server
Feedly Alternative (Need Native Android App)
File Sharing
Finance - Auto Import From Banks; Health Tracking
Finance Management
Finance Manager
Financial Software (Intuit Mint Alternative)
Fintonic. Finance Management App.
Frame.Io Or Kollaborate.Tv, Kollaborate Is Selfhosted But Not Free Or Open Source.
Freetube
Front
Ga
Game Server With Browser Play Support
Game Servers
Gamechanger But Instead Of Having To Manually Input The Plays It Takes A Camera And/Or Sensor And Uses Ai To Determine The Play And Clips Each Thing To My Homeserver. Also No Force Payments.
Gamecube Fsp Server In An Arm Docker Container
Gaming Server; Rdp No Good, Dedicated Apps For Streaming Are Buggy Or Need A License For Good Experience.
Geanology Software To Share With Family. Something With Profiles That You Can Invite People To And They Can Keep Their Entry Updated.
Github Codespaces
Gitpod
Goodreads - Book Reading Dates/Rating Tracking
Google Analytics
Google Apps/Workspace Replacement For Small Group Collaboration
Google Calendar
Google Calendar, Sonos Speaker Emulator, Google Photos
Google Collab And Photos Replacement, HavenT Found The Right Tool Yet.
Google Docs (Suite)
Google Docs/Ms Office Online/Nextcloud. (I Know Nextcloud Is Self-Hosted But I Find It Too Heavyweight And Difficult To Work With)
Google Fotos/Icloud Fotos
Google Photo Like
Google Photos (Immich Lacks Photo Edition Features)
Google Photos Replacement
Google Photos: Still No Family-Approved Alternative, Though I Admittedly Haven’T Thrown “Faster Than The Rpi” Hardware At Memories.
Google Suite, Nextcloud I Just Do Not Like
Gpt Personal Assistant
Grafana
Health And Fitness Tracker
Healthservice To Hostt Healthdata Like Heartrate,Steps...
Hetrixtools
Homelab Inventory And Price Tracking App.
Household Maintenance- Homebox Comes Close, But Not Good Enough.
Httpa://Gamevau.Lt, But Better
Https://Bitwarden.Com/
Https://Github.Com/0Xcoto/Virgo
Https://Github.Com/Go-Vikunja
Https://Github.Com/Prowlarr/Prowlarr
Https://Github.Com/Sonarr/Sonarr
Https://Github.Com/Writefreely/Writefreely
Https://Ntfy.Sh/
Https://Online-Go.Com/ I Want To Be Able To Play Friends And Analize Games.
Https://Whenisgood.Net/
I Need A Good Erp System For My Business
I Want To Migrate To A Mail Server With More Modern Features Than Mailcow.
I Would Like A Stocks Monitoring Software Self Hosted
ID Love To Try And Host A Cloud Gaming Server And Then Just Run Thin Clients Off Of It For The Fun Of It, But I Would Need To Do More Research On Ways To Do That.
IM Good For Now. Would Like To Selfhost Stable Diffusion But My Hardware Is Too Old.
IM Looking For Google Deive And Photos Alternative
Icloud
Icloud Photos, Alternative Needs A Good Ios App
Icloud Replacement
Idk
Ifttt
Image Manager With A Map View And Private Sharing
Interactive Survey To Embed In Powerpoint
Inventory Management
Ipv4 Blacklist Checker
I’M Migrating My Mail Away From Self Host To Mxroute Because Of Ip Space Problems :(
Knowledge Base
Lazy
Lemp
Library Manager / Bookshelf
Libretranslate
Librum
Life Tracking (I.E. Like Gyrosco.Pe)
Linux Active Directory And Radius
Llm
Locally Hosted Synchronization With Financial Institutions In The Us.
Logseq - I Use It Locally But Would Love To Have The Ability To Host It And Keep The Notes On The Server, Not Locally On ClientS Computers
Macos
Magic: The Gathering Card Catalog/Inventory
Mail Server
Mail Server Like Exchange
Mailserver
Mailserver, But Seems To Complicated
Markdown Based Notebook
Markdown Note-Taking Similar To Hedgedoc But With Directories
Meal And Tasks Planner
Microsoft 365 Suite
Microsoft Project
Midjourney
Might Try Building A Chatbot
Mint.Com
Miro, Collaborative Whiteboarding Software
Modoboa
Monitoring - So Far Using Netdata But I Want A Single Console For All Of My Clients.
Mpd Server (Not Mopidy, Its Buggy)
Ms Office 365
Ms Office Online Server. The Alternatives Just Don’T Have The Compatibility I Want.
Ms Onenote, Specifically Drawing/Handwriting Not Just Note Typing
Multi Downloader For Streams (Netflix, Disney, Prime)And Audio(Napster,Prime)
Multi Room Audio Streaming
Murmur
Music Lyrics Server (Musicmatch)
Music Server That Can Take In Spotify Playlists Or Monitor Them
Music Streaming
Myfitnesspal (Tracking Meals And Data) Alternative
N/A
Na
Nas
Navidrome
Netbox, Vaultwarden, Photoprism
Newsblur (I Know If Can Be Self Hosted, But DoesnT Work Like The Official Page)
Nextcloud
Nextcloud Or Similar
Ngrok/Localtunnel Alternative
Nice Try
Nix Based Ci/Cd System (A Few Self Hosted Solutions Exist Already, But That All Have Their Flaws)
None At The Moment
None? CanT Think Of Any Off The Top Of My Head, Almost Everything Is Self Hosted Now CanT Think Of Something That Isnt
Noreen Ebook Manager
Not At The Moment.
Not Found Yet
Not Sure
Not Sure! I Am Always Looking For Cool Stuff I Can Host And Use, But I Dont Want To Have Containers Doing Nothing
Notability Or One Note
Note-Taking App
Notes. I CanT Find A Syncavle Notes App That Suits All My Needs With An App That Stores Local Files Encrypted As Well As Uploading Them Encrypted To A Sync Server. There Is Promising Options But Are Missing Core Functionality
Nothing So Far
Notion (Especially Databases, But Also The Note-Taking Aspects)
Notion Alternative, IM Looking For Appflowy, As It Should Have Web Version Soon
Nvr
Obsidian-Like Notes, But Open Source.
Obsidian; ItS Possible Through Syncing Services, But ID Love A One Stop Containerized Solution
Office Online Server
Omnivore
Onedrive
Onenote Web Version With Sso Support
Online Alternative To Obsidian
Open Source Beersmith For Logging Beer Brewing Sessions That Also Includes Calculator And Things To Make Brewing Easier/Consistent
Open Source Tdarr Alternative (Automatic Hardware-Transcoding To Av1)
Openwrt
Outbank, Finanzguru
Papercut
Parental Control/Ad Blocking Without Config Like The Circle Device Amazon.De/Dp/B084Qbzdj6
Password Manager With A Nice Ui
Personal Capital
Personal Finance App
Personal Finance Manager
Pet Tracking But IM Developing One In My Spare Time
Photo Gallery
Photo Gallery / Storage
Photos
Picasa
Pictures And Book Sync (Calibre Is Not Good Enough But ItS What We Have)
Pixieset Or Smugmug
Playit.Gg
Podcast Download/Sync Service With An App
Private Map
Project Management/Note Taking
Project Time Management Eg. Timr
Proper Mail Server
Pushbullet
Raindrop.Io, I Know There Are Bookmark Managers Out There But Raindrop Is The Closest IVe Seen To What I Want.
Recipe Management, I CanT Find One That Scrapes The Sites I Use For Recipes, Or That Integrates With Other Stuff
Reddit
Referee Scheduling And League Management
Remnote
Remote Desktop Gateway
Remote Desktop On Demand, Had Problems With Kasm, And Docker Based Ones Seem Very Slow
Replacement For Notion
Replacement For Notion App
Rescuetime
Rook-Ceph
Rshiny
Rvsp System
Self-Service Dashboad For Kubernetes
Self-Service Paas For Developers Trying To Deploy On Kubernetes, Smthn Like Backstage But Not As Shitty
Services For Professional Services Focused Appointments And Booking Application
Share/Stock/Eft Portfolio That Includes Drip Capability.
Shared Whiteboard
Simple Mailserver, All In One Box
Simplenote (Https://Simplenote.Com/) (Memos Is The Most Similar I Could Find But Not Simliar Enough)
Sinricpro: A Intergration To Voice Assistants For Iot
Slowly Building An At Home Self-Hosted Server, As Well As An Unraid Nas. I Want To Cut Down On My Internet Footprint Using Proton Mail And Proton Vpn, As Well As "Hide-My" Email Addresses To Cut Out Ads And Take Back Control Of My Own Data. Thats How I Found Immich For Self Hosted Photos And Videos. Would Like To Find Alternate Apps For Everything I Do Like Freshrss For Quick News/Reddit Feeds, And Linkding For Bookmarking, Vaultwarden For Password Manage (Though Safeincloud Is Amazing).
Solidworks Pdm (Data Management)
Some Kind Of Plant Tracker(To Show Water Schedule Etc.) Or A Good Calorie Tracker
Some Llm
Some Photo Album That Works Really Well
Some Sort Of Browser Based Gaming Platform
Some Sort Of Iptv Web Client (Like Plex)
Something Extremely Like Google Photos
Something Like A Movie Or Show Storage Thing That I Can Access From Anywhere And Watch Downloaded Shows. It’S Cool, But I Don’T Really Have A Use For It.
Something Like Jellyfin For Games, That Allows Emulation Of Older Game Systems In-Browser, Or Management Of Existing Emulators Libraries And Saves.
Something Like Strava That Has Gpx Segment Comparison
Something Similar To Tubearchivist But For Reddit Or Similar Sites. Maybe Something Like A Small Internet Archive
Something To Aggregate Soccer/Nfl Streams For Viewing Without Adverts
Something To Manage Ebooks That Isn’T Calibre And Works On Ipad And Android
Something To Manage Other Games Servers Simillar To Crafty For Minecraft
Soundiiz - App That Converts My Playlist From Various Platform
Ssh Terminal Application (Like Termius)
Steam
Still HavenT Found A Chat Server Or Music Server That I Love
Strava
Strava Clone That Uses Docker
Stream Aggregator Service
Swarm - Location Checkin
Swimm (Https://Swimm.Io/)
Tailscale Server
Task Management
Ticket System
Ticketing Service E.G. Freescout
Ticktick
Time Machine Backup Container That Works Without Issues.
To Do With Ios And Android Support
Todo
Totp
Trakt Alternative With Books, Music, Arr Integration And Good Ux
Trakt.Tv
Transfer Portal
Travel Planner
Ui To Manage Running Ansible Playbooks
Unk
Virtual Machine Manager That Helps Me Track My Cost And Resources From My Cloud Accounts Aws, Azure, Oracle Etc.
Voice Assistant/Ai Assistant
Vpn Server Based On Wireguard With Nice Gui
Vpn Tunnel
Vs Code But Opensource
Vulnerability Scanner
Wallet/Finance Tracker With Bank Sync
Want Better Ip Address Management For The Home Lab
Wealth Watcher. Its An App I Am Working In To Keep Track Of All My Money And Budget Using The Plaid Api
Web-Based Crm Similar To Proxmox But Does Not Need A Dedicated Distribution
Web-Based Tabletop Simulator (Https://Www.Tabletopsimulator.Com/)
Webmail And Web Based Caldav Client, But Without Too Much Bloat (Carddav Is Fine). Client Only, No Server.
Webmail. Even Though I Host My Own Email. I Still Use Gmail As A Front-End. Sogo And Roundcube Just Feel Very Outdated And I HavenT Found Anything Else
Whiteboard
Wiki/Documentation Site
Workout/Exercise Tracker For Your Routines/Programs Like Strong
World Anvil
Youneedabudget
Yubico Authenticator For 2Fa Codes Using My Fido Keys
À Cooking Recipe Database With Grocery Store List