# PickOpenSource

> A catalog for choosing open-source software by the job it does, then comparing license, hosting, and repository activity.

Listings are reviewed products, not a live GitHub dump. Sponsored placements are labelled and do not change organic order. Use the pages below as the source of truth.

## Start here
- [Home](https://pickopensource.site): How to pick a tool
- [Discover](https://pickopensource.site/discover): Approved catalog
- [Categories](https://pickopensource.site/categories): Browse by job
- [Alternatives](https://pickopensource.site/alternatives): Open-source options for a commercial product
- [Trending](https://pickopensource.site/trending): Weighted recent activity
- [New](https://pickopensource.site/launches): Recently added listings
- [Collections](https://pickopensource.site/collections): Editorial lists
- [Languages](https://pickopensource.site/languages)
- [Licenses](https://pickopensource.site/licenses)
- [Tags](https://pickopensource.site/tags)
- [Stacks](https://pickopensource.site/stack)
- [RSS](https://pickopensource.site/feed.xml): Newest approved listings
- [Full catalog for agents](https://pickopensource.site/llms-full.txt)

## Categories
- [AI](https://pickopensource.site/category/ai): Assistants and agent workflows you can run.
- [API tools](https://pickopensource.site/category/api-tools): API mocking and clients.
- [Analytics](https://pickopensource.site/category/analytics): Website and product analytics you can self-host.
- [Authentication](https://pickopensource.site/category/authentication): Identity, login, and access control.
- [Automation](https://pickopensource.site/category/automation): Workflows that connect your own systems.
- [CMS](https://pickopensource.site/category/cms): Content models and editorial publishing.
- [CRM](https://pickopensource.site/category/crm): Contacts, pipelines, and customer records.
- [Customer support](https://pickopensource.site/category/customer-support): Shared inboxes and help desks.
- [Databases](https://pickopensource.site/category/databases): Backend platforms and data stores you can run.
- [Developer tools](https://pickopensource.site/category/developer-tools): Deployment, API clients, and source hosting.
- [Documentation](https://pickopensource.site/category/documentation): Team knowledge bases and collaborative docs.
- [E-commerce](https://pickopensource.site/category/ecommerce): Stores and checkout you can host.
- [Email](https://pickopensource.site/category/email): Newsletters and mailing lists you can host.
- [Feature flags](https://pickopensource.site/category/feature-flags): Release flags and experiments you can run yourself.
- [File storage](https://pickopensource.site/category/file-storage): Files and sync you can run.
- [Forms](https://pickopensource.site/category/forms): Forms and conversational response flows.
- [Monitoring](https://pickopensource.site/category/monitoring): Uptime and metrics you can host.
- [Payments](https://pickopensource.site/category/payments): Metering and billing you can host.
- [Project management](https://pickopensource.site/category/project-management): Issues, sprints, and roadmaps.
- [Scheduling](https://pickopensource.site/category/scheduling): Calendars and booking pages.
- [Search](https://pickopensource.site/category/search): Site search you can run.
- [Security](https://pickopensource.site/category/security): Passwords and secrets you can host.
- [Social media](https://pickopensource.site/category/social-media): Scheduling and publishing for social accounts.
- [Webhooks](https://pickopensource.site/category/webhooks): Incoming hooks that run on your server.

## Notable projects
- [Ollama](https://pickopensource.site/project/ollama): Ollama runs and manages language models locally with an API for applications.
- [langflow](https://pickopensource.site/project/langflow): Langflow is a powerful tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows.
- [Immich](https://pickopensource.site/project/immich): A self-hosted photo library with automatic uploads, albums, and search.
- [Supabase](https://pickopensource.site/project/supabase): Postgres, auth, and storage as a platform you can host.
- [Uptime Kuma](https://pickopensource.site/project/uptime-kuma): A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool.
- [OpenHands](https://pickopensource.site/project/openhands): An open-source coding agent platform with a browser interface and sandboxed workspaces.
- [Netdata](https://pickopensource.site/project/netdata): Real-time infrastructure monitoring with system metrics, dashboards, and alerts.
- [Hoppscotch](https://pickopensource.site/project/hoppscotch): An API client that runs in the browser.
- [Grafana](https://pickopensource.site/project/grafana): An observability dashboard for exploring metrics, logs, and traces from data sources.
- [AppFlowy](https://pickopensource.site/project/appflowy): A local-first workspace for notes and tasks.
- [Strapi](https://pickopensource.site/project/strapi): A headless CMS with an admin panel for content types.
- [Vaultwarden](https://pickopensource.site/project/vaultwarden): Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs.
- [AnythingLLM](https://pickopensource.site/project/anythingllm): AnythingLLM provides workspaces for chatting with documents and running AI agents.
- [Prometheus](https://pickopensource.site/project/prometheus): The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
- [Coolify](https://pickopensource.site/project/coolify): Deploy apps and databases on your own servers.
- [PocketBase](https://pickopensource.site/project/pocketbase): A single-file backend with a database and admin.
- [Plane](https://pickopensource.site/project/plane): Open-source project management for tasks, sprints, docs, and triage.
- [Meilisearch](https://pickopensource.site/project/meilisearch): A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
- [Gitea](https://pickopensource.site/project/gitea): Painless self-hosted Git hosting, code review, package registry, and CI.
- [Twenty](https://pickopensource.site/project/twenty): A modern, open-source CRM.
- [Appwrite](https://pickopensource.site/project/appwrite): Auth, database, and storage APIs for applications.
- [Ghost](https://pickopensource.site/project/ghost): Ghost publishes posts, memberships, and newsletters from a self-hosted CMS.
- [Mastodon](https://pickopensource.site/project/mastodon): Federated social networking software for running your own community server.
- [Huginn](https://pickopensource.site/project/huginn): A self-hosted automation system whose agents watch sources and trigger actions.
- [LocalAI](https://pickopensource.site/project/localai): LocalAI runs language, speech, and image models behind local APIs.
- [cal.diy](https://pickopensource.site/project/cal-diy): Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.
- [Bruno](https://pickopensource.site/project/bruno): An API client that stores collections as files.
- [Apache Airflow](https://pickopensource.site/project/apache-airflow): A workflow scheduler for defining, running, and monitoring data pipelines.
- [Copyparty](https://pickopensource.site/project/copyparty): Copyparty is a portable file server with resumable uploads, WebDAV, and media browsing.
- [Codebase Memory MCP](https://pickopensource.site/project/codebase-memory-mcp): Codebase Memory MCP indexes repositories into a searchable code knowledge graph.
- [Hyperswitch](https://pickopensource.site/project/hyperswitch): A payments orchestration platform connecting processors, routing, and reconciliation.
- [LibreChat](https://pickopensource.site/project/librechat): LibreChat is a self-hosted AI chat interface with model selection, agents, and custom endpoints.
- [Payload](https://pickopensource.site/project/payload): A TypeScript CMS that lives in your Next.js app.
- [PostHog](https://pickopensource.site/project/posthog): Product analytics, replay, and feature flags.
- [ERPNext](https://pickopensource.site/project/erpnext): ERPNext manages accounting, orders, manufacturing, assets, and projects in one ERP.
- [Umami](https://pickopensource.site/project/umami): A lightweight analytics app with a small interface.
- [Trilium](https://pickopensource.site/project/trilium): Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes
- [khoj](https://pickopensource.site/project/khoj): Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your pers
- [Chatwoot](https://pickopensource.site/project/chatwoot): A shared inbox for site chat and email.
- [Keycloak](https://pickopensource.site/project/keycloak): Single sign-on and user federation for applications.