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BEST OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE TOOLS

293 tools indexed|Updated MAY 2026
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Mox

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Complete e-mail solution with IMAP4, SMTP, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS, DANE and DNSSEC, reputation-based and content-based junk filtering, Internationalization (IDNA), automatic TLS with ACME and Let's Encrypt, account autoconfiguration, and webmail

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Tox

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Distributed, secure messenger with audio and video chat capabilities

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Gotify

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Notification server with Android and CLI clients (alternative to PushBullet)

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Conduit

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A simple, fast, and reliable chat server powered by Matrix

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Castopod

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Podcast management hosting platform that includes the latest podcast 2.0 standards, an automated Fediverse feed, analytics, an embeddable player, and more

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Rallly

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Create polls to vote on dates and times (alternative to Doodle)

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OliveTin

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Web interface for running Linux shell commands

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Dittofeed

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Omni-channel customer engagement and messaging automation platform (alternative to Braze, Customer.io, Iterable)

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Swetrix

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Open-source web analytics with privacy-first tracking

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Islandora

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Drupal module for browsing and managing Fedora-based digital repositories

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Kapowarr

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Build and manage a comic book library. Download, rename, move and convert issues of the volume to your liking

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WinterCMS

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Speedy and secure content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework

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BigTree CMS

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The straightforward, capable, and well-documented CMS.

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FoodCoopShop

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Streamline your food co-op's orders, inventory, and member management

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Chirpy

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Privacy-friendly and customizable Disqus (comment system) alternate

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One Time Secret

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Share sensitive information securely with self-destructing links that are only viewable once

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Readeck

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Save the precious readable content of web pages you like and want to keep forever. See it as a bookmark manager and a read later tool

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Serendipity

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Serendipity (s9y) is a highly extensible and customizable PHP blog engine using Smarty templating

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Leon

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Personal assistant who can live on your server

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Dagu

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Powerful Cron alternative with a Web UI. It allows you to define dependencies between commands as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) in a declarative YAML format

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Simulate 1000s of IoT devices fast

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Realistic IoT data generator for MQTT, HTTP and TCP.

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CoreShop

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The Pimcore e-commerce plugin for unified commerce.

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Artalk

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Comment system built in Golang, providing a lightweight and highly customizable solution for adding comments to your website

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chasquid

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SMTP (email) server with a focus on simplicity, security, and ease of operation

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WHAT ARE OPEN SOURCE TOOLS?

Open-source tools are free to use, modify, and distribute. They offer maximum flexibility and transparency, with active communities driving development. Ideal for developers and organizations that want full control over their software stack.