A list of alternatives to online services.
Personal Cloud Platforms
arkOS- Development Ceased. (More Info..)Crowd-funded. Open Source.
- Sandstorm
- Sandstorm is an open source platform for personal servers.
- Sandstorm lets you run your own server and install apps like EtherCalc, GitLab, Wekan, Wave, and more as easily as you'd install apps on your phone.
- Apps.
- Uses a model like Docker for installing apps.
- YunoHost
- Debian-based distro aiming to make self-hosting accessible to everyone.
One-Click Installer
- BitNami
- 90+ applications.
- Can install on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Mail server (with Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, etc.).
- Zimbra
- RoundCube
- Screenshots
- It's free and open source.
- SmarterMail (only for Windows)
- There's a free edition that is fully functional.
- It has an API (sort of).
- hMailServer
- MailInABox Source Code
- Works on Ubuntu but not Windows.
Web Mail UI
- Kite
- Mailpile
- Crowd-funded project. Open source. Looks promising. Will be supported on arkOS.
- Mailur
- Webmail client with Gmail-like conversations.
Chat
- Prosody IM XMPP Chat Server
- Kaiwa browser-based, HTML5-only chat client
- Rocket Chat Alternative to Slack
- Let's Chat Self-hosted chat app for small teams
- Mattermost is an open source, on-prem Slack-alternative
- Zulip powerful open source group chat runs on your own server
IRC
Blog
Wiki
- This wiki should be used for collecting knowledage.
- Must have WYSIWYG editing.
- Should be open source.
- Realms Wiki
- Git based wiki written in Python Inspired by Gollum, Ghost, and Dillinger. Basic authentication and registration included.
- Source Code
Note Taking
- Alternative to OneNote, Evernote, etc.
- RedNoteBook
- Desktop-based, no phone apps.
- Cross-platform, open source.
- Good example is Workflowy but it's not open source and can't be self-hosted.
- LittleOutliner
- OpenNote
MagPieGit-backed Evernote replacement.- No longer under active development. More info.
- Paperwork
- Source Code
- OpenSource note-taking & archiving alternative to Evernote, Microsoft OneNote & Google Keep.
- Demo.
Bookmark Management
BookiePython based delicious.com replacementDemo- No longer active. Demo website is down.
- Shaarli
- personal, minimalist, super-fast, no-database delicious clone
Browser-based Document Editing
- Alternatives to Google Docs and Office Online
- EtherPad
- Reveal.js for Presentations
- hyhyhy for presentations. Source code. Uses Ruby, produces static pages.
- Hastebin is an open source pastebin written in node.js
- Remark is a simple, in-browser, markdown-driven slideshow tool. It can be hosted on GitHub gists via GistDeck (Source Code)
RSS Reader
Read-It-Later
- Alternatives to Instapaper, Readibility, and Pocket.
- Wallabag.
- Goose is an Article Fetching service. It's open source.
- ~~Filo ~~
Simple but cute Instapaper clone. Written in Rails.It's open source.- No longer active. Demo site is down.
GTD/ToDo software
- This is alternative to RTM (Remember The Milk)
- TaskBoard
- TaskFreak
- Doesn't have mobile apps.
- Doesn't look very good.
- Kanboard
- Kanboard is a simple visual task board software. Features and screenshots.
- Source code
- Wekan
- Open-source kanban board that let you organize things in cards, and cards in lists.
- Written in Meteor Javascript Framework, using Node.js and MongoDB.
- Deployable to Sandstorm and Docker.
- ToDo.txt
- UI:
- Mobile Apps
- Full list of GTD software
Cloud Storage
- Run your own Dropbox server
- SparkleShare
- OwnCloud
- Has apps built on top of it, including Calendar and Contacts.
- Has sync capabilities.
- Has lots of apps.
- Cozy
- Personal Cloud you can host, customize and fully control
- Sync your contacts, calendars and files between your devices and your personal server
- Demo
- Source Code
- Runs on Linux, available for VirtualBox, Docker and DigitalOcean. Installations.
- Looks really good. Built using Node.js
- Built custom apps
- Already existing custom apps
- Pydio
- Camlistore is a different kind of storage.
- Camlistore is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data in the post-PC era. Data may be files or objects, tweets or 5TB videos, and you can access it via a phone, browser or FUSE filesystem.
- Camlistore (Content-Addressable Multi-Layer Indexed Storage) is under active development.
- Tonido
- Seafile
- OpenMediaVault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media server, RSync, BitTorrent client and many more. Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins.
- Very similar to Synology software
Newsletter
Remote Desktop Service
- LogMeIn
- TeamViewer
- Five Best Remote Desktop Tools
- 5 of the Best Free and Open Source Remote Desktop Software for Linux.
Photos
- Trovebox (formally OpenPhoto)
- Community Edition.
- Has mobile apps: Android.
- Company has shut down in March 2015.
- Lychee - Photo Management Server
Mind Mapping Software
Design tool
IFTTT Clone
Server Management Dashboard
Web Analytics
VPN Server
- OpenVPN
- Pritunl
- Source Code
- Python.
Link shortening service
Social Network
ThinkUp to collect Tweets and Facebook data.No longer available.- Diaspora Social Network
- Twitter-like Social Media Network
- Movim
- Source Code
- Looks good, based on XMPP, written in PHP
- Heim
- A real-time community platform.
- It looks like a chat room.
- Demo
- Source Code
- Telescope
- With Telescope, you can set up a site like Product Hunt or Hacker News in minutes. And you'll then be able to tweak your app's layout, colors, and branding without having to write a single line of code.
- Built with Javascript and Meteor
- Demo and Source code
Password Manager service
- Keepass
- Move Firefox Sync from Mozilla's servers to my own VPS.
- Google Wave (Now, Apache Wave)
Diary
Peer-to-Peer Sync
Push Notification
- Alternative to Pushbullet
- Pushjet
- Open source with number of projects
- Has a Server API written in Python, and an Android client
Source Code Management
- Gogs
- A self-hosted Git service written in Go
- Source code
- GitLab
- Alternative to GitHub.
- Runs on Linux
- Features
Personal Assistant
- Sopel (formally Willie) is a simple, lightweight, open source, easy-to-use IRC utility bot, written in Python. It can leave notes for people, give you reminders, check RSS feeds.
- Hubot.
Public Datasets
SSL
Resources
- PRISM Break
- List of alternatives to online services on multiple platforms.
- awesome-selfhosted
- List of alternatives to online services.
Android Tablet
- How to easily share files between tablet and computer.
- How to access shared folder on home computers from tablet
Linux VPS Hosting
Windows VPS Hosting
Webmin - Free Control Panel for Linux
Virtualmin - For managing the domains and users
Search for hosting offers on forums like:
- http://www.webhostingtalk.com
- http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=104
- https://lowendbox.com/
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