The Library

A growing collection of self-hosted apps: what each one does and how to run it yourself. Free to browse, no account needed.

Media

Jellyfin

A self-hosted media server for movies and TV, the open-source alternative to Plex or Netflix.

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Moonfin

A TV-style Jellyfin client with a much nicer interface than Jellyfin's own, the app used for actually watching everything.

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Immich

A self-hosted photo and video backup, the open-source alternative to Google Photos or iCloud Photos.

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Pixelfed

A self-hosted, federated photo-sharing platform, the open-source alternative to Instagram.

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Communication

Conduit

A lightweight, self-hosted Matrix homeserver, the backend that actually stores and routes messages.

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Element

The most popular Matrix client, the open-source alternative to Discord or Slack's own apps.

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Gotify

A self-hosted push notification server: alerts land on a phone the moment something needs attention.

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ntfy

A simple self-hosted push notification tool: subscribe to a topic and get pinged from anywhere.

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Home Automation

Home Assistant

The open-source hub that ties smart-home devices together locally, without depending on any single manufacturer's cloud.

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MQTT

The lightweight messaging protocol that lets smart-home devices and services talk to each other locally.

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Frigate

A self-hosted security camera NVR with AI-powered object detection: no camera subscription, no cloud upload.

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TeslaMate

Self-hosted logging for a Tesla: every drive, charge, and battery reading, kept long-term and owned locally.

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Networking & Security

Pi-hole

Blocks ads and trackers for every device on the network, no per-device app needed.

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Unbound

A recursive DNS resolver that answers queries directly instead of forwarding them to a third party.

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Tailscale

A private mesh VPN that lets every device reach this homelab securely, without opening a single port to the internet.

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nginx

The reverse proxy that routes traffic and handles HTTPS for every service in this stack.

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Productivity & Documents

Nextcloud

A self-hosted Google Drive/Dropbox alternative: file sync, sharing, and a full office suite.

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Radicale

A lightweight self-hosted calendar and contacts server, the CalDAV/CardDAV equivalent of iCloud or Google Calendar.

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LanguageTool

A self-hosted grammar and style checker, the open-source alternative to Grammarly, running locally.

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Papra

A self-hosted document archive: upload receipts, bills, and paperwork and search them instantly.

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Paperless-ngx

A self-hosted digital filing cabinet: scans get OCR'd, tagged, and archived automatically.

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Infrastructure & Monitoring

Docker

The container platform every service in this stack runs on: isolated, portable, and easy to update.

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Portainer

A web dashboard for managing every Docker container on the server without touching the command line.

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Grafana

Turns raw data from other self-hosted tools into readable dashboards and graphs.

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Uptime Kuma

A self-hosted status page that watches every service and sends an alert the moment one goes down.

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Proxmox

A self-hosted hypervisor for running virtual machines and containers, the open-source alternative to VMware or Hyper-V.

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