Apps
Software you'd otherwise rent.
Most of what people pay a monthly subscription for has an open-source version you can run yourself. Here's what's worth running, sorted by what it's for.
Your own cloud
The things you'd least like to hand to someone else: passwords, chats, files you send around. Run them at home and they stay there.
Instead of 1Password, Slack, WeTransfer
Be visible online
A website, a blog, a newsletter. Your own address, your own content, and no platform that changes its rules or its prices on you.
Instead of Wix, Medium, Mailchimp
Organise and get things done
Notes, to-dos, forms, budgets, recipes. The everyday tools for you, your family or a small team, without an account at each vendor.
Instead of Notion, Todoist, Typeform
Design and create
Design files, whiteboards and diagrams. Work together in the browser, the files sit on your device.
Instead of Figma, Miro, Lucidchart
Your own AI
Chat with a language model that runs on your own hardware, and wire up automations. Your prompts never leave the house. Works best on a Mac with Apple silicon.
Instead of ChatGPT, Zapier
For tinkerers and developers
For people who like to tinker: git hosting, monitoring, uptime checks, a backend, your own Docker setup. The deep end of the pool.
Instead of UptimeRobot, GitHub, Datadog
For the Raspberry Pi
Apps that need a Pi's hardware: a screen that shows one web page all day, or a camera streaming to your own address.
How an app gets here
Every app is a template we write, test on real devices and sign. Your device checks the signature before it installs anything. The registry lists every template with its versions, source and what it needs.
62
apps in the registry today
Where the project behind an app can take money, part of what you pay goes to it.
Run it on your own hardware.
Your data stays on your device. Obacht gives it a web address.