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OpenAlternative is a curated collection of the best open source alternatives to software that your business requires in day-to-day operations.
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"Local AWS emulator with no account, gates, or paid tiers." That's Floci's own pitch, and it holds up: AWS services on your laptop and in CI, MIT licensed. Floci has a page on OpenAlternative from today.
openalternative.co/floci
Send and receive email from your own servers, with a web interface, webhooks and IP pools to manage it. Postal (@postalserverio) is on OpenAlternative today.
openalternative.co/postal
The LLM bill doubled overnight and nobody can say which prompt did it. Helicone (@helicone_ai) logs every request, tracks cost and latency, and lets you trace the bad call back to its source. Open source.
openalternative.co/helicone
You rent bare metal servers. Where do managed Postgres and elastic compute come from? Ubicloud (@UbicloudHQ) is a self-hostable cloud platform that adds both, plus block storage and networking. New on OpenAlternative.
openalternative.co/ubicloud
Search on OpenAlternative now ranks results by relevance.
Look up "google analytics" and its alternatives page comes first, with the open source tools that replace it right after. Small typos work too: "imich" finds Immich.
Try it with ⌘K
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Open any IMAP inbox in the browser, with threaded views, an address book and PGP, all hosted on your own server. That's Roundcube (@roundcube), new on OpenAlternative.
openalternative.co/roundcube
Rakazo now has 5,000 developers starring it on GitHub.
It runs persistent AI agents on your own machine. They sign into your tools, finish tasks on their own and ask before anything risky.
openalternative.co/rakazo
Sell a course or a piece of software, get paid, and have the files delivered to the buyer without wiring up three services. That's Gumroad (@gumroad), and its GitHub repo now has 10,000 stars.
openalternative.co/gumroad
Premiere Pro rents you the editor by the month. Shotcut (@shotcutapp) is a free, open source video editor that handles 4K and hundreds of formats on Windows, Mac and Linux.
openalternative.co/shotcut
Elmo (@tryelmo) is self-hosted AI visibility tracking for your brand. Added to OpenAlternative today.
• Mentions across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity
• Which competitors appear
• Which sources get cited
openalternative.co/elmo
You send a proposal at 5pm and want to know if anyone opened it. Mailspring (@mailspringapp) is a desktop email client with read receipts, link tracking and send later, on Mac, Windows and Linux. It joined OpenAlternative today.
openalternative.co/mailsprin…
Orca's GitHub repo is now at 100,000 stars.
It's an Agent Development Environment that runs Claude Code, Codex and Gemini in parallel, each in its own git worktree.
openalternative.co/orca
5,000 developers have starred Frappe Books (@frappetech) on GitHub.
It's a free desktop accounting app for invoices, expenses and bookkeeping, with a modern interface.
openalternative.co/frappe-bo…
Every agent in Jean gets its own Git worktree, so Claude, Codex and Cursor can work on the same project at once without touching each other's files. GitHub and Linear context comes along.
openalternative.co/jean
Phrasea (@AlchemyParis) is a self-hosted digital asset manager for teams that need to find their files fast. Elasticsearch search, granular permissions, and an API for everything else. Now listed on OpenAlternative.
openalternative.co/phrasea
Gmail's Android app is built for Gmail. Thunderbird for Android (@thunderbird) takes all your accounts in one unified inbox, adds OpenPGP encryption and never shows ads. New on OpenAlternative.
openalternative.co/thunderbi…
Want a team of AI agents that browses the web, manages files and runs terminal commands on your own desktop? That's Eigent (@eigent_ai), and you can self-host it.
openalternative.co/eigent
"Track your brand's presence in AI-generated answers"
OneGlanse sends your prompts to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude, then shows where your brand is named and which sources get cited. Newly listed on OpenAlternative.
openalternative.co/oneglanse
Oct 12–19 on OpenAlternative: five open source tools that picked up the most GitHub stars this week. Three run AI agents, one is a graph database, one edits RAW photos.
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ALT OpenAlternative: trending open source tools this week, Oct 12–19. 1. Rakazo, +839 stars (+22%); 2. FalkorDB, +1.2k stars (+12%); 3. MausBot, +551 stars (+12%); 4. RAWmakase, +155 stars (+15%); 5. Orca, +6.7k stars (+7%).
4. RAWmakase: +155 stars (+15%).
A Lightroom-compatible RAW editor with no subscription.
openalternative.co/rawmakase
5. Orca (@orca_build): +6.7k stars (+7%).
Runs several AI coding agents in parallel, side by side.
openalternative.co/orca