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Free-software projects on GitHub

Freely licensed and self-hostable software collections and servers.

As of , the most-starred Free-software projects on GitHub are awesome-selfhosted (328.1K stars), server (37.2K stars) and flameshot (31.2K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 10 Free-software repositories with 470K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was awesome-selfhosted, with +352 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+352

awesome-selfhosted

awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted · ★ 328.1K

It is a curated list of free-software network services and web applications that you can host yourself instead of relying on third-party SaaS providers.

+14

server

nextcloud/server · ★ 37.2K

Nextcloud server is a self-hosted platform for storing, syncing, and sharing your files, contacts, calendars, and more, with hundreds of apps (Mail, Video Chat, etc.) to extend it.

+8

lila

lichess-org/lila · ★ 18.9K

Lichess (lila) is the free, adless and open source online chess server behind lichess.org, focused on realtime play and ease of use.

+8

LuLu

objective-see/LuLu · ★ 13.4K

LuLu is a free, open-source firewall for macOS: it watches the network connections apps on your Mac try to make and lets you allow or block them.

The all-time top

10 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

    awesome-selfhosted

    It is a curated list of free-software network services and web applications that you can host yourself instead of relying on third-party SaaS providers.

    328.1K
  2. #2 · nextcloud/server

    server

    Nextcloud server is a self-hosted platform for storing, syncing, and sharing your files, contacts, calendars, and more, with hundreds of apps (Mail, Video Chat, etc.) to extend it.

    37.2K
  3. #3 · flameshot-org/flameshot

    flameshot

    Flameshot is a free, open-source screenshot tool: capture a screen region, annotate it in a built-in editor, then save it, copy it or share it online.

    31.2K
  1. 4

    lila

    18.9Klichess-org/lila · Scala

    Lichess (lila) is the free, adless and open source online chess server behind lichess.org, focused on realtime play and ease of use.

  2. 5

    server

    16.1Kgotify/server · Go

    Gotify is a simple self-hosted server for sending and receiving messages in real time over WebSocket, with a sleek web UI included.

  3. 6

    LuLu

    13.4Kobjective-see/LuLu · Objective-C

    LuLu is a free, open-source firewall for macOS: it watches the network connections apps on your Mac try to make and lets you allow or block them.

  4. 7

    python3-cookbook

    12Kyidao620c/python3-cookbook · Jupyter Notebook

    This is a Chinese translation of David Beazley's 'Python Cookbook' 3rd Edition, a book of practical Python 3 recipes covering real-world programming problems.

  5. 8

    github-do-not-ban-us

    11.7K1995parham/github-do-not-ban-us · JavaScript

    An open letter and protest campaign against GitHub restricting Iranian developers' accounts, which also showcases open-source projects made by Iranian developers.

  6. 9

    shrimply

    1.2Ksoirihiroka/shrimply · Rust

    Shrimply is a cross-platform video editor built in Rust, currently in a pre-alpha stage of development.

  7. 10

    hivepaas

    306hivepaas/hivepaas · Go

    HivePaaS is a lightweight, self-hosted Platform-as-a-Service built on Docker Swarm, meant as a resource-efficient alternative to Heroku, Render, and Coolify for deploying apps on your own servers.

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