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Open-source-alternative projects on GitHub

As of , the most-starred Open-source-alternative projects on GitHub are dokploy (37.8K stars), invisible_dots (32.1K stars) and dataease (24.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 25 Open-source-alternative repositories with 277.1K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was figcraft, with +701 stars in a day.

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277.1KStars in total
+1.9KStars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+701

figcraft

storytold/figcraft · ★ 2K

FigCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Figma's interface design and prototyping workflows, rebuilt entirely in pure Rust as a native, offline-first app.

+427

wordcraft

storytold/wordcraft · ★ 13.7K

WordCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust: a word processor with the Word workflow you know - ribbon, styles, tables, track changes, references, mail merge - built by the ArtCraft team.

+224

cadcraft

storytold/cadcraft · ★ 5.4K

CADCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of AutoCAD-style computer-aided design and drafting software, built entirely in pure Rust.

+114

Compositor

robbietilton/Compositor · ★ 17.3K

Compositor is a free and open-source, full-featured image editor for Mac, built as an alternative to Adobe Photoshop with a workflow centered on compositing and post-processing.

The all-time top

25 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · Dokploy/dokploy

    dokploy

    Dokploy is a free, self-hostable PaaS for deploying and managing applications and databases — an open-source alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku.

    37.8K
  2. #2 · feder-cr/invisible_dots

    invisible_dots

    AIHawk is an open-source AI browser agent that browses the web undetected: it drives a stealth Firefox that anti-bot systems see as a normal person, so no captchas and no blocks. You say what you want in plain language, and it browses, clicks, types and reads the actual web to get it done.

    32.1K
  3. #3 · dataease/dataease

    dataease

    DataEase is an open-source BI (business intelligence) tool for quickly analyzing data and spotting business trends: you connect data sources, build charts by drag-and-drop and share the results. It is positioned as an open alternative to Tableau.

    24.6K
  1. 4

    navidrome

    24.2Knavidrome/navidrome · Go

    Navidrome is an open-source web-based music collection server and streamer that you self-host — it serves your own library to any browser or mobile device, like your personal Spotify.

  2. 5

    helium

    21.6Kimputnet/helium · C++

    Helium is a Chromium-based web browser built for privacy: unbiased ad-blocking out of the box, no bloat and no noise. It is free, open source, and currently in beta.

  3. 6

    awesome-privacy

    20Kpluja/awesome-privacy · Python

    A curated awesome-list of free, open-source and privacy-respecting alternatives to mainstream services that harvest your data — from mail and messengers to VPNs, browsers and AI.

  4. 7

    activitywatch

    19.3KActivityWatch/activitywatch · Python

    ActivityWatch is a free and open-source automated time tracker. It records which apps and websites you use and how active you are, stores the data on your own machine, and shows it in a dashboard so you can see where your time actually goes.

  5. 8

    reactos

    18.2Kreactos/reactos · C

    A free, open-source operating system (GNU GPL 2.0) built to run the applications and drivers written for the Windows NT family, from NT4 through 7; compatibility work currently focuses on Windows Server 2003.

  6. 9

    Compositor

    17.3Krobbietilton/Compositor · Swift

    Compositor is a free and open-source, full-featured image editor for Mac, built as an alternative to Adobe Photoshop with a workflow centered on compositing and post-processing.

  7. 10

    wordcraft

    13.7Kstorytold/wordcraft · Rust

    WordCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust: a word processor with the Word workflow you know - ribbon, styles, tables, track changes, references, mail merge - built by the ArtCraft team.

  8. 11

    mautic

    10.8Kmautic/mautic · PHP

    Mautic is the world's largest open source marketing automation platform — a PHP web app businesses self-host to run integrated, multi-channel marketing campaigns.

  9. 12

    FluentCleaner

    6.5Kbuiltbybel/FluentCleaner · C#

    FluentCleaner is a free, open-source alternative to CCleaner for Windows. It cleans junk files, browser cache, and temp data using the community-maintained winapp2.ini rule database, built with a modern WinUI 3 interface and no ads, upsells, or dark patterns.

  10. 13

    open-dots

    5.8KAnil-matcha/open-dots · Python

    An open-source, self-hosted AI agent workspace and alternative to paid products like OpenAI Dots, Claude Cowork, Grok Bot and ChatGPT agent. The prototype focuses on coding-agent workflows: running Claude Code tasks from Telegram or a browser, reviewing risky actions, and scheduling recurring prompts.

  11. 14

    cadcraft

    5.4Kstorytold/cadcraft · Rust

    CADCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of AutoCAD-style computer-aided design and drafting software, built entirely in pure Rust.

  12. 15

    DeskcommCRM

    4.7Kmelgarafael/DeskcommCRM · TypeScript

    An open-source AI sales OS: a self-hosted CRM where native AI agents answer, qualify and sell over WhatsApp. It's positioned as an open alternative to Kommo, Octadesk and Intercom for any business that sells by chat.

  13. 16

    deckcraft

    3.6Kstorytold/deckcraft · Rust

    DeckCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft PowerPoint built in pure Rust, part of the ArtCraft family of 'Crafting Apps'.

  14. 17

    invisible_playwright_mcp

    2.8Kfeder-cr/invisible_playwright_mcp · Python

    This is dots, a Playwright MCP server that gives AI agents a real, patched Firefox browser so they can browse the web without being flagged by anti-bot systems or captchas.

  15. 18

    figcraft

    2Kstorytold/figcraft · Rust

    FigCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Figma's interface design and prototyping workflows, rebuilt entirely in pure Rust as a native, offline-first app.

  16. 19

    Echo-Music

    1.9KEchoMusicApp/Echo-Music · Kotlin

    Echo Music is a free, ad-free Android client for YouTube Music that adds offline downloads, synced lyrics, song recognition, and a cleaner UI on top of the official catalog.

  17. 20

    jev

    1.3Kfeder-cr/jev · C++

    jevos-1b is a free, open-source yes/no decision engine that runs locally on your laptop's CPU, returning the probability that the answer is 'yes' for a given text plus question in about 50-220 ms, as a self-hosted alternative to the cloud-based Jev service.

  18. 21

    rustcast

    1.1KMystikoLab/rustcast · Rust

    RustCast is a free, open-source popup launcher for macOS written in Rust: hit a hotkey, start typing, and launch apps, utilities and workflows. It is positioned as an open-source alternative to Raycast.

  19. 22

    dimble

    869fif7y/dimble · Swift

    Pelmet is a free, open-source macOS menu bar manager: it hides the icons you don't need until you do, and hover, click or a shortcut slides them back.

  20. 23

    forel

    832lab421/forel · Swift

    Forel is an open-source, privacy-focused file automation app for macOS that watches folders and automatically moves, renames, tags, or labels files based on rules you define — it's built as a community alternative to the paid Hazel app.

  21. 24

    snagtime

    387nateherkai/snagtime · TypeScript

    SnagTime is a free, self-hostable scheduling app: it gives you the source code for booking links, availability management, Google Calendar sync, SMTP email notifications, and Stripe test-mode payments.

  22. 25

    sghtmltopdf

    344waka/sghtmltopdf · Rust

    sghtmltopdf is a Rust-based HTML-to-PDF renderer, a 'second generation' successor to wkhtmltopdf and wicked_pdf, built without depending on Chromium, WebKit, or Gecko. It targets structured documents that flow top to bottom with explicit breaks, like invoices and reports, rather than arbitrary web pages.

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