Open-source apps you can host in one click

Every app below runs on blitz.cloud today. Pick one in the App Store, give it a name, and it installs with the storage and database it needs. Each page says what the app replaces, how much of your plan it takes, and what to do first after installing.

Files & documents

• Nextcloud: Your own Dropbox - files, calendar, contacts, all in one place.
• Syncthing: Keep a folder in step across your computers and phone, with no cloud in between.
• Stirling PDF: Merge, split, sign and shrink PDFs, without uploading them to a stranger.
• Paperless-ngx: Scan your paper mail once, find any letter in seconds, and throw the paper away.
• FileBrowser Quantum: Upload, download and sort the files your apps keep, from your browser.
• OpenCloud: Your own Dropbox for files and folders, with desktop and phone apps that sync.

Photos & media

• Immich: Back up every photo from your phone, automatically. Like Google Photos, but yours.
• Jellyfin: Your movies and music, streamable to any screen in the house.
• Audiobookshelf: Your audiobooks and podcasts on every phone, and it remembers where you stopped.
• cobalt: Save videos and music from sites like TikTok and SoundCloud through your own download API.

Websites & blogs

• Ghost: A beautiful blog and newsletter, ready to write in.
• Umami: See how many people visit your website and where they come from, without cookies or banners.
• WordPress: Build a website or a blog, with thousands of free themes and plugins to pick from.

Passwords & security

• Vaultwarden: A password manager the whole family can use, hosted by you.

Money & home

• Home Assistant: Control lights, heating and more - everything local, nothing in someone else's cloud.
• Actual Budget: A budget app that shows where your money goes, without selling what it learns.
• Mealie: Save recipes from any website, plan the week's meals and build the shopping list.
• Firefly III: Keep track of every account, bill and budget in one place, with reports that show where it all went.

Monitoring & automation

• n8n: Connect your apps and automate chores - no code needed.
• Uptime Kuma: Get a ping when any of your sites goes down.
• Activepieces: Connect your apps and automate chores by clicking steps together, no code needed.

Notes & knowledge

• FreshRSS: All your news feeds in one calm, ad-free reader.
• Linkding: A fast, private place to keep every link you meant to read later.
• Memos: A quick place to write things down, that stays yours.
• Joplin Server: Keeps your Joplin notes in sync across your phone and computers, on a server that is yours.
• Linkwarden: Save links with a full copy of each page, so they still open after the site is gone.
• Wiki.js: A wiki for your team or club, with a friendly editor and search.
• Docmost: Shared pages and a wiki for your team, with an editor that feels like Notion.
• SilverBullet: A notebook in your browser where pages link to each other, kept as plain text files.

Productivity

• Vikunja: To-do lists and projects for you or the whole household, as lists, boards or a calendar.
• HedgeDoc: Write notes together in real time, in the browser, like a shared Google Doc.
• Planka: Boards and cards for planning anything together, like Trello.
• NocoBase: Build your own internal tools and databases by clicking, not coding.

Developer tools

• Forgejo: Your own place for Git repositories, issues and pull requests, like a small GitHub.
• Wakapi: See how much time you spend coding, per project and language, from your editor's plugin.
• WAHA: A WhatsApp API you run yourself. Connect a number, then send and receive messages over HTTP.
• Evolution API: Send and receive WhatsApp messages from your own code through a simple API.

AI & chat

• OmniRoute: One address for all your AI model providers, which switches to another one when a provider fails or runs out.
• 9router: Send your AI coding tools through one address and switch to another provider when one runs out.
• Open WebUI: A chat page like ChatGPT for the AI models you choose, with your chats kept on your own server.
• LibreTranslate: Translate text and documents on your own server, without sending them to Google or DeepL.
• OpenClaw: A personal AI assistant you run yourself and talk to from a web page or your chat apps.
• Hermes Agent: An AI agent from Nous Research that your own apps and chat tools talk to through an OpenAI-style API.
• SillyTavern: Chat and write stories with AI characters you create, through the AI provider you choose.