Top Open Source Projects using Docker

A curated collection of the 381 best open source software using Docker. Find the most popular and trending open source projects to learn from, contribute to, or use in your own projects.

Ghost

A headless Node.js CMS for professional, independent publishing, installed through its own CLI and run on your server or hosted.

Alternative to:

Kajabi

Publishing platform for blogs, newsletters, and paid memberships

Stars
55,191
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11,945
Last commit
5 days ago

LocalAI

A self-hosted AI engine that runs text, vision, voice, image and video models on any hardware, with no GPU required.

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OpenRouter

Self-hosted AI runtime for text, voice, vision, and agents

Stars
48,940

Joplin

An offline-first note and to-do app in Markdown, synced with end-to-end encryption across desktop, mobile and the cloud you choose.

Alternative to:

Evernote

Encrypted note-taking that syncs across all your devices

Stars
56,260

Penpot

A design and prototyping platform for product teams, self-hostable and built on open web standards rather than a proprietary format.

Alternative to:

Framer

Open-source UI design and prototyping for product teams

Stars
59,676

LibreChat

A self-hosted chat interface that puts every model provider, agent, tool and file workflow behind one familiar conversation UI.

Alternative to:

ChatGPT

One interface for all your AI models and conversations

Stars
42,875

ClickHouse

An open source column-oriented SQL database for online analytical processing, built for complex queries over billions of rows in real time.

Alternative to:

Azure Data Explorer

Lightning-fast analytics for massive datasets

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Puter

A self-hostable desktop environment in the browser, with everyday apps for users and cloud, AI and storage APIs for developers.

Alternative to:

Dropbox

A full desktop environment that runs in your browser

Stars
43,424

Bruno

An offline API client that stores collections as plain text files in your repository, so Git handles versioning and team sharing.

Alternative to:

Postman

Lightweight, fast, and open-source API client for developers

Stars
46,791

Rocket.Chat

A self-hosted communications platform for organizations with strict data protection needs, covering messaging, voice, federation and customer conversations.

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Slack

Self-hosted team messaging with voice, video, and AI

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Tldraw

A React SDK for building infinite canvas apps, shipping a whiteboard out of the box and custom shapes when you need them.

Alternative to:

Miro

Free instant whiteboard with real-time collaboration

Stars
50,179

Mastodon

A federated social network server on ActivityPub, letting anyone run a community that still talks to the wider fediverse.

Alternative to:

Threads

Decentralized social networking in your control

Stars
50,274

Hyperswitch

Modular payments infrastructure that routes transactions across more than 120 processors, for teams that want to own their payment stack.

Alternative to:

Dodo Payments

Open source payment orchestrator for global transactions

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Zen Browser

A Firefox-based browser built around workspaces, split view and a compact interface, aimed at people who keep too many tabs open.

Alternative to:

Google Chrome

Privacy-focused browser with powerful customization

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Metabase

Business intelligence tool that lets anyone on a team ask questions of company data and build dashboards without writing SQL.

Alternative to:

Looker

Unlock data insights with powerful, user-friendly analytics

Stars
49,110

Payload

Next.js native headless CMS that installs into an existing app folder, giving developers a TypeScript backend and an extensible React admin.

Alternative to:

Contentful

Headless CMS for developers, built with Node.js

Stars
44,601

Buzz

Self-hostable workspace where people and AI agents share the same channels, built on a Nostr relay with a signed event log.

Alternative to:

Slack

Team chat, project management, and AI agents in one place

ToolJet

Open source platform for building internal tools, admin panels and dashboards on top of existing databases, APIs and SaaS systems.

Alternative to:

Retool

Build internal tools rapidly without coding

Stars
40,858

Gogs

Lightweight self-hosted Git service written in Go, shipping as a single binary that runs comfortably on very modest hardware.

Alternative to:

Bitbucket

Self-hosted Git service that's lightweight and easy to install

Stars
47,807

Logseq

Privacy-first outliner for knowledge management and collaboration, storing notes as local Markdown or Org-mode files you keep control of.

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Notion

Privacy-first knowledge base that connects your notes

Stars
44,802

Dokploy

Self-hostable platform as a service that deploys applications and databases on your own VPS, with Docker Swarm and Traefik underneath.

Alternative to:

Vercel

Effortless deployment and management for any VPS

Stars
37,131

drawDB

Browser-based database diagram editor that builds entity relationship models, imports and exports SQL and generates migrations without an account.

Alternative to:

Lucidchart

Design database diagrams and generate SQL scripts instantly

Stars
39,364

Postiz

Self-hostable social media scheduling tool with analytics, team collaboration and an API, covering platforms like X, Bluesky, Mastodon and Discord.

Alternative to:

Buffer

Schedule, analyze, and manage 30+ social media accounts

Stars
35,562

CopilotKit

SDK for developers building agent-native apps, adding chat, generative UI, shared state and human-in-the-loop across web, mobile and chat platforms.

Alternative to:

Voiceflow

Build AI copilots for your product in hours, not months

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Continue

Coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal, now shipped as a final version and no longer under active development.

Alternative to:

Cursor

Open-source coding agent for your IDE and terminal

Stars
35,812

Novu

Open-source communication infrastructure that sends product notifications and connects agents to Inbox, email, SMS, push, chat and messaging channels.

Alternative to:

OneSignal

Multi-channel notification infrastructure for apps

Stars
39,876

AppSmith

Low-code platform for building internal tools such as dashboards, admin panels and customer 360 views, then deploying and maintaining them.

Alternative to:

Retool

Empower your team to build custom internal tools rapidly

Stars
40,827

Chatwoot

Self-hosted support desk that unifies live chat, email and social messaging in one inbox, with an AI agent and help center.

Alternative to:

Zendesk

Omnichannel customer support with a built-in AI assistant

Stars
36,554

Sentry

Debugging platform that helps developers detect, trace and fix issues in shipped code, with official SDKs for most languages and runtimes.

Alternative to:

Datadog

Real-time error tracking and performance monitoring

Stars
44,738

PostHog

Product analytics suite bundling events, session replays, feature flags, experiments, surveys and error tracking into one platform for product teams.

Alternative to:

Google Analytics

Unlock Product Insights with Open-Source Analytics

Stars

Spacedrive

Cross-device file manager that indexes local disks, clouds and external sources into one searchable library synced directly between your machines.

Alternative to:

ForkLift

Your personal distributed filesystem

Stars
38,913

Langfuse

LLM engineering platform where teams trace, evaluate, debug and version-control the prompts and runs behind an AI application.

Alternative to:

LangSmith

Open source LLM engineering platform for AI-powered applications

Stars
34,268

SearXNG

A self-hostable metasearch engine that queries hundreds of search services on your behalf, tracking and profiling nobody along the way.

Alternative to:

Kagi

Privacy-first metasearch across 270+ sources

Stars
36,611

FastGPT

AI agent building platform with knowledge bases and visual workflow orchestration, for teams shipping retrieval backed assistants without writing glue code.

Alternative to:

Voiceflow

Build powerful AI knowledge bases with ease

Stars
29,591

Onyx

Self-hosted AI platform that connects company data to chat, search and agents, for teams wanting an LLM interface they control.

Alternative to:

ChatGPT

Unified AI-powered enterprise search across company data

Stars
31,948

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Top Open Source Projects using Docker

A curated collection of the 381 best open source software using Docker. Find the most popular and trending open source projects to learn from, contribute to, or use in your own projects.

Ghost

LocalAI

Joplin

Penpot

LibreChat

ClickHouse

Puter

Bruno

Rocket.Chat

Tldraw

Mastodon

Hyperswitch

Zen Browser

Metabase

Payload

Buzz

ToolJet

Gogs

Logseq

Dokploy

drawDB

Postiz

CopilotKit

Continue

Novu

AppSmith

Chatwoot

Sentry

PostHog

Spacedrive

Langfuse

SearXNG

FastGPT

Onyx

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