Top Open Source Projects using Rust

A curated collection of the 145 best open source software using Rust. Find the most popular and trending open source projects to learn from, contribute to, or use in your own projects.

OpenClaw

An open source AI assistant that runs on your own hardware and reaches you through Discord, Slack, WhatsApp and other chat channels.

Alternative to:

ChatGPT

An AI assistant that acts, not just answers

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389,062
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81,758
Last commit
5 days ago

Hermes Agent

A self-improving agent from Nous Research that learns skills, keeps memory across sessions and reaches you on any chat platform.

Alternative to:

ChatGPT

Desktop AI agent with persistent memory across platforms

Stars
242,618

RustDesk

A remote desktop tool written in Rust that works without configuration and lets you run your own rendezvous and relay servers.

Alternative to:

AnyDesk

Self-hosted remote desktop you fully control

Stars
122,789

Paperclip

A self-hosted control plane that gives teams of AI agents an org chart, budgets, approvals and audit trails from one dashboard.

Alternative to:

Lindy

Org chart, budgets, and governance for AI agent teams

Supabase

A Postgres development platform bundling authentication, generated APIs, realtime, storage and vectors, available hosted or entirely self-hosted.

Alternative to:

AWS Amplify

Postgres-powered backend platform for production apps

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OpenCut

Free and open source video editor for web, desktop and mobile, aimed at creators who want an editor they can extend.

Alternative to:

Adobe Premiere Pro

Open source video editor that runs in your browser

Stars
88,840

Zed

High-performance multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, for developers on macOS, Linux and Windows.

Alternative to:

Cursor

High-performance code editor built for speed and AI

Stars
89,864

LocalSend

Cross-platform app for sending files and messages to nearby devices over your local network, with no internet and no third-party server.

Alternative to:

AirDrop

Share files securely across all devices without servers

Stars
90,238

Cline

Open source coding agent that works in VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, the terminal and a kanban board, with any model you choose.

Alternative to:

Cursor

Open-source AI coding agent for your editor and terminal

Stars
67,589

AppFlowy

AI workspace for notes, wikis and projects that keeps your data on your own machine or server, an alternative to Notion.

Alternative to:

Notion

AI workspace for docs, projects, and wikis you control

Stars
76,366

Hoppscotch

Browser-based API development platform for building, sending and testing requests across REST, GraphQL, WebSocket and MQTT, solo or with a team.

Alternative to:

Postman

Sleek, intuitive API development and testing platform

Stars
80,228

Ladybird

Independent web browser built on a new engine written from scratch, currently pre-alpha and suitable only for developers.

Alternative to:

Google Chrome

An independent browser engine built from scratch, not a fork

Stars
66,053

Affine

An all-in-one workspace merging documents, whiteboards and databases, built local-first for teams that want to own their knowledge base.

Alternative to:

Notion

Docs, whiteboards, and databases in one privacy-first workspace

Stars
72,242

OpenBB

A data integration toolset for finance teams that connects proprietary, licensed and public sources to Python, Excel, AI agents and dashboards.

Alternative to:

Bloomberg Terminal

AI-powered analytics workspace built for investment teams

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LiteLLM

An open source gateway exposing more than a hundred LLM providers behind one OpenAI-compatible interface, for teams centralising model access.

Alternative to:

Cloudflare AI Gateway

LLM gateway for auth, load balancing, and spend tracking

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NetData

Real-time infrastructure monitoring with per-second metrics, automatic discovery and edge machine learning, for teams tired of configuring dashboards.

Alternative to:

Datadog

Real-time monitoring for systems and applications

Stars
80,446

Warp

An agentic development environment grown out of the terminal, for developers who drive coding agents rather than typing every command.

Alternative to:

Cursor

A modern terminal built around AI coding agents

Stars
64,843

Alacritty

A GPU-accelerated terminal emulator for keyboard-driven users who want sensible defaults and leave tabs and splits to a multiplexer.

Alternative to:

Warp

High-performance terminal with GPU acceleration

Stars
65,641

LocalAI

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

Alternative to:

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

Meilisearch

A search engine developers drop into an app or website, returning typo-tolerant, filterable results in under fifty milliseconds.

Alternative to:

Algolia

Lightning-fast search for your applications

Stars
59,201

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

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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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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Jan

Desktop app for downloading and running open source LLMs locally, with optional cloud model access and an OpenAI compatible local server.

Alternative to:

ChatGPT

Run AI models locally or connect to cloud, privately

Stars
44,366

Milvus

Distributed vector database for AI applications, built to search billions of embeddings with metadata filtering, hybrid queries and hardware acceleration.

Alternative to:

Pinecone

High-performance vector database for GenAI applications

Stars
46,004

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

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

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

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Grok Build

Terminal coding agent that reads a codebase, edits files, runs shell commands and manages long tasks from a full-screen interface.

Alternative to:

Cursor

AI coding agent and CLI for complex terminal workflows

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

Handy

Offline speech-to-text desktop app where you hold a shortcut, speak, and the transcription lands in whatever text field has focus.

Alternative to:

Aqua Voice

Press a key, speak, release. Text appears instantly.

Stars
31,118

Meetily

Meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes conversations on your own machine, so no audio ever leaves your infrastructure.

Alternative to:

Granola

Local AI meeting transcription with zero data leaving your device

Stars
30,423

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Top Open Source Projects using Rust

A curated collection of the 145 best open source software using Rust. Find the most popular and trending open source projects to learn from, contribute to, or use in your own projects.

OpenClaw

Hermes Agent

RustDesk

Paperclip

Supabase

OpenCut

Zed

LocalSend

Cline

AppFlowy

Hoppscotch

Ladybird

Affine

OpenBB

LiteLLM

NetData

Warp

Alacritty

LocalAI

Joplin

Meilisearch

Penpot

ClickHouse

Hyperswitch

Zen Browser

Jan

Milvus

Buzz

Continue

PostHog

Grok Build

Spacedrive

Handy

Meetily

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