SHSelfHostIndex

Catalogue statistics

A data-driven snapshot of the self-hosted software landscape, generated from all 3550 apps in the SelfHostIndex catalogue.

3550apps catalogued
48,224comparisons
55categories
1371tools replaced
70languages
7.8kavg. GitHub stars

Apps by category

Developer Tools & Git226
Media Servers178
Game Servers160
File Sync & Storage149
Self-Hosted AI139
Budgeting & Finance136
Monitoring & Status126
Chat & Communication124
Reverse Proxy & Gateways120
Social Networks105
Remote Access & VPN103
Mail Servers100
Project Management & Tasks97
Content Management Systems88
Home Automation86
Backup & Recovery82
E-books & Media Library75
Automation & Workflows72
Notes & Knowledge Base71
Search Engines62
Blogging Platforms61
Matrix & XMPP60
Identity & SSO59
RSS & News Readers56
Web Analytics53
Maps & GIS53
Photo Management51
E-commerce Platforms51
Dashboards & Startpages50
Office Suites50
Learning & Courses50
CRM & Business Apps49
Video Surveillance46
Forums & Community45
Wikis & Documentation42
Password Managers40
Document Management39
Calendar & Contacts38
Bookmarks & Read-It-Later31
Helpdesk & Ticketing31
Pastebins & Snippets31
Game Engines & Frameworks30
Groupware29
Local LLM Runners28
Time Tracking25
CI/CD & Build21
URL Shorteners21
Git Hosting & Forges19
Recipe Managers17
Video Conferencing16
IDEs & Code Editors14
AI Chat UIs12
AI Image Generation12
Self-Hosting Platforms (PaaS)11
Team Chat10

Apps by setup difficulty

Easy1,248
Medium1,888
Hard414

Apps by deployment method

docker2,255
bare-metal1,611
source1,280
binary1,007
kubernetes291
one-click207
helm92
snap6

Top programming languages

Python549
Go534
TypeScript501
PHP364
JavaScript326
C++184
Java167
Rust157
C156
Ruby71
Shell70
C#59

Most common licenses

MIT975
Apache-2.0576
GPL-3.0535
AGPL-3.0527
GPL-2.0242
free190
BSD-3-Clause101
MPL-2.065
⊘ Proprietary41
BSD-2-Clause36

Largest projects by GitHub stars

Star counts and resource figures are approximate and refreshed on each build (2026-08-08). The underlying dataset is open under CC BY 4.0.