Foss

Top 23 Foss Open-Source Projects

  • Rocket.Chat

    The communications platform that puts data protection first.

  • Project mention: Rocket.Chat: Surprising user limit in 6.5.0 | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-19
  • NvChad

    Blazing fast Neovim config providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience.

  • Project mention: Every Neovim, Every Config, All At Once | dev.to | 2024-03-06

    NvChad

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • Zulip

    Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.

  • Project mention: Ask HN: Open-Source Chat Platform Matrix, Rocketchat, Mattermost | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-10
  • Wekan

    The Open Source kanban (built with Meteor). Keep variable/table/field names camelCase. For translations, only add Pull Request changes to wekan/i18n/en.i18n.json , other translations are done at https://app.transifex.com/wekan/wekan only.

  • Project mention: Elegant open source project tracking, Trello like but self-hosted | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-18

    Looks nice, I selfhosted https://github.com/wekan/wekan for a while, which is a MIT licensed heavily Trello-inspired alternative, does someone know both Wekan and Plankanban and can tell their differences?

  • cdnjs

    🤖 CDN assets - The #1 free and open source CDN built to make life easier for developers.

  • Project mention: How To Build a QR Code Generator App Using Vanilla JavaScript | dev.to | 2024-02-08

    Visit cdnjs.com.

  • OpenSearch

    🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.

  • Project mention: Guiding Principles | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-07
  • notesnook

    A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.

  • Project mention: Notesnook – open-source and zero knowledge private note taking app | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-20

    The home page title has the word zero knowledge, I guess?

    Their GitHub has slightly more info regarding this, but I agree that stuff like this should have at least a page dedicated for it that explains how they've implemented their security.

    > Notesnook is a free (as in speech) & open-source note-taking app focused on user privacy & ease of use. To ensure zero knowledge principles, Notesnook encrypts everything on your device using XChaCha20-Poly1305 & Argon2.

    https://github.com/streetwriters/notesnook

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • FlorisBoard

    An open-source keyboard for Android which respects your privacy. Currently in early-beta.

  • Project mention: F-Droid, Keyboard Libraries, and Choosing a Browser | dev.to | 2024-01-27

    I didn't last long with the stock keyboard before installing AnySoftKeyboard which is one of the few FOSS alternative with support for swipe typing. The experience was... OK. It felt slow and it's accuracy left a lot to be desired. I still had to be slow and pretty accurate, so it didn't really feel like much of a change from the stock experience. FlorisBoard have also introduced their own implementation but the feedback I read suggested it would be much the same as my experience with AnySoftKeyboard's gesture typing.

  • spacebarchat

    📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform

  • Project mention: Addressing the community about changes to our API | /r/reddit | 2023-06-09

    Discord isn't decentralized, it's not private, but it's popular and has free API access! Now, an alternative is a reverse engineered Discord backend (originally Fosscord) called Spacebar. It's not complete, but it's designed to be Discord compatible (talk to Discord peeps), decentralized, and E2E encrypted. They have their own client and early server.

  • openmw

    OpenMW is an open-source open-world RPG game engine that supports playing Morrowind. Main repo and issue tracker can be found here: https://gitlab.com/OpenMW/openmw/

  • Project mention: Lessons from Open-Source Game Projects | dev.to | 2024-04-10

    OpenMW - The Elder Scrolls Morrowind clone. C++, OpenGL

  • Obtainium

    Get Android app updates straight from the source.

  • Project mention: Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-20

    Just FYI, there's an Android app called Obtainium that lets you add Github (and a few other) repos to it. Obtanium will then check those repos for updates and install the new APK for you. Its pretty slick for people that prefer to get their APKs direct from the dev.

    https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

  • memreduct

    Lightweight real-time memory management application to monitor and clean system memory on your computer.

  • Project mention: Recently during games my cpu goes to 100% and i barely get 30fps on games that used to run at 60fps easily. | /r/nvidia | 2023-07-18

    Simply put: Memreduct is an app that cleans up processes and memory to help improve FPS.

  • android-foss

    A list of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Android – saving Freedom and Privacy.

  • Project mention: Treasure within GitHub | /r/androidapps | 2023-12-11
  • NekoX

    A third-party Telegram android app.

  • Project mention: Telegram should stop adding new features and focus on what doesn't work | /r/Telegram | 2023-06-16
  • register

    Grab your own sweet-looking '.is-a.dev' subdomain.

  • Project mention: Now with freenom closed, is there any other way to get a free domain? | /r/selfhosted | 2023-08-23
  • InfiniTime

    Firmware for Pinetime smartwatch written in C++ and based on FreeRTOS

  • Project mention: FOSDEM 2024: PineTime Talk | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-24
  • OpenBoard

    100% foss keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy.

  • Project mention: F-Droid, Keyboard Libraries, and Choosing a Browser | dev.to | 2024-01-27

    After reading a lengthy GitHub discussion at the Openboard repo that went into the logistical options and challenges I decided to go with the less-than-ideal option of using Helium314's Openboard fork with the proprietary Google swipe library (libjni_latinimegoogle.so) imported. I've been using it for a few weeks now and though it feels slightly different than the Gboard I'm used to, the difference has been negligible and I'll be sticking with this setup for the foreseeable future.

  • Shelter

    A Free and Open-Source (FOSS) app that leverages the "Work Profile" feature of Android to provide an isolated space that you can install or clone apps into.

  • Project mention: Why Android developers no longer need Windows USB drivers | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-30
  • Auxio

    A simple, rational music player for android

  • Project mention: [DEV] Tasker 6.2.1 Beta - Target API 33, Easily Restrict HTTP Request Events, Worldwide Date/Time Formatting, Easier System Variable Selection | /r/tasker | 2023-05-25

    Auxio, for instance, has a really well organized tracker

  • Rocket.Chat.Electron

    Official OSX, Windows, and Linux Desktop Clients for Rocket.Chat

  • OpenSearch-Dashboards

    📊 Open source visualization dashboards for OpenSearch.

  • Project mention: HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-10

    I hate OpenSearch with a passion, an absolutely horrid lagging project that can't get basic autocomplete working (https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/...)

    but still manages to suck the air out of the room when you want Elasticsearch because AWS already has the company's billing details and no one wants to figure out paying another provider.

  • WinMemoryCleaner

    This free RAM cleaner uses native Windows features to optimize memory areas. It's a compact, portable, and smart application.

  • iRedMail

    Full-featured, open source mail server solution for mainstream Linux/BSD distributions.

  • Project mention: Stalwart mail server (self-hosted all-in-one mail server) now as an admin webui | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-09

    Handling lots of production email for hundreds of domains for the past 10 years on https://www.iredmail.org/

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-04-10.

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Project Stars
1 Rocket.Chat 38,760
2 NvChad 22,805
3 Zulip 20,023
4 Wekan 19,108
5 cdnjs 10,145
6 OpenSearch 8,645
7 notesnook 8,308
8 FlorisBoard 5,287
9 spacebarchat 5,212
10 openmw 5,125
11 Obtainium 5,018
12 memreduct 5,015
13 android-foss 4,814
14 NekoX 4,686
15 register 2,687
16 InfiniTime 2,567
17 OpenBoard 2,468
18 Shelter 2,099
19 Auxio 1,716
20 Rocket.Chat.Electron 1,564
21 OpenSearch-Dashboards 1,535
22 WinMemoryCleaner 1,453
23 iRedMail 1,325
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