Self-hosted Automation software

Automation software designed to reduce human intervention in processes.

32 apps, ranked by GitHub stars weighted by maintenance health.

Alternatives to ZapierAlternatives to IFTTT

n8n

Free node based Workflow Automation Tool. Easily automate tasks across different services.

Actively maintained ★ 209.5k Apache-2.0, Commons-Clause ~$5/mo

Huginn

Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf.

Actively maintained ★ 50.3k MIT ~$5/mo

Apache Airflow

Platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows.

Actively maintained ★ 47.4k Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

changedetection.io

Stay up-to-date with web-site content changes.

Actively maintained ★ 35.5k Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Kestra

Event-driven, language-agnostic platform to create, schedule, and monitor workflows. In code. Coordinate data pipelines and tasks such as ETL and ELT.

Actively maintained ★ 30.1k Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Activepieces

No-code business automation tool like Zapier or Tray. For example, you can send a Slack notification for each new Trello card.

Actively maintained ★ 25.3k MIT 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Leon

Personal assistant who can live on your server.

Actively maintained ★ 17.6k MIT ~$5/mo

Gotenberg

Developer-friendly API to interact with powerful tools like Chromium and LibreOffice for converting numerous document formats (HTML, Markdown, Word, Excel, etc.) into PDF files, and more.

Actively maintained ★ 13.5k MIT 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Healthchecks

Listen for pings and sends alerts when pings are late.

Actively maintained ★ 10.5k BSD-3-Clause 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

StackStorm

StackStorm (aka IFTTT for Ops) is event-driven automation for auto-remediation, security responses, troubleshooting, deployments, and more. Includes rules engine, workflow, 160 integration packs with 6000+ actions and ChatOps.

Actively maintained ★ 6.6k Apache-2.0 ~$5/mo

Cronicle

Simple, distributed task scheduler and runner with a web based UI.

Actively maintained ★ 5.9k MIT ~$5/mo

Dagu

Powerful Cron alternative with a Web UI. It allows you to define dependencies between commands as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) in a declarative YAML format.

Actively maintained ★ 4.5k GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

pyLoad

Lightweight, customizable and remotely manageable downloader for 1-click-hosting sites like rapidshare.com or uploaded.to.

Actively maintained ★ 3.9k AGPL-3.0 ~$5/mo

OliveTin

Web interface for running Linux shell commands.

Actively maintained ★ 3.9k AGPL-3.0 ~$3.5/mo

Dittofeed

Omni-channel customer engagement and messaging automation platform (alternative to Braze, Customer.io, Iterable).

Actively maintained ★ 3k MIT 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Automatisch

Business automation tool that lets you connect different services like Twitter, Slack, and more to automate your business processes (alternative to Zapier).

Maintained ★ 14k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Fredy

Searches for new apartments, houses, and flats in Germany on platforms like ImmoScout24, Immowelt, and others, and instantly delivers the results to you via Slack, Telegram, and more.

Actively maintained ★ 1.6k Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Cronmaster

Cronjob management UI with human readable syntax, live logging and log history for your cronjobs.

Actively maintained ★ 1.4k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

ChiefOnboarding

Employee onboarding platform that allows you to provision user accounts and create sequences with todo items, resources, text/email/Slack messages, and more! Available as a web portal and Slack bot.

Actively maintained ★ 934 AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Discount Bandit

Track pricing, stock status of products across multiple stores such as Amazon, Ebay, Walmart, etc.

Actively maintained ★ 762 GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

gocron

Task scheduler that allows users to specify recurring jobs via a simple YAML configuration file.

Actively maintained ★ 626 MIT 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Matchering

Automated music mastering (alternative to LANDR, eMastered and MajorDecibel).

Maintained ★ 2.7k GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

LazyLibrarian

Follow authors and grab metadata for all your digital reading needs. It uses a combination of Goodreads, Librarything and optionally GoogleBooks as sources for author info and book info.

Actively maintained ★ 400 GPL-3.0 ~$5/mo

flowctl

Self-service workflow execution platform with approvals, remote execution and scheduling.

Actively maintained ★ 344 Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

µTask

Automation engine that models and executes business processes declared in yaml.

Maintained ★ 1.4k BSD-3-Clause 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

HomeButler

Installs and manages a curated catalog of applications via Docker Compose, maps containers and exposed ports, verifies backups restore, and reports what changed since the last run with CLI, JSON, web and MCP interfaces.

Actively maintained ★ 314 MIT 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

BookBounty

Retrieve missing Readarr books from Library Genesis.

Actively maintained ★ 294 MPL-2.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

HandBrake Web

Use one or more instances of HandBrake video transcoder on a headless device via a web interface.

Maintained ★ 806 AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Kibitzr

Lightweight personal web assistant with powerful integrations.

Maintained ★ 721 MIT ~$5/mo

Mylar3

Automated Comic Book (cbr/cbz) downloader program for use with NZB and torrents.

Actively maintained ★ 128 GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Ctfreak

IT task scheduler with mobile-friendly web UI to schedule concurrent, remote and chained execution of Bash / Powershell / SQL scripts, Webhooks, and more.

Health unknown ⊘ Proprietary ~$5/mo

CxReports

Reporting and PDF document generation with a user-friendly WYSIWYG template editor, API, automated email delivery, and robust security features.

Health unknown ⊘ Proprietary 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

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