Open Source Alternatives: The Sovereign Stack

A curated database of vetted open source alternatives to proprietary SaaS. Find tools that are safe, compliant, and ready for business.

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Logistics platform for dispatch, fleet management and live tracking on your own servers, under AGPL-3.0-or-later.

Browser-based video conferencing for private calls and small groups, with media sent directly between participants, under AGPL-3.0-only.

Browser-based video conferencing for group meetings, classes and webinars, with media relayed by its own server, under AGPL-3.0-only.

Agile project management tool for Scrum and Kanban teams, with backlogs, sprints, boards, issue tracking and a wiki, under MPL-2.0.

Decision-making tool where groups discuss proposals, vote and record outcomes, with elections and weighted voting, under AGPL-3.0-only.

Web and product analytics that measures site visits without cookies, with funnels and session replays, under AGPL-3.0-only.

AGPL, self-hosted drop-in replacement for Microsoft Exchange: mail, calendar, and groupware with full Outlook and mobile compatibility, under EU jurisdiction. Free tier caps at 5 users.

Turns your coding agent into a design engine that outputs prototypes, slides, and UI as local files. Bring your own model, cloud or fully local via Ollama. Early-stage.

Browser-based video editor that runs on-device: no uploads, no watermark, no account. A local-first alternative to ByteDance's CapCut. Still early-stage.

An Apache-2.0 cloud platform (IaaS): build a multi-tenant private cloud on your own hardware, across KVM, VMware, and Proxmox hypervisors. The vendor-neutral answer to VMware Cloud Director.

An offline, open-source Markdown editor for researchers, with Zettelkasten note-linking and citation management. It stores everything as plain .md files, a GPL-licensed alternative to Obsidian.

An offline-first, open-source note app with end-to-end encryption and plain-Markdown storage. A self-hosted alternative to Evernote; sync to your own WebDAV or Nextcloud, with team features paywalled.

The vendor-neutral CNCF standard for traces, metrics, and logs. Instrument once and route your telemetry to any backend, ending the agent lock-in that makes Datadog and New Relic so sticky.

A distraction-free desktop Markdown editor with live preview that works directly on local .md files, with no account, telemetry, or cloud. A fully offline, MIT-licensed alternative to Typora.

MIT-core LLM observability for tracing, evals, and prompt management. A self-hosted alternative to LangSmith, with enterprise compliance controls gated behind a paid license key.

Self-hosted assembly and voting platform for parliaments, parties and associations: agendas, motions, elections and live secret ballots. SAML SSO and every feature ship under MIT, no paid tiers.

An FSL-licensed reactive backend: a TypeScript database with serverless functions and real-time updates by default. Self-hosts as two containers on SQLite; SSO and team RBAC stay cloud-only.

A BSL-licensed platform unifying transactional and marketing email in one Postgres deployment, with a visual builder and built-in analytics. SSO, RBAC and audit logs sit behind a paid key.

An open-core localization platform, Apache-2.0 at the core, built around in-context editing and a developer SDK. SSO, granular RBAC and use beyond 10 seats need a paid Enterprise licence.

An AGPL-3.0, self-hosted translation-management platform: API-first, with broad localization-format support. A lighter, project-based alternative to Git-centric localization tools.

An MIT-licensed, in-process analytical SQL database: the SQLite for analytics. Embedded and zero-dependency, it queries Parquet, CSV and JSON in place, with no server to run.

The community fork that revived Maybe Finance under AGPLv3 after the startup shut down. All-in-one personal finance: budgeting, accounts, net worth. Fully open and self-hosted, no paid tier.

GPL-3.0 continuous-localization platform that syncs translations with your Git repos. SSO and RBAC are in the open build, so there is no feature paywall. EU-based, self-hosted.

The Linux Foundation fork of Redis after its 2024 relicense: a BSD-licensed in-memory datastore for caching and real-time workloads. Fully open source, but no official managed cloud.