Vikunja is open-source task management you can host yourself or use hosted: lists, kanban boards, Gantt charts, labels and team sharing, with apps and CalDAV support. Your tasks, your server, your rules. Self-hosting is the intended path, so there is a small maintenance footprint, and the hosted option exists if you would rather not. To-do […]
OsmAnd turns OpenStreetMap data into fully offline navigation: download a country, keep GPS working with no connection, and log tracks without anyone’s server learning where you went. Open source, with contour lines, hiking routes and marine depths if you want them. The interface packs more options than most people will ever open, and free users […]
Organic Maps is the friendliest offline map on mobile: free, open source, built on OpenStreetMap, with offline search and turn-by-turn navigation that never phones home. The foundation behind it takes no investment and publishes everything. Fewer advanced layers than OsmAnd and no online traffic data, which is the point. Install, download your region, delete Google […]
CoreELEC is a minimal Linux system that runs Kodi on cheap Amlogic TV boxes, booting straight into your media center in seconds. The community tunes it per device for smooth playback. It supports specific hardware only, and setup means flashing and choosing the right image. A boutique path to a silent, dedicated media box.
ONLYOFFICE offers the closest-to-Microsoft formatting among open-source suites, with online collaboration you can self-host in your own Nextcloud or on your own server. Desktop and mobile apps are free as well. The full-featured server edition sits behind commercial licensing tiers, and the document editor is heavier than LibreOffice on old machines. Compatibility first, ideology second.
Kodi is the free, open-source media center that turns any computer or TV box into a library player for your own files: movies, series, music, photos, with add-ons for streaming formats you configure yourself. Two decades of development and a huge community stand behind it. It plays what you point it at and ships nothing […]
Jellyfin is a free, open-source media server with apps for every TV and phone: your library, streamed to your household, with profiles, watch states and transcoding handled by your own hardware. No account, no tracking, no subscription tier hiding the good parts. You run the server, size the storage and own the updates. The fork […]
LibreOffice: Working on office documents with a desktop suite.
Home Assistant is the open-source heart of a private smart home: it speaks Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, Wi-Fi and everything else through thousands of integrations, runs all your automations locally, and shows no ads because there is no company selling your routines. A global community maintains it, and it runs on a Raspberry Pi. The setup […]
FreeTube is an open-source desktop app that plays YouTube through local requests and optional Invidious, with subscriptions stored on your machine instead of an account. No ads, no Google history, no login, on Windows, Mac and Linux. Occasional breakage follows whenever YouTube changes internals, and comments need Invidious enabled. The cleanest desktop way to watch […]
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Most people are, and never hear about it. BellCrier checks your email against known data breaches for free, then alerts you when it turns up in a new one, with exactly what leaked and how to fix it.
