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@openalternative.coBuilt for teams that need to share credentials safely: Psono is a self-hosted password manager with client-side encryption, SAML, LDAP and audit logs.
Listed today on OpenAlternative.
openalternative.co/psono
@openalternative.coActivePieces is an open-source, no-code way to connect apps and automate the repetitive work between them.
The project is at 25,000 stars on GitHub.
@openalternative.coPaperclip organizes AI agents like a company: org charts, budgets, ticket tracing and governance controls for the whole team.
The repo has 100,000 stars on GitHub.
@openalternative.codraw.io needs no login and runs offline as well as online.
It's a security-first diagramming tool that saves to Google Drive, SharePoint and Atlassian, so diagrams stay where your team already keeps files.
@openalternative.coFrappe Books just crossed 5,000 stars on GitHub.
Free desktop accounting software: invoices, expense tracking, and bookkeeping, all in one clean interface, no subscription required.
@openalternative.coTesting an API shouldn't require firing up a heavyweight app that takes forever to load.
Bruno is a lightweight, open-source API client built for exactly that: fast, clean, and focused on getting requests tested without the bloat.
@openalternative.coSelf-hosted AI agents usually force a choice: chat UI or terminal, not both.
Nanobot skips it. Same agent in your browser, terminal, or chat app, with token budgets that keep long workflows from running wild.
New on OpenAlternative:
openalternative.co/nanobot
@openalternative.co40,000 stars on GitHub for Open-Notebook.
Students and researchers keep using it for the same reason: AI summarization, podcast generation, and multi-format ingestion that all stay on their own machine, nothing shipped off to a third party.
@openalternative.co190,000 stars on GitHub for Firecrawl.
It gives AI agents a clean way to search, scrape and crawl the live web, handing back Markdown, JSON or screenshots instead of raw HTML.
@openalternative.co500 stars on GitHub for RAWmakase.
It reads Lightroom catalogs, presets, and camera profiles directly, so switching away from Adobe does not mean starting your edits from zero. Free, MIT licensed, built in Rust.
@openalternative.coAI chat that doesn't keep your conversations.
Lumo (@proton.me) encrypts chats with zero-access encryption, skips the logs, and never trains on what you type.
@openalternative.coOfficial Bitwarden server wants a few hundred MB of RAM just to idle.
Vaultwarden is an unofficial rewrite in Rust that talks the same API, works with all the official clients, and runs lean enough for a Raspberry Pi or a $5 VPS.
New on OpenAlternative:
openalternative.co/vaultwarden
@openalternative.coLinkwarden (@linkwarden.bsky.social) just hit 20,000 stars on GitHub.
It's the open-source bookmark manager built for teams: collect pages, tag them, keep everything searchable so the whole group can find what got saved.
@openalternative.co20,000 stars on GitHub for Tolaria.
A note-taking app that keeps your notes as plain Markdown files, tracks history with Git, and lets you wire in your own AI model. No account needed.
@openalternative.coPrismical just crossed 100 stars on GitHub.
Free, open-source note-taker that transcribes meetings and voice notes locally with Whisper and Parakeet, no bot joining your call to record it. Works on Mac, Windows, and mobile.
@openalternative.coRunning an autonomous agent without guardrails is how things go sideways.
NemoClaw bundles the model, agent harness, and runtime controls into open blueprints, with policy-based guardrails built in from the start.
Just added to OpenAlternative 👇
openalternative.co/nemoclaw
@openalternative.co70,000 stars on GitHub for Cline.
It's an open-source AI coding agent you run in VS Code or the terminal, handling multi-file edits and shell commands with whatever LLM you plug in.
@openalternative.co20,000 stars for Paseo.
The idea is simple: your coding agents should not need you glued to a terminal. Paseo gives Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor a home you can reach from phone, desktop, or CLI.
@openalternative.coMost agent tooling stops at "call the model." Running them in production means building state, permissions, and machine access yourself.
Omnara turns that into one API, for any model or machine.
Just added to OpenAlternative 👇
openalternative.co/omnara
@openalternative.coNo-code is fast until you hit a wall only real code can get past.
Convertigo puts a no-code studio and a low-code studio in one open source platform, so teams build, deploy and integrate web, mobile and desktop apps without switching tools.
