With over 3,800 GitHub stars and continuous development since 2002 spanning 24 years of active maintenance through version 16.4.0 released in May 2026, Piwigo has proven itself as one of the most battle-tested self-hosted photo gallery platforms available, trusted by professional photographers managing 150,000+ high-resolution images alongside small teams sharing event photos. The PHP backend with MySQL or MariaDB storage serves a responsive web interface that organizes photos into hierarchical albums with nested sub-albums, tag-based categorization, and smart albums generated dynamically from search criteria. Batch management tools handle bulk uploads, metadata editing, tag assignment, and album moves across thousands of images simultaneously. User permission controls define access at the album level with configurable public, private, and group-restricted visibility, while guest access allows public galleries without authentication. Image processing via ImageMagick or PHP GD generates multiple thumbnail sizes, watermarks, and responsive derivatives automatically. The plugin ecosystem with over 200 community-built extensions adds functionality from EXIF metadata display and GPS mapping to social sharing, download controls, and Lightroom synchronization for desktop workflow integration. The REST Web API with personal API key authentication enables programmatic album creation, photo uploads, and metadata queries from external applications. Mobile apps for iOS and Android provide on-the-go upload and browsing capability. Docker deployment via the official container or traditional LAMP installation on any hosting provider. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-2.0 licensed.

Stop pasting your files into ad-riddled online converters and handing strangers copies of your documents: HRConvert2 runs the whole conversion workshop on your own server instead. Drop a file onto the browser page and pick an output format from a catalogue of 488, covering documents, spreadsheets, presentations, ebooks, comics, images, audio, video, subtitles, and archives. Built-in OCR reads scanned PDFs and images and hands back editable text documents you can search and reuse. It converts 3D models and CAD drawings, renders OpenSCAD projects with their multi-file assemblies resolved, and can even build bootable ISO disk images for x86 and ARM machines from ordinary uploads. Live streams are captured and re-encoded straight from .m3u8 playlists, and every uploaded file can be virus-scanned with ClamAV before or after conversion. Finished files go back out through temporary share links that expire on their own, so sending a converted video to a client takes one click. Each visitor works in an isolated scratch space, files delete themselves when they age out, and nobody needs an account, ever. When traffic spikes, the server watches its own CPU and memory, throttles conversions, and spreads storage across disks so it stays upright. Three interfaces, seven color schemes, and 26 languages let each user shape the page to taste, and the whole thing runs happily on a Raspberry Pi with no database at all. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

37Studio is a self-hosted AI video studio and social media desk that turns a short brief into on-brand videos, posts them to nine social platforms, and drafts replies to the messages that come back. Paste a company website and it builds a brand library of logos, photos, fonts, and colours, plus a knowledge base every later video and reply draws on. An editor agent builds each video as an animated composition, checks its own rendered frames, and takes revision requests in plain words. The same workflow yields hook reels, captioned clips, explainers, podcast clips, promo ads, and thumbnails, and any finished video can become a template. A two-hour recording becomes a shelf of short clips: transcription runs locally in about 100 languages at no cost, and YouTube or Drive links import directly. Publishing reaches Facebook Pages, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, Pinterest, Bluesky, and Mastodon in one action, now or scheduled, each with its own caption. Autopilot goes further: state a content plan in one sentence and a fresh video is made before every slot, waiting for one-click approval. Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp messages and social comments land in one inbox, with replies drafted in the customer's language under rules each brand sets. Exact AI spend shows on every project, and an MCP server lets your own AI tools run the studio. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Reclip is a self-hosted web downloader that turns links from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and more than a thousand other video sites into MP4 or MP3 files saved on your own server. Paste one link or a whole batch of URLs, and Reclip fetches each video's title, thumbnail, duration, and uploader before you commit to anything. A quality picker lists every available resolution, so a lecture can be grabbed at 360p for a phone while a concert film comes down at full height with the best audio stream merged in. MP3 mode strips the picture away entirely, which makes it painless to archive podcasts, DJ sets, and spoken-word clips as plain audio files. Playlists expand into their individual videos automatically, repeated URLs are deduplicated before any bandwidth is spent, and a Download All button works through the whole queue without babysitting. Each job runs in a background thread with live status in the interface, so the page stays responsive while ffmpeg finishes merging streams behind the scenes. Everything lives behind one clean page with no accounts, no uploads to third-party converters, and no expiring download links, and finished files land in a downloads folder you control. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Reloops is a self-hosted creative asset workspace where teams keep every video, design, PDF, audio file, and live website in one library and collect feedback on the files themselves instead of in scattered email threads. Reviewers click anywhere on an image to pin a note to that exact spot, and on video the comments attach to the precise frame, so "fix this bit" always points at the bit in question. Every upload becomes a new version on the same asset, older cuts stay available for side-by-side comparison, and approvals are recorded on the file so nobody ships the wrong export by accident. Clients never need an account: send them a share link or a branded collection and they can watch, comment, and sign off as guests. The library searches the way people remember work, because each asset carries generated descriptions, tags, and metadata filters, so "the approved homepage with the blue button" actually finds something. Day to day, assignments and review queues keep feedback moving, while scoped API keys let agents such as Claude, OpenClaw, Zapier, and n8n upload new versions, post comments, update statuses, and manage share links inside the same workspace. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Your next favorite record is hiding in your listening history, and Digarr is the self-hosted discovery engine that finds it, scores it, and queues it for your library. Connect ListenBrainz, Last.fm, Spotify, Deezer, Discogs, or your Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, or Subsonic server, and Digarr builds a taste profile from what you actually play. An AI provider you choose, from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Gemini to a local Ollama model, proposes candidates, and a weighted scoring system ranks them by consensus, similarity, genre overlap, and your past feedback. Every suggestion lands in a review queue where you can preview tracks, approve, reject, or permanently block artists before anything touches your collection. Approve an artist and Digarr adds them to Lidarr with your quality profile, queues the release in slskd, or exports a playlist to Spotify, Navidrome, Jellyfin, Emby, or Plex. Album-level discovery runs on its own: Release Radar catches new releases from artists you follow, Library Gap-Fill surfaces the studio albums you are missing, and scheduled subscriptions keep fresh candidates flowing in without you lifting a finger. Share the instance with family or friends, each with their own queue and connections, protected by local accounts or OIDC single sign-on, and get notified through webhooks, ntfy, Telegram, or Apprise when new picks arrive. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Scrob is your own private Letterboxd and Trakt: it syncs Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby libraries, tracks every movie and episode you watch, and keeps ratings and lists on your server. Connect Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, Nuvio, ARVIO, or Stremio and Scrob imports libraries, watched status, and playback progress, then pushes watched state and ratings back to keep every server aligned. Webhooks from Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby and the scrob-kodi addon mark items watched the moment playback finishes; a manual scrobble starts a live session from any title page. Rate titles on a ten point scale, score seasons separately, add reviews, and log repeat plays with their own dates. Personal lists stay private or open to other users on your instance, comments attach to titles, seasons, and episodes, and following users surfaces their ratings and activity. TMDB powers discovery: trending titles, genre and provider filters, release schedules, and search across people and collections merged with your library. Detail pages combine posters, cast, trailers, and your files' quality details, and one click sends a missing title to Radarr or Sonarr. Continue Watching and Next Up cards, a fifteen day episode calendar, and Pick a Movie or Pick a Show suggestions answer what to watch next. Trakt, Simkl, and MDBList sync moves history and ratings in both directions. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

GrowChief delivers a self-hostable social media automation engine that replaces expensive SaaS tools like PhantomBuster, Expandi, and Zopto with a Docker-deployable alternative you fully control. The React and NestJS monorepo architecture runs headful Chrome via xvfb with Playwright and Patchright for maximum stealth — natural mouse movements and randomized interaction patterns make automation indistinguishable from manual browsing. Temporal orchestration manages workflow execution with built-in concurrency control that throttles actions to one every ten minutes per account even when ten workflows trigger simultaneously, preventing rate-limiting and account flags. The enrichment waterfall resolves profile URLs from partial data — provide an email address or organization name and GrowChief queries multiple providers to locate the correct social profile automatically. Working hours scheduling ensures outreach runs only during configurable business hours regardless of when leads enter the pipeline via the public REST API. Proxy support accepts custom SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies per account for geographic distribution and IP isolation. The public API enables full workflow management and lead injection from n8n, Make, Zapier, or any HTTP client, with a dedicated n8n custom node shipping ready to install. The multi-step workflow builder lets you chain connection requests, profile visits, message sends, and conditional delays into repeatable sequences. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Turn any chaotic digital book archive into an autonomous, self-organizing reading portal using Calibre-Web Automated, a digital library manager featuring hands-free format conversions, metadata fetching, and e-reader synchronization. Readers can drop raw ebook files into the automated intake directory and watch the system instantly convert between twenty-eight distinct file types, repair malformed EPUB internal markup, and fetch enriched metadata from Hardcover, Kobo, and ISBN databases. The responsive web reader lets you browse collections, read directly in any desktop or mobile browser, and organize titles into dynamic rules-based Magic Shelves that update automatically. Built-in KOReader sync harmonizes reading progress and bookmarks across mobile devices and e-ink readers, while native OPDS feeds connect seamlessly to your favorite external reader applications. Administrative tools empower you to run hybrid SQL and fuzzy duplicate detection scans, perform batch metadata editing across entire series, enforce cover art changes directly into source files, and auto-dispatch newly ingested books to Kindle or Kobo devices via scheduled email delivery. Granular multi-user controls allow administrators to assign folder permissions, restrict downloads, enforce dark mode themes, and authenticate readers securely through OAuth and OpenID Connect identity providers. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GNU General Public License v3.0 licensed.

Fifty-plus image processing tools in a single Docker container, with no Redis, no Postgres, and no external dependencies: SnapOtter is a self-hosted image toolkit. The everyday operations are all here: resize, crop, compress, watermark, vectorize, meme generation, GIF creation, and format conversion spanning 55+ input formats (including 23 camera RAW formats) to 14 output formats. What sets it apart is the local AI layer: background removal, photo upscaling and restoration, object erasing, face blurring, OCR, and canvas expansion all run on locally hosted models, so no image ever leaves your server - a hard guarantee that cloud tools like remove.bg or Canva can't make. Optional NVIDIA GPU support accelerates those AI tasks substantially when hardware is available, but everything works on CPU. A built-in layer-based editor handles composition work directly in the browser, and screenshot beautification turns plain captures into polished visuals with backgrounds, shadows, and padding - useful for docs and marketing alike. Batch operations process unlimited images simultaneously, and the full REST API with OpenAPI documentation exposes every tool for pipelines and automations: thumbnail generation on upload, bulk RAW conversion, automated watermarking. For teams processing sensitive imagery or anyone tired of per-image SaaS pricing, SnapOtter replaces a stack of subscriptions with one private container.

Backed by Alibaba's AIDC team and carrying over 27,700 GitHub stars, Pixelle-Video turns a single text prompt into a publish-ready short video in approximately three minutes — handling scriptwriting, image generation, voice narration, music selection, subtitle overlay, and final MP4 export in one automated pipeline. The engine supports multiple LLM backends for script generation including GPT-4, Qwen, DeepSeek, and local Ollama deployments, while image and video creation routes through either self-hosted ComfyUI workflows, cloud-based RunningHub pipelines, or direct API connections to DashScope Wan, OpenAI, Seedream, Seedance, and Kling AI. Text-to-speech synthesis uses Edge-TTS, Index-TTS, and other mainstream engines with multi-language voice profiles. Five distinct pipelines cover Quick Create, Standard, Digital Human Avatar broadcasting, Image-to-Video transformation, and Motion Transfer from reference video. The Streamlit web UI on port 8501 provides a visual workflow builder with template selection across portrait (1080x1920), landscape (1920x1080), and square formats, while the FastAPI server on port 8000 exposes a REST API with endpoints for async video generation, task polling, content scripting, TTS and image generation, template listing, and health checks. History persistence tracks all completed generations. HTML-based visual templates support static, image-overlay, and AI-video styles with customizable prompt prefixes. The modular architecture lets operators swap any atomic capability — image model, video model, TTS engine, or VLM — by editing a workflow JSON file without touching Python code. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Getting non-technical friends and family onto a media server is its most tedious chore - Wizarr solves it. Instead of manually creating accounts, dictating server addresses, and explaining which app to install, you send one invite link. When the recipient clicks it, Wizarr creates their account on your server automatically - Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Audiobookshelf, Komga, Kavita, and Romm are all supported - then walks them through a mobile-first, app-like onboarding wizard: download the right client, sign in, and learn how to request movies through your Overseerr or Ombi instance, with an optional Discord server invite along the way. Invitations are genuinely manageable: set expiration dates, usage limits, passphrases, library-scoped access tiers, and time-limited memberships that end access automatically. The wizard itself is fully customizable - Markdown-based steps managed from the admin UI, organized into pre-invite and post-invite phases (terms of service before joining, app setup after), reorderable bundles assignable to specific invitation types, and combined flows for invites spanning multiple servers. Multi-server and multi-admin support manages several backends from one dashboard, SSO support is plug-and-play, and a REST API with OpenAPI/Swagger documentation covers automation. A Flask/HTMX app in a single Docker container.

With nearly 7,000 GitHub stars and instances spanning hundreds of federated servers, Pixelfed has become the leading open-source alternative to Instagram — delivering ad-free, algorithm-free photo sharing across the Fediverse. Built on Laravel with a Vue.js frontend, Pixelfed provides a polished, mobile-responsive interface where users upload photos and videos, apply built-in filters, create multi-image posts with alt text, share ephemeral stories, organize content into curated collections, and exchange direct messages — all without tracking, algorithmic manipulation, or targeted advertising. Federation through the ActivityPub protocol means Mastodon, Pleroma, and other Fediverse users can follow Pixelfed accounts, view photo posts in their timelines, and interact through likes, boosts, and replies, while Pixelfed users can discover content through both local and federated timelines. Instance administrators control registration policies, content moderation rules, federation blocklists and allowlists, storage backends including local or S3-compatible options, and server-wide settings. The Mastodon-compatible API enables third-party mobile app support alongside the built-in Progressive Web App experience. Advanced features include blurhash image placeholders for smooth loading, federated groups for community building through FEP-400e and FEP-1b12 extensions, HTTP Signatures with Authorized Fetch for secure federation, and comprehensive data export for full portability. Deployment requires PHP 8.1+, MySQL or PostgreSQL, Redis, and a reverse proxy, with Docker Compose configurations available for streamlined setup. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Telegram Desktop's export is a file you make once by hand; Telegram Archive is a self-hosted backup that keeps saving your chats on a schedule and in real time, then lets you read them in a viewer that looks like Telegram. After one login with the code Telegram sends you, it stores messages, photos, videos, voice notes, stickers, documents, and link previews, saving each file once even when several chats share it. A live listener captures new messages, edits, and reactions as they happen, and a daily full pass fills any gaps. Every edit keeps its earlier text as a version, and with deletion tracking switched on, deleted messages stay in the archive marked as deleted. The viewer offers folders, forum topics, archived chats, pinned messages, polls, shared media, and search across every chat, plus a What changed feed of deletions, edits, and transcripts. Voice notes can be transcribed into searchable text by a server you run or rent. Family or colleagues get logins limited to chosen chats, or a share link that opens a single chat. One archive holds several accounts, a Telegram Desktop export can be imported for older history, and twelve themes suit phones and desktops. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0-or-later licensed.

Twitch and YouTube Live, replaced by infrastructure you control: Owncast is a self-hosted live streaming and chat server. Point OBS, Streamlabs, or any RTMP-capable broadcaster at the server's ingest port, and Owncast transcodes the feed with FFmpeg into HLS with multiple quality variants, playing it in a built-in web page with a real-time chat beside it. Chat supports anonymous participation, custom emotes, and moderation tools - message removal, user bans and suspensions - with optional authentication via IndieAuth or a Fediverse account. ActivityPub integration puts the stream on the Fediverse: viewers on Mastodon and compatible services can follow a channel and get notified the moment it goes live. Video delivery can come straight off the server or offload HLS segments to S3-compatible object storage so a modest VPS handles thousands of concurrent viewers while only managing ingest and chat. The backend is a single Go binary with a React frontend - no accounts platform, no database server, no dependency stack - and the player embeds in any website. MIT-licensed, with roughly 9k GitHub stars, zero platform fees, and no algorithm or takedown policy between you and your audience.

Creative teams use Shumai to review video, images, 3D models, and documents with feedback pinned to the exact frame, on a server they control instead of a rented review cloud. Pause on any frame, draw on the picture, and leave a timecoded comment with the markup attached, then let threaded replies, mentions, and resolve states carry it to a decision. Every cut stacks into a version stack, and any two versions open side by side to compare changes. Layered PSDs and camera RAW review at full resolution, 3D models spin with comments pinned to the viewing angle, and documents page through as converted PDFs. Clients open a share link with a password and expiry date, downloads switchable, and can comment as guests with no account. Watermarks render into the media on your server rather than layering in the browser, so they stay put wherever the file travels. Comments export as Premiere Pro XML, DaVinci Resolve EDL, Final Cut Pro, or Avid files with correct drop-frame timecode for the editor. Mention the AI agent in a comment and it examines the same frame under discussion, or chat privately about a folder using your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini key. Originals live on local disk or any S3-compatible bucket, with GPU transcoding and workers that scale up for a delivery and back to zero. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Manga collections tend to get trapped on a single phone; Suwayomi moves the library, downloads, and reading progress onto a server you run, so every browser and device sees the same shelf. In the browser, a built-in reader handles single page, double page, continuous vertical, continuous horizontal, and webtoon layouts, adding image filters, custom keybinds, auto scrolling, and separate desktop and mobile views. Content comes from Mihon (Tachiyomi) extensions, which can be searched, browsed, and sorted into categories, with custom extension stores loaded from JSON or Protobuf indexes. Downloads save chapters as CBZ archives for offline reading, and the server checks the library for new chapters every 12 hours by default, fetching them automatically if you allow it. Progress follows you through MyAnimeList, AniList, and MangaUpdates, a Suwayomi extension and tracker for Mihon, SyncYomi servers, and KOReader. E-reader apps connect over OPDS feeds, scheduled Mihon-compatible backups protect the library, and FlareSolverr or Byparr support handles Cloudflare-protected sources. Public instances can be locked down with basic authentication, a simple login page, or JWT-based UI login, and a PostgreSQL backend, still in beta, can replace the default file store. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MPL-2.0 licensed.

Write a post once in LightPost and it goes out to Bluesky, Mastodon, X, Instagram, Threads, Discord, LinkedIn, Telegram, and Facebook Pages on your schedule, with YouTube video uploads handled in the same workspace, from a dashboard running on your own server. The composer fans one message out to every connected account, including several accounts on the same platform, and each destination can receive text, images, or both within that network's limits. Drafts can be saved, edited, and duplicated, and scheduled times follow your browser's timezone so a week of announcements can be queued in one sitting. Images come in from public JPEG links or a saved library, with alt text and a preview before anything ships. Every delivery is tracked per account with links to the published posts, and when one network fails you retry just that destination instead of blasting the successful ones twice. The queue persists across restarts and overdue posts resume on their own, so an overnight reboot never eats a scheduled campaign. Built-in setup guides walk you through eligibility, credentials, and permissions for each platform, account connections can be verified or reconnected from the same panel, and your credentials stay encrypted on your disk with optional password protection and exportable post history. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.