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Oct 14, 2026

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The best open source apps, picked and explained.

App of the week

Desktop app for diagrams

Draw and share diagrams in a desktop app that wraps the core draw.io editor.

draw.io

Creative

New & noteworthy

Recently added to open source catalogs or freshly launched.

Publii

Desktop CMS for static websites

Wordcraft

Word processor in pure Rust

Project Maya

Run a 321B AI model on your GPUs

Lightcraft

Non-destructive raw photo editor

RemoveMacAI

Turn off Apple Intelligence and tracking

Strata

Run a large AI model on your own PC

Magpie

One gateway for every coding agent

Jev Chat Jarvis

Chat assistant that drafts replies

Compositor

Layer-based image editor for Mac

Rising

Young projects gaining attention from more than one independent source.

OpenBot

AI coworkers that run on your machine

Bento

Slide decks in a single HTML file

Top apps

LocalSend

File sharing with nearby devices

Godot Engine

2D and 3D game engine

Zen

Firefox-based web browser

Zed

Multiplayer code editor

Joplin

Notes and to-dos that sync

Logseq

Connected notes and knowledge base

FreeCAD

Parametric 3D modeler

VSCodium

VS Code builds without telemetry

Moonlight

Stream games from another PC

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Productivity85 apps Creative54 apps Developer tools152 apps Privacy & security75 apps Self-hosted51 apps Games71 apps Utilities158 apps Education29 apps Communication39 apps Music & video72 apps AI apps47 apps

Self-hosted

Run your own cloud, media server or home lab.

Trilium Notes

Hierarchical note-taking app

OpenClaw

Personal AI assistant in your chats

Actual Budget

Local-first personal budgeting

SiYuan

Block-based personal knowledge base

Bitcoin Core

Bitcoin full node and wallet

Sunshine

Game streaming host for Moonlight

Privacy & security

Passwords, encryption and private browsing.

KeePassXC

Offline password manager

Bitwarden

Password vault for web and desktop

Ghidra

Reverse engineering framework

Jan

Offline AI chat assistant

SimpleX Chat

Private messenger without user IDs

Notesnook

Encrypted note-taking app

Top command-line tools

OpenCode

AI coding agent for the terminal

Neovim

Extensible Vim-based text editor

Vim

Text editor for code and plain text

JADX

Android APK to Java decompiler

Helix

Modal text editor for the terminal

Ollama

Run language models locally

Scrcpy

Mirror and control Android on PC

Deno

JavaScript and TypeScript runtime

Yt Dlp

Audio and video downloader

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