Best self-hosted Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP) apps
Digital archiving and preservation software.
19 open source Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP) tools you host on your own server — with full control of your data and no per-user cost.
Paperless-ngx
★ 42,365Paperless-ngx digitizes, indexes and organizes all your paper documents, with OCR and full-text search. Self-hosted, it becomes a fully private paperless archive, with tags and automatic matching.
ArchiveBox
★ 27,758Create HTML & screenshot archives of sites from your bookmarks, browsing history, RSS feeds, or other sources (alternative to Wayback Machine).
Wallabag
★ 12,793Wallabag, formerly Poche, is a web application allowing you to save articles to read them later with improved readability.
Tube Archivist
★ 8,145Organize, search, and enjoy your YouTube collection. Subscribe, download, and track viewed content with metadata indexing and a user-friendly interface.
CKAN
★ 5,062Make open data websites.
Papra
★ 4,837Minimalist document storage, management and archiving platform designed to be simple to use and accessible to everyone.
bitmagnet
★ 4,114BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and Servarr stack integration.
Wayback
★ 2,204A self-hosted toolkit for archiving webpages to the Internet Archive, archive.today, IPFS, and local file systems.
Open Archiver
★ 2,109Email archiving solution with full-text search and eDiscovery search features.
mail-archiver
★ 1,956Web application for archiving, searching, and exporting emails from multiple accounts (IMAP, M365 or Import). Featuring folder sync, attachment support, mailbox migration and a dashboard.
Bichon
★ 1,786Email archiving server that syncs from IMAP accounts, indexes emails for full-text search, and provides a REST API. No external database required, includes WebUI with multi-account support.
Ganymede
★ 975Twitch VOD and live stream archiving platform. Includes a rendered chat for each archive.
Omeka S
★ 494Next-generation web publishing platform for institutions interested in connecting digital cultural heritage collections with other resources online.
ArchivesSpace
★ 429Archives information management application for managing and providing Web access to archives, manuscripts and digital objects.
Collective Access - Providence
★ 374Highly configurable Web-based framework for management, description, and discovery of digital and physical collections supporting a variety of metadata standards, data types, and media formats.
Piler
★ 328Feature-rich email archiving solution.
Eonvelope
★ 7Email archiving software that allows you to preserve your emails for an indefinite long period of time.
Sosse
★ 2Selenium based search engine and crawler with offline archiving.
Readeck
Save the precious readable content of web pages you like and want to keep forever. See it as a bookmark manager and a read later tool.
Frequently asked questions
What are the best self-hosted Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP) tools?
Among the 19 options, the most popular include Paperless-ngx, ArchiveBox, Wallabag. Compare license, platform and popularity in the list below.
Is there a free open source alternative for Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP)?
Yes — all 19 tools on this page are open source and you run them on your own server, with no monthly fee.
Where can I host a Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP) app?
On a home server (homelab) or a cheap VPS from ~€4/mo. See the suggestions on this page.