Best self-hosted Automation apps

n8n

★ 193,648

n8n is a workflow automation platform that connects hundreds of apps and APIs with a visual drag-and-drop interface. Running on your own server, it's the self-hosted alternative to Zapier and Make — no per-execution billing and your data never leaves your infrastructure.

Huginn

★ 49,499

Huginn lets you create 'agents' that monitor the web and act on your behalf — a self-hosted alternative to IFTTT/Zapier. It runs on your server, with no execution limits or third-party dependency.

Apache Airflow

★ 45,897

Platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows.

changedetection.io

★ 32,095

Stay up-to-date with web-site content changes.

Kestra

★ 27,126

Event-driven, language-agnostic platform to create, schedule, and monitor workflows. In code. Coordinate data pipelines and tasks such as ETL and ELT.

Activepieces

★ 22,928

No-code business automation tool like Zapier or Tray. For example, you can send a Slack notification for each new Trello card.

Leon

★ 17,334

Personal assistant who can live on your server.

Automatisch

★ 13,883

Business automation tool that lets you connect different services like Twitter, Slack, and more to automate your business processes (alternative to Zapier).

Gotenberg

★ 12,446

Developer-friendly API to interact with powerful tools like Chromium and LibreOffice for converting numerous document formats (HTML, Markdown, Word, Excel, etc.) into PDF files, and more.

Healthchecks

★ 10,112

Listen for pings and sends alerts when pings are late.

StackStorm

★ 6,492

StackStorm (aka _IFTTT for Ops_) is event-driven automation for auto-remediation, security responses, troubleshooting, deployments, and more. Includes rules engine, workflow, 160 integration packs with 6000+ actions and ChatOps.

Cronicle

★ 5,753

Simple, distributed task scheduler and runner with a web based UI.

pyLoad

★ 3,798

Lightweight, customizable and remotely manageable downloader for 1-click-hosting sites like rapidshare.com or uploaded.to.

OliveTin

★ 3,655

Web interface for running Linux shell commands.

Dagu

★ 3,508

Powerful Cron alternative with a Web UI. It allows you to define dependencies between commands as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) in a declarative YAML format.

Dittofeed

★ 2,822

Omni-channel customer engagement and messaging automation platform (alternative to Braze, Customer.io, Iterable).

Matchering

★ 2,561

Automated music mastering (alternative to LANDR, eMastered and MajorDecibel).

Mylar3

★ 1,433

Automated Comic Book (cbr/cbz) downloader program for use with NZB and torrents.

µTask

★ 1,388

Automation engine that models and executes business processes declared in yaml.

Cronmaster

★ 1,274

Cronjob management UI with human readable syntax, live logging and log history for your cronjobs.

Fredy

★ 1,209

Searches for new apartments, houses, and flats in Germany on platforms like ImmoScout24, Immowelt, and others, and instantly delivers the results to you via Slack, Telegram, and more.

ChiefOnboarding

★ 901

Employee onboarding platform that allows you to provision user accounts and create sequences with todo items, resources, text/email/Slack messages, and more! Available as a web portal and Slack bot.

HandBrake Web

★ 782

Use one or more instances of HandBrake video transcoder on a headless device via a web interface.

Kibitzr

★ 714

Lightweight personal web assistant with powerful integrations.

Discount Bandit

★ 707

Track pricing, stock status of products across multiple stores such as Amazon, Ebay, Walmart, etc.

gocron

★ 545

Task scheduler that allows users to specify recurring jobs via a simple YAML configuration file.

LazyLibrarian

★ 381

Follow authors and grab metadata for all your digital reading needs. It uses a combination of Goodreads, Librarything and optionally GoogleBooks as sources for author info and book info.

flowctl

★ 320

Self-service workflow execution platform with approvals, remote execution and scheduling.

BookBounty

★ 283

Retrieve missing Readarr books from Library Genesis.

feedmixer

★ 233

Micro web service which takes a list of feed URLs and returns a new feed consisting of the most recent n entries from each given feed (returns Atom, RSS, or JSON).

Github Ntfy

★ 62

Push notifications to NTFY, Gotify, Discord or Slack when a new release is available on Docker Hub or Github.

Ctfreak

IT task scheduler with mobile-friendly web UI to schedule concurrent, remote and chained execution of Bash / Powershell / SQL scripts, Webhooks, and more.

CxReports

Reporting and PDF document generation with a user-friendly WYSIWYG template editor, API, automated email delivery, and robust security features.