Awesome List Updates on Sep 30, 2026

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1. Awesome K6

Tools

• k6 Testkube executor

Extensions / Community

• xk6-sip (⭐8) - Load and call-flow testing of SIP/VoIP systems: scripted subscribers call each other through the PBX, with RTP media and voice quality checks.

2. Awesome Privacy

Analytics

• Rybbit - Open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics that is 10x more intuitive.

ChatGPT

• LocalAI (⭐49k) - Self-hosted, community-driven simple local OpenAI-compatible API written in go. Can be used as a drop-in replacement for OpenAI, running on CPU with consumer-grade hardware.

• ollama (⭐182k) - Get up and running with Llama 2 and other large language models locally.

Image Generation

• ComfyUI (⭐136k) - ComfyUI lets you execute advanced image generation pipelines using an advanced interface. Available on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Bookmarking

• 42links - Open-source, self-hosted, minimalist bookmark storage service.

• Floccus - Sync your bookmarks privately across browsers and devices.

• Grimoire (⭐2.9k) - Modern, open source, self-hosted bookmark manager.

• Karakeep - (previously Hoarder) Open source "Bookmark Everything" app that uses AI for automatically tagging the content you throw at it.

• LinkAce (⭐3.3k) - Open source, self-hosted bookmark archive that monitors and organizes your saved links (GPL-3.0).

• LinkDing (⭐11k) - Open source, self-hosted bookmark manager built to be minimal, fast, and easy to run with Docker (MIT).

• Shiori (⭐12k) - Open source, self-hosted bookmark manager written in Go, usable as a CLI or web app (MIT).

• Wallabag - Open-source, optionally self-hosted, read it later server. Provides paid hosted service with privacy in mind.

• Linkwarden - Self-hosted bookmark manager that saves and archives full copies of the pages you collect (AGPL-3.0).

• Readeck - Single-binary self-hosted read-it-later app that saves and archives articles for offline reading (AGPL-3.0).

Commenting Engines

• Comentario - Tiny, Privacy-focused, Open-source web comment engine, which adds discussion functionality to plain, boring web pages.

• Disgus (⭐53) - Embeddable comments for your website, backed by Nostr. Like Disqus but Nostr.

• Isso (⭐5.3k) - A lightweight, self hosted, commenting server written in Python and JavaScript. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for Disqus.

• Remark42 - Self-hosted, lightweight, and simple (yet functional) comment engine, which doesn't spy on users.

• Giscus - Commenting system that stores discussions in GitHub Discussions, with no database, ads, or tracking. Open source, MIT licensed.

Screen recording

• Screenity - A powerful privacy-friendly screen recorder and annotation tool to make better videos for work, education, and more.

Databases

• Supabase - Open source Firebase alternative (Limited (⭐111k) self-hosting (⭐111k))

Domains & Hosting

• 1984 Hosting - Iceland-based hosting and domain registrar focused on civil rights, with Monero and anonymous signup.

Ebooks

• Amazon Kindle - Tracks reading activity, requires an Amazon account, and has a documented history of remote deletion.

• Google Play Books - Tied to a Google account, tracks reading data, and does not offer an offline-only mode.

• Kobo / Apple Books - Require accounts and sync reading data to company servers by default.

• Calibre - Open-source ebook manager for Linux, Windows, and macOS with format conversion, metadata editing, and a built-in reader (GPL-3.0).

• Kavita (⭐12k) - Cross-platform self-hosted digital library for ebooks and comics with a built-in web reader (GPL-3.0).

• Komga (⭐6.7k) - Self-hosted media server for comics, magazines, and ebooks with a responsive web interface and OPDS support (MIT).

Forms

• TypeBot - Open-source conversational forms.

Plugins for Minecraft

• FreedomChat (⭐234) - A great alternative to No-Chat-Reports, since it does not break any chat plugin by design.

Home Assistants

• OpenVoiceOS - Open source voice assistant and the maintained successor to Mycroft, running fully offline on your own hardware. Apache-2.0 licensed.

• Home Assistant - Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.

Decentralized

• Status - Status is a secure messaging app, crypto wallet, and Web3 browser built with state of the art technology.

Third-Party owned

• ProtonMail - Secure Email. Based in Switzerland. Read this article over Climate activist arrest.

• mailbox.org - Paid email, calendar and office suite based in Germany, with built-in PGP encryption and no ads.

Audio

• Spotube (⭐50k) - A lightweight free Spotify crossplatform-client.

Notes and Tasks

• AppFlowy - Open Source Notion Alternative. You are in charge of your data and customizations.

• Standard Notes - A free, open-source, and completely encrypted notes app.

• Trilium Notes (⭐38k) - Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

Email verification required, accepting monero

• Onlinesim - Receive SMS online to virtual phone number. (Based in Russia)

Based on Linux

• Nura (formerly postmarketOS) - Touch optimised and pre-configured version of Alpine Linux.

GNU/Linux

• Fedora - Community Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat, shipping recent open source software on a six-month cycle.

• Whonix is an operating system that runs inside virtual machines and forces every connection through Tor.

• Kicksecure is a hardened Debian-based distribution from the Whonix developers, secure by default.

• secureblue is a hardened image built on Fedora Atomic Desktops, with security-focused defaults and a hardened browser.

Password Managers

• AliasVault - An open source E2EE password & alias manager with a built-in email alias server

Pastebin and Secret Sharing

• crypt.fyi - Ephemeral zero-knowledge sensitive data sharing platform with web, cli, and chrome-extension clients

Third-party

• Ente - End-to-end encrypted storage for photos and videos. Open source, audited independently.

Routers

• Stock ISP routers and vendor firmware: closed source, slow or missing security updates, and often phone home to the vendor or ISP.

• OpenWrt - Open source Linux firmware that replaces the stock software on hundreds of consumer routers, with years of security updates.

• OPNsense - Open source firewall and routing platform based on FreeBSD, for dedicated hardware or a spare PC.

• IPFire - Hardened open source Linux firewall distribution with intrusion prevention and a web interface.

RSS Readers

• Feedly

• Inoreader

• Google News

YouTube

• ViewTube (⭐1.5k) - ViewTube is an alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend written in Vue.js

Teamworking Tools

• Stoat (formerly Revolt) - User-first chat platform built with modern web technologies.

Translation

• TranslateLocally (⭐632) – Free/open-source neural MT, runs offline on your computer

Uncategorized

• Visited (⭐98) - Locally collect browsing history over browsers.

Version Control

• Radicle - An open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git. Unlike centralized code hosting platforms, there is no single entity controlling the network. Repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized manner, and users are in full control of their data and workflow.

VPNs / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• nadanada (formerly LNVPN) - Pay-per-use WireGuard VPN with no account, paid by Lightning Network or other cryptocurrency.

Desktop / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Firefox - Open Source, independent browser. It needs some hardening and tweaking to achieve great privacy.
  • LibreWolf - Privacy-focused Firefox fork.

Anti-tracking / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• LibRedirect (⭐4.1k) - A simple web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Google Maps and many more requests to privacy friendly alternatives. Former Privacy Redirect is no longer maintained, LibRedirect is a maintained fork.

Whistleblowing / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• GlobaLeaks - Self-hostable whistleblowing platform for organisations, newsrooms and activists, replacing hosted reporting portals. Open source (AGPL-3.0).

• SecureDrop - Self-hosted submission system that lets newsrooms receive documents from anonymous sources over Tor, replacing email and cloud uploads. Open source (AGPL-3.0).

3. Awesome for Beginners

C++

• MoveIt (⭐2.1k) (label: good first issue)
  Easy-to-use open source robotics manipulation platform for developing commercial applications, prototyping designs, and benchmarking algorithms.

Go

• Dragonfly (⭐3.3k) (label: good first issue)
  Provide efficient, stable and secure file distribution and image acceleration based on p2p technology

• Helm (⭐30k) (label: good first issue)
  The Kubernetes Package Manager

• Incus (⭐6.2k) (label: easy)
  System container and virtual machine manager.

• Meshery (⭐12k) (label: good first issue)
  Meshery, the service mesh management plane.

JavaScript

• altair (⭐5.4k) (label: good first issue)
  A beautiful feature-rich GraphQL Client for all platforms.

• Create React App (⭐103k) (label: good first issue)
  Create React apps with no build configuration.

• Decap CMS (⭐19k) (label: good first issue)
  Open source content management for your git workflow.

• HueHive (⭐69) (label: good first issue)
  An open source react native app iOS and android for color palette management

• Jest (⭐45k) (label: good first issue)
  A complete and easy to set up JavaScript testing solution.

• pixi.js (⭐48k) (label: 🤩 Good First PR)
  A 2D JavaScript Renderer

• PouchDB (⭐18k) (label: help-wanted)
  PouchDB is a pocket-sized database.

• React (⭐251k) (label: good first issue)
  A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

• React Native (⭐127k) (label: Good-first-issue)
  A framework for building native apps with React.

• stryker (⭐3.2k) (label: 👶 Good first issue)
  The JavaScript mutation testing framework

• WarpDrive (⭐3.2k) (label: Good-for-New-Contributors)
  A data persistence library for Ember.js.

PHP

• Flarum (⭐6.8k) (label: Good-first-issue)
  Simple forum software for building great communities.

Python

• django cookiecutter (⭐14k) (label: hacktoberfest)
  An implementation of Python for backend web development.

• FastAPI (⭐103k) (label: good first issue)
  A modern, fast (high-performance) web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.

• MindsDB (⭐40k) (label: good first issue)
  MindsDB is an open source AI layer for existing databases.

Rust

• Ockam (⭐4.6k) (label: good first issue)
  End-to-end encryption and mutual authentication for distributed applications.

• Rustfmt (⭐7k) (label: good first issue)
  A tool for formatting Rust code according to style guidelines.

• videocall-rs (⭐1.8k) (label: good first issue)
  Teleconference system with a web based user interface written in Rust

TypeScript

• reatom (⭐1.4k) (label: good first issue)
  Reatom is declarative and reactive state manager, designed for both simple and complex applications.

• tinyhttp (⭐2.9k) (label: good first issue)
  A 0-legacy, tiny & fast web framework as a replacement of Express.

4. Awesome Digital History

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• Books as Data - Full-text and metadata corpus of 1700–1900 prints from four Swiss libraries, with bulk export and IIIF images.

• Swissvotes - Database of Swiss federal popular votes since 1848, including results, contextual information, analyses, original documents, and downloadable data.

5. Awesome Iot

Software / Libraries and Tools

• mqttkit (⭐4) - Elysia-style application framework for MQTT in TypeScript / Bun. Compose broker adapters, ordered middleware, typed topic routes, MQTT 5 RPC, and AsyncAPI 3.0 docs on top of Aedes or any MQTT broker.

Newsletters / JavaScript on Things: Hardware for Web Developers (2018 - est.) by Lyza Danger Gardner [early access book]

• TinkerNews - A free weekly newsletter curating noteworthy DIY electronics builds across ESP32, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and IoT. Each issue gives a concise introduction to practical projects and links back to the original tutorial, article, or repository so readers can explore the details and build from the source.

6. Awesome Blazor

ToDos

• StudyLife (⭐1) - Self-hosted study organizer: calendar, exam/study planner, focus timer, notes and a progress dashboard, with a growing family of add-ons (native app, browser extensions, CLI, VS Code, Telegram, Discord, Home Assistant...) built on Blazor WebAssembly + ASP.NET Core. Demo.

7. Awesome Broadcasting

Monitoring & Quality Control

• StreamPilot (⭐11) - Real-time supervision and geolocation of mobile video transmitters (Haivision SST/StreamHub). GPS tracking, link metrics, Slack notifications and session reporting.

8. Awesome Lidar

Libraries

• lasrs-cpp (⭐0) - C++20 and C library for reading and writing LAS, LAZ and COPC with parallel LAZ decoding, built on the Rust crates las-rs and laz-rs.
  • GitHub repository (⭐0)

9. Awesome Lit

Tools / Building

• vite-plugin-lit - Vite plugin for Lit adding HMR support, shadow root CSS helpers and a DevTools panel.

10. Webcomponents the Right Way

Design Systems

• Carbon Web Components (⭐295) - Carbon Design System variant on top of Web Components.

11. Awesome Cli Apps

Entertainment / Music

• mpv-music (⭐25) - Daemonless music player.

12. Awesome Rails

Open Source Rails Apps / Other external resources

• RexOne (⭐6) - Sovereign full-stack application foundation spanning Rails 8 API, React 19, and Flutter mobile (using Rails 8.1). - 🌍

13. Awesome Mac

Browsers / Audio Record and Process

• Yalqen - Open-source, Chromium-based developer browser with vertical tabs and a keyboard-first command bar.

Utilities / System Related Tools

• MacFanPro (⭐8) - Fan control for Apple Silicon Macs with a menu bar app, temperature-based profiles and a CLI.

14. Awesome Tmux

Tools and session management

• muxly Native tmux client for iPhone and iPad, built around tmux control mode for native window tabs, pane navigation, smooth scrolling, and more

15. Awesome Rust

Development tools / Testing

• Code Coverage
  • minikin/cargo-crap (⭐408) [cargo-crap] - Finds complex, untested functions by combining cyclomatic complexity with LCOV coverage (the CRAP metric) and gates CI on the score
  • supercorp-ai/supercov (⭐59) [supercov] - Code quality and test coverage for coding agents: Jev scores each source file so the agent knows what to fix first
  • tarpaulin - A code coverage tool

Libraries / Finance

• rust-dd/stochastic-rs (⭐188) [stochastic-rs] - Quantitative finance: 130+ stochastic processes, option pricing and calibration, volatility surfaces and copulas, SIMD/GPU accelerated with Python bindings.

16. Free for Dev

Tools for Teams and Collaboration

• Sharry - Screen sharing via the browser, no downloads, no installs. Useful for pair programming, presentations or remote support. Free tier: no account, 5-minute sessions, 1 viewer.

Code Quality

• tomosu.ai - Scores a repository or pull request with a 0-100 Production Reliability Index, plus fix suggestions and a merge verdict. Free for one repository (public or private) through the VS Code/Cursor plugin, web scan, and GitHub App PR comments.

Crash and Exception Handling

• Vinktar - Error tracking and product analytics in one tool, set up and queried by your coding agent over MCP. Free for 1M events and 50k errors per month, no card required.

Managed Data Services

• Neon - Managed Postgres, 0.5 GB of storage per project, 100 projects, 10 branches per project, 100 CU-hours of compute per project per month, autoscaling up to 2 CU, scales to zero after 5 minutes. Includes S3-compatible Object Storage with 5 GB per project that branches with the database. 5 GB of network transfer per project, shared across all products.

17. Awesome Game Remakes

Simulator

• OpenGG (⭐0) - Open-source engine for Gearhead Garage: The Virtual Mechanic (1999), the car repair game; requires the original game files.

18. Awesome Bitcoin

Blockchain API and Web services

• Luganodes RPC - Bitcoin Core JSON-RPC endpoints on dedicated bare-metal infrastructure with a free tier.

19. Awesome Datascience

Tools

• YYLO Benchmark (⭐1) - Open-source trusted-host experiment runner for historical agent tasks, supplied coding prompts, and workflows. Runs independent attempts with retained outputs, and compares models, harnesses, and configurations with different checks or judges later. MIT licensed.

• YYLO (⭐60) - Open-source command-line orchestrator for coding agents and repeatable workflows, with typed task, validation, merge, and release-readiness boundaries and receipt-backed repository changes. MIT licensed, installable via npm.

Other Awesome Lists / Book Deals (Affiliated)

• Awesome Python Math Packages (⭐17) - A curated list of Python packages for mathematics, from linear algebra and optimization to statistics and topology.

• Next: Sep 29, 2026