toolalternatives

Catalog

Every tool we track

Commercial and open-source alternatives across 26 categories. Open-source entries link to their source repository, and we say plainly which ones can replace the incumbent and which cannot.

We built Dedupe.dev and MailToInvoice. They are listed here alongside their alternatives, marked our product, and we still show and recommend competing tools — including ones we make nothing from. See our earnings disclosure.

Cloud storage & file sync 9

pCloud

Swiss cloud storage with one-time lifetime plans.

Alternative to Dropbox, Google Drive

Sync.com

Zero-knowledge encrypted storage under Canadian jurisdiction.

Alternative to Dropbox, Google Drive

Icedrive

Low-cost storage with client-side encryption and lifetime tiers.

Alternative to Dropbox

Proton Drive

End-to-end encrypted Swiss storage from the Proton suite.

Alternative to Google Drive, Dropbox

MEGA

End-to-end encrypted storage with a large free tier.

Alternative to Dropbox

Nextcloud

open source

Self-hosted file sync, calendar and collaboration suite.

Alternative to Dropbox, Google Drive

Seafile

open source

Self-hosted file sync focused on speed and reliability.

Alternative to Dropbox

ownCloud

open source

The original self-hosted file-sync platform Nextcloud forked from.

Alternative to Dropbox

File Browser

open source

Minimal self-hosted web file manager for a single server.

Alternative to Dropbox

Helpdesk & ticketing 6

Freshdesk

Full-featured helpdesk, the closest commercial match to Zendesk.

Alternative to Zendesk

Help Scout

Shared inbox helpdesk that behaves like email.

Alternative to Zendesk

osTicket

open source

Long-running open-source support ticket system.

Alternative to Zendesk, Freshdesk

FreeScout

open source

Self-hosted shared inbox and helpdesk, a Help Scout alternative.

Alternative to Help Scout, Zendesk

Zammad

open source

Open-source helpdesk with strong multi-channel support.

Alternative to Zendesk

Chatwoot

open source

Open-source customer engagement and live chat suite.

Alternative to Intercom, Zendesk

Password managers 5

Bitwarden

open source

Open-source, audited password manager with a usable free tier.

Alternative to 1Password, LastPass

Vaultwarden

open source

Lightweight self-hosted server compatible with Bitwarden clients.

Alternative to 1Password, LastPass

KeePassXC

open source

Fully offline encrypted vault stored as a local file.

Alternative to 1Password, LastPass

Proton Pass

Password manager with built-in email aliasing from Proton.

Alternative to 1Password, LastPass

Passbolt

open source

Open-source password manager built for team sharing.

Alternative to 1Password

Accounting & invoicing 7

Xero

Full accounting platform with unlimited users on every plan.

Alternative to QuickBooks

FreshBooks

Invoicing and time tracking aimed at freelancers and agencies.

Alternative to QuickBooks

Wave

Free accounting and invoicing for small businesses.

Alternative to QuickBooks

Akaunting

open source

Self-hosted open-source accounting with a modular design.

Alternative to QuickBooks

Invoice Ninja

open source

Open-source invoicing, quotes and payments platform.

Alternative to QuickBooks, freshbooks

Firefly III

open source

Self-hosted personal finance manager and budgeting tool.

Alternative to QuickBooks

MailToInvoice

our product

Forward a client email and get back a branded, payable invoice.

Alternative to QuickBooks, freshbooks

CRM & sales 7

HubSpot

CRM with a genuinely usable free tier and marketing suite.

Alternative to Salesforce

Pipedrive

Sales-pipeline-first CRM that reps actually update.

Alternative to Salesforce

Zoho CRM

Low-cost CRM, strongest if you use other Zoho apps.

Alternative to Salesforce

Twenty

open source

Modern open-source CRM built as a Salesforce alternative.

Alternative to Salesforce, HubSpot

EspoCRM

open source

Mature open-source CRM that is quick to self-host.

Alternative to Salesforce

SuiteCRM

open source

Long-established open-source CRM forked from SugarCRM.

Alternative to Salesforce

Odoo

open source

Open-source business suite covering CRM, ERP and more.

Alternative to Salesforce

Sales intelligence & data 4

Apollo.io

Contact data plus email sequencing in one self-serve tool.

Alternative to ZoomInfo

Clay

Enrichment workflows that combine many data providers at once.

Alternative to ZoomInfo

Lusha

Simple self-serve contact data with a browser extension.

Alternative to ZoomInfo

Cognism

Sales data with notably stronger European coverage.

Alternative to ZoomInfo

Workflow automation 6

Make

Visual automation platform with far more operations per dollar.

Alternative to Zapier

n8n

open source

Self-hostable workflow automation with code steps built in.

Alternative to Zapier, make

Activepieces

open source

Open-source automation that is friendlier than n8n.

Alternative to Zapier

Pipedream

Developer-first automation where each step can be code.

Alternative to Zapier

Windmill

open source

Open-source platform turning scripts into workflows and UIs.

Alternative to Zapier, Retool

Node-RED

open source

Flow-based programming, popular for IoT and event wiring.

Alternative to Zapier

Monitoring & observability 8

Grafana

open source

The open-source standard for dashboards and visualisation.

Alternative to Datadog

Prometheus

open source

Open-source metrics collection and alerting, the CNCF standard.

Alternative to Datadog

SigNoz

open source

Open-source metrics, traces and logs in a single product.

Alternative to Datadog, New Relic

Uptime Kuma

open source

Self-hosted uptime monitoring with a very clean interface.

Alternative to Datadog, Pingdom

Netdata

open source

Real-time infrastructure monitoring with per-second resolution.

Alternative to Datadog

Zabbix

open source

Enterprise-grade open-source infrastructure monitoring.

Alternative to Datadog

Better Stack

Uptime, logs and incident management, quick to set up.

Alternative to Datadog, PagerDuty

New Relic

Full APM platform with usage-based pricing.

Alternative to Datadog

Team chat 4

Mattermost

open source

Self-hosted team chat that closely mirrors Slack.

Alternative to Slack

Rocket.Chat

open source

Open-source team chat plus customer-facing livechat.

Alternative to Slack, Intercom

Zulip

open source

Topic-threaded chat that stays readable at scale.

Alternative to Slack

Element

open source

Matrix-based secure chat with federation and E2E encryption.

Alternative to Slack

Project management 8

Linear

Fast, opinionated issue tracking built for product teams.

Alternative to Jira

Shortcut

Issue tracking that sits between Jira's depth and Trello's simplicity.

Alternative to Jira

OpenProject

open source

Open-source project management with Gantt and portfolio views.

Alternative to Jira, Monday.com

Plane

open source

Modern open-source issue tracking, a Jira and Linear alternative.

Alternative to Jira, Linear

Taiga

open source

Open-source agile project management for scrum and kanban.

Alternative to Jira

Vikunja

open source

Self-hosted task management with list, kanban and gantt views.

Alternative to Asana, Trello

Focalboard

open source

Self-hosted project boards, an open Trello and Notion alternative.

Alternative to Trello, Notion

Wekan

open source

Open-source kanban board you can host yourself.

Alternative to Trello

Notes & knowledge 8

Obsidian

Local-first Markdown notes with powerful linking.

Alternative to Evernote, Notion

Joplin

open source

Open-source notes with encrypted sync and Evernote import.

Alternative to Evernote

Logseq

open source

Outliner-style local-first knowledge base.

Alternative to Notion, Evernote

Standard Notes

open source

End-to-end encrypted notes on every tier.

Alternative to Evernote

AppFlowy

open source

Open-source Notion alternative, local-first by design.

Alternative to Notion

Anytype

open source

Local-first encrypted workspace and knowledge graph.

Alternative to Notion

Outline

open source

Team wiki and knowledge base you can self-host.

Alternative to Confluence, Notion

Trilium Notes

open source

Hierarchical note-taking for building personal knowledge bases.

Alternative to Evernote

No-code databases 5

NocoDB

open source

Turns an existing Postgres or MySQL database into a spreadsheet UI.

Alternative to Airtable

Baserow

open source

Open-source Airtable alternative with unlimited self-hosted users.

Alternative to Airtable

Grist

open source

Spreadsheet-database hybrid with real Python formulas.

Alternative to Airtable

Teable

open source

Postgres-backed no-code database with an Airtable-like interface.

Alternative to Airtable

Directus

open source

Open-source data platform and headless CMS over any SQL database.

Alternative to Airtable, Contentful

Forms & surveys 4

Tally

Form builder with unlimited responses on the free tier.

Alternative to Typeform

Fillout

Forms with strong conditional logic and deep integrations.

Alternative to Typeform

Formbricks

open source

Open-source surveys built for in-product research.

Alternative to Typeform, SurveyMonkey

LimeSurvey

open source

Long-established open-source survey platform.

Alternative to SurveyMonkey

Scheduling 3

Cal.com

open source

Open-source scheduling that can be self-hosted and white-labelled.

Alternative to Calendly

SavvyCal

Scheduling links that let recipients overlay their own calendar.

Alternative to Calendly

Easy!Appointments

open source

Self-hosted appointment booking for service businesses.

Alternative to Calendly

E-signature 3

Dropbox Sign

Straightforward e-signature with simpler pricing than DocuSign.

Alternative to DocuSign

PandaDoc

Document creation and signing for sales teams.

Alternative to DocuSign

Documenso

open source

Open-source e-signature platform you can self-host.

Alternative to DocuSign

API clients 3

Bruno

open source

Offline API client storing collections as files in your repo.

Alternative to Postman

Insomnia

open source

Polished API client with strong GraphQL and gRPC support.

Alternative to Postman

Hoppscotch

open source

Browser-based API client that can be self-hosted.

Alternative to Postman

Identity & SSO 5

Keycloak

open source

The open-source standard for self-hosted SSO, backed by Red Hat.

Alternative to Okta, Auth0

Authentik

open source

Modern self-hosted identity provider, friendlier than Keycloak.

Alternative to Okta, Auth0

Zitadel

open source

Open-source identity with multi-tenancy and a managed cloud.

Alternative to Okta, Auth0

SuperTokens

open source

Open-source authentication built for developers to embed.

Alternative to Auth0

Ory

open source

Open-source identity and access infrastructure.

Alternative to Auth0, Okta

Hosting & PaaS 6

Railway

Usage-priced deploys with a Heroku-like experience.

Alternative to Heroku

Render

Fixed-price instances with a free tier for small services.

Alternative to Heroku

Fly.io

Deploy app instances close to users across many regions.

Alternative to Heroku

Coolify

open source

Self-hosted PaaS — git-push deploys on your own VPS.

Alternative to Heroku, Vercel

Dokku

open source

Minimal self-hosted PaaS built on Docker.

Alternative to Heroku

CapRover

open source

Self-hosted PaaS with a web UI and one-click apps.

Alternative to Heroku

Email marketing 4

Brevo

Email marketing and transactional sending, formerly Sendinblue.

Alternative to Mailchimp

MailerLite

Simple email marketing with a generous free tier.

Alternative to Mailchimp

Listmonk

open source

Self-hosted newsletter and mailing-list manager, very fast.

Alternative to Mailchimp

Mautic

open source

Open-source marketing automation platform.

Alternative to HubSpot, Mailchimp

Web analytics 4

Plausible

open source

Privacy-friendly, cookie-free web analytics.

Alternative to Google Analytics

Umami

open source

Lightweight self-hosted web analytics.

Alternative to Google Analytics

Matomo

open source

Full-featured analytics you can host yourself.

Alternative to Google Analytics

PostHog

open source

Product analytics, session replay and feature flags.

Alternative to Google Analytics, Amplitude

Design & whiteboards 3

Penpot

open source

Open-source design and prototyping platform, a Figma alternative.

Alternative to Figma

Excalidraw

open source

Hand-drawn style virtual whiteboard, self-hostable.

Alternative to Miro, Figma

tldraw

open source

Infinite canvas whiteboard you can embed in your own product.

Alternative to Miro

CMS & site builders 3

Ghost

open source

Publishing platform with newsletters and memberships built in.

Alternative to WordPress, Squarespace

Strapi

open source

Open-source headless CMS with a customisable admin.

Alternative to WordPress, Contentful

Payload

open source

TypeScript-native headless CMS and application framework.

Alternative to WordPress, Contentful

BI & dashboards 4

Metabase

open source

Open-source BI that non-technical people actually use.

Alternative to Tableau, Looker

Apache Superset

open source

Open-source data exploration and dashboarding at scale.

Alternative to Tableau, Power BI

Redash

open source

Query, visualise and share results from any data source.

Alternative to Tableau

Lightdash

open source

Open-source BI built on top of your dbt project.

Alternative to Looker

Screen recording 2

Cap

open source

Open-source screen recorder and Loom alternative.

Alternative to Loom

Screen Studio

Polished macOS screen recorder with automatic zoom effects.

Alternative to Loom

Data cleaning & dedupe 2

Dedupe.dev

our product

Removes duplicates from Excel, CSV, text and JSON entirely in your browser.

Alternative to openrefine

OpenRefine

open source

Powerful open-source desktop tool for cleaning and reconciling messy data.

E-commerce 3

Medusa

open source

Open-source commerce engine for custom storefronts.

Alternative to Shopify

Saleor

open source

GraphQL-first open-source commerce platform.

Alternative to Shopify

WooCommerce

open source

The WordPress commerce plugin, self-hosted and extensible.

Alternative to Shopify