General purpose open source tools
Tools and services that are open source but not specifically designed for civic purposes.
Suggested resource:
- Awesome-Selfhosted - A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
See also:
- All open source tools in the Civic Tech Field Guide
- Open source supply chain
- Open source networks
- Open source AI
- Open Source Program Offices (within governments)
Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed connects web sites, the fediverse, and Bluesky.
Moltbot
"The AI that actually does things" - open source agent
LimeSurvey
Free (and open source) Online Survey Tool
Meshtastic
An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices Learn More Get Started Donate
CTFd
The Easiest Capture The Flag Platform
Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)
The AAIF provides a neutral, open foundation to ensure this critical capability evolves transparently, collaboratively, and in ways that advance the adoption of leading open source AI projects
Perma.cc
Websites change. Perma Links don’t.
nowCRM
We offer you both: a powerful open-source platform that you can customize yourself, and a fully managed service that takes care of everything.
humanmint
"A small Python library I've built for cleaning messy human-centric data: HumanMint, a completely open-source library. Think government contact records with chaotic names, weird phone formats, noisy...
mosa.cloud
The complete workspace solution that puts you in control of your data.
Twake Workplace
Privacy-First Open Source Workplace
BERTopic
BERTopic is a topic modeling technique that leverages 🤗 transformers and c-TF-IDF to create dense clusters allowing for easily interpretable topics whilst keeping important words in the topic descrip...
cosmos.gl
a high-performance WebGL library for visualizing network graphs and machine learning embeddings.
Captionol
A lightweight web tool that generates subtitles in Belarusian. It works with short videos (TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Reels). Users can review the transcript, edit the text and timing, and download the s...
Auto Archiver
Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down.
OpenSlides
Manage meetings and committees digitally
OpenWallet Foundation
The Open Wallet Foundation (hosted at the Linux Foundation) brings developers, standard development organizations and academia together to facilitate global interoperability of verifiable credentials,...
The 4CAT Capture & Analysis Toolkit (4CAT)
4CAT is a research tool that can be used to analyse and process data from online social platforms.
LaSuite.coop
La boite à outils libres, open source et modulable pour les organisations collaboratives !
ETH Zurich's LLM
ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM ma...
gvSIG Desktop
A powerful, user-friendly, interoperable GIS used by thousands of users worldwide.
Phoenix
Phoenix is an open source, non-commercial platform designed to enable peacebuilders and mediators to conduct ethical and participatory social media listening in order to inform conflict transformation...
NumFOCUS
A Nonprofit Supporting Open Code for Better Science
aeneas
aeneas is a Python/C library and a set of tools to automagically synchronize audio and text (aka forced alignment)
PiRogue Tool Suite (PTS)
Open-Source Platform for Mobile Device Forensics and Digital Investigations
Docs
Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French 🇫🇷🥖(DINUM) and German 🇩🇪🥨 governments (ZenDiS).
Open Data Editor (ODE)
Find errors in your datasets quickly, and learn useful data skills on the go
Open Administration
Der Open Source Hostinganbieter
NGI Innovations Catalogue
So far, the NGI has funded more than 1000 innovators with inclusive and trust-based complementary technology building blocks. Discover their solutions.
ARX Data Anonymization Tool
ARX is a comprehensive open source software for anonymizing sensitive personal data.
TV Kitchen
TV Kitchen is an open source community making it easy to create, collect, and share tools to understand the impact of media. LEARN MORE READ THE DOCS
Open Broadcaster Software (OBS)
Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
GNU Taler
GNU Taler is a privacy-friendly online payment system that aims to make transactions fast and easy, while eliminating fraud and protecting user data by design
DeepFace
DeepFace is a lightweight Python library for face recognition and facial attribute analysis, including age, gender, emotion, and race
Ghost
The best open source [and non-profit] blog & newsletter platform
Grist
A modern, open source spreadsheet that goes beyond the grid. (Open source Airtable)
Mautic
Grow your community with the World's Largest Open Source Marketing Automation Project
Jitsi
More secure, more flexible, and completely free video conferencing
HedgeDoc
HedgeDoc (formerly known as CodiMD) is an open-source, web-based, self-hosted, collaborative markdown editor.
Nook CRM
The open source CRM for community energy groups.
BudLib
BudLib is an open-source Library Management System, built and designed from ground up, primarily for smaller and independent schools.
FINOS, Fintech Open Source Foundation
We're a Community Creating Open Source Solutions for Financial Services
Spacetube
Spacetube is a group-to-group chat tool built on top of Matrix, a secure decentralised communication protocol.
Open Weights
A definition and license for open source compatible licensing of neural network weights
StuFiS
Open source financial management software for organizations (Die Finanzverwaltungssoftware)
Zulip
Open source chat and collaborative software like Slack and Teams
Podlove
Podlove is a group of Wordpress plugins and allows you to self-host your podcast.
Zenodo
The OpenAIRE project, in the vanguard of the open access and open data movements in Europe was commissioned by the EC to support their nascent Open Data policy by providing a catch-all repository for...
Radicle
Radicle is a sovereign peer-to-peer network for code collaboration, built on top of Git.
Drips
A decentralized toolkit for funding your critical software dependencies.