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CLUSTER ALTERNATIVES-SOFTWARE-FREE · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-06-07

Open-source alternative finders

This cluster includes curated directories and web apps that help users discover free, open-source, or self-hosted alternatives to proprietary software, often with search, filters, and community suggestions. The dated history before the index start is too thin to read a shape from—only one dated entry exists, so the cluster's growth pattern cannot be inferred. Among traction leaders, OpenStore leads with 55 stars, while the other members show no traction activity.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUN 2025: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 2OCT 2026: 1
JUN 2025OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 4 unlabelled

Operator · 2 hobby · 1 indie · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01OpenStore65★13 daysliveindieCurated directory that helps users discover open-source alternatives to proprietary software, with search, filters, and community suggestions.
  2. 02Apex_Skill_Major_project_Team_NO0★1 mo—ai-builthobbyWeb app that lists open source LLMs and allows users to view and redirect to their sources.
  3. 03workrigly.com0★1 moliveWebsite that catalogs evidence-checked free, open-source, and self-hosted alternatives to paid software.
  4. 04free-saas-directory0★1 molivehobbyWeb directory that helps people discover and compare free SaaS tools and software.
  5. 05istheresoftwarethat.com1★8 mostaleliveWeb app that helps users find free software alternatives to paid applications.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.