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Alternatives to GitHub

Looking for an app like GitHub? Below are 50 Developer Tools apps the dotstore editors recommend — all browser-native, most free to start. Ranked by rating and popularity.

Best Developer Tools apps

1

Vercel

Ship at the speed of thought

4.8·56K
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2

CodePen

Front-end playground

4.7·38K
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3

Replit

Build software, collaboratively

4.6·92K
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4
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appsmith

Open-Source Low-Code Application Platform

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5
C

Coolify

Self-hostable Heroku alternative

Launch
6
D

Directus

A versatile headless CMS and API engine

Launch
7
D

Dokploy

Open-source alternative to Heroku, Vercel, and Netlify

Launch
8
D

drawDB

Online Database Schema Design & ER Diagram Tool

Launch
9
G

Grafana Cloud

AI-Powered Full-Stack Observability

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10
H

Hoppscotch

Lightweight, fast, and feature-rich API client for developers

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11
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Insomnia

The Collaborative API Development Platform

Launch
12
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Joplin

Secure, Cross-platform, Open-Source Markdown Note Taking App

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13
M

Meilisearch

Typo tolerant search engine

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14
M

Minio

S3 compatible object storage

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15
N

NocoDB

Instantly turn your Database into a No-Code Platform

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16
O

Outline

Wiki and knowledge base

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17
P

Payload CMS

A TypeScript headless CMS built with Express, MongoDB, and React

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18
P

Pocketbase

Open Source backend in 1 file written in Go

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19
P

PostHog

Analytics with autocapture, session recordings, feature flags, heatmaps and more

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20
S

Sentry

Error tracking and performance monitoring

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21
S

Spacedrive

Your data. Your devices. Your AI employees

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22
S

Supabase

The Postgres Development Platform

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23
T

ToolJet

AI App Builder for Internal Tools

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24
U

Uptime Kuma

Monitors websites, APIs, and services

Launch
25
W

Wide

Run Go with full intellisense code-completion, expression-info

Launch
26
A

Activepieces

Chat, agents, flows, tables

Launch
27
A

Airbyte

Data integration platform

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28
A

Apache Netbeans

Development Environment, Tooling Platform and Application Framework

Launch
29
A

Appwrite

Open-source development platform

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30
A

Authentik

authentik is an open-source identity provider

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31
B

Beekeeper Studio

The SQL Editor and Database Manager Of Your Dreams

Launch
32
B

Bruno

A modern, user-friendly API client

Launch
33
B

BudiBase

Agents, Workflows & Internal Tools Made Easy

Launch
34
B

Bytebase

The standard for database governance

Launch
35
C

ClickHouse

High-performance columnar OLAP database system

Launch
36
C

Coder

Enterprise AI Development Infrastructure & Governance

Launch
37
C

Convex

All gas, no breakages

Launch
38
C

Cube

The agentic analytics platform built on a semantic layer

Launch
39
D

DBeaver

Cross-platform database management tool

Launch
40
D

Documenso

Digital Signing Infrastructure

Launch
41
D

Dokku

An open source PAAS alternative to Heroku

Launch
42
E

Encore

Automated Infrastructure for Humans and Agents

Launch
43
E

Espanso

A Privacy-first, Cross-platform Text Expander

Launch
44
F

Filestash

A file manager that let you manage your data anywhere it is located

Launch
45
G

Gitea

A lightweight, fast, and customizable Git service

Launch
46
G

Gogs

Lightweight, cross-platform Git service for self-hosting

Launch
47
H

Harness

Streamline code delivery with an open-source CI/CD platform featuring Git

Launch
48
H

Huly

All-in-One Alternative to Linear/Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion and more

Launch
49
I

imgproxy

Self-hosted solution for image processing needs

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50
I

Infisical

The modern security platform for developers and agents

Launch

Why people switch from GitHub

Common reasons readers tell us they're shopping for alternatives.

Pricing
GitHub is currently free. Many alternatives are free to start.
Features
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Integrations
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