10 applications
A home server that earns its keep
A modular home-server starter set: passwords, DNS, sync, monitoring, notifications, media and household recipes. Choose the services you need and add them gradually.
Guides
Start from the task, not from the list
Every guide is a set of recipes picked for one situation, with the reason each one is there and the filters that produced it. Below them, the whole catalog by category and by the service you would be replacing.
Sets
Guides
Picked by hand, with the requirements and the verification status of every recipe on the page.
13 applications
Applications with a minimum of 1 GB RAM or less
Small declared resource requirements for a VPS or thin client, with new metrics, notifications, notes and utility recipes. The limit applies to each application separately.
9 applications
What a Raspberry Pi can actually run
A shortlist for 32-bit ARM systems, plus the newer options a 64-bit Pi can consider. Check the actual architecture test result before choosing a recipe.
10 applications
Services that never need a public address
Keep household services behind loopback, a private network or a VPN. Private access still needs application authentication, safe initialization and backups.
5 applications
A family cloud without the subscription
Files, photos and device sync for a household. Decide who holds each copy, how access is granted and where the off-server backup lives.
5 applications
A media library you own
Films, music, audiobooks, podcasts and photographs from your own files. Match clients, storage and transcoding needs before choosing the server.
5 applications
Knowing when your server stops
Availability checks, server-resource history, notification delivery and a shared dashboard serve different jobs. Build only the layers you need and monitor from outside the server.
5 applications
A personal workspace on your server
Notes, a structured wiki, tasks and developer utilities, with an optional local AI interface. Start with one tool and keep account access and backups explicit.
Catalog
By category
What the application does, and what to weigh before running that kind of service yourself.
- AI assistants1 application
- Automation2 applications
- Bookmarks and archiving3 applications
- Cloud storage2 applications
- Dashboards1 application
- Development3 applications
- Documents2 applications
- File synchronisation1 application
- Food and cooking2 applications
- Knowledge management2 applications
- Media servers2 applications
- Monitoring4 applications
- Music1 application
- Networking2 applications
- Notifications1 application
- Password managers1 application
- Personal finance2 applications
- Photos and video2 applications
- RSS and news2 applications
- Smart home1 application
- Task management1 application
Migration
Instead of a subscription
Services people usually arrive from, and the recipes in the catalog that cover the same job.
- 1Password1
- AdGuard DNS2
- Adobe Acrobat2
- Amazon Alexa1
- AnyList2
- Apple Music1
- Better Uptime2
- Bitbucket2
- Bitwarden Cloud1
- ChatGPT1
- Claude1
- Cloudflare Gateway2
- Confluence1
- Dropbox3
- Emby1
- Evernote1
- Feedly2
- GitHub2
- GitLab2
- Google Drive3
- Google Home1
- Google Keep1
- Google Photos2
- iCloud Photos2
- IFTTT1
- iLovePDF1
- Inoreader2
- LastPass1
- Make2
- Microsoft 3651
- Microsoft Power Automate1
- Monarch Money2
- Netdata Cloud2
- NewsBlur2
- NextDNS2
- Notion1
- Paprika Recipe Manager2
- Pinboard1
- Pingdom2
- Plex2
- Pocket1
- Pushover1
- Quicken2
- Raindrop.io3
- Recipe Keeper2
- Smallpdf1
- SmartThings1
- Spotify1
- start.me1
- Todoist1
- Trello1
- UptimeRobot2
- Yandex Disk5
- Yandex Music1
- Yandex Smart Home1
- YNAB1
- Zapier2