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1Password1password.comVaultwarden — A Bitwarden-compatible password server small…$5.99/mo$71.88/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Adobe Acrobatadobe.comStirling-PDF — Sixty-odd PDF tools in one container, running…$24.99/mo$299.88/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4ChatGPTchatgpt.comLibreChat — One chat window in front of Anthropic, OpenAI…$20/mo$240/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Dropboxdropbox.comNextcloud — Files, calendars and contacts on hardware you…$11.99/mo$143.88/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Figmafigma.comPenpot — Components, prototyping and more than one cur…$60/mo$720/yrONGOING OPS— setup effort 4 of 4Google Oneone.google.comImmich — Your camera roll uploads itself to a server y…$9.99/mo$119.88/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Home Assistant Cloudnabucasa.comHome Assistant — Open source home automation on hardware you o…$6.50/mo$78/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Midjourneymidjourney.comInvokeAI — Text-to-image on a card you own, with the che…$30/mo$360/yrONGOING OPS— setup effort 4 of 4Miromiro.comExcalidraw — A hand-drawn-style whiteboard that runs as on…$8/mo$96/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Squarespacesquarespace.comWordPress — The CMS most of the web already runs, on a bo…$39/mo$468/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4ActiveCampaignactivecampaign.comMautic — Contacts, segments, drip campaigns, forms and…$59/mo$708/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Adobe Lightroomadobe.comPhotoPrism — A photo library that indexes what is in the p…$14.99/mo$179.88/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Amplitudeamplitude.comCountly Lite — Sessions, custom events and crashes from your…$49/mo$588/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Audibleaudible.comAudiobookshelf — An audiobook and podcast server for the files…$14.95/mo$179.40/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Backblaze Computer Backupbackblaze.comBackrest — A web UI and a scheduler over restic, so the…$9/mo$108/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Baserowbaserow.ioBaserow — The same grids, forms, formulas and API Baser…$60/mo$720/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Calendlycalendly.comCal.com — Send someone a link, they pick a slot, the in…$12/mo$144/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Confluenceatlassian.comXWiki — A structured enterprise wiki with spaces, mac…$33.50/mo$402/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Cronitorcronitor.ioHealthchecks — A dead-man's switch for every cron job you ow…$2/mo$24/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4DeepL Prodeepl.comLibreTranslate — Machine translation on your own box, with no…$8.74/mo$104.88/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4DocuSigndocusign.comDocuSeal — Send a PDF for signature and get it back sign…$15/mo$180/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Doodledoodle.comRallly — Send a group a link, let them tick the times…$10.95/mo$131.40/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Evernoteevernote.comTrilium — A personal knowledge base with a note tree, r…$24.99/mo$299.88/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Fastmailfastmail.comStalwart — The mail server itself: SMTP, IMAP, JMAP, Cal…$6/mo$72/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Feedlyfeedly.comFreshRSS — A feed reader in one container, with your sub…$6.99/mo$83.88/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Firebasefirebase.google.comPocketBase — One Go binary that gives a side project its b…no list priceONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4FreshBooksfreshbooks.comInvoice Ninja — Invoices, quotes, expenses and a client porta…$43/mo$516/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Ghost(Pro)ghost.orgGhost — The same publishing platform Ghost(Pro) hosts…$18/mo$216/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4GitHub Copilotgithub.comTabby — A code-completion server on a GPU you control…$10/mo$120/yrONGOING OPS— setup effort 4 of 4GitLabgitlab.comGitea — A lightweight self-hosted Git service with is…$29/mo$348/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Google Workspaceworkspace.google.comCollabora Online — Writer, Calc and Impress in a browser tab, on…$42/mo$504/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Grammarlygrammarly.comLanguageTool — The grammar and style engine behind the brows…$12/mo$144/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4IDriveidrive.comDuplicati — A backup client with a web interface: schedul…$9.99/mo$119.88/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Intercomintercom.comChatwoot — A website chat widget feeding a shared agent…$195/mo$2,340/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Lokaliselokalise.comWeblate — Continuous localization that lives in your gi…$375/mo$4,500/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Mailchimpmailchimp.comlistmonk — Your mailing list, your campaigns and your cl…$20/mo$240/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Matomo Cloudmatomo.orgMatomo — The full Google-Analytics-shaped suite on you…$42/mo$504/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Microsoft 365 Personalmicrosoft.comONLYOFFICE Docs — The Word, Excel and PowerPoint half of an off…$9.99/mo$119.88/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Monarch Moneymonarch.comFirefly III — A full transaction ledger for household money…$14.99/mo$179.88/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4monday.commonday.comLeantime — Goals, boards, timesheets and a wiki from one…$70/mo$840/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4NextDNSnextdns.ioAdGuard Home — Network-wide DNS ad and tracker blocking for…$1.99/mo$23.88/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4NordVPNnordvpn.comwg-easy — A WireGuard server with a web interface that…$12.99/mo$155.88/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Notionnotion.comDocmost — Spaces, nested pages and an editor two people…$120/mo$1,440/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Obsidian Syncobsidian.mdObsidian LiveSync — Your Obsidian vault syncs through a CouchDB y…$5/mo$60/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4PandaDocpandadoc.comDocumenso — E-signing where the key that seals the docume…$195/mo$2,340/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Perplexityperplexity.aiVane — An answering engine with citations, assembled…$20/mo$240/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Pingdompingdom.comGatus — A public status page whose entire configurati…$18/mo$216/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Plausibleplausible.ioPlausible CE — The same privacy-first analytics dashboard th…$14/mo$168/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Plexplex.tvJellyfin — A free media system that streams movies, show…$6.99/mo$83.88/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Pushoverpushover.netntfy — HTTP publish-subscribe push notifications to…no list priceONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Quickbasequickbase.comBudibase — Internal apps with a database already inside…$175/mo$2,100/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Raindrop.ioraindrop.ioLinkwarden — Bookmarks that keep their own copy of the pag…$3/mo$36/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Readwisereadwise.ioKarakeep — One inbox for every link, note, image and PDF…$12.99/mo$155.88/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Retoolretool.comAppsmith — Drag-and-drop internal tools over your own da…$60/mo$720/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Sentrysentry.ioGlitchTip — Error tracking that speaks the Sentry SDK pro…$26/mo$312/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Shopifyshopify.comPrestaShop — A full storefront, catalogue and order pipeli…$39/mo$468/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Slackslack.comMattermost — Channels, threads and file sharing for a team…$87.50/mo$1,050/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Sliteslite.comOutline — Nested documents, an editor two people can ty…$100/mo$1,200/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Sync.comsync.comSyncthing — Your files sync between your own devices, wit…$16/mo$192/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Twisttwist.comZulip — Threaded team chat where every message belong…$80/mo$960/yrONGOING OPS— setup effort 4 of 4Typeformtypeform.comFormbricks — Link surveys and in-product feedback on your…$129/mo$1,548/yrONGOING OPS— setup effort 4 of 4Umami Cloudumami.isUmami — Pageviews, referrers and custom events on a h…$20/mo$240/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4UptimeRobotuptimerobot.comUptime Kuma — Uptime monitoring and status pages from one c…$10/mo$120/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Vercelvercel.comCoolify — A deploy button and a build pipeline for the…$20/mo$240/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Vimeovimeo.comPeerTube — A video site of your own, with the player, th…$20/mo$240/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Whimsicalwhimsical.comdraw.io — The structured-diagram editor as one containe…$10/mo$120/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Workatoworkato.comWindmill — Turn scripts in Python, TypeScript, Go, Bash…no list priceONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4YNABynab.comActual Budget — Zero-based envelope budgeting in one containe…$14.99/mo$179.88/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Zapierzapier.comActivepieces — Trigger-and-action automation with a visual b…$29.99/mo$359.88/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Zendeskzendesk.comZammad — A shared support desk with agents, groups, es…$275/mo$3,300/yrONGOING OPS— setup effort 4 of 4Zoomzoom.comJitsi Meet — Video meetings on your own hostname, with no…$84.95/mo$1,019.40/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Acuity Schedulingacuityscheduling.comEasy!Appointments — A front-desk diary on your own domain: servic…$34/mo$408/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Airtableairtable.comGrist — A spreadsheet with a real database underneath…$100/mo$1,200/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Algoliaalgolia.comMeilisearch — A typo-tolerant search API you run yourself,…no list priceONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4AnyListanylist.comKitchenOwl — A shared grocery list your household's phones…$1.25/mo$15/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Apifyapify.comCrawl4AI — A crawling API that turns a URL into LLM-read…$29/mo$348/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Asanaasana.comOpenProject — Classic project management with work packages…$67.45/mo$809.40/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Attioattio.comTwenty — A CRM whose data model you define rather than…$297/mo$3,564/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Axiomaxiom.coVictoriaLogs — One container that ingests, stores and querie…$25/mo$300/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4BambooHRbamboohr.comOrangeHRM — The employee record, the leave calendar and t…$250/mo$3,000/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Bitlybitly.comShlink — Your own short-link domain, with visit counts…$10/mo$120/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Boxbox.comSeafile — File sync and share on a box you own, with ve…$14/mo$168/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Bufferbuffer.comPostiz — One calendar for every social account, on you…$10/mo$120/yrONGOING OPS— setup effort 4 of 4Cannycanny.ioFider — A feedback board on your own domain: customer…$99/mo$1,188/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Chatbasechatbase.coTypebot — Draw a conversation, publish it on your own d…$40/mo$480/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Clockifyclockify.mesolidtime — A modern time tracker with organisations, mem…$14.97/mo$179.64/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4CodeSandboxcodesandbox.iocode-server — VS Code in a browser tab, running on a machin…$12/mo$144/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Copilot Moneycopilot.moneyGhostfolio — Your investment portfolio on your own domain:…$7.92/mo$95.04/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Datadogdatadoghq.comNetdata — Per-second host metrics and dashboards from o…$15/mo$180/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Day Onedayoneapp.comMemos — A private capture stream for the thought you…$8.99/mo$107.88/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Equalsequals.comMetabase — Dashboards, saved questions and a SQL editor…$2,000/mo$24,000/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Everandeverand.comKavita — A reading server for the epubs, PDFs and comi…$11.99/mo$143.88/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Flickr Proflickr.comPiwigo — A photo gallery on your own domain, with albu…$6.83/mo$81.96/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Freshdeskfreshworks.comOTOBO — A classic service desk with queues, SLA clock…$275/mo$3,300/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Grafana Cloudgrafana.comGrafana OSS — Dashboards and alert rules over data you alre…$19/mo$228/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Hootsuitehootsuite.comMixpost — A posting calendar for Facebook Pages, X and…$199/mo$2,388/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Inoreaderinoreader.comMiniflux — A feed reader with nothing in it but feeds: o…$9.99/mo$119.88/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Instapaperinstapaper.comwallabag — Saves the readable article, not the link, and…$5.99/mo$71.88/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Jotformjotform.comHeyForm — A drag-and-drop form builder on your own host…$39/mo$468/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Kitkit.comKeila — Signup forms, contacts and campaigns out of o…$39/mo$468/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Linktreelinktr.eeLinkStack — Your own link-in-bio page, with an admin pane…$15/mo$180/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Makemake.comAutomatisch — Trigger-and-action flows on your own box, wit…$9/mo$108/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4MongoDB Atlasmongodb.comFerretDB — The MongoDB wire protocol your drivers alread…$56.94/mo$683.28/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4MyFitnessPal Premiummyfitnesspal.comwger — A gym log and a food diary on one server: rou…$19.99/mo$239.88/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Paprika Recipe Managerpaprikaapp.comMealie — Your recipe box, meal plans and shopping list…no list priceONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Pinboardpinboard.inlinkding — A tag-first bookmark manager in one container…$1.83/mo$21.96/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Pipedrivepipedrive.comEspoCRM — A whole sales CRM on your own hostname: pipel…$147/mo$1,764/yrONE WEEKEND— setup effort 3 of 4Pixiesetpixieset.comLychee — A photo gallery you host and hand people a li…$16/mo$192/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4QuickBooks Onlinequickbooks.intuit.comAkaunting — Invoices, bills, expenses and a client portal…$38/mo$456/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Railwayrailway.comDokploy — Push to a git repository and get a running co…$20/mo$240/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Roam Researchroamresearch.comSiYuan — A block-referencing outliner with daily notes…$15/mo$180/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Slabslab.comBookStack — A team wiki organised into shelves, books, ch…$33.35/mo$400.20/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Spotify Premiumspotify.comNavidrome — A music server for the files you already own,…$12.99/mo$155.88/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Stravastrava.comFitTrackee — A training log on your own server: your .gpx…$11.99/mo$143.88/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4SurveyMonkeysurveymonkey.comLimeSurvey — Research-grade questionnaires on a hostname y…$39/mo$468/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Tallytally.soOpnForm — A no-code form builder on your own hostname,…$24/mo$288/yrONGOING OPS— setup effort 4 of 4Todoisttodoist.comVikunja — One container holding every task, project and…$7/mo$84/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Toggl Tracktoggl.comKimai — Timesheets with customers, projects, hourly r…$36/mo$432/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Tolgeetolgee.ioTolgee — Translation keys, in-context editing and an A…$49/mo$588/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4ToolJettooljet.comToolJet — The internal-tools builder ToolJet sells, ins…$237/mo$2,844/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Transistortransistor.fmCastopod — Podcast hosting on a domain you own: your fee…$19/mo$228/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Trellotrello.comWeKan — Trello-shaped boards with swimlanes, checklis…$30/mo$360/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Uptime.comuptime.comKener — A public status page with the incidents, the…$9/mo$108/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Visualpingvisualping.iochangedetection.io — Watch web pages for changes and get notified…$10/mo$120/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4Wanderlogwanderlog.comAdventureLog — A travel journal on your own server: the trip…$3.33/mo$39.96/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Zightzight.comZipline — The upload endpoint behind the screenshot key…$9.95/mo$119.40/yrONE EVENING— setup effort 2 of 4Raycastraycast.comIT Tools — A chest of offline-friendly developer utiliti…$8/mo$96/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4TickTickticktick.comSuper Productivity — A task list with timeboxing, a Pomodoro timer…$3/mo$36/yrONE COMMAND— setup effort 1 of 4

Rank is editorial, and the basis is written down on /methodology. Prices are vendor list prices in USD; the plan and the seat assumption behind each figure are on the app's own page.

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A sample of the rack, itemized: monthly list price per app, and what runs in its place

The Rack — itemized

5 of 128 apps · USD, monthly

  1. 1Password$5.99/moruns as Vaultwarden on your server
  2. Adobe Acrobat$24.99/moruns as Stirling-PDF on your server
  3. ChatGPT$20/moruns as LibreChat on your server
  4. Dropbox$11.99/moruns as Nextcloud on your server
  5. Figma$60/moruns as Penpot on your server

Total: not summed — you'd replace them one at a time.

list prices · assumptions on each app's page