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17 Open Source Alternatives to Your Favorite Software and Apps 🔥👨‍💻

Madza on August 22, 2024

In the dynamic world of software and applications, many users are discovering the power and flexibility of open-source alternatives. Whether you'r...
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Hatem Hosny

Allow me to add:

RacingBars

Category: Visualizations

Open Source Alternative to: Flourish

Bar chart race made easy 📊

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👩‍💻 Github link: github.com/hatemhosny/racing-bars

⭐ Github stars: 18

💻 Website link: racing-bars.hatemhosny.dev/

LiveCodes

Category: Development

Open Source Alternative to: CodePen, JSFiddle, StackBlitz, Replit, CodeSandbox

A feature-rich, open-source, client-side code playground for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, Typescript, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP and 90+ languages/frameworks.

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👩‍💻 Github link: github.com/live-codes/livecodes

⭐ Github stars: 764

💻 Website link: livecodes.io/

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Madza

Some awesome additions here, thanks for sharing mate! 🙏💖

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袁官东 • Edited

Draw.io is good, but If you need to design 3D software architecture diagram, you can try iCraft Editor

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Madza

Interesting, thanks for the mention! 👍💯

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mohamed karim

Thank for sharing

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Madza

Sure, my pleasure!

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Antonio | CEO at Litlyx.com

Nice list, and very good job on mentions. I would love if you appoint for future post even our Litlyx open-source repo.
We are the easiest analytics tool out there rn! And we prioritize developers experience. Give it a try (and a star if you like it)!

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Oladipupo Isaac Tunji • Edited

Checked litlyx.com out and it's amazing. In sure going to try it out on my next project.

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Madza

Glad you found it useful, mate! 👍💯

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Madza

Thanks for the valuable addition, Antonio! 🙏💖

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Nicolus • Edited

Nice list, I'm definitely going to take a look at penpot and see if it can do the job for our mockups witout paying for Figma.

Also regarding storage I went with MinIO because it looked easier to setup than Ceph and so far I've been happy with it.

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Madza

Happy to hear that these were useful! My pleasure to help! 🙏💖

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Paula

Thank you! It's a great article!
I use about 50% of the apps you mention, and I will definitely try the other 50%.
I like Strapi a lot, but I like Payload CMS better! Please give it a try.

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Madza

Thanks for the valuable addition! 🙏💖

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roshan khan

another product i found useful was a product for tracking my user issues on my website. it was called something as zipy.ai
initially i didnt understand how helpful it can be to me but once it started to log every issue that my website was giving , thats when i came to what all the things i needed to do on my website.
putting this out here for my digital marketing folks

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Madza

Thanks for sharing, mate!

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Linda

It’s not often that something genuinely refreshing comes my way, but your article was a delightful surprise! I loved it. I run a daily tech newsletter, Daily Sandbox, and I’m excited to feature your article in tomorrow’s edition.

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Madza

My pleasure to hear that! This means a lot, thank you! 🙏💖

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CitronBrick

I would like to add YUML to draw UML diagrams using text.
Sample Class diagram
It offers 3 modes: Scruffy, Plain & Boring

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Madza

Thnaks for the valuable addition, this is great! 🙏💖

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Chidera Humphrey

Nice curation, Madza.

But I'm curious, is Contentful enterprise-owned?

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Madza • Edited

Thanks a lot for checking out the article! I believe it's a privately held company! 😉

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Chidera Humphrey

Between Strapi and Contentful, which is easier to deploy? I heard Strapi can be tricky to deploy outside of Strapi cloud.

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Madza

It has detailed docs, so you could take a closer look. Also, should not have any problems with contentful as well, still using it to manage content for my portfolio.

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Aiyad

Definitely gonna give penpot a look. Thanks for sharing!

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Madza

Happy to hear this was useful, thanks a lot! 👍💯

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M Irfan Bakhtiar

Thanks for sharing

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Madza

My pleasure, thanks for checking out! 🙏💖

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yruxx

Nice, great informations, this is very usefull

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Madza

Means a lot, thank you! 🙏💖

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Ansh Saini

Great list!

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Madza

Means a lot, thank you for your support! 🙏💖

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Awlad Hossain

Nice list

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Madza

Thank you so much! 🙏💖

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Marco Pineda

This is great definitely going to try drawio.

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Madza

Happy to hear that, and thanks for reading the article! 👍💯

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Shahrukh A. Khan

Really appreciated the efforts I am super excited to try out Drawio.io and Hoppscotch with my team.

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Madza

Happy to share with you and thanks for checking out the article! 🙏💖

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Martin Baun • Edited

You'll definitely need ToolBun to manage and easily access these too :)

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Madza

Thanks for the addition, mate! 🙏💖

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x4cr4s

Useful and gold alternativas!

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Madza

Thank you so much! 🙏💖