Most-installed open-source apps this week (Oct 2026)
See which open-source apps people actually install, ranked weekly from real provisioning data.
We publish this table every week because the answer to "what should I try first" changes more often than you would think.
Twenty slots, hundreds of installs behind them. If an app sits high here, it earned it one server at a time.
| # | App | Category | Installs | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | O OpenClaw Your AI assistant on your own server — one Gateway for Discord, Slack, Telegram & 20+ channels | AI Agents | 245 000 | €0.046/hr |
| 2 | W WordPress The open-source CMS that powers the web | CMS & Blog | 212 000 | €0.023/hr |
| 3 | H Home Assistant Automate your smart home, fully local | Automation | 196 000 | €0.046/hr |
| 4 | V Vaultwarden Lightweight Bitwarden-compatible password vault | Security | 184 000 | €0.018/hr |
| 5 | H Hermes Agent The agent that grows with you — runs on a $5 VPS, Docker, SSH or GPU cluster | AI Agents | 182 000 | €0.046/hr |
| 6 | G Grafana Dashboards & observability for everything | Analytics | 168 000 | €0.046/hr |
| 7 | L Langflow Visual builder for AI agents and workflows | AI Agents | 163 000 | €0.046/hr |
| 8 | J Jellyfin Free media server for movies, TV & music | Media | 152 000 | €0.046/hr |
| 9 | C Cline Autonomous coding agent for VS Code | AI Agents | 151 000 | €0.023/hr |
| 10 | C code-server VS Code in the browser — full IDE on any device | Dev Tools | 142 000 | €0.023/hr |
| 11 | S Stirling-PDF Do everything with PDFs, privately | Productivity | 141 000 | €0.023/hr |
| 12 | P Portainer Docker & Kubernetes management UI | Dev Tools | 134 000 | €0.023/hr |
| 13 | S Strapi Headless CMS with a flexible API | CMS & Blog | 126 000 | €0.046/hr |
| 14 | O OpenHands Open-source AI software engineer that builds with you | AI Agents | 125 000 | €0.046/hr |
| 15 | N n8n Workflow automation with 400+ integrations | Automation | 124 000 | €0.023/hr |
| 16 | N Nextcloud Files, calendar & collaboration in one suite | Storage | 124 000 | €0.092/hr |
| 17 | N Nginx Proxy Manager Reverse proxy with free SSL in clicks | Dev Tools | 118 000 | €0.023/hr |
| 18 | U Uptime Kuma Self-hosted uptime monitoring | Dev Tools | 117 000 | €0.018/hr |
| 19 | G Gemini CLI Google's agentive coding companion in the terminal | AI Agents | 113 000 | €0.023/hr |
| 20 | P Prometheus Monitoring & alerting time-series database | Analytics | 112 000 | €0.046/hr |
About these numbers
Stars are cheap — a click. An install means somebody chose a spec, paid for hours, and got the thing running. That is the signal we rank on.
Moving up this week
Watch WordPress and Home Assistant — they are climbing.
Frequently asked questions
Which app is the most popular right now?
OpenClaw — it has the highest install count in the catalog.
How often does this ranking change?
Every week, straight from the install log. Nothing is edited by hand.
Are these apps free?
The software is free and open-source. You pay only for the server — from €0.018 per hour.
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Generated 2026-10-22 from live catalog data · all guides