Popularity ranking
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 | OpenClaw Your AI assistant on your own server — one Gateway for Discord, Slack, Telegram & 20+ channels | AI Agents | 245 000 | €0.046/hr |
| 2 | WordPress The open-source CMS that powers the web | CMS & Blog | 212 000 | €0.023/hr |
| 3 | Home Assistant Automate your smart home, fully local | Automation | 196 000 | €0.046/hr |
| 4 | Vaultwarden Lightweight Bitwarden-compatible password vault | Security | 184 000 | €0.018/hr |
| 5 | 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 | Grafana Dashboards & observability for everything | Analytics | 168 000 | €0.046/hr |
| 7 | Langflow Visual builder for AI agents and workflows | AI Agents | 163 000 | €0.046/hr |
| 8 | Jellyfin Free media server for movies, TV & music | Media | 152 000 | €0.046/hr |
| 9 | Cline Autonomous coding agent for VS Code | AI Agents | 151 000 | €0.023/hr |
| 10 | code-server VS Code in the browser — full IDE on any device | Dev Tools | 142 000 | €0.023/hr |
| 11 | Stirling-PDF Do everything with PDFs, privately | Productivity | 141 000 | €0.023/hr |
| 12 | Portainer Docker & Kubernetes management UI | Dev Tools | 134 000 | €0.023/hr |
| 13 | Strapi Headless CMS with a flexible API | CMS & Blog | 126 000 | €0.046/hr |
| 14 | OpenHands Open-source AI software engineer that builds with you | AI Agents | 125 000 | €0.046/hr |
| 15 | n8n Workflow automation with 400+ integrations | Automation | 124 000 | €0.023/hr |
| 16 | Nextcloud Files, calendar & collaboration in one suite | Storage | 124 000 | €0.092/hr |
| 17 | Nginx Proxy Manager Reverse proxy with free SSL in clicks | Dev Tools | 118 000 | €0.023/hr |
| 18 | Uptime Kuma Self-hosted uptime monitoring | Dev Tools | 117 000 | €0.018/hr |
| 19 | Gemini CLI Google's agentive coding companion in the terminal | AI Agents | 113 000 | €0.023/hr |
| 20 | 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.
Generated 2026-10-22 from live catalog data · all guides