Open Source Workflow Automation Tools

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  1. OpenClaw icon
     71 likes

    Personal AI assistant operating locally, supporting popular chat apps, additional channels, multi-OS speech and listening, and a live user-managed Canvas.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Node.JS
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  2. Teable icon
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    Teable is a super fast, real-time, professional, developer friendly, no-code database built on Postgres. It uses a simple, spreadsheet-like interface to create complex enterprise-level database applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
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  3. Hermes Agent icon
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    The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Termux
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  4. NanoClaw icon
     17 likes

    Lightweight AI assistant runs in Apple containers, prioritizing OS-level security, transparency, customization, and simplicity for secure, private workflows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • Node.JS
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  5. Huginn icon
     122 likes

    Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Slack
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  6. Ansible icon
     100 likes

    Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
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    54 alternatives
  7. Sim Studio icon
     18 likes

    Sim Studio is a powerful platform for building, testing, and optimizing agentic workflows. It provides developers with intuitive tools to design sophisticated agent-based applications through a visual interface.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  8. Node-RED icon
     41 likes

    Node-RED provides a browser-based flow editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range nodes in the palette. Flows can be then deployed to the runtime in a single-click.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Node.JS
    • npm
    • Docker
    • Raspberry Pi
    • JavaScript
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  9. Skales icon
     11 likes

    Privacy-first AI agent automates web and app workflows locally, installs in seconds, includes browser automation, self-coding skills, and works fully offline with direct API access.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
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  10. Eigent icon
     11 likes

    Eigent is the open source cowork desktop application, empowering you to build, manage, and deploy a custom AI workforce that can turn your most complex workflows into automated tasks.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  11. Activepieces  icon
     45 likes

    Activepieces is an open source no-code AI automation tool. The only AI automation tool loved by both technical and non-technical users. It's super extensible code-wise and super easy UI-wise. With Activepieces, you can automate your departments (marketing, sales, HR, legal...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
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  12. Automatist icon
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    Automatist is a free, open source Android app for building and running AI workflows directly on your phone. Combine RSS feeds, web pages, REST APIs, weather, route times and saved notes, then process them with cloud AI using your own API key or with an on device model that needs...

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    Platforms

    • Android
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  13. Automatisch icon
     17 likes

    Automatisch is a business automation tool that lets you connect different services like Twitter, Slack, and more to automate your business processes. It is a software designed to help streamline your workflows by integrating the different services.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  14. Kando icon
     17 likes

    Kando offers an unconventional, fast, highly efficient, and fun way of interacting with your computer! You can use it to run commands, execute macros, open files, and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  15. Gulp.js icon
     49 likes

    A toolkit to automate & enhance your workflow. Leverage gulp and the flexibility of JavaScript to automate slow, repetitive workflows and compose them into efficient build pipelines.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Node.JS
    • Self-Hosted
    14 alternatives
  16. ClawSwarm icon
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    A smaller, lighter-weight version of OpenClaw—natively multi-agent, compiles to Rust, and built on the Swarms framework and Swarms ecosystem. One API, unified messaging across Telegram, Discord, and WhatsApp with optional Claude-powered reasoning.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
    67 alternatives
  17. REI3 icon
     12 likes

    REI3 is an open low-code application platform. Free for individuals and organizations, anyone can use REI3 to rapidly build multi-user applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  18. zclaw icon
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    Your personal AI assistant at all-in 888KiB (~25KB in app code). Running on an ESP32. GPIO, cron, custom tools, memory, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
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  19. Grunt icon
     27 likes

    Automates tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, and linting through a Gruntfile. Huge ecosystem with hundreds of plugins available.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Node.JS
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