Firebase Alternatives

One of the most popular alternatives to Firebase is Supabase, which is open source with a free version. Other popular alternatives are PocketBase, TrailBase, Appwrite and Directus. You're spoiled for choice with Backend as a Service like Firebase: we list more than 100 alternatives for self-hosting, Mac, Linux, Windows and Android.

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  1. RxDB icon
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    RxDB (short for Reactive Database) is a NoSQL-database for JavaScript Applications like Websites, hybrid Apps, Electron-Apps and NodeJs. Reactive means that you can not only query the current state, but subscribe to all state-changes like the result of a query or even a single...

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    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • Self-Hosted
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  2. Singlebase is the ultimate Firebase alternative. 🚀 We provision NoSQL Datastore, Authentication, Storage, Images, Search & Analytics in under 30 seconds ?.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  3. Realm icon
     7 likes

    Realm enables any development team, no matter the size, to include difficult-to-build features like two-way data sync and realtime collaboration. Devote more time to what makes your app truly unique and less time to maintaining services.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  4. Backendless icon
     25 likes

    A complete visual app development platform that offers a fully integration UI Builder, real-time database, robust backend with Codeless logic, team-driven development, and bulletproof security.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  5. CloudBoost.io icon
     19 likes

    CloudBoost can power your app's backend, including data storage, user authentication, real-time notifications, search and more.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  6. Ably icon
     7 likes

    Scalable pub/sub platform offers developers secure, low-latency, enterprise-grade realtime messaging, built-in features for GPS tracking, event updates, and automatic failover, delivering billions of messages daily to users across industries on a global edge network.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  7. FerretDB icon
     6 likes

    FerretDB (formerly MangoDB) is an open-source proxy, which converts MongoDB wire protocol queries to SQL, and uses PostgreSQL as a database engine.

    103 FerretDB alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  8. Nakama icon
     10 likes

    Nakama is an open-source distributed social and realtime server for games and apps. It has a large set of services for users, storage, and realtime communication; as well as specialized APIs like realtime multiplayer, groups/guilds, and chat.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Unity
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  9. InstantDB icon
     3 likes

    Instant is for building real-time and offline-enabled applications. We make it easy to build collaborative products like Notion or Figma.

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  10. Kuzzle icon
     1 like

    Kuzzle is a high performance open source, on premise and cloud agnostic backend for IoT and modern apps featuring CRUD, real-time notifications, authentication, geofencing, a full featured cluster mode and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Etebase icon
     11 likes

    Etebase makes it easy to build end-to-end encrypted applications by taking care of the encryption and its related challenges.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  12. SashiDo.io icon
     15 likes

    SashiDo is the Parse Alternative for busy people. In nature is Affordable managed Parse Server hosting with care! Migration in a click. Auto Scaling. Simple and flexible pricing. No vendor lock-in!.

    57 SashiDo.io alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
    • Firebase
    • Amazon Web Services
    • AWS Mobile Hub
    • Parse Server
    • Heroku
    • Parse
    • deployd
    • Backendless
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