Open Source GitHub Alternatives

The best open source alternative to GitHub is GitLab. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to GitHub and loads of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to GitHub are Gitea, Codeberg, Gogs and Forgejo.

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  1. LabCoat icon
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    LabCoat is a free and open source Android client for GitLab.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • GitLab
     
  2. Gitweb icon
     23 likes

    Gitweb is a Git web interface. It is written in Perl and can be used as a CGI script, or as a mod_perl legacy script (run by ModPerl::Registry handler). It allows browsing a git repository (or a set of git repositories) using a web browser.

    75 Gitweb alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Perl
     
  3. Tangled icon
     2 likes

    Tangled is a new social-enabled Git collaboration platform, built on top of the AT Protocol. We envision a place where developers have complete ownership of their code, open source communities can freely self-govern and most importantly, coding can be social and fun again.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. RepoStore icon
     1 like

    Explore apps published on GitHub, view release details, and install APKs instantly — all in one place. Developed using pure Kotlin, optimized for modern Android devices.

    18 RepoStore alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  5. ForgeFed icon
     3 likes

    ForgeFed (formerly GitPub) is a decentralized federation protocol based on the W3C's ActivityPub, which extends ActivityStream 2.0. It provides a server to server API for pull request, forking and subscription of repositories provided by Git web services (services like...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Git
     
  6. SCM-Manager icon
     11 likes

    The easiest way to share and manage your Git, Mercurial and Subversion repositories over http.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. A Simple GitLab frontend. Uses GitLab's REST API to fetch data about users/groups and repositories (those so-called 'projects'). Then it parses that data and shows it in a JS-free lightweight webpage inspired by Cgit and SourceHut.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Gitdab icon
     4 likes

    A git hosting provider based on Forgejo, previously Gitea.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Gitamin icon
     2 likes

    Gitamin is an open source git repository management software built with the Laravel PHP Framework. Gitamin supports a wide range of operations on git repository.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Sourcebot icon
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    Blazingly fast code search. Deployed as a single Docker image. Search million+ lines of code in your GitHub and GitLab repositories.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  11.  6 likes

    A simple Gitweb replacement built with Django.

    64 django-git alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • Django
     
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