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The React Framework
Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation
The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
Graphs that teach > graphs that impress. Turn any code into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about. Works with Claude C
Headless CMS with REST and GraphQL APIs out of the box
The full-stack Vue framework.
React-based framework with performance, scalability, and security built in.
Publishing platform for blogs, newsletters, and paid memberships
:globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby
Cultivate vibrant online communities with ease
Headless CMS for developers, built with Node.js
A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.
Halo 是一款强大易用的开源建站工具,从个人博客、知识库,到企业官网、在线商城,Halo 都能助您轻松实现,一站式满足您的多样化建站需求。
API Documentation Browser
Lerna is a fast, modern build system for managing and publishing multiple JavaScript/TypeScript packages from the same repository.
A powerful open-source UI framework for Laravel • Build and ship apps & admin panels fast with Livewire
🃏 A magical documentation site generator.
An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices
Wiki.js | Next Generation Open Source Wiki
A modern ebook manager and reader with sync and backup capacities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and Web
Documentation that simply works
The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager
Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader designed for avid readers offering seamless cross-platform access, powerful tools, and an intuitive interface to
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
Generate audiobooks from e-books, voice cloning & 1158+ languages!
Ready-to-use Media-over-QUIC / SRT / WebRTC / RTSP / RTMP / LL-HLS / MPEG-TS / RTP live media server and media proxy that allows to read, publish, proxy, record
A Git-based CMS for Static Site Generators
NOW MANAGED ON CODEBERG
:books: Web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database
Open Source DeepWiki: AI-Powered Wiki Generator for GitHub/Gitlab/Bitbucket Repositories. Join the discord: https://discord.gg/gMwThUMeme
Create, edit and share documents with real-time collaboration
Free offline machine translation API you can host yourself
Modern forum software for vibrant online communities
A Q&A platform software for teams at any scales. Whether it's a community forum, help center, or knowledge management platform, you can always count on Apache A
An API documentation generator for JavaScript.
Convert documentation websites, GitHub repositories, and PDFs into Claude AI skills with automatic conflict detection
A simple, Git-powered wiki with a local frontend and support for many kinds of markup and content.
Ultimate camera streaming application
Simple, powerful and flexible site generation framework with everything you love from Next.js.
Visual editing for your Git-based content
cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for comman
Build beautiful documentation sites with Next.js
Offline documentation browser. Your personal reference library, searchable in an instant.
A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability
Low code web framework for real world applications, in Python and Javascript
PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.
PandaWiki 是一款 AI 大模型驱动的开源知识库搭建系统,帮助你快速构建智能化的 产品文档、技术文档、FAQ、博客系统,借助大模型的力量为你提供 AI 创作、AI 问答、AI 搜索等能力。
Self hosted streaming media server. https://docs.streama-project.com/
🧱 Describe your site, AI builds it, you own it as Markdown. Snap together Tailwind blocks like Lego — landing pages, blogs, portfolios, docs & more. No AI slop
Your all-in-one marketplace for digital creators and products
The open-source alternative to Webflow, Framer and WordPress. Agentic self-hosted visual CMS outputting clean static pages. Users, roles, plugins, content, data
A powerful, flexible, Markdown-based authoring framework.
Your self hosted YouTube media server
CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + mo
Orchard Core is an open-source modular and multi-tenant application framework built with ASP.NET Core, and a content management system (CMS) built on top of tha
小说下载|网文下载 | 网络小说
World's first open-source enterprise world model.
Persepolis is a download manager written in Python.
The most intuitive Static Site CMS designed for SEO-optimized and privacy-focused websites.
可私有部署的多租户知识智能体平台:统一 RAG、知识图谱、多智能体、MCP/Skills、沙盒与权限管理。Self-hosted knowledge agent platform for RAG, knowledge graphs and multi-agent workflows.
🏖️ A serverless, open-source file hosting solution built on Cloudflare. Supports image hosting, secure file storage, and personal cloud drive capabilities.
📚 Parameterize, execute, and analyze notebooks
Sanity Studio – Rapidly configure content workspaces powered by structured content
Calibre-Web but Automated and with tons of New Features! Fully automate and simplify your eBook set up!
A Node.js implementation of RTMP/HTTP-FLV Media Server
[WIP]en: web design tool || mobile page builder/editor || mini webflow for mobile page. zh: 类似易企秀的H5制作、建站工具、可视化搭建系统.
Continuous web-based localization for global reach
(Replaces Next.js/Nuxt) 🔨 Build mission-critical applications with stability and development freedom.
Headless CMS with automatic JSON API. Featuring auto-HTTPS from Let's Encrypt, HTTP/2 Server Push, and flexible server framework written in Go.
⚡️next-generation personal AI assistant powered by LLM, RAG and agent loops, supporting computer-use, browser-use and coding agent, demo: https://demo.openagent
Automated translations that scale with your code and commits
GitHub Actions for GitHub Pages 🚀 Deploy static files and publish your site easily. Static-Site-Generators-friendly.
QOR is a set of libraries written in Go that abstracts common features needed for business applications, CMSs, and E-commerce systems.
Umbraco is a free and open source .NET content management system helping you deliver delightful digital experiences.
Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
👻 Zero-configuration framework-agnostic static prerendering for SPAs
MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django and React, featuring a REST API.
🎓 Academic portfolio that boosts citations. AI generates pages, you own as Markdown. BibTeX auto-import, Jupyter, LaTeX, slides, visual block editor — free to
Craft flexible, powerful websites with ease
The DokuWiki Open Source Wiki Engine
A scalable social community platform powered by Gin backend and modern TypeScript/Vue frontend architecture
TypeDB: Built for systems, not records
Static site generator for .NET API documentation.
A self-hosted library for your ebooks, comics, and audiobooks
GPP is Android's unofficial release automation Gradle Plugin. It can do anything from building, uploading, and then promoting your App Bundle or APK to publishi
Self-hosted photo management with full control
Build powerful websites with the open-source CMS
Beautiful, AI-native markdown IDE and LLM wiki
Open-source media server with a web interface and desktop app for anime and manga.
Craft flexible, beautiful digital experiences with ease
Mapnik is an open source toolkit for developing mapping applications
The lektor static file content management system
Docker-based local PHP+Node.js web development environments
:circus_tent: An open source forum/community system based on Rails, developed based on Ruby China.
Organize thousands of photos with ease
📖 Static Site Generator for component library development
Input OpenAPI. Output SDKs and Docs.
Flexible CMS for custom digital experiences
A personal knowledge base that builds and maintains itself. Drop in sources — Claude (or Codex/Gemini) reads them, extracts knowledge, and maintains a persisten
Claude Code plugin that generates individualized knowledge systems from conversation. You describe how you think and work, have a conversation and get a complet
A lightweight community and Q&A platform for forums, knowledge bases, and discussions.一个轻量级社区和问答平台。
Framework for AI agents to build and maintain a digital brain through Obsidian wiki
TerminusDB is a distributed, collaborative database designed for building, sharing, versioning, and reasoning on structured data.
A self-hosted, database-less note taking web app that utilises a flat folder of markdown files for storage.
The fullstack meta-framework for Angular. Powered by Vite and Nitro
📱The official Wikipedia app for Android!
🎶 一款用 Java 实现的现代化社区(论坛/问答/BBS/社交网络/博客)系统平台。A modern community (forum/Q&A/BBS/SNS/blog) system platform implemented in Java. https://ld246.com
A media streaming server based on nginx-rtmp-module. In addtion to the features nginx-rtmp-module provides, HTTP-FLV, GOP cache, VHosts (one IP for multi domain
A cross platform desktop reading app, based on the Readium Desktop toolkit
Leading Git-based headless CMS. Successor to Netlify/Decap CMS. Modern UX, first-class i18n support, mobile support + numerous improvements. Framework-agnostic,
Your Self-Hosted Knowledge Base
Free and Open Source Photo Libraries
Syncs YouTube channels and playlists to a locally hosted media server
Misago is fully featured modern forum application that is fast, scalable and responsive.
A JavaScript library for web-based content editing.
A DLNA, UPnP and HTTP(S) Media Server.
Front Matter is a CMS running straight in Visual Studio Code. Can be used with static site generators like Hugo, Jekyll, Hexo, NextJs, Gatsby, and many more...
Headless CMS and Content Managment Hub
An Open source app to download and read books from shadow library (Anna’s Archive)
The world's smartest system-wide grammar assistant; a better version of the Apple Intelligence Writing Tools. Works on Windows, Linux, & macOS, with the free Ge
An offline-first photo manager for large local libraries
Translate full-length books and documents with Ollama, OpenAI-compatible, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, Poe or OpenRouter. Preserves formatting. Resumes where you
A simple,high performance and secure live media server in pure Rust (RTMP[cluster]/RTSP/WebRTC[whip/whep]/HTTP-FLV/HLS).🦀
🚀 Create and publish a GitHub-synced portfolio by just providing your GitHub username.
Create, sell, and manage online courses with full control
NSMusicS NineSong Cloud-Native Music Server/ Full platform Client,support navidrome, jellyfin, emby
A self-hosted digital asset manager for 3d print files.
Automated localization for modern development teams
Text Generator is a versatile plugin for Obsidian that allows you to generate text content using various AI providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and l
🐳 The CUTEST visualnovel / galgame forum! Built with Nuxt4, GO Fiber and PostgreSQL. Kun Visual Novel forum 6th generation! 开源, 免费, 零门槛, 最先进的 Galgame 论坛社区!
Self-hosted application server for schema-driven APIs, identity, files, automation, integrations, realtime, metering, and protocols.
A CLI text-to-speech tool using the Kokoro model, supporting multiple languages, voices (with blending), and various input formats including EPUB books and PDF
A self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails.
A versatile Python library for EPUB2/EPUB3 manipulation and processing.
The SILE Typesetter — Simon’s Improved Layout Engine
A Gradle plugin that publishes your Android and Kotlin libraries, including sources and javadoc, to Maven Central or any other Nexus instance.
SonicJS - The edge-native headless CMS for Cloudflare Workers. Sub-100ms response times, zero cold starts, TypeScript-first. Built on D1, R2, and Hono.
Build your custom learning academy in minutes
Qt based ebook reader
🟢 A production-grade headless CMS API service for surmon.me, built with @nestjs.
Simple, Fast, Secure, Flat-File CMS
An open, scalable, online streaming setup. All-in-one toolkit from ingest to adaptive video playback. Built for developers in need of video tooling.
MODX Revolution - Content Management Framework
A self-hosted, respource aware file conversion server supporting 488 formats in 26 languages.
A next-generation progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby
Simple and fast databaseless PHP blogging platform, and Flat-File CMS
(eBook,PDFs Translation) A multilingual eBook processing tool supporting all eBook formats. Features online and offline translation while preserving original la
Headless WordPress built with the Next.js App Router and React Server Components
Manage your ebook library without frustrations. Calibre compatible.
Create, sell, and manage online courses with ease
The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS
🐍 ➡️ 📜 Auto-generate API docs for Python projects
101 Linux commands Open-source eBook and CLI tool
Render e-books in the browser
The open source operating system for digital agencies. Built with Directus and Nuxt.
Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes.
The Stack Overflow clone for your team (self-hosted or hosted)
Fast, standalone EPUB to Kobo EPUB conversion tool.
🚀 A future-proof enterprise web CMS supporting both headless and decoupled approaches. Build any type of app with customizable APIs on ASP.NET Core/.NET Core.
Oryx (SRS Stack) is an AI-driven, all-in-one, out-of-the-box, and open-source video solution for creating online video services, including live streaming and We
A flexible, elegant, fast and easy-to-use content management system written in PHP.
Markdown makes sites - A Static Site Generator for Blogs
Your Jellyfin or Plex library as a walkable 1990s video rental store, self-hosted
Neovim plugin for zk
Dedicated SSR (Server-side-rendered) Astro native Headless CMS, built from the ground up for the Astro community and by Astro community members
Per-component Internationalisation solution for JS application. Type-Safe. Translate with AI. Edit Visually.
Turns Markdown / MDX, YAML, JSON, or others into app's data layer with Zod schema.
A Github Action used to build and publish Docker images
Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
A simple tool for building stories.
Pulsarr: Real-time Plex watchlist monitoring and content acquisition tool. Seamlessly sync Plex watchlists with Sonarr and Radarr, featuring intelligent predica
Fast and small flat file CMS (5 files). Built with PHP, JSON database.
Next.js for Drupal has everything you need to build a next-generation front-end for your Drupal site: SSG, SSR, and ISR, Multi-site, Authentication, Webforms, S
A Markdown Based Python Blog Engine as a Flask Extension.
This layout engine can solve the hardest layout problems imaginable. Its output is DTP grade and deterministic. It's faster than engines written in C++ because
NamelessMC is a free, easy to use & powerful website software for your Minecraft server, which includes a large range of features.
A Next.js-based AI writing assistant supporting multiple LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, etc.) with rich style customization features to help content creators
RosarioSIS Student Information System for school management.
A HTTP/HTTPS API proxy for SRS.
Easy add support for docker to your strapi project
Open-source CMS for text-driven websites
Feather is a modern Swift-based Content Management System.
Markdown pastebin from command line
Gentics Mesh - The open source headless CMS for developers
Jivejdon is a chain notebook with DDD/CQRS/Clean architecture
Easy, flexible and powerful cloud-native Laravel CMS package powered by AI with JSON:API, GraphQL API, templates, and themes
All-in-One Backend as a Service with Headless CMS Power
VaahCMS is a laravel based open-source web application development platform shipped with a headless content management system (CMS).
NixOS Media Server Configuration
ASP.NET Core Blazor Content Management System (CMS)
The Tangent monorepo.
Parsifal is a tool to assist researchers to perform Systematic Literature Reviews
A lightweight real-time streaming library for IP cameras
Self-hostable image and video delivery with URL transforms
Community-driven platform built for transparency
Simple content management for modern sites
Build lasting communities with modern forum technology
Open-source changelog & roadmap platform for teams
Effortless changelog creation for open-source projects
Effortless blogging for developers and tech enthusiasts
Personal blogging platform that meets you where you write
Transform documentation with developer-focused simplicity
Blogging platform with built-in SEO, themes, and APIs
Frequently asked questions
How many open source Content & Publishing tools are there?
This registry tracks 203 open source Content & Publishing projects, with 2,002,111 combined GitHub stars. The list is ranked by stars and refreshed nightly.
What is the most popular open source Content & Publishing project?
next.js leads this category with 142,343 GitHub stars, followed by storybook.
Are these Content & Publishing tools free?
Yes — every project listed here is open source. Some also offer paid hosted versions alongside the free self-hosted option; the licence for each project is shown on its card.