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Browse all software categories across Observability, Security, ML/AI, DevOps, and more. Each category links directly to curated project and product views.
100+ categories · 1,000+ open-source projects · 600+ SaaS products
Applications
End-user apps you deploy (CMS, forums, helpdesk, e-commerce).
30+ categories · 400+ projects · 200+ products
- Accounting & Invoicing10+ projects · 6 products
Self-hosted and open-source accounting, billing, and invoicing software.
- AI Personal Assistant Software20+ projects · 7 products
End-user voice/text assistants for personal tasks and automation.
- Analytics & BI Platforms10+ projects · 5 products
Business intelligence and analytics tools for dashboards and reporting.
- Appointment Scheduling & Booking Platforms5 projects · 10+ products
Self-hosted or OSS tools for customer booking, calendar routing, reminders and payments.
- Bookmark Managers & Read-It-Later20+ projects · 6 products
Save, tag, and search links; clip pages to read later and organize collections.
- Content Management Systems (CMS)10+ projects · 10+ products
Platforms for managing website content and blogs with themes, plugins, and roles.
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)10+ projects · 10+ products
Systems to manage contacts, sales pipelines, and customer interactions.
- Customer Messaging & Live Chat4 projects · 3 products
Live chat and customer support messaging tools (website chat widgets, multi-channel).
- Customer Support & Helpdesk10+ projects · 10+ products
Ticketing systems for customer support, IT helpdesks, and issue resolution workflows.
- Developer Docs & API Portals10+ projects · 6 products
Docs-as-code platforms and API portals with reference, SDKs, and search.
- E-Signature & Contract Management4 projects · 5 products
Electronic signatures, contract workflows, templates and audit trails.
- E-commerce Platforms10+ projects · 7 products
Shopping cart and online store platforms for self-hosted e-commerce.
- Email Marketing Platforms7 projects · 10+ products
Campaigns, automation and segmentation for newsletters and promotions.
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)9 projects · 6 products
Business management suites integrating finance, HR, inventory, and more.
- File Sync & Share Platforms20+ projects · 4 products
File storage, synchronization and sharing solutions (self-hosted cloud drives).
- Form Builders & Survey Tools7 projects · 6 products
Build embeddable forms and surveys; collect submissions with notifications, webhooks and exports.
- Knowledge Base & Wiki Platforms30+ projects · 8 products
Wiki and knowledge base software for documentation and internal knowledge sharing.
- Learning Management Systems (LMS)10+ projects · 6 products
Platforms for online learning, courses, and training programs.
- Link-in-Bio & Personal Profile Pages6 projects · 6 products
Single-page personal sites to showcase links, profiles, and contact with simple customization.
- Localization & Translation Management (TMS)8 projects · 4 products
Platforms and CAT tools to manage translations, glossaries and workflows with optional human review.
- Low-Code/No-Code Platforms20+ projects · 10+ products
Platforms for building apps and workflows with minimal coding via UI/visual tools.
- Mail Servers & Relays9 projects · 8 products
Servers for sending and receiving email (SMTP relays, IMAP/POP servers).
- Mailing List & Newsletter Managers3 projects · 3 products
Tools for managing newsletters and subscriber mailing lists.
- Password Managers9 projects · 8 products
Secure vaults for storing and sharing passwords and credentials.
- Personal CRM & Contact Managers1 project · 7 products
Lightweight contact managers with enrichment and keep-in-touch reminders.
- Product Analytics & Session Replay20+ projects · 10+ products
User behavior analytics with funnels, heatmaps and session replay to optimize UX.
- Project Management & Issue Tracking10+ projects · 10+ products
Task tracking, kanban, and project planning tools for teams and software projects.
- Social Media Management & Scheduling4 projects · 10+ products
Plan, schedule, publish and analyze posts across social networks from one place.
- Social Networking Platforms10+ projects · 9 products
Self-hosted social network and microblogging software (Twitter or Facebook alternatives).
- Speech-to-Text & Dictation7 projects · 3 products
AI-powered dictation and transcription apps for writing emails, notes and docs by voice.
- Subscription Billing & Payments10+ projects · 7 products
Recurring billing, subscriptions, proration, dunning, taxes and payment retries.
- Task & To-Do Management10+ projects · 3 products
Lightweight task lists with reminders, subtasks and shared lists.
- Team Chat Platforms10+ projects · 6 products
Self-hosted team messaging and collaboration (chat channels, file sharing).
- Time Tracking & Timesheets10+ projects · 10+ products
Track work time, submit timesheets, set billable rates and export reports.
- URL Shorteners & Link Management10+ projects · 7 products
Branded short links, QR codes and click analytics with centralized link management.
- User Feedback & Roadmaps7 projects · 10+ products
Feedback boards with feature voting, public roadmaps and changelogs.
- Website Builders & Landing Pages10+ projects · 9 products
Simple site and landing-page builders with hosting, forms and basic analytics.
- Whiteboards & Visual Collaboration5 projects · 5 products
Collaborative online whiteboards for workshops, ideation, mapping and team brainstorming.
Data Engineering
Data ingestion, processing and pipeline tools (ETL, workflows, big data).
5 categories · 50+ projects · 30+ products
- Data Catalogs & Governance9 projects · 9 products
Metadata catalogs with governance, discovery and lineage across data assets.
- ETL & Data Integration9 projects · 6 products
Extract-transform-load (ETL) and data integration platforms for moving and transforming data.
- Stream Processing Engines9 projects · 10+ products
Frameworks for real-time processing of streaming data and events.
- Web Scraping & Crawling10+ projects · 6 products
Frameworks and services for large-scale web data extraction with headless browsers and crawlers.
- Workflow Orchestration Tools10+ projects · 4 products
Workflow managers for scheduling and orchestrating data pipelines.
Data Platforms
Databases, search engines, warehouses, and lakehouse systems.
6 categories · 50+ projects · 20+ products
- Data Warehouse & OLAP Databases10+ projects · 4 products
Analytical databases for large-scale reporting, BI, and OLAP queries.
- Distributed SQL Databases5 projects · 3 products
NewSQL databases with horizontal scalability and strong consistency.
- Document Databases9 projects · 2 products
NoSQL databases for storing JSON or document-like structures.
- Search Engines10+ projects · 7 products
Full-text search platforms for indexing and querying documents and data.
- Time-Series Databases7 projects · 4 products
Databases optimized for time-stamped series data (metrics, IoT).
- Vector Databases10+ projects · 3 products
Datastores optimized for vector similarity search (ANN).
DevOps & Platform
CI/CD, orchestration, infrastructure and deployment tools.
20+ categories · 100+ projects · 100+ products
- AI Code Assistants & Autocomplete10+ projects · 10+ products
In-IDE AI coding assistants for chat, autocomplete, refactors, tests and codebase Q&A.
- API Clients & Testing10+ projects · 8 products
REST/GraphQL API clients with collections, mocking, monitors and contract testing.
- API Gateways8 projects · 7 products
Gateways for managing, securing, and routing API requests (REST, GraphQL).
- Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS)10+ projects · 3 products
Back-end platforms providing ready-to-use API services (auth, database, storage).
- CDN & Edge Caching3 projects · 8 products
Edge content delivery and caching (global POPs, geo routing, purge, origin shielding).
- CI/CD Pipelines9 projects · 7 products
Continuous integration and delivery systems for build, test, and deploy pipelines.
- Cloud IDEs & Remote Dev Environments7 projects · 5 products
On-demand, containerized developer workspaces in the cloud or self-hosted.
- Code Quality & Review Automation10+ projects · 6 products
Automated PR reviews, style checks and static analysis to improve code quality.
- Configuration Management6 projects · 2 products
Systems for automating server setup and configuration (across fleets).
- Container Orchestration6 projects · 3 products
Platforms for deploying and managing containers at scale (clusters, scheduling).
- Email Testing & Sandbox Inboxes8 projects · 6 products
Disposable inboxes and APIs for asserting emails in automated tests.
- Feature Flags10+ projects · 5 products
Platforms for feature toggles and gradual rollouts in applications.
- Git Hosting & Version Control9 projects · 4 products
Self-hosted code repositories and version control platforms (Git web interfaces).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)5 projects · 3 products
Tools for provisioning and managing infrastructure using code and configuration.
- Object Storage & Filesystems8 projects · 3 products
Distributed object storage systems and cluster filesystems for large-scale data.
- PaaS & Deployment Platforms10+ projects · 10+ products
Self-hosted Platform-as-a-Service tools for deploying and managing apps.
- QA & End-to-End Testing10+ projects · 7 products
Automated browser E2E tests, visual regression and flow monitoring for web apps.
- Reverse Proxies & Load Balancers4 projects · 5 products
Proxy servers for web traffic, providing load balancing and SSL termination.
- Serverless Platforms7 projects · 3 products
Frameworks for deploying functions or serverless applications on-demand.
- Service Mesh7 projects · 3 products
Mesh layers for microservices networking (traffic policy, service discovery, mTLS).
Geospatial
Geospatial data and mapping server platforms.
1 category · 3 projects · 1 product
- GIS & Mapping Platforms3 projects · 1 product
Geographic information systems (GIS) servers and map rendering tools.
Media & Realtime
Real-time communication and media streaming platforms.
2 categories · 10+ projects · 10+ products
- Live Streaming Platforms7 projects · 7 products
Software for live video streaming and broadcasting to audiences.
- Video Conferencing9 projects · 3 products
Self-hosted video meeting and conferencing servers with screen sharing, chat, etc.
Messaging & Integration
Message brokers, event streaming and workflow automation.
4 categories · 30+ projects · 10+ products
- Customer Data Platforms (CDP)4 projects · 2 products
Collect, unify identities and route customer events to warehouses and downstream tools.
- Event Streaming Platforms5 projects · 6 products
Distributed streaming and event log platforms for high-throughput data feeds.
- Message Brokers & Queues9 projects · 3 products
Messaging systems for asynchronous communication (pub/sub, point-to-point queues).
- Workflow Automation10+ projects · 7 products
Visual automation tools and integration platforms for business workflows.
ML & AI
Machine learning model training, serving and MLOps platforms.
10+ categories · 100+ projects · 50+ products
- AI Agent Frameworks10+ projects · 3 products
Frameworks for building and orchestrating agentic LLM applications: tool use, multi-agent workflows, memory, planning, and evaluation.
- AI App Builders7 projects · 9 products
Platforms that generate production web apps from natural-language prompts, producing runnable code (repo/PR/deploy) with iterative editing.
- AI Application Frameworks & Orchestration9 projects · 2 products
Build AI apps/agents with tools, retrieval, prompts and routing graphs.
- AutoML Tools7 projects · 3 products
Automated modeling and pipeline tooling for selection and tuning.
- Conversational AI Platforms10+ projects · 4 products
Platforms to design, build, and deploy chat/voice assistants with NLU/dialogue, channels, policies, analytics, and hosting.
- Data Labeling & Annotation5 projects · 3 products
Annotate images, text and audio with workflows, QA and datasets.
- Feature Stores5 projects · 3 products
Manage, compute and serve shared ML features across offline/online flows.
- LLM Evaluation & Observability10+ projects · 3 products
Evaluate prompts and models, trace runs and monitor quality and safety.
- LLM Gateways & Aggregators5 projects · 3 products
Single API/proxy across multiple model providers with routing, fallbacks, keys/billing unification, and basic observability.
- Model Serving & Inference Platforms10+ projects · 5 products
Serve and scale ML/LLM models with runtimes, autoscaling and GPUs.
- MLOps: Experiment Tracking & Model Registry7 projects · 4 products
Track experiments, metrics and register versioned models with lineage.
- Model Training & Fine-Tuning Platforms10+ projects · 6 products
Train and fine-tune models with distributed jobs, schedulers and adapters.
- Notebook & Data Science Platforms7 projects · 4 products
Web-based notebooks and collaborative data science environments.
Observability
Monitoring and observability (logging, metrics, tracing, APM).
9 categories · 80+ projects · 40+ products
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM)7 projects · 6 products
Application performance monitoring and profiling tools for in-depth analytics.
- Continuous Profiling10+ projects · 6 products
Always-on code profiling (CPU, memory, locks) to optimize performance in production.
- Distributed Tracing9 projects · 5 products
Tools to trace requests across microservices for performance and debugging.
- Error Tracking6 projects · 4 products
Platforms for capturing and tracking application errors and exceptions (crash reports).
- Incident Management & On-Call6 projects · 6 products
On-call scheduling, paging and incident response orchestration with runbooks and postmortems.
- Infrastructure Monitoring8 projects · 5 products
Server and network monitoring tools for uptime, health checks, and alerts.
- Log Management6 projects · 5 products
Centralized log collection, storage, and search across servers and applications.
- Observability Suites10+ projects · 3 products
Platforms bundling logs, metrics, traces (and often RUM, synthetics, profiling) in one place.
- Status Pages & Incident Communication10+ projects · 6 products
Public status pages for uptime and incident updates with subscriber notifications.
Security
Identity, access, secrets, and security auditing tools.
10+ categories · 80+ projects · 50+ products
- Application Security Testing (SAST/DAST/SCA)10+ projects · 6 products
Static/dynamic analysis and dependency (SCA) scanning for application vulnerabilities.
- Compliance Automation & GRC8 projects · 10+ products
Automated controls, evidence collection and audits for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and more.
- Container Security8 projects · 3 products
Container image scanning and Kubernetes security tools for supply chain protection.
- Data Discovery & Classification5 projects · 4 products
Sensitive data discovery, classification and privacy compliance across data stores.
- Identity & SSO10+ projects · 7 products
Identity and single sign-on (SSO) servers for authentication and user management.
- Secrets Management7 projects · 6 products
Vaults and key management systems for secure storage of credentials and secrets.
- SIEM & Threat Detection5 projects · 5 products
Security information and event management platforms for threat monitoring and analysis.
- VPN & Zero Trust Networks8 projects · 3 products
Secure remote access solutions including VPN servers and zero-trust networking tools.
- Vulnerability Scanners5 projects · 3 products
Tools to scan applications or dependencies for security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
- WAF & API Security6 projects · 3 products
Web application firewalls and API security gateways to protect against attacks.
PickYourTech lists software categories across Observability, Security, ML/AI, DevOps, Data Platforms, and more. Each category hub includes definitions, curated tools, and open-source alternatives to help you choose confidently.