Open Source Content & Publishing Software
Content & Publishing software provides systems for managing, storing, and distributing digital media and text. These tools handle tasks such as organizing photo libraries, streaming video, and operating community forums or newsletters. This type of software serves independent creators and community managers who need to host their own knowledge bases and media servers. By using these apps, you avoid relying on external cloud services to store your images and articles. These tools ensure that your publishing workflow and subscriber lists remain on your own hardware.
This page lists 256 open source tools in the Content & Publishing category. The most popular are Immich, OpenCut and Jellyfin. Most use the MIT or AGPL-3.0 license, and 180 offer an official Docker image.
NymphCast
Stream audio and video over a network from client devices or media servers to target hardware.
ExifCleaner
Removes metadata from images, videos, and PDFs to protect privacy across multiple file formats.
Squidex
A headless content management system and hub providing a rich API for custom frontend applications.
Gonic
A lightweight music streaming server that implements the Subsonic API for self-hosted audio collections.
Kyoo
A self-hosted media server for streaming movies, series, and anime with automated metadata management.
OpenSpot Music
Stream and download music without ads or login requirements across desktop and mobile platforms.
Documize
A self-hosted knowledge management solution for organizing and unifying internal and customer-facing technical documentation.
mStream
A music streaming server with filesystem based API and integrated support for various torrent clients.
Artalk
A self-hosted comment system for blogs and websites featuring a lightweight client and Golang server.
Dopamine
A cross platform audio player designed for organizing and listening to local music libraries with simplicity.
Supersonic
A cross-platform desktop client for streaming music from self-hosted Subsonic and Jellyfin compatible servers.
PiGallery2
A directory-first photo gallery website optimized for running on low-resource servers and Raspberry Pi hardware.
muffon
A multi-source music streaming and discovery client that aggregates audio and metadata from various internet sources.
Zim
A graphical text editor for maintaining a collection of wiki pages stored as plain text files.
Tasks.md
A self-hosted task management board that stores cards and lanes as Markdown files on the filesystem.
Museeks
A cross-platform desktop music player for managing local libraries with a clean and minimal interface.
Traduora
A translation management platform for teams to import, export, and deliver localization updates over the air.
Manyfold
A self-hosted digital asset manager designed for organizing and managing collections of 3D print files.
phpBB
A free open-source bulletin board system written in PHP for creating and managing online community forums.
Movim
A federated blogging and chat platform that serves as a web frontend for the XMPP protocol.
Ech0
A self-hosted personal microblogging platform for publishing ideas and media to a shareable personal timeline.
Swing Music
A self-hosted music streaming server for managing and playing local audio files via a web interface.
µStreamer
A lightweight server that streams MJPEG video from V4L2 devices to the network via HTTP.
TidGi
A local-first knowledge management tool based on TiddlyWiki with integrated Git backup and blogging capabilities.
Vrite
A collaborative developer content platform for creating and deploying product documentation, technical blogs, and internal knowledge bases.
django-wiki
A modular wiki system for Django that uses Markdown and structured data for knowledge management.
LearnHouse
A self-hosted learning management system for creating courses with a block-based editor and collaborative whiteboards.
ChronoFrame
Self-hosted personal gallery application for managing photo albums with EXIF parsing and geolocation mapping.
Publify
A self hosted web publishing platform built on Ruby on Rails for blogging and short messages.
Talkyard
A community discussion platform combining forum threads, real-time chat, and embeddable blog comments in one system.
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