Collection:SaaSS

This table lists software replacements for Service as a Software Substitute (or SaaSS, for short).

Service as a Software Substitute means a network service that offers to do a job that ought in principle to be doable locally on your own computers(s). These jobs don't inherently depend on any network usage; indeed, involving the network in them at all is a gratuitous problem.

The right way to do such a job, the way that doesn't spy on you or take away your control of the job, is to do it in your own computer, with exclusively free software of course.

Thus, the free replacement for a SaaSS service is a free program that you can run locally to do basically the same job.

While solving the problem of SaaSS may seem sufficient, this doesn't solve other issues related to centralization and lack of standardization or of security. This page preferably lists software that helps people self-host their activities in the Internet while also providing some level of federation with other hosts; secondly, it lists replacements for some SaaSS variants in case there is no federated or no distributed self-hosted equivalent.

For end-users

Type	Free program[1][2]	SaaSS to Replace
Real-time editor	Etherpad Gobby	Google Docs text editor
Office suite	LibreOffice	Microsoft Office 365
Satellite navigation	Navit	Google Maps
Social network service	Diaspora Friendica GNU social Mastodon Prosody pump.io Twister Weechat-scripts	Facebook
		Google+
		Twitter
		Linkedin
Streaming video-on-demand	Tribler Popcorntime.sh	Netflix
E-mail client	Claws Mail Evolution	Google Gmail webmail
		Mail.ru webmail
		Microsoft Hotmail webmail
		Microsoft Live webmail
		Microsoft MSN webmail
		Microsoft Outlook.com webmail
		Yahoo! Mail webmail
		Yandex Mail webmail
Image editing	GIMP Inkscape	Flickr photo editor
		Instagram photo editor
Video editing	Blender	YouTube video editor

For organizations

Type	Free SaaSS[1][3]	SaaSS to Replace
Collaborative real-time editor	Emacs + rudel Etherpad Gobby	Google Docs, Google Sheets
E-learning platform	Moodle	Google Classroom
Internet radio	GNU FM	last.fm
Internet radio streaming	Icecast	Radionomy
Office suite	EtherCalc Etherpad PHPOffice	Google Docs, Google Sheets, Microsoft Office 365
Online money transfer system	Electrum GNU Taler Monero Core	PayPal
		Google Wallet
Online storage, data synchronization	Nextcloud OnionShare ownCloud Sparkleshare Syncthing Tahoe-LAFS	Amazon Drive
		Amazon S3
		Apple iCloud
		Dropbox
		Google Drive
		Microsoft OneDrive
		Yandex Disk
Satellite navigation	Navit	Google Maps
Social network service	Crabgrass matrix-synapse	Facebook
		Google+
		Twitter
		Linkedin
Source code hosting facilities	Savane	SourceForge
Streaming video-on-demand	Tribler Popcorntime.sh	Netflix
E-mail client	Mail-in-a-Box mailcow: dockerized Mailpile Roundcube SOGo SquirrelMail	Google Gmail
		Mail.ru
		Microsoft Exchange
		Microsoft Hotmail
		Microsoft Live
		Microsoft MSN
		Microsoft Outlook.com
		Yahoo! Mail
		Yandex Mail
Web search engine	GigaBlast Search Searx YaCy
		Google Search
		Microsoft Bing
		Yahoo! Search
Web server, media hosting and sharing	GNU MediaGoblin	Flickr
		Imgur
		Instagram
		Picasa
		Tumblr
		YouTube
		Vimeo

Unsorted

Static Source Code Analyzers

Adlint

It can point out insecure or nonportable code fragments, and can measure various quality metrics of the source code. It (currently) can analyze source code compliant with ANSI C89 / ISO C90 and partly ISO C99. When used in conjunction with other free software, this could serve as the beginnings of a replacement for Coverity Scan

Analytics Platforms

Piwik

A suitable replacement for Google Analytics, for analyzing web user traffic on your website. Supports integration with popular web revision systems.

Code hosting platforms

GitBucket	A comprehensive Git-based software forge written in Scala.
Gitea	A community fork of Gogs.
GitLab	GitLab Community Edition is a comprehensive Git-based software forge written in Ruby.
Gogs	A lightweight Git hosting service written in Go.
Kallithea	Kallithea is a fast and powerful management tool for Git and Mercurial with a built-in push/pull server, full text search and code-review.

Translation platforms

Weblate

Weblate is a free/libre replacement of Transifex. It comes with an interface using Bootstrap.

Notes

1. This is a selection of the more common free software applications, and is nothing like a comprehensive list.
2. Software which is run locally by the user, without the need to have any server running.
3. Software which can be installed and controlled by an organization, on the organization's servers to do the organization's jobs. For instance, if the organization would like its members, staff or contributors to work together to edit something, it could tell them to use Google Docs, but that would be SaaSS: Google would have control of the organization's computing. What it should do instead is run Etherpad or some other free tool on a machine the organization controls.

See also

• FSD: Free software replacements
• FSD: Antifeatures
• FSD: Participate/Project Team