Collection:SaaSS replacements
These are free/libre software replacements for Service as a Software Substitutes (which are sometimes also referred to as Web services or network services).
- On the Internet, proprietary software isn't the only way to lose your freedom. Service as a Software Substitute, or SaaSS, is another way to let someone else have power over your computing.
- SaaSS means using a service implemented by someone else as a substitute for running your copy of a program. The term is ours; articles and ads won't use it, and they won't tell you whether a service is SaaSS. Instead they will probably use the vague and distracting term “cloud”, which lumps SaaSS together with various other practices, some abusive and some ok. With the explanation and examples in this page, you can tell whether a service is SaaSS.
- Who Does the Server Really Serve?
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.
Contents
- 1 Text translation
- 2 Collaborative real-time editing
- 3 Satellite navigation and routing
- 4 Internet radio
- 5 Media sharing, streaming and video-on-demand
- 6 Social networks
- 7 Analytics platforms
- 8 Payment systems and cryptocurrencies
- 9 E-mail server software, client webmail and groupware
- 10 Web search engine
- 11 Static source code analyzers
- 12 Code hosting platforms
- 13 Translation platforms
Text translation
Apertium | An offline machine translation tool
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Collaborative real-time editing
Gobby | Collaborative editor and server software that doesn't make the user run untrusted code in the web browser and supports various client applications
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Etherpad | Server software for real-time collaborative editing which allows users to edit documents using their web browser
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Navit | Car navigation system with routing engine
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Internet radio
GNU FM | Server software for running music community websites.
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Media sharing, streaming and video-on-demand
GNU MediaGoblin | Server software that allows you to share your media with the world.
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GNUnet | Secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer networking framework.
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Tribler | Python based BitTorrent/Internet TV application
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Popcorntime.sh | Watch movies and TV shows instantly from BitTorrent protocol
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Social networks
Diaspora | Server software for the decentralized social network of the same name
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GNU social | Powerful social network that is federated.
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Mastodon | Microblogging server software which follows the ActivityPub standard, supports content warnings and private messages
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Pump.io | Blogging server software that federates using the Activity Streams standard
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Twister | Twister is the fully decentralized P2P microblogging platform leveraging from the free software implementations of Bitcoin and BitTorrent protocols
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Analytics platforms
Piwik | Real-time Web analytics software program
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Payment systems and cryptocurrencies
GNU Taler | Advanced electronic payment system for privacy-preserving payments.
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Bitcoin-Qt | Bitcoin client and wallet
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Zcash | Zcash is a decentralized cryptocurrency that offers privacy and selective transparency of transactions. Zcash payments are published on a public blockchain, but the sender, recipient, and amount of a transaction remain private
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E-mail server software, client webmail and groupware
Roundcube | A browser-based multilingual IMAP e-mail client
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SOGo | Scalable groupware server
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SquirrelMail | E-mail reader
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Web search engine
Searx | Searx a privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine inspired by the Seeks websearch proxy
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YaCy | YaCy is a distributed search engine
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Static source code analyzers
Adlint | Source code static analyzer
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Code hosting platforms
GitBucket | A self-hosted Git platform
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Gitea | A painless self-hosted software forge
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GitLab | read-only mirror of GitLab, with all proprietary code removed
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Gogs | A self-hosted Git service written in Go
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Kallithea | GIT and Mercurial source code management system
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Savane | Web-based software hosting system
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Translation platforms
Weblate | Online, Web-based translation platform |
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