Best self-hosted automation

[Automation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation) software designed to reduce human intervention in processes.

We track 32 self-hosted automation projects. The median health score in this category is 58, against 11 projects rated healthy or better and 5 showing little recent activity. The table below is ordered by health score, not popularity — the most starred project in a category is frequently not the best maintained one.

#	Project	Health	Stars	Built with	Last release
1	n8n Free node based Workflow Automation Tool. Easily automate tasks across different services.	Thriving · 99	206k	Nodejs	25 Sept 2026
2	Apache Airflow Platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows.	Thriving · 96	47k	Python, Docker	17 Sept 2026
3	Kestra Event-driven, language-agnostic platform to create, schedule, and monitor workflows. In code. Coordinate data pipelines	Thriving · 96	28k	Docker	22 Sept 2026
4	Activepieces No-code business automation tool like Zapier or Tray. For example, you can send a Slack notification for each new Trello	Thriving · 94	25k	Docker	24 Sept 2026
5	OliveTin Web interface for running Linux shell commands.	Thriving · 82	3.8k	Go	10 Sept 2026
6	Healthchecks Listen for pings and sends alerts when pings are late.	Healthy · 81	10k	Python, Docker	31 Aug 2026
7	Dagu Powerful Cron alternative with a Web UI. It allows you to define dependencies between commands as a Directed Acyclic Gra	Healthy · 79	4.2k	Go, Docker	25 Sept 2026
8	Gotenberg Developer-friendly API to interact with powerful tools like Chromium and LibreOffice for converting numerous document fo	Healthy · 76	13k	Docker	11 Sept 2026
9	changedetection.io Stay up-to-date with web-site content changes.	Healthy · 74	35k	Python, Docker	17 Sept 2026
10	Huginn Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf.	Healthy · 70	50k	Ruby	21 Sept 2026
11	Fredy Searches for new apartments, houses, and flats in Germany on platforms like ImmoScout24, Immowelt, and others, and insta	Healthy · 70	1.5k	Nodejs, Docker	27 Sept 2026
12	Leon Personal assistant who can live on your server.	Steady · 67	18k	Nodejs	19 Feb 2026
13	Cronicle Simple, distributed task scheduler and runner with a web based UI.	Steady · 67	5.8k	Nodejs	16 Sept 2026
14	gocron Task scheduler that allows users to specify recurring jobs via a simple YAML configuration file.	Steady · 62	548	Docker	26 Sept 2026
15	StackStorm StackStorm (aka IFTTT for Ops) is event-driven automation for auto-remediation, security responses, troubleshooting, dep	Steady · 58	6.5k	Python	12 Jan 2026
16	flowctl Self-service workflow execution platform with approvals, remote execution and scheduling.	Steady · 52	340	Go, Docker	7 Sept 2026
17	HomeButler Installs and manages a curated catalog of applications via Docker Compose, maps containers and exposed ports, verifies b	Steady · 52	292	Docker, Go	27 Sept 2026
18	pyLoad Lightweight, customizable and remotely manageable downloader for 1-click-hosting sites like rapidshare.com or uploaded.t	Slowing · 46	3.9k	Python	1 Jan 2026
19	ChiefOnboarding Employee onboarding platform that allows you to provision user accounts and create sequences with todo items, resources,	Slowing · 46	930	Docker	10 Sept 2026
20	Cronmaster Cronjob management UI with human readable syntax, live logging and log history for your cronjobs.	Slowing · 45	1.4k	Docker	13 Aug 2026
21	BookBounty Retrieve missing Readarr books from Library Genesis.	Slowing · 45	291	Docker	21 Aug 2026
22	Mylar3 Automated Comic Book (cbr/cbz) downloader program for use with NZB and torrents.	Slowing · 43	119	Python, Docker	17 Aug 2026
23	µTask Automation engine that models and executes business processes declared in yaml.	Slowing · 39	1.4k	Go, Docker	18 Mar 2026
24	Dittofeed Omni-channel customer engagement and messaging automation platform (alternative to Braze, Customer.io, Iterable).	Slowing · 38	3k	Docker	28 Mar 2026
25	Discount Bandit Track pricing, stock status of products across multiple stores such as Amazon, Ebay, Walmart, etc.	At risk · 35	743	PHP, Docker	23 May 2026
26	Automatisch Business automation tool that lets you connect different services like Twitter, Slack, and more to automate your busines	At risk · 32	14k	Docker	8 Aug 2025
27	HandBrake Web Use one or more instances of HandBrake video transcoder on a headless device via a web interface.	At risk · 28	802	Docker	10 Dec 2025
28	Matchering Automated music mastering (alternative to LANDR, eMastered and MajorDecibel).	At risk · 26	2.6k	Docker	19 Oct 2022
29	Kibitzr Lightweight personal web assistant with powerful integrations.	At risk · 12	716	Python	5 May 2025
30	LazyLibrarian Follow authors and grab metadata for all your digital reading needs. It uses a combination of Goodreads, Librarything an	Unrated	—	Python	—
31	Ctfreak IT task scheduler with mobile-friendly web UI to schedule concurrent, remote and chained execution of Bash / Powershell	Unrated	—	Unknown	—
32	CxReports Reporting and PDF document generation with a user-friendly WYSIWYG template editor, API, automated email delivery, and r	Unrated	—	Docker	—

Which one should you run?

If you want the safest bet on longevity, n8n is the best-maintained project in this category right now at 99/100. Apache Airflow is the closest runner-up (96/100) — see the side-by-side comparison.

A health score measures whether a project is alive and shipping. It does not measure whether it has the feature you need. Use it to rule options out, then compare on features.

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