Gladys
Privacy-first home assistant.
Actively maintained with regular releases.
Commit activity more than 65% of tracked projects; popularity more than 59%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 3.2k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v5.1.1 · 22 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 27 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Built with | Nodejs, Docker |
Is Gladys actively maintained?
Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 527 commits, of which 403 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 134 commits a month.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 740% more commits than the one before it.
The most recent tagged release, v5.1.1, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Gladys ranks #6 of 20 in Internet of Things (IoT), placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What Gladys actually does
Gladys is a privacy-first home assistant designed to help you manage and automate your Internet of Things devices locally. It functions as a centralised platform for controlling smart home hardware without routing your telemetry through external cloud services. The project is open-source under the Apache-2.0 licence.
Best fit: It is well-suited if you want to centralise your smart home automation while keeping your personal data strictly on your own local network.
Worth knowing: You may encounter a smaller ecosystem of native integrations compared to dominant market alternatives, which could require more manual configuration for certain hardware.
Deployment notes
Since it is packaged for Docker, you will typically need to configure persistent volumes for your application data and place it behind a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination securely.
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