HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia)
Inventory and organization system built for the home user.
Actively maintained with regular releases.
Commit activity more than 61% of tracked projects; popularity more than 74%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 7.4k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v0.26.2 · 14 Jun 2026 |
| Repo updated | 26 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Built with | Docker, Go |
Is HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia) actively maintained?
HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia) is under active development: 441 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 23 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
The most recent tagged release, v0.26.2, is about 4 months old.
HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia) ranks #8 of 13 in Inventory Management, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia) actually does
HomeBox is a self-hosted inventory and organisation system designed to help domestic users catalogue their belongings. It provides a centralised digital interface to record items, locations, and metadata. The software is written in Go and distributed under the AGPL-3.0 licence.
Best fit: It suits individuals looking to maintain a private, structured database of their household possessions rather than relying on commercial cloud services.
Worth knowing: The AGPL-3.0 licence carries strong copyleft implications if you modify and redistribute the source code over a network. Additionally, as an inventory tool, it requires consistent manual data entry to remain useful.
Deployment notes
Deployment typically relies on Docker with persistent volumes configured for data storage. You will also usually need to place the container behind a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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