Umbrel
A beautiful personal server OS for self-hosting. Install on a Raspberry Pi 4 or Ubuntu/Debian.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 53% of tracked projects; popularity more than 82%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 12k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 2.0.0 · 22 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 22 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | ⊘ Proprietary |
| Built with | Nodejs, Docker |
Is Umbrel actively maintained?
Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 304 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 3 of them.
Activity is cooling: commits are down 96% against the previous quarter. One slow quarter is normal; two in a row is a signal.
The most recent tagged release, 2.0.0, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Umbrel ranks #9 of 28 in Self-hosting Solutions, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What Umbrel actually does
Umbrel is a personal server operating system designed to run on single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi 4 or standard Linux distributions. It provides a web-based dashboard for installing and managing various self-hosted applications packaged in containers. The system abstracts away much of the underlying server configuration to simplify local service deployment.
Best fit: It suits users who want a graphical interface to manage local applications on dedicated hardware without configuring Linux services manually from the command line.
Worth knowing: The software is proprietary, meaning you cannot freely inspect or modify its core codebase, and its heavy reliance on a proprietary ecosystem may restrict deep customisation.
Deployment notes
Because it runs via containerisation and Node.js, you will need to ensure persistent storage volumes are correctly mapped to prevent data loss during updates. You should also provision a reverse proxy if you intend to access the interface securely over external networks.
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