One of the nicest surprises of 2026 is undoubtedly Dockhand, the tool that’s quickly replacing Portainer and has delivered a real quality leap in our home self-hosted lab. Dockhand keeps getting better at an impressive pace: every update fixes annoying bugs and brings genuinely useful features for serious self-hosters. Its killer feature? It’s free.
Meanwhile Immich has just hit the incredible milestone of 90,000 stars on GitHub, cementing its status as an absolute open-source masterpiece and far surpassing Google Photos in adoption within the self-hosted community. Just in the last few days version 2.5.0 was released, a very important milestone for the project and for all of us who use it every single day.
The self-hosting world is growing at crazy speed, our communities are getting bigger and more active every month, and I’m genuinely happy to be sharing this journey with you. The guides on mariushosting stay relentlessly up-to-date (it’s a ton of work, believe me), but if you’ve been following along, you’ve seen how I try to keep them crystal-clear, screenshot-heavy, and beginner-to-pro friendly, even if you’ve literally never touched Linux, Docker, or a NAS before. The mission is unchanged: turn complete newcomers into confident, independent self-hosters who can build exactly what they want. mariushosting is meant to feel like home: a reliable, no-BS spot where you always find the peace of mind, the step-by-step certainty, and the reassurance that your goals are within reach. It’s because of your support and encouragement that I keep on keeping on and like to give you the best of my work and efforts! On mariushosting, you will see only top-notch content and resources!
Dockhand is a modern, self-hosted Docker management platform with an intuitive web interface for homelabs, small businesses, and enterprises. It simplifies container operations, stack deployments, and observability through real-time management (start/stop/restart containers, web terminals, file transfers), a visual Compose editor, GitOps auto-sync, metrics, logs, OIDC/SSO, MFA, vulnerability scans, and multi-host support via the open-source Hawser agent. You can deploy it quickly as a Docker container with no cloud dependencies or telemetry. It’s forever free for personal use. Note: Install Dockhand on Your Synology NAS.
Immich is a very high performance self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone. You can run Immich on your Synology NAS and it lets you upload photos and videos from your browser or mobile phone via the dedicated Android Immich app or the iOS Immich app. The Immich user interface feels like Google Photos, especially if you are using the mobile apps. Note: Install Immich on Your Synology NAS.
PrestaShop 9 is an open source e-commerce web application, committed to providing the best shopping cart experience for both merchants and customers. It is written in PHP, is highly customizable, supports all the major payment services, is translated in many languages and localized for many countries, and has a fully responsive design (both front and back office). Note: Install PrestaShop on Your Synology NAS.
With Tandoor Recipes you can easily manage your recipes with a fast and intuitive editor. Shop lists via the meal plan or straight from recipes with a powerful & customizable search. Tandoor is build around the values of Open Source software and using modern technologies. No tracking, no analytics, just your recipes. Tandoor Recipes is an alternative to Mealie. Note: Install Tandoor Recipes on Your Synology NAS.
Vikunja is an open source, selfhosted application. With Vikunja you can easily organize all of your tasks in lists. Put lists together in a namespace to keep related stuff grouped together. Vikunja lets you easily share a list or a namespace with another user or a whole team! You can also assign tasks to people so everybody knows who’s working on what. Note: Install Vikunja on Your Synology NAS.
Actual is a super fast, privacy-focused app for managing your finances. You own your data, and Actual Server will sync it across all your devices with optional end-to-end encryption. Note: Install Actual on Your Synology NAS.
File Browser offers a user-friendly interface for managing files within a designated directory. It supports uploading, deleting, previewing, renaming, and editing files. The app allows the creation of multiple user accounts, each with its own dedicated directory. File Browser can function as a standalone application or as middleware for seamless integration. Note: Install FileBrowser on Your Synology NAS.
Ghost is a free and open source blogging platform like WordPress and Grav. Ghost is written in JavaScript and distributed under the MIT License, designed to simplify the process of online publishing for individual bloggers as well as online publications. Ghost CMS is actually used by millions of people. The Ghost app is a powerful app for new-media creators to publish, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members. Note: Install Ghost on Your Synology NAS.
Trilium is a hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases. You can look at Trilium as your own self-hosted Wikipedia. Note: Install Trilium on Your Synology NAS.
TeslaMate is a data logger for your Tesla car. It will record all the information sent by your car such as charging, trips, sleep, updates etc. and present it to you with many statistics and beautiful graphics thanks to Grafana. Note: Install TeslaMate on Your Synology NAS.
Shlink is a self-hosted open source URL shortener which provides both a REST and a CLI interface to interact with it. Shlink comes with some features which are not usually available in other hosted and self-hosted services. Note: Install Shlink on Your Synology NAS.
Stirling-PDF is a powerful locally hosted web based PDF manipulation tool using Docker and AI that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files, such as splitting merging, converting, reorganizing, adding images, rotating, compressing, and more. Note: Install Stirling-PDF on Your Synology NAS.
Linkwarden is a self-hosted, open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and archive webpages. The objective is to organize useful webpages and articles you find across the web in one place, and since useful webpages can go away, Linkwarden also saves a copy of each webpage as a Screenshot and PDF, ensuring accessibility even if the original content is no longer available. Additionally, Linkwarden is designed with collaboration in mind, sharing links with the public and/or allowing multiple users to work together seamlessly. Note: Install Linkwarden on Your Synology NAS.
Karrio is a suite of open-source tools that make shipping simple and accessible. With Karrio, you can access a network of shipping carriers with a single API integration, build shipping functionalities seamlessly, and improve fulfilment operations. Note: Install Karrio on Your Synology NAS.
Plane is an open-source software development tool to manage issues, sprints, and product roadmaps with peace of mind. It allows users to start with a basic task tracking tool and gradually adopt various project management frameworks like Agile, Waterfall, and many more. Note: Install Plane on Your Synology NAS.
LinkStack is a highly customizable link sharing platform with an intuitive, easy to use user interface. LinkStack offers more features than any other comparable solution out there.. Note: Install LinkStack on Your Synology NAS.
Mautic is an open-source marketing automation platform that helps businesses and organizations manage, automate, and optimize their marketing campaigns across various channels like email, social media, and text messages. It provides tools for lead management, campaign automation, landing page creation, customer segmentation, and performance tracking. As an open-source solution, Mautic is free to use, customizable, and allows businesses to own their data and avoid vendor lock-in. Compose for version 7 at STEP 25. Note: Install Mautic V7 on Your Synology NAS.
Reactive Resume version 5 is a free, open-source resume builder that prioritizes privacy and simplicity. It allows you to create, customize, and share professional resumes with real-time previews, modern templates, drag-and-drop sections, rich text editing, custom CSS support, and export options in a PDF or JSON format. The app ensures no tracking or data selling, gives you full ownership of your data, and offers self-hosting via Docker. No account is required for basic use, it supports multiple languages, and newer versions include AI-assisted features. It’s built with React, TypeScript, Tailwind, and other modern technologies. Note: Install Reactive Resume V5 on Your Synology NAS.
BentoPDF is a powerful, privacy-first, client-side PDF toolkit that allows you to manipulate, edit, merge, and process PDF files directly in your browser. No server-side processing is required, ensuring your files remain secure and private. Note: Install BentoPDF on Your Synology NAS.
Rackula is a free, open-source web application that serves as a drag-and-drop rack visualizer for planning and designing server rack layouts. It’s particularly popular among homelab enthusiasts, self-hosters, and data center planners. The app runs entirely in the browser, allowing users to drag real device images (compatible with NetBox’s devicetype-library) from a library into virtual racks, rearrange equipment easily, and visualize accurate rack elevations with proper scaling. It supports exporting layouts to PNG, PDF, or SVG formats and sharing designs via QR codes and shareable URLs. Built with TypeScript and Svelte, Rackula is lightweight, requires no server-side persistence. Note: Install Rackula on Your Synology NAS.
Yubal is a self-hosted, easy-to-use tool that downloads YouTube Music albums (using yt-dlp) and automatically tags them with high-quality Spotify metadata and album art (via beets), creating a clean, organized local music library in Opus format, all without requiring any accounts. Note: Install Yubal on Your Synology NAS.
This post was updated on Thursday / January 29th, 2026 at 1:05 PM