October is the perfect time to refresh your self-hosted setup. New Docker containers keep appearing, and many of them solve everyday problems in smarter, lighter, or more private ways. Whether you run a Synology, UGREEN, or Asustor NAS, these recent apps are worth testing this month. I spend a lot of time testing new self-hosted apps on my own NAS, and these seven stood out to me over the past few weeks. Some of them I installed just for curiosity and ended up keeping permanently because they filled a real gap in my daily workflow.

Others I tried after seeing their docs and was genuinely surprised by how polished and useful they already are. If you’re looking for fresh projects this October, start with any of these. They’re all straightforward to deploy with Docker alongside with the Portainer or Dockhand manager and can make a noticeable difference in how you manage files, media, knowledge, or identity on your home server. Here are 7 Docker containers I personally recommend trying right now:

💡Wallos

Wallos is a powerful, open-source and self-hostable web application designed to empower you in managing your finances with ease. Say goodbye to complicated spreadsheets and expensive financial software; Wallos simplifies the process of tracking expenses and helps you gain better control over your financial life.
🚀Note: Install Wallos on Your Synology NAS.
🚀Note: Install Wallos on Your UGREEN NAS.

💡Open Archiver

Open Archiver provides a robust, self-hosted solution for archiving, storing, indexing, and searching emails from major platforms, including Google Workspace (Gmail), Microsoft 365, PST files, as well as generic IMAP-enabled email inboxes. Use Open Archiver to keep a permanent, tamper-proof record of your communication history, free from vendor lock-in.
🚀Note: Install Open Archiver on Your Synology NAS.
🚀Note: Install Open Archiver on Your UGREEN NAS.

💡Mail Archiver

Mail-Archiver is an open-source web app that archives, searches, and exports emails from multiple IMAP accounts. It automatically saves incoming and outgoing emails with attachments, syncs folder structures, and supports mailbox migration. A powerful search feature helps find emails quickly, while bulk export to PDF or PST aids backups and compliance. The intuitive dashboard manages accounts and archives.
🚀Note: Install Mail Archiver on Your Synology NAS.
🚀Note: Install Mail Archiver on Your UGREEN NAS.

💡May

May is a modern, self-hosted web dashboard application for vehicle management. It provides a clean interface to log fuel fill-ups, automatically calculate consumption (such as MPG or L/100km), track expenses, schedule maintenance, set reminders, and store related documents across multiple vehicles per user. The app supports full multi-user access, features interactive analytics charts, customizable notifications through email, Pushover, ntfy or webhooks, dark mode, PWA capabilities, and integrations like calendar subscriptions or UK DVLA lookups. Built with Python/Flask, SQLite, Tailwind CSS, and HTMX, it runs easily via Docker and includes a REST API plus PDF report generation for comprehensive fleet tracking. It’s named after James May as part of a fun Top Gear-inspired naming theme.

🚀Note: Install May on Your Synology NAS.
🚀Note: Install May on Your UGREEN NAS.
🚀Note: Install May on Your Asustor NAS.

💡Trilium

Trilium Notes 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 Mail Trilium on Your Synology NAS.
🚀Note: Install Mail Trilium on Your UGREEN NAS.

💡Ocular

Ocular is a small budgeting app as an alternative to Google sheet’s annual budget planner. Its goal is not to track individual expenses, work with multiple currencies at a time or anything related. Ocular is a simplistic, beautiful and straight-forward budgeting app to track your budget across the years. Easy to use, to get started and to set up.

🚀Note: Install Ocular on Your Synology NAS.

💡Linkwarden

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.
🚀Note: Install Linkwarden on Your UGREEN NAS.