The night is getting longer, the pumpkins are glowing on the porch and somewhere in the corner of your house your Synology NAS is humming quietly in the dark, like a friendly little ghost that never sleeps. Halloween is the perfect excuse to give it something fun to do. Some of these apps keep an eye on your door and your services while you hand out candy, some have names that sound like they crawled out of an old crypt, and others will help you plan the party, cook something wicked and enjoy a proper horror movie marathon with your friends. Today I want to surprise you with some Docker applications that fit the spookiest night of the year, so grab a bowl of candy and let’s see what is hiding inside the containers. 🎃
🎃 Frigate
Frigate is an open source NVR built around real-time AI object detection, and on Halloween night it becomes the most attentive guard you will ever have. Point it at your cameras and it will notice every little witch, vampire and superhero walking up to your door for trick or treat. All processing is performed locally on your own hardware, so your camera feeds never leave your home and nobody else gets to peek at your spooky visitors. Note: Install Frigate on Your Synology NAS.
🎃 Scrypted
Scrypted has a name that sounds like it was found engraved on an old crypt, but it is actually a home automation platform focused on making camera experiences seamless. It can bridge most cameras to the three major home hubs, HomeKit (including HomeKit Secure Video), Google Home and Alexa, with fast, low latency and very reliable streams. Perfect for checking who is ringing the doorbell at midnight before you decide to open the door. Note: Install Scrypted on Your Synology NAS.
Uptime Kuma is the watcher in the shadows that never blinks. It monitors your websites and services constantly over HTTP(s), TCP and Ping, with checks as often as every 20 seconds, and it warns you via Webhook, Telegram, Discord or email the moment something goes down. Its interface is fancy, reactive and fast, so while you are busy with the party, Uptime Kuma keeps an eye on everything for you and tells you when a service suddenly turns into a ghost. Note: Install Uptime Kuma on Your Synology NAS.
🎃 Ghost
Ghost is the most fitting name on this list. It is a free and open source blogging platform like WordPress and Grav, written in JavaScript and distributed under the MIT License, designed to simplify online publishing for individual bloggers as well as online publications. Millions of people use it, and it is a lovely place to share your scariest stories, your costume ideas or the photos of your carved pumpkins with the world. Note: Install Ghost on Your Synology NAS.
Ghostfolio is an open source wealth management software built with web technology. Don’t let the name scare you: the only thing haunting you here will be your own investment decisions. It helps busy people keep track of stocks, ETFs or cryptocurrencies and make solid, data driven choices, so you can check how your portfolio is doing after you have spent a small fortune on candy and costumes. Note: Install Ghostfolio on Your Synology NAS.
🎃 Grimmory
Grimmory sounds like a grimoire full of forbidden spells, and in a way it is the perfect home for your collection of horror books. It is a self-hosted application for managing your entire library in one place, with smart rule-based shelves, full-text search and automatic metadata fetching. You can read and annotate PDFs, EPUBs and comics in the built-in browser reader, sync your progress across devices (including Kobo and KOReader via OPDS), support multiple users, import books automatically from watched folders and send titles to devices like Kindle. Grimmory is the successor to BookLore. Note: Install Grimmory on Your Synology NAS.
🎃 Kavita
Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server, built with a focus on manga and with the goal of being a full solution for all your reading needs. It serves manga, webtoons and comics (cbr, cbz, zip/rar, 7zip, raw images) as well as books (epub, pdf), and you can share your reading collection with your friends and family. Ideal for those dark and stormy evenings spent with a creepy comic and a cup of hot pumpkin spice something. Note: Install Kavita on Your Synology NAS.
🎃 Jellyfin
Jellyfin is a free Software Media System that puts you in control of managing and streaming your media, and it is the beating heart of any horror movie night. It is an alternative to the proprietary Emby and Plex, streaming from your own server to your devices through multiple apps. There are no strings attached, no premium licenses or features and no hidden agendas, so the only surprises will come from the movies you choose to watch with the lights off. Note: Install Jellyfin on Your Synology NAS.
🎃 Plex
Plex is a client-server media player platform whose Plex Media Server organizes the video, audio and photos from your collections and streams them to your players. It gives you one place to find and access all the media that matters to you, on any device. Gather your friends on the couch, dim the lights and let Plex serve up your favorite classics, from vampires to haunted houses, straight from your Synology NAS. Note: Install Plex on Your Synology NAS.
🎃 Seerr
Seerr, the seer who knows which movie you want to watch next, is a free, open-source media request and discovery manager and the unified successor to Overseerr and Jellyseerr after the merger of the two teams. It offers a modern, mobile friendly interface where your family and friends can discover and request movies, TV shows or single seasons, while you approve the requests from a simple dashboard. It integrates with Sonarr and Radarr, is fully compatible with Jellyfin, Plex and Emby, and supports watchlists, blocklists, granular user permissions and multiple notification channels. Note: Install Seerr on Your Synology NAS.
🎃 RomM
RomM is a self-hosted application for organizing and playing your retro game collection through a clean, responsive web interface. It enriches your library with metadata from IGDB, Screenscraper and MobyGames across over 400 platforms, fetches custom artwork from SteamGridDB, and lets you play directly in the browser using EmulatorJS and RuffleRS. Dust off those old spooky classics, invite a few brave souls and turn Halloween night into a retro gaming session that would make any ghost jealous. Note: Install RomM on Your Synology NAS.
Tandoor Recipes is your digital cauldron. It lets you easily manage your recipes with a fast and intuitive editor, build shopping lists via the meal plan or straight from recipes, and find anything with a powerful and customizable search. No tracking, no analytics, just your recipes, so your secret pumpkin soup and your witchy cookies stay safely in your own spell book. Tandoor Recipes is an alternative to Mealie. Note: Install Tandoor Recipes on Your Synology NAS.
KitchenOwl is the wise night owl of your kitchen. It is a smart, self-hosted grocery list and recipe manager where you can easily add items to your shopping list before you go shopping, create recipes and get suggestions on what to cook. It also tracks your expenses, so you know exactly how much all those pumpkins, candy bags and fake spider webs have really cost you. Note: Install KitchenOwl on Your Synology NAS.
🎃 Rallly
Rallly is an event organizer that helps you schedule group meetings with friends, colleagues and teams, and it is exactly what you need to summon everyone to your Halloween party. Create a poll, let your guests vote for the date and time that works best for them, and find the perfect night based on everyone’s availability. It saves time and avoids those endless back and forth messages that are scarier than any monster. Note: Install Rallly on Your Synology NAS.
🎃 Pi-Hole
Pi-Hole is a network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application that acts as a DNS sinkhole, a sort of black hole where unwanted domains disappear without a trace. It can block traditional website adverts as well as adverts in unconventional places like smart TVs and mobile operating systems. Let it swallow all those annoying ads in the dark, so your horror movie night and your browsing stay scary only in the way you want them to be. Note: Install Pi-Hole on Your Synology NAS.
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This post was updated on Saturday / October 31st, 2026 at 10:48 PM