Open source Hootsuite alternatives

Every project in the catalog is MIT, Apache or BSD licensed. 0 projects explicitly describe themselves as a Hootsuite alternative; 18 more are in the category where Hootsuite is a typical product.

Open source projects in the same category: Social Media & Influencers

Category-level information: these projects are the same kind of software as Hootsuite; they have not claimed to be a one-to-one replacement.

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huginn · Social Media & Influencers

STARS50.2K
FORKS4.3K
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CONTRIBUTORS261
VERSIONv2022.08.18
UPDATEDtoday
AutomationSocial MediaiftttzapierMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social

What can it do?
  • You follow the weather and get an email when it rains or snows.
  • You scan specific websites and receive an email notification when the content changes
  • You track RSS feeds, IMAP mailboxes, webhook and MQTT issues, and process them automatically based on incoming data.
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (693)
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

    “I gave this a go today and managed to install huginn on my synology nas by simply searching for the docker container. I then setup 3 agents to scrape a Shopify webstore jason endpoint that I’m always checking for inventory, have huginn parse the json and send me an sms via…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

    “I've come across Huginn many times in the past and every time, I tell myself I'm going to give it a shot. I still haven't even seen it loaded in a web browser... After fighting the Docker images for half an hour, I usually realize that I could've just written a Python script to…”

Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source

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Novu

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novuhq · Social Media & Influencers

STARS40.2K
FORKS4.5K
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CONTRIBUTORS503
VERSIONv3.18.0
UPDATEDtoday
NotificationsSelf-HostedTypeScriptEmailMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social

What can it do?
  • Send notifications via in-app inbox, email, SMS, push, and chat channels with a single API
  • Connect any AI agent you develop to different communication channels such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, and WhatsApp
  • You manage traditional inbox streams, provider integrations, and channel webhook with this infrastructure instead of writing from scratch

Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source

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bluesky-social · Social Media & Influencers

STARS18.4K
FORKS2.9K
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CONTRIBUTORS298
VERSIONls
UPDATEDtoday
social-networkdecentralizedatprotocolreact-nativeMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social

What can it do?
  • Using React Native and TypeScript, you can develop your own social media app.
  • You can exchange data on a decentralized social network using the AT Protocol infrastructure.
  • By forking the application's source code (fork) you can create a customized platform with your own brand and infrastructure.
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (2,441)
User reviews
  • ↑ PositiveHacker News

    When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines

    “The question remains misleading and irrelevant whether it was addressed to me or the room at large. I am well aware that ATProto makes improvements to both account migration and end user moderation. Those are of course good things in my view. As previously stated I have noting…”

  • ↓ NegativeHacker News

    When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines

    “Given enough time, you'll end up with a lot of legitimate users who follow a huge number of accounts but rarely interact with more than a handful, similar to how many long-time YouTubers have a very high subscriber:viewer ratio (that is, they have way more subscribers than you…”

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flarum · Social Media & Influencers

STARS16.4K
FORKS1.7K
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS35
VERSIONv2.0.0-rc.5
UPDATED21 days ago
forumcommunityphplaravelMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social

What can it do?
  • You set up a quick and simple discussion platform for your website.
  • Using the plugin API, you expand the functionality of the forum to its needs.
  • Through the responsive interface, you interact with your community through different devices.
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Show HN: Flarum – Delightfully simple open-source forum software

    “We had looked at a bunch of forums from the traditional forums like MyBB, PhpBB, Flux BB to newer takes on forums like Vanilla, Discourse, Nodebb and Esotalk an year ago. I liked the minimalism of Esotalk but it was being phased out in favour of developing Flarum. I found…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Show HN: Flarum – Delightfully simple open-source forum software

    “What are the blockers on using Flarum in production? (Bugs, changing API's, etc) I would consider putting this into light use for a private forum to with maybe 10 to 40 users. If it is not yet ready for this, when would you expect it to be? (Note: your Roadmap is currently…”

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apache · Social Media & Influencers

STARS15.7K
FORKS1.4K
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CONTRIBUTORS125
VERSIONv2.0.2-RC3
UPDATED10 days ago
forumqacommunitygoApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social

What can it do?
  • Using Docker you run the question-answer platform on your own server
  • With the add-on system, you develop and integrate software-specific features
  • You manage the question-and-answer community with voting, tag, and reputation points

Verified against README · Oct 25, 2026 · source

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polarsource · Social Media & Influencers

STARS10.4K
FORKS810
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS131
VERSIONsdk/1.0.0-alpha.9
UPDATEDtoday
monetizationcreatorsaaspaymentsApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social

What can it do?
  • You edit token or transaction-based charging models for AI models and autonomous vehicles.
  • You bill resource consumption such as GPU usage and storage by measuring them in seconds precision.
  • You integrate payment pages by handing over billing processes such as tax management and customer accounts to the platform.
User reviews
  • ↓ NegativeHacker News

    The Polar Bear – Open-Source, Multipurpose CNC Machine with a Rotary Axis

    “Right, resonance dodging and deflection compensation aren't going to cut it here, not by a long shot. I still think a sufficiently good 5 axis control loop could damp acoustics: for one, the (fractional) millisecond timescale of the acoustic oscillations are geological by…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Show HN: Polar – an offline web browser with annotations and tagging

    “It looks like the PHZ files are just ZIP files (which I really like), however they're not compressed. As a test I created a new PHZ with compression (using Info-ZIP) with the contents of an existing PHZ file. I found that the compressed PHZ seems to open fine in Polar Bookshelf.…”

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bluesky-social · Social Media & Influencers

STARS9.7K
FORKS939
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS109
VERSION@atproto/[email protected]
UPDATEDtoday
protocoldecentralizedsocialfederationApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social

What can it do?
  • Using Lexicon schemes you develop TypeScript-based type of secure applications or bots
  • You add "Sign in with Bluesky" authentication feature by integrating OAuth client packages into your project
  • You implement atproto-compliant components with authentication, signing, warehouse management and equalization packages of the protocol
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (758)
User reviews
  • ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue

    Increase Post Character limit to 500.

    “**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** This is a feature request related to product enhancement. **Describe the solution you'd like** I propose increasing the post character limit from 300 to 500, including hashtags and emojis. This change will align…”

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Elk

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elk-zone · Social Media & Influencers

STARS6.0K
FORKS621
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS255
VERSIONv1.0.1
UPDATED7 days ago
Vue.jsMastodonActivitypubMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social

What can it do?
  • By following the Dockerfile and configuration steps provided, you host the application on your own server.
  • You log in to any compatible Mastodon server or instance via this web client.
  • By setting storage directory permissions, you ensure that configurations of user accounts are permanently stored.
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (667)
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Elk OS – Audio Operating System

    “> - The website says: "With Elk hardware companies can move away from dedicated chips and use general purpose ARM and x86 CPUs without any compromise in terms of latency, performance and scalability". Is this intended as a ready-made OS for hardware synthesisers, or as a way to…”

  • ↑ PositiveHacker News

    Elk OS – Audio Operating System

    “Bela is fantastic because it pairs good audio hardware with low latency software. Elk looks good, but I'd need something better than a Raspberry Pi in terms of audio IOs to use that full potential.”

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cjhutto · Social Media & Influencers

STARS5.1K
FORKS1.1K
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS13
VERSION0.5
UPDATED8 mo ago
sentiment-analysisNLPtwitterpythonMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social

What can it do?
  • You analyze the negatives, abbreviations, and highlight punctuation marks in social media texts.
  • You perform detailed emotion analysis by breaking up long texts or documents at sentence level.
  • You evaluate the emotional intensity of labeled multimedia content or text in different languages.
User reviews
  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    ImportError: cannot import name sentiment

    “I installed vaderSentiment with pip and have ensured it is in the correct file, un- and re-installed it, attempted to upgrade pip, attempted to change the permissions for the files and am still having difficulty using this library. Error below: Traceback (most recent call last):…”

  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    "To die for" misinterpreted

    “I have found this basic common expression which is misinterpreted by Vader: `To die for.-------------- {'neg': 0.661, 'neu': 0.339, 'pos': 0.0, 'compound': -0.5994}` Could you consider adding a new rule for that?”

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nkanaev · Social Media & Influencers

STARS4.1K
FORKS301
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS43
VERSIONv2.8
UPDATEDtoday
rssfeed-readergoSelf-HostedMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social

What can it do?
  • With a single executable file that doesn't require dependency, you either host it on your server or run it as a desktop application.
  • Store and manage feed data with SQLite or PostgreSQL database support
  • Access web-based feed reader search on Windows, macOS and Linux platforms
User reviews
  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    yarr is feature complete

    “thank you for your interest in the project. unfortunately, i cannot accept any more new features. the project was created due to lack of the application that i wanted, and it's already serving my own needs. i'd like to keep it simple. yarr is not being deprecated. it's my go-to…”

  • ↑ PositiveGitHub Issue

    Old feed items reaapearing as unread occasionally

    “Hi 👋 Thank you for creating yarr. I've been using it for ages and it's wonderful! No other feed reader that I know of is so delightfully minimalistic and so easy to self-host thanks to the choice of SQLite and Go. I have a slight nuisance though with some feed items reappearing…”

Verified against README · Oct 25, 2026 · source

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inovector · Social Media & Influencers

STARS3.9K
FORKS587
COMMITS397
CONTRIBUTORS5
VERSIONv2.3.0
UPDATED7 mo ago
Social MediaSelf-HostedLaravelSchedulingMIT

Alternative to (project's own claim): Buffer

Common commercial products in this category: Hootsuite, Sprout Social

What can it do?
  • You manage all your social media accounts through a single panel and plan their content.
  • You create content versions for different social networks and study their detailed analytical data.
  • You edit your posts with labels, reuse the visuals and videos in the media library.
User reviews
  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    Is there additional documentation available?

    “### Detailed description I've been at this for days and am about to give up. I was going to purchase a business license, but wanted to test first and am glad I did. I've tried docker - whats the script at the begging of the page? Am I suppose to use it? I'm not familiar with…”

  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    is this app still being developed?

    “hi, since the last commit is 3 month ago, Is this app still being developed? BTW: the template for new issue - ask a question gives a 404”

Verified against README · Oct 25, 2026 · source

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leaperone · Social Media & Influencers

STARS3.8K
FORKS447
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONextension-v1.5.0
UPDATED6 days ago
articleAutomationcontent-platformmarketingApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social

What can it do?
  • Metin, gorsel veya video iceriklerini tek duzenlemeyle 10'dan fazla platforma yayinlarsin.
  • Giris, kayit veya API anahtari olmadan uzantiyi kullanabilirsin.
  • Uzanti API'siyle kendi web uygulamandan yayin tetiklersin.
User reviews
  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    feat: Mastodon support

    “Looking at it seems Multipost does not support Mastodon or other ActivityPub systems like Lemmy yet. It would be nice if it supported it so that Multpost can be used to participate in the [Fediverse](”

Verified against README · Oct 28, 2026 · source

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sethcottle · Social Media & Influencers

STARS3.1K
FORKS1.6K
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS45
VERSIONv3.7.0
UPDATED3 mo ago
link-in-biolinktreeinfluencercreatorMIT

Alternative to (project's own claim): DIY Linktree, LinkTree

Common commercial products in this category: Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social

What can it do?
  • Using over 100 ready-made button styles, you collect social media accounts on a single page.
  • With the button generator tool, you design and code custom buttons that match your own brand colors.
  • By editing HTML and CSS files, you host your profile page on your own server or on cloud platforms.
User reviews
  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    Buttons don't auto-adjust height when multiline

    “If you have an amount of text that is larger than the max amount of chars for one line. I feel like it should automatically adjust the height of the button to accommodate for the text ![Screenshot_1593](”

  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    overflow? long text support

    “Hi, i would like to have buttons that support long text eg overflow moves to the next line”

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publify · Social Media & Influencers

STARS1.9K
FORKS3.6K
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS124
VERSIONv9.2.9
UPDATED5 days ago
BlogPublishingRubySelf-HostedMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social

What can it do?
  • You publish a classic blog with the support of multiple authors
  • You create text messages using Markdown and text filters
  • Manage your content with advanced search engine optimization capabilities
User reviews
  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    ActionView::Template::Error (settings was supposed to be a Hash, but was a String)

    “I was creating a new article on adimn page. and then met this error, twice. Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 25ms ActionView::Template::Error (settings was supposed to be a Hash, but was a String): 17: 18: 19: 20: 'small' %> 21: 22: " name="article[draft]"…”

  • ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue

    Drop the visual editor

    “I'm really tempted to drop the visual editor in the name of self dogfooding as none of us is actually using it and it is half broken. This would mean using a better editor for the simple one. I'm really tempted to switch to Github editor as it is really neat. Alternative…”

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cheeaun · Social Media & Influencers

STARS1.5K
FORKS184
COMMITS4.7K
CONTRIBUTORS41
VERSIONproduction
UPDATED2 days ago
JavaScriptMastodonFediverseClientMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social

What can it do?
  • You can manage multiple accounts via the same interface.
  • You can look at interlocking comment chains.
  • You use a plain time tunnel where action buttons such as response, boost, and favorite are hidden by default, only appearing on the singular post page.
User reviews
  • ↓ NegativeHacker News

    Phanpy: A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

    “Everything that is hidden when large numbers of posts are displayed appears when a single post is focused on. Raw Mastodon will show a hundred different notifications for the same post. Phanpy groups them. If this goes against "the original design decisions of federation" then…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Phanpy: A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

    “Phanpy, eh? I like the clean design. Feed, and nothing else. Narrator: "Meanwhile, in Japan..." red laser lights up in Nintendo IP lawyer's eye”

Verified against README · Oct 25, 2026 · source

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SamurAIGPT · Social Media & Influencers

STARS338
FORKS89
COMMITS102
CONTRIBUTORS3
VERSIONv1.0.0
UPDATED3 mo ago
Stable DiffusionTTSPythonMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social

What can it do?
  • You can design virtual characters with a consistent view using Stable Diffusion.
  • You can perform the texts with gTTS and create character videos that speak through SadTalker.
  • You can share the content you produce on social media platforms such as Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
User reviews
  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    Preview

    “The preview doesn't load bc of missing state key”

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cogsend

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cogsend · Social Media & Influencers

STARS256
FORKS37
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv1.20.2
UPDATEDtoday
cloudflare-workersSelf-HostedSocial Mediasocial-media-schedulerMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social

What can it do?
  • Thread editor: one card per post, images with alt text, and a tab per platform for tailored versions
  • Video: one per post on every platform, converted in your browser when a platform needs it, with a cover you pick
  • Auto-split: paste a long draft and it becomes a thread that fits every platform you picked
User reviews
  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    Feature Request: Top 4 Priorities (Analytics, Inbox, Meta, MCP Server)

    “Based on competitive gap analysis against other self-hosted schedulers, here are the top 4 requested features to bring CogSend to full parity and establish a strong "agent-native" differentiation: ### 1. Analytics & Metrics Currently, CogSend shows pass/fail delivery stats. To…”

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idno · Social Media & Influencers

STARS1
FORKS197
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS89
VERSIONv0.9.9
UPDATED6 mo ago
Social MediaIndieWebPHPSelf-HostedApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social

What can it do?
  • You set up your own social broadcasting platform on a PHP-based server.
  • By configuring the asynchronous queue structure, you distribute content through ActivityPub.
  • With Systemd services, you keep background handlers running continuously.