Open source Zapier alternatives
Every project in the catalog is MIT, Apache or BSD licensed. 1 projects explicitly describe themselves as a Zapier alternative; 22 more are in the category where Zapier is a typical product.
Projects that call themselves a “Zapier alternative”
Source: the project's GitHub description or README.
Activepieces
100activepieces · Workflow & Automation
Alternative to (project's own claim): Zapier
Common commercial products in this category: Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- You develop your own custom integrations with the TypeScript-based framework.
- You configure the platform as a MCP server and incorporate LLM models into their automation with tools such as Claude Desktop or Cursor.
- You add manual intervention mechanisms to workflows by creating human-approved processes or form interfaces.
- • High number of open issues (846)
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Launch HN: Activepieces (YC S22) – Open-Source Zapier Alternative
“If someone needs something between zapier and trigger, check out windmill.dev. been using it for a few days. And I'm really impressed. I think Activepieces is targeting the same user as zapier. Trigger is targeting developers. Windmill seems to be able to give github sync and +…”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source
Open source projects in the same category: Workflow & Automation
Category-level information: these projects are the same kind of software as Zapier; they have not claimed to be a one-to-one replacement.
Leonxlnx · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- You add more advanced typography and layout features to the interfaces produced by AI.
- You inspect the page produced by the agent in the actual browser in three different widths and correct the three most important problems from the screenshots.
- Through the CLI interface, you quickly integrate specific design capabilities into your projects.
- • No published release
Verified against README · Oct 25, 2026 · source
freestylefly · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- You can study industrial templates and 500 more cases.
- You can copy full prompts and do style filtering through the web interface.
- You can review comparison and sample visual recordings for GPT-Image-2.5.
- • No published release
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source
Conductor
100conductor-oss · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- You set up fault-tolerant workflows for microservices and AI intermediaries.
- You manage complex processes that involve looping, branching, and approval mechanisms with visual graphics.
- In the event of system outages or network errors, you pause, restart, or perform error recovery.
- ↓ NegativeHacker News
Netflix Conductor: Open-source workflow orchestration engine
“You raised a pretty good point about being able to review the BPMN. I did not immediately think of this, but now that you have mentioned it... 1. It was good for communicating the engine room I remember demo'ing the workflows within my team, and to non-technical stakeholders. It…”
- • NeutralHacker News
Netflix Conductor: Open-source workflow orchestration engine
“> I set up Conductor where I work while evaluating workflow engines, and overall wasn't too happy with it. The default datastore is this Netflix-specific thing (Dynomite) that's built on top of redis. It's not particularly easy to integrate operationally into non-Netflix…”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source
Kestra
100kestra-io · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- You design data, infrastructure, and AI workflows using the YAML-based interface or AI assistant.
- You run automation processes with timed or real-time event triggers.
- Using the vast add-on ecosystem, you extract data from any database, cloud storage, or API.
- • High number of open issues (816)
- • NeutralHacker News
Show HN: Kestra - Open-Source Airflow Alternative
“Airflow have design issue and performance issue, If you want to have some details, you can find some reason on this article: . For other workflow engine (dagster, prefect, ...), we decided to use a complete different approach on how to build a pipeline. Since others decide to…”
- • NeutralHacker News
Show HN: Kestra - Open-Source Airflow Alternative
“Temporal.io is a really cool framework for building business process like managing microservice workflow (like paiement workflow: user pay, we call the shipping microservice, the billing microservice, ...) and good fit to handle individual event (lots of individual events).…”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source
Prefect
100PrefectHQ · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- You can convert Python scripts into production workflows with retry and timing features.
- You can track and monitor workflow activities through a local server or interface.
- By creating distributions, you can run workflows based on cron timings or external events.
- • High number of open issues (872)
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Show HN: Free open-source alternative to Airflow/Prefect/Airbyte/Dagster
“Hi HN, Im a big fan of Airflow and its advantages on workflow management tools. After many problems of performance on a project I try some new modern platform, prefect dagster. Very good ! And recently I read this medium blog on Kestra a new platform and I decide to try it. It…”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source
coleam00 · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- Planla, uygula, gözden geçir, doğrula ve PR aç adımlarını yazdığın sırayla her seferinde aynı şekilde çalıştırırsın
- Onay kapıları koyup her çalıştırmanın olay günlüğünü, transkriptini ve maliyetini kendi veritabanında saklarsın
- Claude Code, Codex ve Pi'yi sahip olduğun hesaplarla kendi CLI ve SDK'ları üzerinden çalıştırırsın
- ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue
test(ci): Windows budget-edge flake class — family ledger and rolling evidence
“## What this issue is The rolling evidence home for the Windows CI budget-edge class: tests that die at ~5000ms against the default per-test budget on windows-latest while passing everywhere else. Successor to #2882, which was scoped to the @archon/workflows suite and correctly…”
Verified against README · Oct 30, 2026 · source
edict
72cft0808 · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- You can manage complex tasks through a hierarchical workflow by dividing them between 12 different agent roles.
- You set up a workflow where each task passes through a mandatory inspection agent (Menxia), which rejects and re-does inadequate plans and outputs.
- With the built-in control panel, you can monitor the health status of the agents and change the models during work.
- • No published release
Verified against README · Oct 25, 2026 · source
Trigger.dev
100triggerdotdev · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- You develop long-term tasks and AI workflows with TypeScript without risk of time-out.
- You manage processes by adding pause points to workflows that require human approval.
- You monitor the working status of tasks in real time and examine the error logs in detail.
- • NeutralHacker News
Show HN: Trigger.dev V2 – a Temporal alternative for TypeScript devs
“Coming to Next.js from Laravel, being able to hand things off to a long running worker is one of the things I missed the most. We're currently handling this with a non-ideal solution and will definitely check Trigger.dev out when you launch that feature.”
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Show HN: Trigger.dev V2 – a Temporal alternative for TypeScript devs
“Trigger.dev is awesome, use it every day. A feature list is quite impressive and complete, the only thing on my wish-list is a `wait/resume` for long running jobs”
Dagster
90dagster-io · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- Using Python functions, you define the data assets you want to build.
- With integrated observativity and genealogical properties, you monitor metadata centrally.
- By integrating with popular data tools, you take pipelines into production.
- • High number of open issues (2,602)
- ↓ NegativeHacker News
The new local data stack: Integrating Dagster, dbt and DuckDB
“Hey Georg, thanks for posting. I've been working on building a thing with almost the same stack lately and the Dagster integration is my next large-ish step. In the last couple weeks I've kicked around Duck and Clickhouse for the backend. It's been a lot of fun. Ultimately I'd…”
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
The new local data stack: Integrating Dagster, dbt and DuckDB
“Snowflake isn't local, you have to pay for cloud ... Airflow is Airflow, complexity, steep learning curve, there is a whole industry trying to be as/more powerful than Airflow with less complexity and cleaner integration with modern things you might want to do like k8s, although…”
VvvebJs
64givanz · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- You can drag and drop Bootstrap 5 components and blocks into pages.
- You can edit page codes and content live using a code editor.
- You can download created pages and assets as HTML or save them to the server.
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
Save dosnt work | Help please
“Hi everyone! Im here to create a system for my customers to create and maintain theyre own website. But i have a problem. I downloaded vvvebjs (NOT THE WHOLE CMS) from github but when i try to save it says undefined array key, and failed to open stream: no such file or…”
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
Make a input to change the page
“How do i make a input to change the ` ` tag on the page that im editing? Thanks in advance. Peter”
bytedance · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- On the free-form canvas, you position the nodes as you wish and connect them with free-form lines.
- Using the fixed residential canvas, you manage compound nodes such as branchings and loops.
- Through the form engine, you provide CRUD operations, verifications, and error management of node data.
superplanehq · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- You coordinate AI agents and resource control systems from a single interface.
- You convert tasks in backlogs into pull requests with automatic workflows.
- You track the execution steps, inputs, outputs, and costs.
Hatchet
100hatchet-dev · Workflow & Automation
Alternative to (project's own claim): Temporal
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- You run background tasks with configurable retry policies and exponential retraction
- Plan tasks with Cron jobs and scheduled runs
- You make task routing using labor labels and employee proximity rules
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue
“Yeah these are great questions. > Do you mean transactional within the same transaction as the application's own state? My guess is no (from looking at the docs, where enqueuing in the SDK looks a lot like a wire call and not issuing a SQL command over our application's existing…”
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue
“Wow, looks great! We currently happily use graphile-worker, and have two questions: > full transactional enqueueing Do you mean transactional within the same transaction as the application's own state? My guess is no (from looking at the docs, where enqueuing in the SDK looks a…”
czlonkowski · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- You can apply n8n expression syntax and variable patterns correctly.
- You can create workflows and configure nodes using n8n-mcp tools.
- You can interpret verification errors and manage debugging processes.
loopx-project · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- You get the coding or research agent to work through sessions.
- You manage personal projects, programs, and decisions in one place.
- You get agents to cooperate and deliver verifiable results.
ScrapeCreators · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- On platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, you find shares that exceed a content producer's standard performance.
- By analyzing video transcripts, you get summaries, hooks, claims, and content atoms.
- You verify product ideas through social media posts and comments and identify the challenges that the target audience is experiencing.
- • No published release
blocks · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- You design web pages without the need to write code.
- You create visual interfaces using the JSX structure.
- You manage web page editing processes with visual tools.
- • No published release
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
Error when installed on fresh CRA
“When trying to add this on a fresh CRA (via `yarn add blocks-ui`) one gets the following error: ``` ./node_modules/blocks-ui/dist/index.js Module not found: Can't resolve '@blocks/blocks/src' in '.../node_modules/blocks-ui/dist' ``` I'm still getting up to speed on the crazy…”
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
What is the plan for dynamic elements?
“The current strategy of instrumenting JSX with a babel plugin is really neat! I'm wondering what the plan is to work around the dynamism of JSX when it comes to elements determined at runtime, such as: ## Conditional Elements ```javascript {someFlag && } ``` ## Lists of Elements…”
AlexAnys · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- With platform bots and social media integrations, you can automate content streams with messaging.
- You can manage data analysis and monitoring processes for A shares, financial reports, and market research.
- You can run infrastructure operations with server repair, workflow editing, and multiple CLI collaboration boards.
Verified against README · Oct 25, 2026 · source
composio-community · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- You can manage multiple chat sessions through the Electron-based desktop interface.
- With Composio integration, you can automate workflows in business applications such as Gmail, Slack and GitHub.
- WhatsApp, you can access the AI assistant with permanent memory via Telegram and Signal.
- • No published release
rulego · Workflow & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Zapier, Make, Microsoft Power Automate
- İş akışlarını JSON kural zincirleri olarak tanımlayıp uygulamayı yeniden başlatmadan güncelleyebilirsin.
- Harici ara yazılım gerektirmeyen motoru düşük maliyetli cihazlarda IoT uç hesaplama için çalıştırabilirsin.
- HTTP, MQTT, Kafka ve TCP/UDP uç noktalarından gelen veriyi filtreleyip dönüştürerek farklı sistemlere dağıtabilirsin.
Verified against README · Oct 29, 2026 · source