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Open source alternatives to Ring

We track 5 open-source Ring alternatives, of which 4 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 3 ship a Docker image. Frigate leads on health at 98/100 with 280 commits in the last 90 days; across all 5 projects you are choosing between GPL-2.0, GPL-3.0, MIT.

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Showing 5 of 5 tools

All 5 Ring alternatives, ranked by health

  • Top pick · highest health

    Frigate

    98 GOOD

    Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI.

    ★ 36k · ⟳ today · v0.18.0 · MIT

    DockerPythonNodejs
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • motionEye

    95 GOOD

    Online interface for the software Motion, a video surveillance program with motion detection.

    ★ 4.7k · ⟳ today · 0.44.0 · GPL-3.0

    DockerPython
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Viseron

    94 GOOD

    Self-hosted, local-only NVR and AI Computer Vision software. With features such as object detection, motion detection, face recognition and more, it gives you the power to keep an eye on your home, office or any other place you want to monitor.

    ★ 3.5k · ⟳ today · v3.6.2 · MIT

    Docker
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Zoneminder

    85 GOOD

    Closed-circuit television (CCTV) software application which supports IP, USB and Analog cameras.

    ★ 5.9k · ⟳ today · 1.38.4 · GPL-2.0

    PHPdeb
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Bluecherry

    45 SLOWING

    Closed-circuit television (CCTV) software application which supports IP and Analog cameras.

    ★ 275 · ⟳ 6 days ago · v3.1.14 · GPL-2.0

    PHP
    Website ↗ Source ↗

Ring alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to Ring?

Frigate scores highest at 98/100, with 280 commits in the last 90 days, 36k GitHub stars and its latest release (v0.18.0) published 2 days ago. Zoneminder has the most raw commit activity at 621 commits in 90 days.

Which Ring alternatives use a permissive licence?

2 of 5 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): Frigate (MIT), Viseron (MIT). 3 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.

Which Ring alternatives run in Docker?

3 of 5 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Frigate, motionEye, Viseron. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.