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Open source alternatives to Zoho

We track 6 open-source Zoho alternatives, of which 5 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 2 ship a Docker image. Nextcloud leads on health at 88/100 with 1960 commits in the last 90 days; across all 6 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, GPL-2.0, GPL-3.0 and 1 other licences.

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Alternatives
99k
Combined stars
7,030
Commits / 90 days
2
With Docker
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Showing 6 of 6 tools

All 6 Zoho alternatives, ranked by health

  • Top pick · highest health

    Nextcloud

    88 GOOD

    Access and share your files, calendars, contacts, mail and [more](https://apps.nextcloud.com/) from any device, on your terms.

    ★ 37k · ⟳ today · v32.0.15 · AGPL-3.0

    PHPdeb
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Dolibarr

    86 GOOD

    Modern CRM software package to manage your company or foundation activity (contacts, suppliers, invoices, orders, stocks, agenda, accounting, ...).

    ★ 7.6k · ⟳ today · 24.0.1 · GPL-3.0

    PHPdeb
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • egroupware

    80 GOOD

    Software suite including calendars, address books, notepad, project management tools, client relationship management tools (CRM), knowledge management tools, a wiki and a CMS.

    ★ 296 · ⟳ today · 26.9.20260907 · GPL-2.0

    PHP
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Group Office

    80 GOOD

    Enterprise CRM and groupware tool. Share projects, calendars, files and e-mail online with co-workers and clients.

    ★ 279 · ⟳ today · v26.0.47 · AGPL-3.0

    PHP
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Citadel

    20 STALE

    Groupware including email, calendar/scheduling, address books, forums, mailing lists, IM, wiki and blog engines, RSS aggregation and more.

    GPL-3.0

    DockerCShell
    Website ↗ Source ↗

Zoho alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to Zoho?

Nextcloud scores highest at 88/100, with 1960 commits in the last 90 days, 37k GitHub stars and its latest release (v32.0.15) published 4 days ago. Dolibarr has the most raw commit activity at 2057 commits in 90 days.

Which Zoho alternatives use a permissive licence?

None of the 6 tracked alternatives use a permissive licence; 6 are copyleft (GPL, AGPL or similar), which requires publishing changes to any modified version you distribute.

Which Zoho alternatives run in Docker?

2 of 6 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Odoo, Citadel. 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.