FreedomBox
Community project to develop, design and promote personal servers running free software for private, personal, communications.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 76 commits in the last 90 days.
Also an alternative to Cloudron Cloud.
At a glance
FreedomBox quick facts
- Health score
- 52/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 65
- Last commit
- 14 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
Top alternatives to FreedomBox
Full rankings: Cloudron Cloud alternatives
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
FreedomBox scores 52/100, #17 of 28 in Self-hosting Solutions: 76 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 65 stars add 7.3 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the Debian Salsa API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
76 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 7.3 / 20
65 stars on Debian Salsa (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 76
- Last 90 days
- 111
- Last 12 months
- 14 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #17 of 28 tools in Self-hosting Solutions by health , between NextCloudPi (#16) and LibreServer (#18) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Python, deb |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 65 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedombox ↗ |
FreedomBox vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with FreedomBox (Self-hosting Solutions), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cosmos | 95 | 6.2k | Apache-2.0 | 9 days ago |
| YunoHost | 84 | 3k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| DockSTARTer | 83 | 2.6k | MIT | 9 days ago |
| Cloudron | 61 | 34 | ⊘ Proprietary | yesterday |
| FreedomBox (this tool) | 52 | 65 | AGPL-3.0 | 14 days ago |
| LibreServer | 52 | 54 | AGPL-3.0 | 9 days ago |
FreedomBox: common questions
What does FreedomBox replace?
Repoly lists FreedomBox as an open-source alternative to Cloudron Cloud. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where FreedomBox stands against the others.
Is FreedomBox still maintained?
FreedomBox had 76 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 14 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.