HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia)
Inventory and organization system built for the home user.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 43 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.27.1 (Oct 2026).
Also an alternative to Snipe-IT Cloud.
Read the comparison: InvenTree vs Part-DB vs HomeBox: Open Source Inventory
At a glance
HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia) quick facts
- Health score
- 96/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 7,693
- Last commit
- 7 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.27.1, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
Top alternatives to HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia)
Full rankings: Snipe-IT Cloud alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "You can also try the demo instances of Homebox: - Demo - Nightly."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia) scores 96/100, #3 of 13 in Inventory Management: 43 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.27.1, 7 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 7,693 stars add 15.5 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 4.5 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
43 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v0.27.1 released 7 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 15.5 / 20
7.7k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 43
- Last 90 days
- 455
- Last 12 months
- 7 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #3 of 13 tools in Inventory Management by health , between grocy (#2) and Bigcapital (#4) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker, Go |
| Latest release | v0.27.1 · 7 days ago |
| Stars | 7,693 |
| Open issues | 82 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | sysadminsmedia/homebox ↗ |
HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia) vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia) (Inventory Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| grocy | 96 | 9.6k | MIT | 1 month ago |
| HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia) (this tool) | 96 | 7.7k | AGPL-3.0 | 7 days ago |
| Bigcapital | 94 | 4k | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| Part-DB | 93 | 1.8k | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| Inventree | 86 | 7.8k | MIT | today |
| Shelf | 84 | 3k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia): common questions
What does HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia) replace?
Repoly lists HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia) as an open-source alternative to Snipe-IT Cloud. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia) stands against the others.
Is HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia) still maintained?
HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia) had 43 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 7 days ago; the latest tagged release, v0.27.1, is from 7 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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