Open Source Developer Tools Apps

Discover the best open source developer tools for code management, testing, automation & more. Accelerate your projects with powerful utilities.

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Apps in Developer Tools

TypeScript
49%
MPL 2.0

Artillery

Developer Tools · Devops

9,104

Cloud-scale load testing and functional testing for APIs, WebSockets, gRPC, and headless browsers, distributed across AWS Lambda or Fargate with zero infrastructure to manage.

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89
Repo Health
73
Technical
68
Dependency
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TypeScript 49%
JavaScript 48%
Updated 1 weeks ago
TypeScript
72%
AGPL 3.0

Firecrawl

AI Development · Developer Tools

194,745

Turn any website into clean, LLM-ready data with a single API call — no proxy headaches, no scraping complexity.

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89
Repo Health
83
Technical
65
Dependency
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TypeScript 72%
Python 12%
Updated 1 weeks ago
Rust
68%
Other

GitButler

AI Development · Developer Tools · Devops

21,841

Git, but better — a modern version control client with stacked branches, parallel workflows, unlimited undo, and first-class support for AI-powered development.

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89
Repo Health
84
Technical
66
Dependency
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Rust 68%
TypeScript 20%
Updated 1 weeks ago
TypeScript
97%
MIT

HyperDX

Analytics · Developer Tools · Monitoring

9,963

Open source observability platform that unifies logs, traces, metrics, and session replays on ClickHouse — now the core of ClickStack.

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89
Repo Health
83
Technical
64
Dependency
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TypeScript 97%
Updated 1 weeks ago
TypeScript
96%
MIT

likec4

Developer Tools · Devops

5,954

Define your software architecture as code and get always up-to-date, interactive C4 diagrams generated automatically from a DSL.

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89
Repo Health
83
Technical
78
Dependency
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TypeScript 96%
Updated 1 weeks ago
Rust
97%
Apache 2.0

codex

AI Code Assistants · Developer Tools

130,715

OpenAI's open-source CLI coding agent that reads, edits, and runs code in your terminal using natural language prompts.

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89
Repo Health
80
Technical
75
Dependency
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Rust 97%
Updated 1 weeks ago
Go
79%
MIT

Wakapi

Analytics · Developer Tools

4,462

Self-hosted WakaTime-compatible coding statistics backend that gives developers full control over their coding activity data.

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89
Repo Health
77
Technical
72
Dependency
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Go 79%
HTML 11%
Updated 1 weeks ago
Rust
66%
Apache 2.0

agentgateway

AI Development · Developer Tools · Mcp

5,533

An open source AI-native proxy that secures, observes, and governs agent-to-LLM, agent-to-tool, and agent-to-agent communication through MCP, A2A, and unified LLM routing.

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88
Repo Health
82
Technical
69
Dependency
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Rust 66%
Go 23%
Updated 1 weeks ago
TypeScript
89%
Other

browserless

Automation · Developer Tools

13,844

Run headless Chrome, Firefox, and WebKit as a managed Docker service — drop-in Puppeteer and Playwright support with no infrastructure overhead.

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88
Repo Health
82
Technical
73
Dependency
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TypeScript 89%
Updated 1 weeks ago
TypeScript
96%
Other

CapRover

Developer Tools · Devops · Hosting Control Panel

15,188

Deploy any app, database, or website to your own server in minutes—no Docker or Linux expertise required.

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88
Repo Health
82
Technical
67
Dependency
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TypeScript 96%
Updated 1 weeks ago
TypeScript
95%
AGPL 3.0

ConvertX

Developer Tools · File Storage

19,197

Self-hosted file converter that wraps 20+ specialized tools to convert over a thousand formats — no cloud, no limits.

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88
Repo Health
79
Technical
66
Dependency
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TypeScript 95%
Updated 1 weeks ago
TypeScript
45%
Other

Convex Backend

Databases · Developer Tools

12,754

Open-source reactive database that lets developers build live-updating apps with pure TypeScript, strong consistency, and real-time subscriptions—no separate API layer required.

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88
Repo Health
82
Technical
65
Dependency
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TypeScript 45%
Rust 43%
Updated 1 weeks ago
Go
71%
Other

Convoy

Developer Tools · Devops

2,883

Convoy is an open-source, cloud-native webhooks gateway that ingests events over HTTP or straight from Kafka, SQS, Google Pub/Sub, and RabbitMQ, then reliably delivers them to subscriber endpoints with signed payloads, automatic retries, circuit breaking, and JavaScript-based transformations.

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88
Repo Health
81
Technical
66
Dependency
Built with
Go 71%
TypeScript 15%
HTML 12%
Updated 1 weeks ago
TypeScript
92%
MIT

GB Studio

Design Tools · Developer Tools · Game Development

9,434

Drag-and-drop retro Game Boy game creator that compiles real ROMs — no coding required.

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88
Repo Health
83
Technical
72
Dependency
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TypeScript 92%
Updated 1 weeks ago
TypeScript
91%
Other

GitNexus

AI Code Assistants · Developer Tools · Mcp

48,014

Index any codebase into an interactive knowledge graph and give your AI agents deep architectural context via MCP — with zero servers required.

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88
Repo Health
86
Technical
70
Dependency
Built with
TypeScript 91%
Updated 1 weeks ago

About Developer Tools

Developer tools encompass a wide range of applications designed to assist software professionals throughout the entire development lifecycle. These solutions streamline workflows, improve code quality, and accelerate project delivery.

Typical features within this category include version control systems for collaborative code management, integrated development environments (IDEs) offering code completion and debugging capabilities, testing frameworks for automated quality assurance, and build automation tools to package and deploy applications. Furthermore, you’ll find utilities for code analysis, profiling, documentation generation, and project management.

Developer tools address common challenges such as code complexity, testing bottlenecks, deployment errors, and collaboration difficulties. They help teams write cleaner, more reliable code faster, reduce time-to-market for new features, and improve overall software quality. Efficient developer tools are crucial for any modern software project looking to remain competitive and scalable.

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