Open-source networking software
2108 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged networking, ranked by how closely networking is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
2108 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZLMediaKit/ZLMediaKit ZLMediaKit is a high-performance, enterprise-grade streaming media server framework written in C++11, supporting RTSP, RTMP, HLS, HTTP-FLV,… | 76 | 17593 | stable |
| IPFS Core Kubo is the reference Go implementation of IPFS, running a daemon that stores and serves content-addressed data. It ships a CLI, HTTP Gatew… | 93 | 17150 | active |
| hyperium/hyper hyper is a fast, correct, low-level HTTP implementation for Rust providing both client and server APIs with HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 support. It i… | 95 | 16362 | stable |
| Mail-in-a-Box Mail-in-a-Box is a one-click, easy-to-deploy mail server appliance that turns a fresh Ubuntu 22.04 machine into a complete email provider w… | 93 | 15443 | active |
| amnezia-vpn/amnezia-client Amnezia VPN is an open-source, cross-platform VPN client (desktop and mobile) that can automatically deploy a self-hosted VPN server on you… | 93 | 15351 | active |
| Amass OWASP Amass is a Go-based framework for in-depth attack surface mapping and external asset discovery using OSINT gathering and active recon… | 75 | 15211 | active |
| sogou/workflow Sogou C++ Workflow is an enterprise-level C++ framework for parallel computing and asynchronous networking, powering Sogou's back-end servi… | 87 | 14424 | stable |
| cesanta/mongoose Mongoose is a two-file C networking library and embedded web server providing HTTP, WebSocket, MQTT, TLS 1.3, and an optional built-in TCP/… | 91 | 13080 | stable |
| Marauder ESP32 Marauder is a suite of WiFi and Bluetooth offensive and defensive security tools distributed as firmware for ESP32-based hardware. It… | 99 | 12834 | active |
| ubicloud/ubicloud Ubicloud is an open-source IaaS cloud platform that provides elastic compute (VMs), block storage, networking, load balancing, managed Post… | 76 | 12316 | active |
| walkor/workerman Workerman is an asynchronous, event-driven PHP framework for building high-performance socket servers supporting HTTP, WebSocket, SSL, and … | 98 | 11550 | stable |
| h2o/h2o H2O is an optimized HTTP server written in C supporting HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 (QUIC), with features like server push, 103 Early Hint… | 74 | 11550 | active |
| Anankke/SSPanel-UIM SSPanel UIM is a PHP-based multi-purpose proxy service management panel for running and administering proxy/VPN subscription services. It p… | 75 | 10435 | active |
| PiKVM PiKVM is an open-source KVM-over-IP solution built on Raspberry Pi that lets you remotely control servers and workstations (keyboard, video… | 77 | 10390 | stable |
| shmilylty/OneForAll OneForAll is a powerful Python-based subdomain collection and enumeration tool for reconnaissance. It gathers subdomains via brute forcing,… | 56 | 10094 | active |
| Yu9191/wloc A set of proxy-tool modules (Surge, Quantumult X, Loon, Stash, Shadowrocket) that MITM Apple's network location service (gs-loc.apple.com) … | 69 | 9966 | active |
| go-acme/lego Lego is an ACME client and Go library for obtaining, renewing, and revoking TLS certificates from Let's Encrypt and other ACME CAs. It supp… | 98 | 9938 | active |
| pocoproject/poco POCO (Portable Components) is a collection of cross-platform C++ class libraries for building network- and internet-centric applications, c… | 94 | 9483 | stable |
| certimate-go/certimate Certimate is a free, open-source, self-hosted ACME tool for managing SSL/TLS certificates with a visual web UI. It automates the full certi… | 87 | 9378 | active |
| Pwnagotchi Pwnagotchi is an A2C deep reinforcement learning agent built on bettercap that learns from its surrounding WiFi environment to maximize cap… | 63 | 9223 | active |
| henrypp/simplewall Simplewall is a lightweight, open-source Windows application for configuring network activity via the Windows Filtering Platform (WFP). It … | 73 | 9150 | active |
| reactphp/reactphp ReactPHP is a low-level PHP library for event-driven, non-blocking I/O built around a core event loop (reactor pattern). It provides reusab… | 23 | 9089 | stable |
| warp-tech/warpgate Warpgate is an open-source, clientless bastion host and privileged access management (PAM) tool written in Rust that transparently proxies … | 98 | 8038 | active |
| mullvad/mullvadvpn-app The official Mullvad VPN client app for desktop and mobile, including a Rust system service/daemon, an Electron-based GUI, a CLI, and dedic… | 99 | 7692 | active |
| curl-impersonate A special build of curl (and libcurl) whose TLS and HTTP/2 handshakes are identical to real browsers like Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox… | 23 | 7142 | active |
| katanemo/plano Plano is an AI-native proxy server and data plane for agentic applications, built on Envoy by its core contributors. It centralizes agent r… | 86 | 7092 | active |
| reqable/reqable-app Reqable is a cross-platform API debugging and testing application combining an MITM proxy for capturing HTTP(S) traffic with a full-feature… | 87 | 6788 | active |
| Zabbix Zabbix is an enterprise-class open-source distributed monitoring and observability platform for tracking the performance and availability o… | 76 | 6435 | stable |
| cmliu/WorkerVless2sub A Cloudflare Workers/Pages-based subscription generator that automatically batch-replaces and generates optimized-route VMess/VLESS/Trojan … | 69 | 6274 | active |
| Outline Outline is a pair of open-source applications from Jigsaw (Google) for creating and using your own VPN server: Outline Manager sets up and … | 67 | 6254 | active |
| Python3WebSpider/ProxyPool A self-hosted proxy pool service that periodically scrapes free proxy sites, stores and scores them in Redis, tests their availability, and… | 60 | 6252 | active |
| Cosmos Cosmos-Server is a self-hosted home server platform that acts as a secure gateway and server manager for your applications. It bundles auth… | 91 | 6178 | active |
| RIOT OS RIOT is an open-source, vendor-independent operating system for Internet of Things and embedded devices, supporting 8/16/32-bit microcontro… | 93 | 5820 | active |
| AidLux (AidLearning) AidLux (originally AidLearning) is an AIoT development platform that runs a native Ubuntu Linux environment with GUI, deep learning tooling… | 63 | 5812 | active |
| kgateway-dev/kgateway kgateway is a Kubernetes-native API gateway and ingress controller that implements the Kubernetes Gateway API as a control plane for Envoy … | 100 | 5713 | stable |
| next-terminal/next-terminal Next Terminal is an open-source bastion host (jump server) and interactive session auditing system supporting SSH, RDP, VNC, Telnet, HTTP, … | 96 | 5647 | active |
| Caddy CertMagic is a Go library that provides fully-managed automatic HTTPS, handling TLS certificate issuance, renewal, and OCSP stapling via AC… | 93 | 5608 | stable |
| amadeusprotocol/node AmadeusD is a blockchain node daemon for the Amadeus protocol, supporting local testnets, an RPC API, and WebAssembly smart contract deploy… | 87 | 5576 | active |
| agentgateway/agentgateway Agentgateway is an open-source, Rust-based proxy and gateway for agentic AI traffic, handling LLM provider routing, MCP tool servers, and A… | 83 | 5420 | active |
| tianshiyeben/wgcloud WGCLOUD is a lightweight, distributed IT operations monitoring platform built on SpringBoot with a Go-based agent, designed for fast deploy… | 92 | 5187 | active |
| huashengdun/webssh WebSSH is a Python web application that provides a browser-based SSH client for connecting to SSH servers. It is built on Tornado, Paramiko… | 34 | 5145 | stable |
| Interactsh Interactsh is an open-source tool for detecting out-of-band (OOB) interactions via DNS, HTTP(S), SMTP(S), and LDAP, useful for identifying … | 88 | 4549 | active |
| emissary-ingress/emissary Emissary-ingress is an open-source, Kubernetes-native API gateway, Layer 7 load balancer, and Kubernetes Ingress built on Envoy Proxy. It i… | 83 | 4521 | stable |
| qinguoyi/TinyWebServer A lightweight C++ web server for Linux built with a thread pool, non-blocking sockets, epoll (ET and LT), and Reactor/simulated-Proactor ev… | 32 | 19705 | maintenance |
| amphp/amp amphp/amp is the core library of the AMPHP ecosystem, providing futures, coroutines, and cancellation primitives for non-blocking, event-dr… | 81 | 4434 | stable |
| TideSec/TscanPlus TscanPlus is a comprehensive network security detection and operations tool for rapid asset discovery, identification, and vulnerability de… | 92 | 4407 | active |
| ZeroNet ZeroNet is a decentralized web platform that serves websites peer-to-peer using Bitcoin cryptography for site signing and the BitTorrent ne… | 23 | 18776 | maintenance |
| slskd/slskd slskd is a modern client-server application for the Soulseek peer-to-peer file sharing network, written in C#. It runs as a daemon or Docke… | 95 | 4135 | active |
| octelium/octelium Octelium is a free, open-source, self-hosted unified zero trust secure access platform built on Kubernetes. It can operate as a remote acce… | 87 | 4107 | active |
| Boundary HashiCorp Boundary is an identity-aware proxy that provides secure, least-privilege access to hosts and critical systems across clouds and … | 10 | 4067 | active |
| varnishcache/varnish-cache Varnish Cache is a high-performance open-source HTTP accelerator and reverse caching proxy written in C, serving cached responses from memo… | 10 | 4044 | active |
| schwabe/ics-openvpn An open-source OpenVPN client for Android that uses the Android VPNService API to provide VPN connectivity without root access. It is a sta… | 90 | 3999 | active |
| M66B/NetGuard NetGuard is a free and open-source no-root firewall application for Android that blocks internet access per app using a local VPN. It allow… | 86 | 3941 | active |
| openbsd/src A read-only Git mirror of OpenBSD's official CVS source repository containing the complete operating system source tree, including the kern… | 77 | 3902 | active |
| EvilGenius-dot/RustMinerSystem RustMinerSystem is a self-hosted mining pool proxy and pool-node management system written in Rust for miners, mining farms, and pool opera… | 97 | 3881 | active |
| fastly/pushpin Pushpin is a reverse proxy server written in Rust and C++ that adds realtime push capabilities (WebSockets, HTTP streaming, long-polling, S… | 85 | 3863 | active |
| trimstray/htrace.sh htrace.sh is a shell-script CLI that combines HTTP/HTTPS request troubleshooting (redirect tracing, headers, body, SSL parameters, custom m… | 32 | 3862 | active |
| linuxserver/docker-swag SWAG is a Docker image from LinuxServer.io bundling an Nginx webserver/reverse proxy with PHP support, a built-in Certbot client for automa… | 96 | 3742 | active |
| Mouseww/anything-analyzer An Electron-based all-in-one protocol analysis toolkit that captures HTTP(S) traffic from browsers, desktop apps, terminals, scripts, and m… | 77 | 3734 | active |
| guardianproject/orbot-android Orbot is a free Android app that routes device internet traffic through the Tor network, acting as a VPN and proxy to encrypt and anonymize… | 99 | 3623 | active |
| ConnectBot ConnectBot is an open-source Secure Shell (SSH) client for Android that lets users open encrypted shell sessions and transfer files with re… | 99 | 3515 | active |
| ukanth/afwall AFWall+ is an open-source firewall application for rooted Android devices built on Linux iptables. It provides per-app granular control ove… | 91 | 3487 | active |
| TinyPilot TinyPilot is software that turns a Raspberry Pi (plus a cheap HDMI-to-USB capture dongle) into a browser-based KVM over IP device, letting … | 83 | 3477 | active |
| stellar/stellar-core Stellar Core is the reference C++20 implementation of the peer-to-peer agent that runs the Stellar blockchain network. It maintains a repli… | 96 | 3303 | active |
| Eclipse Zenoh Zenoh is a Rust-implemented pub/sub/query protocol and library that unifies data in motion, data at rest, and computations with minimal wir… | 97 | 3259 | active |
| netptop/siteproxy SiteProxy is a self-hosted online reverse proxy built on Hono that lets users browse blocked sites like YouTube, Twitter, and Google throug… | 90 | 3163 | active |
| uku/Unblock-Youku Unblock Youku is an open-source Chrome extension that lets users outside mainland China access Chinese web services such as video and music… | 32 | 3153 | active |
| fibjs/fibjs fibjs is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 engine that uses fiber-based coroutines with a synchronous, non-blocking IO model. It sh… | 67 | 3096 | active |
| Apache CloudStack Apache CloudStack is an open-source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform for deploying and managing large networks of virtual machin… | 97 | 3090 | stable |
| Xpra Xpra is a multi-platform screen and application forwarding tool, known as 'screen for X', that lets you run graphical applications on a rem… | 100 | 3023 | stable |
| wolfSSL/wolfssl wolfSSL is a lightweight, portable SSL/TLS library written in ANSI C, supporting TLS 1.3 and DTLS 1.3, powered by the wolfCrypt cryptograph… | 94 | 2961 | stable |
| jayofelony/pwnagotchi Pwnagotchi is a Raspberry Pi-based Wi-Fi penetration-testing gadget that leverages Bettercap to passively sniff or actively attack nearby W… | 90 | 2956 | active |
| Gedsh/InviZible InviZible Pro is an Android application that combines Tor, DNSCrypt, and Purple I2P modules to provide online privacy, anonymity, and acces… | 99 | 2827 | active |
| billchurch/webssh2 WebSSH2 is a web-based SSH client that proxies browser terminal sessions to SSH servers over WebSockets using ssh2, Socket.IO, and xterm.js… | 96 | 2777 | active |
| processone/tsung Tsung is a multi-protocol distributed load testing and benchmarking tool written in Erlang. It simulates thousands of clients to test the s… | 60 | 2628 | active |
| cym1102/nginxWebUI nginxWebUI is a self-hosted web application for graphically configuring and managing Nginx, covering reverse proxy, load balancing, TCP/str… | 86 | 2622 | active |
| RadioLib RadioLib is a universal C++ wireless communication library for embedded devices, providing a unified API to drive many radio modules (SX127… | 95 | 2614 | active |
| imzyb/MiSub MiSub is a lightweight, self-hosted subscription management panel for proxy nodes, deployed on Cloudflare Pages with KV or D1 storage. It c… | 64 | 2596 | active |
| refraction-networking/utls uTLS is a fork of Go's crypto/tls library that provides low-level access to the TLS ClientHello message, enabling fingerprint mimicry and r… | 79 | 2582 | active |
| mofeng-git/One-KVM One-KVM Rust is a lightweight open-source IP-KVM solution written in Rust that enables BIOS-level remote management of servers and workstat… | 89 | 2558 | active |
| go-ldap/ldap A Go library providing basic LDAP v3 client functionality, implementing RFC 4511 and related specifications. It supports connecting to LDAP… | 90 | 2460 | stable |
| XZB-1248/Spark Spark is a web-based, cross-platform Remote Administration Tool (RAT) written in Go that lets you monitor and control devices from a browse… | 52 | 2395 | active |
| Checkmk/checkmk Checkmk is a comprehensive IT infrastructure and application monitoring platform covering servers, networks, containers, and cloud environm… | 76 | 2391 | stable |
| EtherDream/jsproxy An online web proxy that uses browser Service Workers to intercept and rewrite requests client-side, so the nginx-based server only forward… | 32 | 9324 | maintenance |
| p0dalirius/Coercer Coercer is a Python CLI tool that automatically coerces Windows servers to authenticate to an arbitrary machine via multiple RPC methods ov… | 54 | 2323 | active |
| AhmetCanArslan/ShizuWall ShizuWall is a lightweight Android firewall app that controls per-app network access without using a VPN tunnel. It works on Android 11+ by… | 83 | 2321 | active |
| Redcon Redcon is a Go library for building fast, Redis-compatible TCP servers using the Redis protocol (RESP). It provides a simple API with Liste… | 70 | 2307 | stable |
| sglfree/freesky A distribution and documentation hub for free anti-censorship (circumvention) software such as Freegate, Ultrasurf, Psiphon 3, and nthLink,… | 66 | 2307 | active |
| teamgram/teamgram-server Teamgram Server is an unofficial open-source MTProto 2.0 server implementation written in Go that is compatible with official Telegram clie… | 62 | 2271 | active |
| spyboy-productions/CloakQuest3r CloakQuest3r is a Python-based open-source security research tool that identifies potential origin IP exposure of websites protected by Clo… | 51 | 2269 | active |
| iStore iStore is an open-source app store for OpenWrt implemented purely in shell scripts using only standard OpenWrt components. It lets users se… | 75 | 2261 | active |
| julian-klode/dns66 DNS66 is an open-source Android app that blocks ads and malicious hosts by intercepting DNS queries through a local VPN service. It uses co… | 10 | 2246 | active |
| irungentoo/toxcore Toxcore is the core C library implementing the Tox protocol, a fully encrypted, peer-to-peer, serverless communication platform for instant… | 32 | 8744 | maintenance |
| 864381832/xJavaFxTool xJavaFxTool is a cross-platform desktop application built with JavaFX that bundles dozens of small developer utilities, including encoding … | 47 | 2237 | active |
| react-native-netinfo/react-native-netinfo A React Native library providing a Network Info API for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and Web. It lets apps query connection type and quali… | 69 | 2178 | active |
| ferronweb/ferron Ferron is a fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust with automatic TLS certificate management via Let's Encrypt. It offers static file… | 82 | 2166 | active |
| sogou/srpc SRPC is an enterprise-level C++ RPC framework built on Sogou C++ Workflow, used in production at Sogou for tens of billions of daily reques… | 84 | 2143 | active |
| teddysun/shadowsocks_install A collection of shell scripts that automatically install and configure Shadowsocks and ShadowsocksR proxy servers (Python, libev, and Go va… | 60 | 8244 | maintenance |
| linyacool/WebServer A high-performance HTTP web server written in C++11 using epoll edge-triggered non-blocking IO with a Reactor concurrency model and thread … | 32 | 8215 | maintenance |
| cloudflare/cloudflare-go The official Go SDK for the Cloudflare REST API, generated with Stainless and covering Cloudflare products such as zones, DNS, and Zero Tru… | 98 | 2098 | active |