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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| iPXE iPXE is the leading open source network boot firmware, providing a full PXE implementation enhanced with features like booting from HTTP/HT… | 76 | 2083 | active |
| zhimin-dev/iptv-checker A high-performance IPTV playlist checker that validates whether channels in M3U/M3U8/TXT playlists are available, deployable via Docker or … | 97 | 2039 | active |
| Start9Labs/start-technologies Start Technologies is the monorepo for Start9's products, headlined by StartOS, an open-source Linux distribution that turns any PC into a … | 96 | 1994 | active |
| dchapyshev/aspia Aspia is a free open-source remote desktop application with file transfer, remote terminal, system information, text chat, and video record… | 99 | 1945 | active |
| moul/sshportal sshportal is a transparent SSH bastion (jump host) server written in Go that manages users, hosts, and access control without requiring a t… | 66 | 1941 | active |
| fideloper/TrustedProxy A Laravel package that configures trusted proxies so applications behind load balancers or reverse proxies correctly interpret X-Forwarded … | 23 | 7304 | maintenance |
| Compio Compio is a thread-per-core asynchronous Rust runtime built on completion-based I/O, using io_uring on Linux, IOCP on Windows, and polling … | 88 | 1911 | active |
| keshavdv/unifi-cam-proxy A Python proxy that lets non-Ubiquiti RTSP-enabled cameras appear as native cameras in UniFi Protect NVR. It supports live streaming, full-… | 77 | 1869 | active |
| NewLifeX/X NewLife.X is a core foundational component library for .NET (C#) providing logging, configuration, caching (memory/Redis), networking (TCP/… | 65 | 1858 | active |
| Macast Macast is a cross-platform menu bar application that turns your computer into a DLNA Media Renderer using mpv as the playback engine. It le… | 23 | 6939 | maintenance |
| enetx/surf Surf is an advanced HTTP client library for Go with fluent, chainable API design. It supports browser impersonation (Chrome/Firefox), JA3/J… | 81 | 1840 | active |
| HMBSbige/ShadowsocksR-Android A ShadowsocksR proxy client for Android written in Kotlin, forked from the shadowsocks-android codebase. It lets Android users route traffi… | 10 | 1830 | active |
| google/nomulus Nomulus is an open-source, scalable, cloud-based top-level domain (TLD) registry service written in Java and running on Google Kubernetes E… | 95 | 1813 | active |
| OpenVPN/openvpn-gui OpenVPN GUI is a graphical frontend for OpenVPN on Windows 10 and 11, providing a notification-area icon to start and stop VPN tunnels, vie… | 75 | 1806 | active |
| bulianglin/psub psub is a proxy subscription conversion tool deployed on Cloudflare Workers that acts as a reverse proxy for subscription conversion backen… | 10 | 1769 | active |
| samyk/poisontap PoisonTap is a USB-based attack tool built on a Raspberry Pi Zero and Node.js that exploits locked, password-protected computers by emulati… | 32 | 6476 | maintenance |
| markmanx/isoflow Isoflow is an open-source React component for building interactive network and architecture diagrams with a drag-and-drop editor. It suppor… | 37 | 1727 | active |
| webprofusion/certify Certify The Web is an ACME v2 certificate management application with a Windows desktop UI and background renewal service, plus a cross-pla… | 76 | 1704 | stable |
| unifreq/openwrt_packit Flippy's OpenWrt packaging scripts that build flashable .img firmware images for ARM64 SoC TV boxes and development boards (Amlogic, Rockch… | 74 | 1691 | active |
| C0nw0nk/Nginx-Lua-Anti-DDoS A Lua-based Anti-DDoS script for Nginx that presents a Cloudflare-style JavaScript authentication puzzle to filter out bots and mitigate La… | 98 | 1658 | active |
| admpub/nging Nging is a Go-based website server management panel for configuring and administering Caddy and Nginx sites through a web UI. It bundles pr… | 80 | 1594 | active |
| samwafgo/SamWaf SamWaf is a lightweight, open-source web application firewall (WAF) written in Go, designed for small companies, studios, and personal webs… | 90 | 1587 | active |
| QuiteAFancyEmerald/InvisiProxy InvisiProxy LTS (formerly Holy Unblocker) is a self-hostable Node.js web proxy service that lets users access blocked websites and Tor/Onio… | 97 | 1584 | active |
| kingmo888/rustdesk-api-server A Django-based API and web server for the RustDesk remote desktop platform, implementing the RustDesk API endpoints plus a web UI for regis… | 18 | 1574 | active |
| SmingHub/Sming Sming is an open-source asynchronous C++ framework for building embedded applications with strong networking support. It targets multiple a… | 72 | 1568 | active |
| sepfy/libpeer libpeer is a portable WebRTC implementation written in C using BSD sockets, designed for IoT and embedded devices such as ESP32 and Raspber… | 73 | 1553 | active |
| UCCL UCCL is a high-performance GPU communication library written in C++ that provides collectives (as a drop-in NCCL/RCCL replacement), P2P tra… | 69 | 1545 | active |
| sartoopjj/thefeed TheFeed is a DNS-based feed reader and lightweight messenger that works on networks where only DNS queries pass through, letting users read… | 71 | 1542 | active |
| shirokhorshid/shirokhorshid-android Shir o Khorshid is an independently maintained, community fork of the open-source Psiphon Android VPN/circumvention client, adding extra co… | 66 | 1540 | active |
| ssh-mitm/ssh-mitm SSH-MITM is an open-source man-in-the-middle SSH server for authorized security audits and malware analysis. It proxies SSH client-server c… | 84 | 1470 | active |
| Safe3/openresty-manager OpenResty Manager is a modern, web-based server control panel for managing OpenResty/Nginx reverse proxies, free SSL certificates, security… | 80 | 1463 | active |
| Water-Melon/Melon Melon is a generic cross-platform C library (C99) bundling algorithms, data structures, functional components (memory pool, thread pool, ev… | 66 | 1458 | active |
| crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker WindowsSpyBlocker is a Go application delivered as a single Windows executable that blocks spying and tracking on Windows systems. It captu… | 65 | 5217 | maintenance |
| SlipNet SlipNet is an open-source anti-censorship VPN client for Android (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose) with a cross-platform Go CLI companion, supportin… | 71 | 1443 | active |
| twoone-3/AdGuardHomeForRoot A Magisk/KernelSU/APatch module that runs AdGuardHome on rooted Android devices, providing a local DNS server that blocks ads, malware, and… | 88 | 1436 | active |
| at_client_sdk The Dart implementation of the atSDK for building applications on the Atsign Platform, a protocol for personal data ownership and controlle… | 67 | 1434 | active |
| vicanso/pingap Pingap is a high-performance reverse proxy and application gateway built in Rust on Cloudflare's Pingora library, offering nginx-like funct… | 92 | 1390 | active |
| RockxyApp/Rockxy Rockxy is an open-source (AGPL-3.0) native macOS HTTP debugging proxy built in Swift/SwiftNIO that intercepts, inspects, and modifies HTTP,… | 80 | 1387 | active |
| BullsEye0/shodan-eye Shodan Eye is a Python command-line tool that queries the Shodan search engine to collect information about all devices directly connected … | 76 | 1373 | active |
| LibVNC/libvncserver LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient are cross-platform C libraries for implementing VNC server and client functionality using the RFB protocol. LibVN… | 68 | 1367 | stable |
| yuanyuanxiang/SimpleRemoter SimpleRemoter (YAMA) is a C++ remote control suite derived from the Gh0st RAT codebase, providing remote desktop, file transfer, terminal, … | 56 | 1367 | active |
| bivlked/amneziawg-installer A one-command Bash installer that turns a fresh Ubuntu or Debian VPS (x86_64, ARM64, Raspberry Pi) into a self-hosted AmneziaWG 2.0/3.x VPN… | 82 | 1356 | active |
| oxylabs/paid-proxy-servers A promotional GitHub repository for Oxylabs' commercial paid proxy services, covering residential, mobile, datacenter, ISP, and SOCKS5 prox… | 56 | 1348 | active |
| jetmore/swaks Swaks is a scriptable, transaction-oriented SMTP test tool written in Perl, often called the Swiss Army Knife for SMTP. It supports SMTP, E… | 23 | 1347 | active |
| reactphp/event-loop ReactPHP's core reactor event loop providing a common LoopInterface for evented, non-blocking I/O in PHP. It enables interoperable async li… | 63 | 1335 | stable |
| DNSveil DNSveil is a Windows-only secure DNS client supporting DNSCrypt, Anonymized DNSCrypt, DoH, DoT, and plain DNS over UDP/TCP, with built-in D… | 53 | 1328 | active |
| sylar-yin/sylar Sylar is a high-performance C++ server framework built around user-space coroutines (fibers) with modules for logging, configuration, threa… | 32 | 4720 | maintenance |
| wizwizdev/wizwizxui-timebot A self-hosted Telegram bot for managing and selling x-ui panel VPN/proxy subscriptions, showing usage volume and remaining subscription tim… | 63 | 1294 | active |
| villadora/express-http-proxy Express/Connect middleware that proxies HTTP requests to another host and passes the response back to the original caller. It provides hook… | 49 | 1250 | stable |
| JonasAlfredsson/docker-nginx-certbot A Docker image wrapping the official Nginx images with automatic Let's Encrypt certificate creation and renewal via certbot. It supports RS… | 87 | 1208 | active |
| Janusec/janusec Janusec Application Gateway is a Go-based application gateway providing secure access for web applications, including reverse proxy, WAF, C… | 77 | 1200 | active |
| markparticle/WebServer A high-performance HTTP web server written in C++14 for Linux, using epoll-based Reactor concurrency with a thread pool, achieving 10,000+ … | 32 | 4120 | maintenance |
| Vizceral Vizceral is a JavaScript component that renders animated traffic graphs on a WebGL canvas, visualizing node-and-edge graphs with traffic vo… | 23 | 4099 | maintenance |
| tholian-network/stealth Stealth is a secure, privacy-focused web browser, scraper, and proxy built in JavaScript that emphasizes automation, bandwidth efficiency, … | 32 | 1149 | active |
| OpenNJet/OpenNJet OpenNJet is a high-performance, lightweight web application and proxy engine written in C, designed as a cloud-native service mesh data pla… | 57 | 1144 | active |
| hakluke/hakoriginfinder hakoriginfinder is a Go CLI tool that discovers the origin host behind a reverse proxy or WAF. It sends requests with the original Host hea… | 71 | 1108 | active |
| contiki-os/contiki Contiki is an open source operating system for tiny low-power microcontrollers, providing standardized low-power wireless communication acr… | 32 | 3808 | maintenance |
| x-tools-author/x-tools xTools is an open-source, cross-platform Qt-based debugging tool-set for serial port, HID, BLE, UDP, TCP, WebSocket, Modbus, CAN Bus, MQTT,… | 84 | 1090 | active |
| ArweaveTeam/arweave The official Erlang implementation of the Arweave protocol, a distributed, cryptographically verified permanent archive built on a cryptocu… | 97 | 1079 | stable |
| AlephNullSK/dnsgen DNSGen is a Python CLI tool that generates intelligent permutations of domain names to aid subdomain discovery during security assessments.… | 32 | 1079 | active |
| denoland/clawpatrol Claw Patrol is a security firewall and proxy for AI agents, written in Go, that intercepts agent traffic at the wire level and gates each a… | 80 | 1076 | active |
| p0dalirius/smbclient-ng smbclient-ng is a Python command-line tool providing a fast, user-friendly interactive shell for interacting with SMB shares on remote Wind… | 73 | 1067 | active |
| orvice/ss-panel ss-panel is a self-hosted web panel for managing Shadowsocks proxy servers, built in PHP with a Vue.js frontend. It provides user registrat… | 23 | 3599 | maintenance |
| apple/servicetalk ServiceTalk is a JVM networking framework built on Netty that provides reactive, asynchronous HTTP, gRPC, and other protocol clients and se… | 94 | 1041 | active |
| pingooio/pingoo Pingoo is a self-hosted load balancer, API gateway, and reverse proxy written in Rust, positioned as an open-source alternative to Cloudfla… | 55 | 1035 | active |
| cuber/ngx_http_google_filter_module A native Nginx filter module written in C that simplifies deploying a Google search mirror server. It handles cookies, gstatic resources, a… | 32 | 3351 | maintenance |
| s-rah/onionscan OnionScan is a free and open source Go CLI tool for investigating Tor hidden services (.onion sites) on the Dark Web. It scans sites for op… | 23 | 3306 | maintenance |
| django-sspanel A self-hosted Shadowsocks proxy management panel built with Django, used to manage proxy nodes, users, and subscriptions. It pairs with the… | 10 | 3066 | maintenance |
| christophetd/CloudFlair CloudFlair is a Python CLI tool that finds the origin servers of websites protected by Cloudflare or CloudFront by searching Censys interne… | 37 | 2978 | maintenance |
| V2Ray An official Bash installer script (plus community config examples) that installs and manages V2Ray, a network proxy platform, on systemd-ba… | 10 | 875 | active |
| ShadowsocksR-Live/shadowsocksr-native A lightweight ShadowsocksR (SSRoT) proxy client and server written in pure C, adding TLS-based obfuscation to evade deep packet inspection … | 49 | 2769 | maintenance |
| m0rtem/CloudFail CloudFail is a Python 3 command-line reconnaissance tool that attempts to discover the real IP address of servers hidden behind Cloudflare.… | 32 | 2698 | maintenance |
| chrisk44/Hijacker Hijacker is an Android GUI wrapper for wireless penetration testing tools including Aircrack-ng, Airodump-ng, MDK3, and Reaver. It lets use… | 10 | 2572 | maintenance |
| pwnlandia/mhn Modern Honey Network (MHN) is a centralized Flask-based server for managing honeypot sensors and collecting their attack data. It exposes a… | 32 | 2464 | maintenance |
| baidu/sofa-pbrpc sofa-pbrpc is a lightweight C++ RPC library implementing Google's protobuf RPC framework, with sync/async calls, timeouts, compression, loa… | 23 | 2140 | maintenance |
| UnaPibaGeek/ctfr CTFR is a Python command-line tool that enumerates HTTPS website subdomains by querying Certificate Transparency logs (via crt.sh) instead … | 32 | 2126 | maintenance |
| jiangwenyuan/nuster Nuster is a high-performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL key-value cache server built on top of HAProxy, written in C. It is … | 23 | 1902 | maintenance |
| n0a/telegram-get-remote-ip A Python CLI script that reveals the IP address of a Telegram voice call interlocutor by capturing and analyzing traffic with tshark. It ex… | 32 | 1857 | maintenance |
| youzan/zan-proxy Zan Proxy is an extensible HTTP/HTTPS/WebSocket proxy server written in Node.js for developers to debug local code against live pages. It s… | 23 | 1826 | maintenance |
| mrh0wl/Cloudmare Cloudmare is a Python CLI tool that discovers the origin servers of websites protected by Cloudflare, Sucuri, or Incapsula when their DNS i… | 10 | 1785 | maintenance |
| NitroShare NitroShare is a cross-platform desktop application for transferring files between devices on a local network, built with C++ and Qt. It fea… | 33 | 1664 | maintenance |
| easychen/openai-api-proxy A lightweight OpenAI/GPT API reverse proxy deployable with a single Docker command or to Tencent Cloud serverless functions. It supports SS… | 31 | 1611 | maintenance |
| zidansec/CloudPeler CrimeFlare is a PHP command-line OSINT tool that attempts to reveal the real origin IP address behind websites protected by Cloudflare's WA… | 10 | 1575 | maintenance |
| ortuman/jackal Jackal is a free, open-source, high-performance XMPP (Jabber) instant messaging server written in Go. It emphasizes stability, simple confi… | 10 | 1429 | maintenance |
| v2net/ios A distribution site and repository for Shadowrocket, an iOS proxy client supporting SS/SSR/V2Ray protocols, including online installation, … | 23 | 1332 | maintenance |
| Yawning/obfs4 obfs4 is a look-like-nothing traffic obfuscation protocol (the obfourscator) implemented in Go, based on ScrambleSuit with ntor handshakes … | 32 | 1248 | maintenance |
| jzyong/game-server A distributed Java game server framework for chess/card and MMORPG games, providing cluster registry, gateway, hall, game logic, and monito… | 45 | 1228 | maintenance |
| fofapro/Hosts_scan A small Python tool that brute-force matches IP addresses against domain names by binding Hosts headers, to discover weak or internal syste… | 32 | 1195 | maintenance |
| trimstray/multitor A shell-based CLI tool that spins up multiple TOR instances and load-balances traffic across them through a single endpoint using HAProxy, … | 32 | 1190 | maintenance |
| barronwaffles/dwc_network_server_emulator A Python-based emulator of Nintendo's discontinued Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection servers, allowing Nintendo DS and Wii games to play online mul… | 32 | 1183 | maintenance |
| Spooks4576/Ghost_ESP Ghost ESP is open-source ESP32 firmware (written in C on ESP-IDF) that turns 45+ ESP32 boards into a wireless security testing platform cov… | 10 | 1180 | maintenance |
| SpiderLabs/HostHunter HostHunter is a Python CLI recon tool that maps IPv4/IPv6 targets to virtual hostnames using OSINT and active reconnaissance techniques suc… | 23 | 1172 | maintenance |
| freenet/freenet-core Freenet is a fully decentralized peer-to-peer network implemented in Rust that acts as a global shared computer and distributed key-value s… | 96 | 3109 | experimental |
| saljam/webwormhole WebWormhole is a tool that creates ephemeral, peer-authenticated WebRTC pipes between computers for sending files or data, secured with a P… | 55 | 2090 | experimental |
| blackhillsinfosec/WifiForge WifiForge is a Python-based training framework from Black Hills InfoSec that simulates Wi-Fi networks using mininet-wifi so pentesters can … | 91 | 1216 | experimental |
| SwitchyOmega SwitchyOmega is a browser extension for Chromium and Firefox that lets users manage and quickly switch between multiple proxy profiles, inc… | 23 | 22603 | abandoned |
| cmliu/CF-Workers-SUB A Cloudflare Workers/Pages-based tool that merges multiple proxy nodes and subscription links into a single personalized subscription URL, … | 10 | 7523 | abandoned |
| js-ipfs A JavaScript implementation of the IPFS peer-to-peer protocol, usable as a library in Node.js and browsers or as a CLI daemon for adding an… | 10 | 7385 | abandoned |
| qiyeboy/IPProxyPool IPProxyPool is a Python proxy pool service that crawls free proxy IPs from the web, validates them, stores them in a database (SQLite by de… | 23 | 4288 | abandoned |
| iMeiji/shadowsocks_install A shell script that automatically installs and configures a Shadowsocks proxy server on Linux VPS instances, forked from Teddysun's well-kn… | 23 | 4168 | abandoned |