Search & Indexing Engines
10 self-hosted open source alternatives in this category
10 self-hosted open source alternatives in this category
10 services found

Fast, typo-tolerant search engine for apps and websites
Open-source search engine delivering fast, typo-tolerant full-text search with relevance tuning, filtering, faceting, and REST APIs for easy app integration.

Document management with OCR and full‑text search
Self-hosted document management system that ingests scans and emails, performs OCR, extracts metadata, and provides fast full-text search with tags and workflows.


Privacy-respecting metasearch engine you can run yourself
SearXNG is a privacy-focused metasearch engine that aggregates results from many search providers, with strong customization, multiple output formats, and API support.

A privacy-focused, self-hosted Google search frontend
Self-hosted metasearch-style frontend that proxies Google Search results while reducing tracking, removing ads, and enabling country/safe-search controls.

Your self-hosted YouTube media server and archiving pipeline
Download, index, and stream YouTube channels/playlists with full-text search, metadata, and a web UI powered by yt-dlp and Elasticsearch.


Self-hosted BitTorrent DHT crawler and torrent metadata indexer
Bitmagnet crawls the BitTorrent DHT to collect torrent metadata and provides a searchable index and API for discovery and automation workflows.

Personal document manager for scanning, OCR, and full-text search
Papra is a self-hosted document management app for organizing scanned documents with OCR, tagging, and full‑text search in a clean web UI.


Privacy-focused web front-end for Reddit
Redlib is a fast, lightweight alternative web UI for browsing Reddit without JavaScript or tracking, supporting RSS feeds, theming, and optional proxying of media.


Document management with OCR and full-text search
Self-hosted document management system that imports scans/PDFs, performs OCR, and provides full-text search, tagging, and folder-based organization for a paperless workflow.


Document management with OCR, tagging, and full-text search
Docspell is a document management system that organizes scanned/imported files with OCR, metadata extraction, tagging, and full-text search, plus automated ingest workflows.