Open-source alternatives to Waha

This project is a Model Context Protocol server that acts as a programmatic bridge between large language models and private messaging accounts. It provides an automation interface for interacting with WhatsApp by exposing messaging and data retrieval capabilities as tools for AI assistants. The system utilizes browser automation to control the web application interface, allowing for stateful session management to maintain authentication. It enables the transmission of various content types, including plain text, documents, and audio files formatted as voice messages. The server covers conve

Venom is a TypeScript library for building automated bots that interact with WhatsApp. It provides a complete toolkit for programmatically managing chats, groups, and messages by bridging into the WhatsApp Web protocol through WebSocket communication. The library handles authentication via QR code scanning, session persistence to avoid repeated logins, and real-time event listening for message delivery, edits, deletions, and connection state changes. The library offers a command-based routing system that directs incoming messages to handler functions based on pattern matching, alongside an ev

whatsmeow is a Go library that implements the WhatsApp multidevice protocol, providing direct access to the binary node serialization, WebSocket-based connection management, and Signal‑Protocol encryption that underpin WhatsApp’s messaging infrastructure. It maintains persistent, low-latency connections across multiple devices, handles session credentials independently for each device, and processes incoming events through an event‑driven dispatch system for messages, receipts, and presence updates. The library differentiates itself through comprehensive client‑side state management: it cache

This project is a WhatsApp chatbot that integrates large language models and image generation into the WhatsApp messaging platform. It acts as a bridge connecting WhatsApp messages to OpenAI services to provide automated text and visual responses. The bot features the ability to convert spoken audio messages into written text using automated speech recognition, facilitating conversational interactions via voice. It also functions as a generative image bot, creating custom visual assets from text descriptions. The system is designed for containerized deployment, using Docker to package the ap

Crawlee-python is a web crawling framework for building scalable scrapers using Python. It serves as a comprehensive tool for web scraping automation, providing a system to extract structured data from websites using both lightweight HTTP requests and headless browser automation. The framework is distinguished by its anti-bot evasion capabilities, which include browser fingerprint impersonation and tiered proxy rotation to bypass detection systems and solve challenges such as Cloudflare. It also incorporates artificial intelligence for autonomous website navigation and schema-based data extra

Android SMS Gateway is a self-hosted messaging infrastructure that transforms Android devices into programmable gateways for sending and receiving SMS and MMS messages. By exposing a local RESTful API and an SMPP bridge, the project enables developers to integrate cellular messaging capabilities directly into their own applications without relying on third-party cloud providers. The platform distinguishes itself through advanced traffic management and orchestration features designed for high-volume messaging. It includes a multi-SIM routing engine that distributes outgoing traffic across mult

Wekan is an open-source, self-hosted Kanban project management tool used for organizing workflows through boards, lists, and cards. It is a real-time web application that allows teams to manage tasks on private infrastructure. The platform distinguishes itself with extensive data migration tools, specifically for importing boards and cards from Trello. It supports enterprise-grade identity integration via LDAP, OpenID Connect, and OAuth2, and offers flexible storage options including PostgreSQL as a primary relational backend and pluggable cloud storage for attachments. The system covers a w

Evolution API is a collection of system components including a WhatsApp API gateway, a multi-channel messaging bridge, and a conversational AI orchestrator. It functions as an event-driven messaging middleware that links messaging platforms with large language models and external applications to automate text and audio responses. The project provides a self-hosted marketing automation platform for executing customer relationship workflows and outreach campaigns. It further distinguishes itself by routing chat conversations between different messaging services and customer support tools throug

This project is an automated learning task bot and headless browser automation tool. It is designed to automatically execute required educational activities and track progress to meet learning quotas without manual interaction. The software manages multi-account sessions by isolating cookies and credentials through unique identifiers, allowing multiple users to run concurrently. It further handles identity and connectivity by routing traffic through HTTP or SOCKS proxies and allowing the modification of user agent strings and client identity via command-line arguments. The system includes au

Soft Serve is a self-hosted Git server that authenticates users via SSH public keys and provides a terminal-based user interface for browsing repositories, files, and commits. It stores repository data and configuration in either SQLite or PostgreSQL, and supports role-based access control with four permission levels for managing repository visibility and write access. The server can be deployed via Docker or managed as a systemd service, and supports webhook notifications for push, collaborator, and branch or tag events to integrate with external automation workflows. It also enables server-

Eko is a framework for designing and deploying agentic workflows, featuring an LLM agent workflow orchestrator and a browser automation engine. It provides a server-side process manager for executing system-level operations and managing local files, alongside a human-in-the-loop agent controller for manual oversight and direction during automated decision processes. The system coordinates multi-agent collaboration through role-based partitioning and workflow orchestration, dividing complex tasks into distinct roles and managing execution handoffs. It integrates the Model Context Protocol to s

Wechaty is a cross-platform chatbot framework designed to build and manage automated messaging agents. It provides a unified programming interface that abstracts diverse instant messaging protocols, allowing developers to create bots that function consistently across multiple communication services. By utilizing a modular architecture, the framework enables the development of conversational agents capable of handling complex messaging workflows, contact management, and group room interactions. The framework distinguishes itself through a puppet-based protocol abstraction and a language-agnost

Crawlee is a web scraping framework designed for building scalable, reliable, and distributed data extraction pipelines. It provides a unified interface for managing headless browser automation and lightweight HTTP requests, allowing developers to handle complex web navigation, dynamic content rendering, and large-scale data collection within a single, modular architecture. The project distinguishes itself through its resource-aware concurrency controller, which dynamically scales task execution based on real-time CPU and memory usage to prevent host machine exhaustion. It also features a rob

Octelium is a zero-trust network access platform and identity-aware proxy designed to secure private HTTP, SSH, and SQL resources. It functions as a secure gateway that validates human and workload identities using OIDC, SAML, and FIDO2 passkeys before granting access to internal applications and SaaS APIs. The system is distinguished by its secretless access broker, which injects credentials—such as API keys, passwords, and AWS Sigv4 signatures—at the gateway level so users can access databases and cloud resources without managing secrets. It further specializes in AI gateway administration,

get_jobs is a browser automation tool that submits resumes to multiple Chinese job platforms with minimal manual intervention. It orchestrates a sequence of browser actions to locate elements, fill forms, and click buttons, using a dual strategy of CSS selectors and XPath expressions for flexible and robust element targeting on dynamic pages. The tool requires only a single daily QR code scan to maintain a persistent session across runs, and it applies configurable filters—such as experience level, company blacklist, recruiter type, and keywords—to narrow job listings before submission. The t

Mailpit is an SMTP mail testing server and web-based email inbox designed to intercept and store outgoing emails for development and integration testing without delivering them to real recipients. It functions as an SMTP mocking tool and relay gateway, allowing users to capture mail traffic and view it through a browser interface. The project distinguishes itself by providing tools for SMTP server simulation, including the ability to inject failure codes to test application resilience. It also includes an email compatibility analyzer that validates HTML rendering, checks link integrity, and s

AzuraCast is a self-hosted web radio management suite and dashboard designed for internet radio broadcasting. It functions as an automated playback manager and broadcasting system, integrating an audio orchestrator for transcoding and cross-fading with a streaming server to distribute audio via mount points. The platform enables multi-tenant station management, allowing a single installation to host multiple independent radio entities. It distinguishes itself by combining an Auto-DJ broadcast system with the ability to manage live DJ accounts and coordinate real-time broadcasts. The system c

Mastra is an orchestration framework designed for building, deploying, and managing autonomous AI agents and multi-agent systems. It provides a comprehensive suite of primitives for creating resilient AI applications, including durable workflow orchestration, event-driven agent loops, and semantic memory management. By integrating these core components, the platform enables developers to build complex, multi-step processes that can reason about goals and execute tasks without manual intervention. The framework distinguishes itself through its focus on observability and secure, isolated execut

Osmedeus is a security workflow orchestration engine that coordinates AI agents, shell commands, and scanning tools through declarative YAML pipelines. It functions as a distributed security scanner, a declarative workflow automator, and an AI agent framework for security, enabling automated multi-step security analysis with conditional branching, parallel execution, and distributed workers. The engine distinguishes itself through a hybrid runner model that executes workflow steps on the local host, inside Docker containers, or over SSH to remote machines, selected per step or module. It supp

Multica is an autonomous coding agent manager and LLM agent orchestration platform. It coordinates teams of autonomous agents to execute coding tasks and manage their lifecycles through a centralized dashboard. The system provides multi-tenant agent workspaces that isolate agents, settings, and project issues into distinct organizational boundaries. The platform distinguishes itself through an agent skill library that captures successful task solutions as reusable, versioned skills. These skills are shared across the agent team and pinned using content hashes to ensure consistent behavior acr

Prefect is a workflow orchestration platform designed to define, schedule, and monitor complex data pipelines as Python code. It functions as a container-native engine that wraps individual tasks in isolated environments, ensuring consistent dependencies and resource allocation across diverse infrastructure. By utilizing a state-machine-based orchestration model, the system tracks execution progress through discrete transitions and persistent event logs to maintain reliable and observable task processing. The platform distinguishes itself through a decoupled worker-API architecture, which sep

Leon is a framework for building personal AI assistants that integrates large language models with local tool execution and persistent memory. It functions as an agentic workflow orchestrator and modular skill engine, enabling the creation of autonomous assistants capable of planning and executing multi-step tasks. The system features a retrieval-augmented generation memory architecture that indexes conversation history and user facts for context-aware grounding. It utilizes a modular skill system to interact with external binaries and APIs, supported by a loop that handles tool calling, sche

w3af is a web penetration testing suite and security audit framework designed to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in web applications. It functions as a vulnerability scanner that crawls targets to find injection points and a fuzzer used to discover hidden endpoints and test input validation. The project distinguishes itself by providing an intercepting HTTP proxy for capturing and modifying traffic, combined with a knowledge-base driven exploitation system. It enables the execution of security exploits to gain remote shell access and supports post-exploitation activities, such as routing

Yowsup is a protocol library and client framework for implementing WhatsApp clients. It provides an interface for sending and receiving multimedia messages, managing group chats, and handling account registration. The project features a modular system for building communication stacks that process encrypted data and network connections. It includes a protocol library to manage messaging, presence states, and account registration, alongside an interactive command line interface for interacting with users and managing contacts. The framework covers a range of communication capabilities, includ

WeFlow is a local client extension for the WhatsApp messaging protocol. It functions as a suite of tools for decrypting media, managing chat history, and extending the core capabilities of the messaging client. The project is distinguished by its ability to block message recalls, preventing the remote deletion of sent messages to maintain a permanent record of conversations. It also includes a local messaging API that exposes internal chat capabilities via an HTTP service for use with external automation scripts and third-party tools. The software provides a chat analytics dashboard for gene

SQL Chat is a Docker-deployed chat interface that translates natural language questions into SQL queries and executes them against connected databases. It uses a large language model to generate SQL from plain English instructions, supporting both querying and record modification through INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements within the chat conversation flow. The application connects to MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, TiDB Cloud, and OceanBase databases through a unified driver abstraction layer, allowing users to interact with multiple database types from a single chat interface. Users provide the

Knightbot-MD is a WhatsApp bot framework that connects through the multi-device protocol to automate group management, moderation, and interactive features. It provides a modular system for running turn-based multiplayer games like Tic-Tac-Toe within group conversations, converting images into WebP stickers for chat sharing, and synthesizing text messages into audio clips through text-to-speech conversion. The bot includes a link-detection moderation engine that scans incoming messages against blocklisted domains and triggers automated warnings or muting. It enforces role-based command author