HomeButler

Installs and manages a curated catalog of applications via Docker Compose, maps containers and exposed ports, verifies backups restore, and reports what changed since the last run with CLI, JSON, web and MCP interfaces.

Active Last commit · 10+ releases in the past year · 271 commits in the past 12 months

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At a glance

GitHub stars
319
Last commit
2026-11-10
Latest release
v1.6.0
2026-11-09
Commits (12 mo)
271
Releases (12 mo)
10+
License
MIT
Language / platform
Docker, Go

Maintenance health: Active

Last commit within the past 90 days. Last commit · 10+ releases in the past year · 271 commits in the past 12 months.

How we label health: Active = last commit within 90 days, Maintained = within 12 months, Slowing = 12–24 months, Stale = over 24 months, Archived = read-only repository, Unknown = no data. Activity data from awesome-selfhosted-data (refreshed daily from GitHub); release counts from the GitHub releases feed (includes pre-releases).

Run HomeButler yourself

  • RAM: ~512 MB server (1 vCPU)
  • Docker: yes

Estimated monthly server cost

ProviderPlan size~ USD / month
Vultr512 MB$3.5Deploy →
DigitalOcean512 MB$4Deploy →
Akamai (Linode)1 GB$5Deploy →

Rough estimate from the app's stack and category, not a benchmark. Several light apps can share one server. Some hosting links may be affiliate links. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you; it never affects which apps we list.

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