INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE. INFINITE POSSIBILITIES.THE DIRECTORY / VOL. 001
REBILT
THE ORIGINAL IS JUST THE BEGINNING.

SOFTWARE.
SECOND TAKES.

Discover remakes. Back the builders.
Find your next favorite alternative.

MADE DIFFERENT. BUILT INDEPENDENTLY.
A chaotic collage of cartoon computers, eyeballs, floppy disks, and software monsters
SAME IDEA.
NEW DNA.
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THE REMAKE WALL

ALL IDEAS WELCOME
19 projects to dig into · showing 1–15Every listing is shared with its builder’s OK.
PHOTON STUDIO

Photon Studio

A full Photoshop alternative that opens your PSDs with their layers and uses the shortcuts you already know.

ALTERNATIVE TO Photoshop
FREEby Tenzen Studio0
HANDY

Handy

Free, open-source speech to text. Press a shortcut, talk, and your words land wherever you’re typing.

ALTERNATIVE TO Wispr Flow, Superwhisper
FREEby CJ Pais0
PAPRA

Papra

An open-source home for your documents. Drop in receipts, contracts and scans, then find anything in seconds.

ALTERNATIVE TO Paperless-ngx
FREE PLANby Corentin Thomasset0
SPECTRUM STUDIO

Spectrum Studio

A free, multi-model AI workspace for images, films, voices and music, all on one shared credit balance.

ALTERNATIVE TO Adobe Firefly
FREE ACCESSby Tenzen Studio0
BURLY

Burly

A free Mac link router that asks which browser profile should open each link you click, Safari profiles included.

ALTERNATIVE TO Velja, Choosy
FREEby Matt Senter0
KARNAKPANEL

KarnakPanel

A free, self-hosted hosting panel for Ubuntu. One command sets up web, mail and DNS, with no license fees or limits.

ALTERNATIVE TO cPanel
COMING SOONby KarnakPanel team0
TEABLE

Teable

An open-source Airtable alternative on PostgreSQL: a spreadsheet-style database with AI, automations and an app builder.

ALTERNATIVE TO Airtable
FREE PLANby Teable0
PANELALPHA ENGINE

PanelAlpha Engine

An open-source server panel that lets your AI agent deploy and run projects on your own VPS, without handing it root.

ALTERNATIVE TO Coolify, cPanel
FREEby PanelAlpha0
OPENPENCIL

OpenPencil

An open-source Figma alternative that opens your .fig files, with built-in AI and no account needed.

ALTERNATIVE TO Figma
FREEby Danila Poyarkov0
LIGHT STUDIO

Light Studio

A Lightroom alternative that opens your Classic catalog in place and keeps every photo on your computer.

ALTERNATIVE TO Lightroom
COMING SOONby Tenzen Studio0
ARCANE

Arcane

A free, open-source web UI for Docker: containers, Compose projects, images, networks and volumes, on one host or many.

ALTERNATIVE TO Portainer, Dockge
FREEby Kyle Mendell0
PREMAIL

Premail

A private AI email filter for Mac, Windows and Linux that clears cold pitches, promotions and spam out of Gmail, Outlook and iCloud.

ALTERNATIVE TO SaneBox
FREE PLANby Matt Senter0
CHECKMATE

Checkmate

Open-source, self-hosted monitoring for uptime, page speed, servers and containers, with alerts and public status pages.

ALTERNATIVE TO UptimeRobot, Pingdom
FREEby BlueWave Labs0
VECTOR STUDIO

Vector Studio

An Illustrator alternative in development, built to work with your .ai, .svg and .pdf files.

ALTERNATIVE TO Illustrator
IN DEVELOPMENTby Tenzen Studio0
PELICAN

Pelican

A free, open-source control panel for game servers, from Minecraft and Palworld to Valheim, each running in its own Docker container.

ALTERNATIVE TO Pterodactyl
FREEby Pelican0

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