Best Automation software in 2026

Activepieces

activepieces.com

Open source

No-code business automation tool like Zapier or Tray. For example, you can send a Slack notification for each new Trello card.

Apache Airflow

airflow.apache.org

Open source

Platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows.

Automatisch

automatisch.io

Open source

Business automation tool that lets you connect different services like Twitter, Slack, and more to automate your business processes (alternative to Zapier).

BookBounty

github.com

Open source

- Retrieve missing Readarr books from Library Genesis.

changedetection.io

changedetection.io

Open source

Stay up-to-date with web-site content changes.

ChiefOnboarding

chiefonboarding.com

Open source

Employee onboarding platform that allows you to provision user accounts and create sequences with todo items, resources, text/email/Slack messages, and more! Available as a web portal and Slack bot.

Cronicle

cronicle.net

Open source

Simple, distributed task scheduler and runner with a web based UI.

Cronmaster

github.com

Open source

Cronjob management UI with human readable syntax, live logging and log history for your cronjobs.

Dagu

docs.dagu.cloud

Open source

Powerful Cron alternative with a Web UI. It allows you to define dependencies between commands as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) in a declarative YAML format.

Discount Bandit

discount-bandit.cybrarist.com

Open source

- Track pricing, stock status of products across multiple stores such as Amazon, Ebay, Walmart, etc.

Dittofeed

dittofeed.com

Open source

Omni-channel customer engagement and messaging automation platform (alternative to Braze, Customer.io, Iterable).

feedmixer

github.com

Open source

Micro web service which takes a list of feed URLs and returns a new feed consisting of the most recent n entries from each given feed (returns Atom, RSS, or JSON).

Fredy

fredy.orange-coding.net

Open source

- Searches for new apartments, houses, and flats in Germany on platforms like ImmoScout24, Immowelt, and others, and instantly delivers the results to you via Slack, Telegram, and more.

Github Ntfy

github.com

Open source

- Push notifications to NTFY, Gotify, Discord or Slack when a new release is available on Docker Hub or Github.

gocron

github.com

Open source

Task scheduler that allows users to specify recurring jobs via a simple YAML configuration file.

HandBrake Web

github.com

Open source

Use one or more instances of HandBrake video transcoder on a headless device via a web interface.

Healthchecks

healthchecks.io

Open source

Listen for pings and sends alerts when pings are late.

Huginn

github.com

Open source

Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf.

Kestra

kestra.io

Open source

Event-driven, language-agnostic platform to create, schedule, and monitor workflows. In code. Coordinate data pipelines and tasks such as ETL and ELT.

Kibitzr

kibitzr.github.io

Open source

Lightweight personal web assistant with powerful integrations.

LazyLibrarian

gitlab.com

Open source

- Follow authors and grab metadata for all your digital reading needs. It uses a combination of Goodreads, Librarything and optionally GoogleBooks as sources for author info and book info.

Leon

getleon.ai

Open source

Personal assistant who can live on your server.

Matchering

github.com

Open source

Automated music mastering (alternative to LANDR, eMastered and MajorDecibel).

Mylar3

mylarcomics.com

Open source

Automated Comic Book (cbr/cbz) downloader program for use with NZB and torrents.