umbrelOS alternatives
umbrelOS alternatives in DevOps & Infrastructure Automation. Home-server OS you install on a Raspberry Pi, NUC, VM, or an Umbrel box. It runs files
Summary
umbrelOS alternatives in DevOps & Infrastructure Automation. Home-server OS you install on a Raspberry Pi, NUC, VM, or an Umbrel box. It runs files, photos, media, and local AI among 300+ apps, set up from the browser. The OS is a free download. Umbrel also sells the hardware. Free to use. 12 other catalog listings are linked below.
Alternatives
- CtrlOps — A local desktop app for Linux servers: an AI terminal, a file manager and one-click deploys. Credentials stay on the machine, and it does
- Nuclr Commander — A keyboard-first file manager that runs Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and OpenCode side by side with your files and servers. The download is free
- Cloudbrowser — Gives each agent its own Chrome browser in the cloud, with a saved login, so the session is not tied to one desktop. Free is 1 browser-hour
- lium.io — A marketplace for renting GPU pods (H100, H200, B200, RTX 4090 and others) from the browser or a CLI. Billing is per second at the rate
- 10Web — Provides automated WordPress hosting, website building and management tools for streamlined website creation.
- boat — Persistent Linux VMs for agents, with SSH, Docker, and a desktop, billed by the second and free while stopped. There is a 7-day trial with
- Gologin Cloud Browser — Cloud Chromium for automation and agents, with a one-line Playwright or Puppeteer connection.
- kosa8 — Puts each agent in its own microVM on your Mac or Linux box, so you can snapshot it and rewind in about a second. The network is
- Major — Infrastructure for shipping the apps and workflows a team builds with AI: deploy them, audit them, and work on them together. The homepage
- Maritime — Rents computers for agents: throwaway sandboxes, persistent boxes, Linux and Windows desktops, and Android phones. A sleeping machine is
- Rapid — Offers AI-powered map editing tools.
- Red Hat AI Enterprise — Platform for building, deploying, and monitoring models on infrastructure you run. Sold through sales, with no public price.