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appwrite

by appwrite

Appwrite is an open-source platform for building and scaling applications, offering services like authentication, databases, storage, and functions.

Ready to useEstablished, openly licensed, and no red flags in its documentation.

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Stars
57.8k
Licence
BSD-3-Clause
Runs on
A small server
Setup
Moderate
Language
TypeScript
Age
2758 days

What you can do with it

  • Create and manage databases
  • Store and manage files
  • Deploy serverless functions
  • Set up authentication

Could replace

  • Firebase
  • Supabase
  • AWS Amplify

Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.

Ways a business could use it

  • Replace paid cloud services for small-scale projects
  • Self-host a backend for a web application

Can you use it commercially?

Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.

Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.

Getting it running

Setup involves running a Docker command or using one-click setups from providers.

Follow the official instructions in the project README.

Checked 26 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.

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