Freepod

Your digital life, truly yours.

Freepod runs private, dedicated pods of open-source apps (your photos, files, chat and passwords), hosted in Europe. No ads, no tracking, no lock-in.

For everyone

Pick an app from the catalog and Freepod installs it, gives it its own HTTPS address ending in your handle (or on your own domain), and keeps it up to date. Each app is your own copy, with its data kept apart from your other apps and from everyone else's.

The catalog includes Immich, Nextcloud, PhotoPrism, Vaultwarden, Matrix, Mattermost, Lemmy and BookStack, with more on the way.

→ Get started

For developers

Freepod also runs the apps you write yourself. Point the freepod client at a project directory and it builds a container from your source (no Dockerfile needed) and puts it live on its own hostname. Postgres, object storage and sign-in are built in, and your coding agent can drive it too.

uv tool install freepod
freepod login
freepod init
freepod deploy

→ Developer docs

Open source

Freepod is itself open source under the MIT license. This repository holds the whole platform: the web app, the API, the freepod client, the app catalog and the infrastructure it runs on.

Freepod is in beta. Questions, bugs or ideas: email [email protected] or open an issue.

Hacking on it

Development happens inside a devcontainer: ./dev up starts it and ./dev sh opens a shell in it. Freepod deploys with Terraform onto a Kubernetes cluster (a single k3s node will do; see tf/).

Most of the work in this repo is done with coding agents, so the detailed tour of the architecture and conventions lives in AGENTS.md.