Umbrel

A beautiful personal server OS for self-hosting
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Install on
Raspberry Pi · Ubuntu · Debian

At Umbrel, we believe that everyone should be able to enjoy the convenience and benefits of the cloud, without giving up ownership and control of their data.

To achieve our vision, we're building a new kind of personal server OS. Instead of paying ransoms for storing your data on someone else's computer while they auction it off to advertisers — you can now easily spin up a server and self-host your data and services at home.

Just like the cloud, but one that you own and control.

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Installing Umbrel

Umbrel is currently in beta and should not be considered secure. See SECURITY.md for more details.

The easiest way to get started is by running Umbrel OS on a Raspberry Pi 4. Step-by-step installation intructions can be found here.

Alternatively you can install Umbrel on any Ubuntu or Debian system (both x86 and arm64) with:

curl -L https://umbrel.sh | bash

Umbrel App Store

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Here are some of the apps available in the Umbrel App Store. For the complete list of apps, please see the umbrel-apps repository.

• Bitcoin Node — Run your personal node powered by Bitcoin Core
• Bitfeed — A beautiful mempool visualizer and block explorer
• BTCPay Server — Accept Bitcoin payments with zero fees & no 3rd party
• Calibre Web — A clean web app for your eBooks
• Code Server — Run VS Code on your Umbrel
• Core LN — Run your personal Core Lightning node
• Electrs — A simple and efficient Electrum Server
• Element — A glossy Matrix client compatible with Synapse
• Gitea — A painless self-hosted Git service
• Home Assistant — Home automation that puts local control & privacy first
• Invidious — Browse YouTube without tracking or ads
• Jam — Your sats. Your privacy. Your profit.
• Jellyfin — The Free Software Media System
• LibReddit — An alternative private front-end to Reddit
• Lidarr — Looks and smells like Sonarr but made for music
• Lightning Node — Run your personal Lightning Network node
• Lightning Terminal — The easiest way to manage channel liquidity
• LNBits — Multi-user wallet management system
• Mempool — A self-hosted explorer for the Bitcoin community
• Nextcloud — Productivity platform that keeps you in control
• Nitter — Browse Twitter without tracking or ads
• Node-RED — Wire together the Internet of Things
• PhotoPrism — Self-host your photo and video library
• Pi-hole — Block ads on your entire network
• Plex — Stream Movies & TV Shows
• Prowlarr — Indexer manager/proxy for Sonarr, Radarr, and Lidarr
• Radarr — Your movie collection manager
• Ride The Lightning — A powerful dashboard for the Lightning Network
• RoboSats — Simple and Private Bitcoin P2P Exchange
• Samourai Server — Your private backing server for Samourai Wallet
• Sonarr — Smart PVR for newsgroup and bittorrent users
• Synapse — Matrix reference homeserver
• SyncThing — Peer-to-peer file synchronization between your devices
• Tailscale — Zero config VPN to access your Umbrel from anywhere
• ThunderHub — Take full control of your Lightning node
• Transmission — A fast, easy and free BitTorrent client
• Uptime Kuma — Self-hosted uptime monitoring tool
• Urbit — Run Urbit on your Umbrel
• Vaultwarden — Unofficial Bitwarden® compatible server
• Whoogle Search — A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine

If an app you're looking for isn't available on our app store yet, feel free to open an issue on the umbrel-apps respository to request it.

Building apps for Umbrel

If you're interested in building an Umbrel app or packaging an existing one, please refer to the Umbrel App Framework documentation.

Setting up a development environment

With the release of Umbrel 0.5, a lot of the underlying architecture of the project has changed. This section will be re-written with up-to-date development instructions.

Contributing

We welcome and appreciate new contributions.

If you're a developer looking to help but not sure where to begin, check out these issues that have specifically been marked as being friendly to new contributors.

If you're looking for a bigger challenge, before opening a pull request please create an issue or join our community chat to get feedback, discuss the best way to tackle the challenge, and to ensure that there's no duplication of work.

License

Umbrel is licensed under the PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 license. TL;DR — You're free to use, fork, modify, and redestribute Umbrel for personal and nonprofit use under the same license. If you're interested in using Umbrel for commercial purposes, such as selling plug-and-play home servers with Umbrel, etc — please reach out to us at partner@umbrel.com.

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