Gladys
Gladys is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Home Automation & IoT category, licensed Apache-2.0 and written mainly in JavaScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to Google Home and ships a Docker image. It has 3,256 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Home Automation & IoT
- JavaScript
- Apache-2.0
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 3,256
- Forks
- 332
- Open issues
- 4
- Commits, last 12 months
- 647
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- v5.3.0Oct 25, 2026
- Created
- Jun 5, 2015
- License
- Apache-2.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 647 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 647 |
| Latest release | v5.3.0 (Oct 25, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 218 |
| Open issues | 4 |
| Open pull requests | 55 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Jun 5, 2015 |
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About Gladys
Privacy-first home assistant.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/GladysAssistant/Gladys.
Topics
- gladys
- assistant
- home-automation
- raspberry-pi
- nodejs
- iot
- home
- automation
- smarthome
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Is Gladys free and open source?
Yes. Gladys is open-source software released under the Apache-2.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Gladys with Docker?
Yes. Gladys provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Gladys?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Gladys include Home Assistant, Tasmota and Node RED. Gladys itself is a self-hosted alternative to Google Home.
Is Gladys actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Gladys was on Oct 25, 2026 with 647 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v5.3.0, published Oct 25, 2026. It had 4 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.