Greffon
Early access — launching soon

Turn any machine into a greffer.

A greffer is your own app server. Graft any app from the catalog in one click — no YAML editing, no reverse-proxy config, no DevOps.

Free to self-hostNo feature gating24 apps in the catalog

Vocabulary

What's a greffer?

greffer/ˈɡrɛfər/noun

A server you own, running apps you chose, paying zero rent to the cloud.

Greffon turns any machine — Windows, macOS, or Linux — into a greffer. Install once. Run forever. Your apps, your hardware, your rules.

Runs on
  • Linux VPS — Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch
  • macOS — Mac mini, MacBook
  • Windows — desktop or laptop
  • Raspberry Pi — ARM64
  • NAS / homelab — Synology, TrueNAS
How it works

Three steps. No DevOps.

01

Turn your machine into a greffer.

One install command. Works on Windows, macOS, or any Linux distro. Set up your greffer in under 5 minutes.

02

Open the catalog.

24 self-hosted apps ready to graft — Plausible, Ghost, Nextcloud, GlitchTip, and more. No YAML editing.

03

Graft what you want.

Click deploy. Each app goes live in under 60 seconds. TLS and routing handled — your data never leaves your infrastructure.

The catalog

Real apps, ready to graft.

Open-source apps pre-packaged for your greffer. One click to deploy. Yours forever.

Plausible
Analytics
Umami
Analytics
Metabase
Business intelligence
Grafana
Dashboards
Ghost
Publishing
WordPress
CMS
Nextcloud
Files & sync
Immich
Photos
Paperless-ngx
Documents
Stirling-PDF
PDF tools
VS Code
Code editor
Forgejo
Git hosting
n8n
Automation
Activepieces
Automation
GlitchTip
Error tracking
Uptime Kuma
Monitoring
Vaultwarden
Passwords
Vikunja
Tasks & projects
Mealie
Recipes
Memos
Notes
Linkding
Bookmarks
FreshRSS
RSS reader
Excalidraw
Whiteboard
Multica
AI agents
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More coming
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For whom

Who runs a greffer?

Indie developers with a VPS

Stop renting cloud capacity for every side project — run them on the VPS you already pay for. Run the apps you want, on the hardware you already rent, for the price of the VPS alone.

Homelabbers

Your Raspberry Pi, your Synology, your old ThinkPad or Mac mini — any of them can be a greffer. One dashboard for every app, updates and TLS handled.

Self-hosters tired of YAML

Twenty compose files, twenty Nginx configs, twenty TLS renewal calendars. Or: one greffer, click to graft, done.

Open and honest

Where we stand on code, money, and your data.

Three commitments we're making now. The greffer and catalog are already open source. The manager's source publishes at launch.

  • Free to self-host. Pay to resell.The whole stack runs on your hardware. We host nothing you can't host yourself. Greffon Hosted is a convenience — not a lock-in.
  • No feature gating on self-hosted. Ever.Same catalog, same greffons, same code — only the convenience of us hosting the manager differs.
  • Your data never leaves your infrastructure.Greffon routes nothing through our servers. Every greffon runs on your machine, talks to your database, writes to your disk.
LICENSELicensing commitment

Our licensing commitment

Free to run for yourself, free to modify for yourself. If you distribute or run it as a service for others, your changes stay open too. The greffer and catalog are open source today; the manager's source publishes at launch.

Coverage
manager · greffer · catalog
greffer
open source
catalog
open source
manager
source at launch
Commercial use
permitted
Pricing

Free and open source. Hosting is on the way.

Available now
Self-hosted

Free to self-host. Available now.

  • Unlimited greffers
  • Unlimited greffons
  • Full catalog
  • You run the manager
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Coming soon
Greffon Hosted

We run the manager for you. Coming soon.

Join the waitlist to hear when it's ready.

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Ready to turn on your greffer?

Install in 5 minutes. Deploy each app in 60 seconds. Your server, your apps.

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