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Appwrite — A self-hostable BaaS combining Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, Sites, and Realtime

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Stars
57,393
Primary language
PHP
License
BSD-3-Clause
Repository last updated
Sep 17, 2026

Overview

Appwrite is an open-source development platform for web, mobile, and AI applications that combines Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, Sites hosting, and Realtime in one backend platform. It exposes REST, Realtime/WebSocket, GraphQL, and related APIs and can run as a managed cloud service or on infrastructure you control. The latest release checked on September 17, 2026 is 2.2.0.

Features and best fit

Based on official documentation; not hands-on tested · Content checked:

Consolidate common application-backend primitives into one platform

Auth, structured data, file storage, serverless functions, email/SMS/push messaging, web hosting, and Realtime can be composed as services behind one platform. Client and server SDKs cover a wide range of languages and frameworks.

Sources: [2]

Scale a self-hosted BaaS through microservices, queues, caches, workers, and executors

The documented architecture places services behind an API/security layer and delegates heavier work to cache, queues, workers, and execution services. In 2.2.0, Functions and Sites execution records moved fully to ClickHouse.

Sources: [2][3]

For teams that want a complete backend platform without assembling auth, data, files, functions, and realtime separately

It fits web, mobile, and AI products that want fast backend primitives while keeping the option to run the platform on infrastructure they control.

Sources: [2]

Self-hosting means operating several stateful components and following version-specific migrations

Appwrite 2.2.0 makes ClickHouse mandatory for Functions and Sites execution records and documents a migration plus backup before upgrading. Production operation also covers the primary database, ClickHouse, storage, cache/queues, workers, function runtimes, SMTP, capacity, and security.

Sources: [3][2]

Official sources

  1. [1]appwrite/appwrite — GitHub repository metadata(2026-09-17)
  2. [2]Appwrite — README(2026-09-17)
  3. [3]Appwrite 2.2.0 release(2026-09-17)
Supplemental curator note

Treat Appwrite as a broader microservices backend platform, not only a Firebase or Supabase substitute.

Try it in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Get the source

    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite.git
  2. 2

    Enter the repository

    cd appwrite
  3. 3

    Check the official steps

    Continue with the commands in the README Installation, Quick Start, or Getting Started section.

    find . -maxdepth 1 -iname 'README*' -exec sed -n '1,220p' {} \; -quit
Check the official README

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GitHub Topics

  • appwrite
  • docker
  • backend-as-a-service
  • javascript
  • flutter
  • serverless
  • backend
  • firebase
  • self-hosted
  • selfhosted
  • android
  • ios
Stars
57,393
Forks
5,724
Watchers
424
Open issues
439
Primary language
PHP
Repository last updated
Sep 17, 2026
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