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Tooljet

tooljet/tooljet

An open-source alternative to Retool.

Open-source foundation of ToolJet AI - the enterprise app generation platform for internal tools, dashboards, business applications, workflows and AI agents. Build visually, from a prompt, or from Claude Code, Codex and Cursor over MCP 🚀 (from the repository)

Stars: 41,107
Licence: AGPL-3.0
Last push: 2026-10-19
Written in: HTML

Source on GitHub ↗Project website ↗

Is it alive?

Four readings from the repository, each with the rule behind it. No blended score.

Activity

Active

Last push 9 days ago

Active: pushed within 90 days. Slowing: within a year. Quiet: longer.

Releases

Recent

v3.20.246-lts, 13 days ago

Recent: a tagged release within six months. Some projects ship from the main branch and never tag.

Issues

93% closed

357 open · 4,980 closed

Share of all issues ever filed that are now closed. Under 20 issues is too few to read.

Momentum

No readings yet

41,107 stars

Change in stars across our daily readings, over up to 30 days. Needs a week of readings.

What a business may do with it

Network copyleftAGPL-3.0

Like the GPL, and offering a modified version to users over a network counts: they are owed its source.

This describes the licence family GitHub identified, not legal advice about this project. The repository’s own LICENSE file is what binds you.

Run it yourself

Docker, quoted from Tooljet’s own README as written. We have not run it, and most projects expect you to set secrets or a database before production use.

docker run \
  --name tooljet \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  -p 80:80 \
  --platform linux/amd64 \
  -v tooljet_data:/var/lib/postgresql/13/main \
  tooljet/try:ee-lts-latest

Read the full instructions in the README ↗

Tooljet against the other open-source options

Every project offered against Retool, most-starred first.

Tooljet compared with other open-source alternatives
Project	Stars	Activity	Licence	Self-host	Language
Tooljet (this page)	41,107	Active	Network copyleft	Docker	HTML
Appsmith	41,084	Active	Permissive	○	TypeScript
Budibase	28,329	Active	Not identified	○	TypeScript
Illa	12,328	Slowing	Permissive	○	TypeScript
Lowdefy	3,012	Active	Permissive	○	JavaScript

All open-source alternatives to Retool →

Where this page comes from

Stars, licence, activity, issues, releases and the self-host command are read from the repository. 2026-10-19
The pairing with Retool and the category come from opensourcealternative.to, a community directory of open-source alternatives. We re-read it weekly.
Star momentum comes from our own daily readings of the repository. How we collect data