Inventree
Inventory Management
Inventory management system which provides intuitive parts management and stock control.
Actively maintained
Real momentum
MIT
Asset and equipment tracking software used by teams who value clarity. Shelf is an asset database and QR asset label generator that lets you create, manage and overview your assets across locations. U
Shelf is an open-source inventory management project, with 3.0k GitHub stars and a health score of 100/100. It committed 3503 times in the last twelve months across 12 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: AGPL-3.0. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.
| Status | Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-08-14 |
| Days since last commit | 3 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 1263 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 3503 |
| Months with activity | 12 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-08-14 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Category | Inventory Management |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
Shelf is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.
The clearest opening in the dataset. Low open-source competition usually means either a genuinely underserved need or a market too small to attract volunteers — validate demand before assuming the former.
Actively maintained. Shelf recorded 3503 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 12 of those months and 1263 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-14. Last release: 2026-08-14. Committed within the last 45 days.
Shelf is published under AGPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
9 open-source implementations, 5 of them actively maintained, led by Inventree at 7.4k stars. Saturation score 30/100 — Open. Thin or poorly maintained open-source coverage.
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