Homebox vs InvenTree
Homebox and InvenTree are both inventory and warehouse software. Homebox is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 7.7k GitHub stars. InvenTree is open source under MIT, with 7.8k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Homebox when
- You want to catalogue household items for insurance, moving or finding things.
- Pick InvenTree when
- You make or repair physical products, especially electronics, and need parts and BOM tracking without an ERP.
Side by side
A self-hosted home inventory app for recording belongings, locations, warranties, receipts and labels, continuing the original HomeBox project.
A self-hosted inventory system for parts, stock locations, suppliers, bills of materials, build orders and purchase and sales orders, with a plugin system and mobile app.
A community fork that is still pre-1.0.
No accounting module, and the Django stack needs someone to run updates and backups.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Self-hosted server and mobile app
Go, Vue and SQLite
Python, Django, TypeScript, React and PostgreSQL
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
7.7k GitHub stars
7.8k GitHub stars
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v0.27.1.
Established: started 9 years ago, latest release 1.6.4.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.