Homebox vs ServiceNow IT Asset Management
Homebox and ServiceNow IT Asset Management are both inventory and warehouse software. Homebox is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 7.7k GitHub stars. ServiceNow IT Asset Management is a commercial product from ServiceNow.
Which to pick
- Pick Homebox when
- You want to catalogue household items for insurance, moving or finding things.
- Pick ServiceNow IT Asset Management when
- An enterprise already on ServiceNow wants licence compliance and hardware lifecycle tracking in the same platform.
Side by side
A self-hosted home inventory app for recording belongings, locations, warranties, receipts and labels, continuing the original HomeBox project.
ServiceNow module for tracking hardware, software licences and cloud assets through their lifecycle, tied to the CMDB and ITSM.
A community fork that is still pre-1.0.
Expensive add-on licensing, and value depends on a well-maintained CMDB.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
Go, Vue and SQLite
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by ServiceNow
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
7.7k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v0.27.1.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.