Homebox vs Snipe-IT
Homebox and Snipe-IT are both inventory and warehouse software. Homebox is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 7.7k GitHub stars. Snipe-IT is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 15k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Homebox when
- You want to catalogue household items for insurance, moving or finding things.
- Pick Snipe-IT when
- Your IT team needs to know who has which laptop and licence, self-hosted or on the paid hosted plan.
Side by side
A self-hosted home inventory app for recording belongings, locations, warranties, receipts and labels, continuing the original HomeBox project.
A web app for tracking IT assets, software licences, accessories and consumables, with check-in and check-out to staff, audits and reports.
A community fork that is still pre-1.0.
Self-hosting means maintaining a Laravel app with MySQL or MariaDB, and AGPL applies to modifications.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Go, Vue and SQLite
PHP, Laravel and MariaDB
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft) (both)
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes. (both)
7.7k GitHub stars
15k GitHub stars
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v0.27.1.
Established: started 13 years ago, latest release v8.8.3.
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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.